In her lecture “expand into what?,” poet, scholar, and professor Simone White will take up the contemporary need for performance in poetry and for poetry as performative event, in the context of poetry becoming more vulnerable to certain kinds of institutional capture. It will explore possibilities for the expansion of poetic practice today: How can linguistic experimentation draw out and even challenge or refuse poetry’s complex of relations with what commissions it?

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Simone White is author of Dear Angel of Death (Ugly Duckling Presse 2018), Of Being Dispersed (Futurepoem 2016), and House  Envy  of  All  the World (Factory School 2010). Her writing has appeared in Artforum, BOMB, e-flux journal, Chicago Review, and The New York Times Book Review. In 2017, she received the Whiting Award for Poetry. She teaches in the English Department at the University of Pennsylvania and serves on the writing faculty at Bard’s Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts.

THE POETICS PROGRAM GRATEFULLY ACKNOWLEDGES SPONSORSHIP OF THIS EVENT BY THE DAVID GRAY CHAIR OF POETRY AND LETTERS (STEVE MCCaFFERY), AND THE JAMES H. MCNULTY CHAIR (MYUNG MI KIM). UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED, ALL EVENTS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.