Poetry Reading by Frank Bidart
Frank Bidart was educated at the University of California at Riverside and at Harvard University, where he was a student and friend of Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop. His first volume of poetry, Golden State (1973), was selected by poet Richard Ho...
Public Conversation between Frank Bidart and Robert von Hallberg
Frank Bidart was educated at the University of California at Riverside and at Harvard University, where he was a student and friend of Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop. His first volume of poetry, Golden State (1973), was selected by poet Richard Ho...
The Spirit(s) of the Place: Buddhism and the Religious Culture of Laos”
The 2007 Alumnus of the Year speech by John C. Holt, Ph.D. 1977 (History of Religions). Holt is the William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of the Humanities in Religion and Asian Studies at Bowdoin College since 1978. He has taught courses about Asian religi...
The Pearl Andelson Sherry Memorial Reading / Lecture: "Choir answers to Choir: Notes on Jonathan Edwards and Wallace Stevens"
Susan Howe's most recent books are The Midnight published by New Directions, and Kidnapped from Coracle Press. Two CDs in collaboration with the musician/composer David Grubbs, Thiefth, and Souls of the Labadie Tract, were released on the Blue Chopsti...
Bilingual Reading by Keith and Rosmarie Waldrop
Rosmarie Waldrop (born August 24, 1935) is a contemporary American poet, translator and publisher. Born in Germany, she has lived in the United States since 1958. She has lived in Providence, Rhode Island since the late 1960s. Waldrop is Coeditor and ...
Poetry Reading by David Shapiro
A Poetry Reading by David Shapiro as part of the Poem Present Series. Shapiro has written over twenty volumes of poetry and prose, including the first book on John Ashbery, the first book on Jim Dine's painting, the first book on Jasper Johns' drawing...
Poetry Reading by Adam Zagajewski
A poetry reading by Adam Zagajewski as part of the Poem Present series at The University of Chicago. Copyright 2007 The University of Chicago. Adam Zagajewski lives in Krakow and Chicago.His collections in English translation include Tremor (1985), Ca...
Poetry Lecture by David Shapiro: My Teachers and the Structure of My Work
David Shapiro has written over twenty volumes of poetry and prose, including the first book on John Ashbery, the first book on Jim Dine's painting, the first book on Jasper Johns' drawings (the last two from Abrams) and the first study of Piet Mondria...
“The Dancing Mind” by Emilie M. Townes
The 2008 Alumna of the Year speech by Emilie M. Townes. Townes is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of African American Religion and Theology at Yale Divinity School. After earning her B.A. from the University of Chicago and her M.A. from the Divinity Sc...
Chicago Assyrian Dictionary: The Final Chapter
Martha Roth, Ph.D., Professor of Assyriology and Dean of Humanities, discusses the final volume of the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary, a comprehensive lexicon of ancient Akkadian dialects 86 years in the making. Roth has served as Editor-in-Charge of the...