“Words in Your Face: Poetry, Performance and Politics,” is a Visions and Voices event that will take place March 3 at Bovard Auditorium. A reception and book signing will conclude the event. Collins is a distinguished professor of English at Lehman College of the City University of New York.įollowing a reading of his work, Collins will converse with Muske-Dukes on the art, craft and foibles of writing poetry. His last three collections of poems have broken sales records for poetry. His work has appeared in many periodicals, including The New Yorker, The Paris Review and The American Scholar. Poet Laureate from 2001 to 2003, and New York Poet Laureate from 2004 to 2006, is the author of nine collections of poetry. Poet Laureate Billy Collins will read from his work and chat with Muske-Dukes at Bovard Auditorium. Merwin will read his poetry from 4:30 p.m.
Merwin, America’s 17th poet laureate, the winner of two Pulitzers in poetry and Boudreaux Visiting Poet at USC College this academic year. In another event, the Department of English will host its annual poetry reading Feb. If we cannot express ourselves in poetry, we lose thought, inspiration, consciousness of beauty and compassion itself.” As Archibald MacLeish said: ‘A poem should not mean, but be.’ Poetry is there for us - at all the most profound moments of our lives.
“Poetry is an art made of words: The everyday words we speak are the paint and clay and dancing forms of this paradise fire of language,” said Muske-Dukes, professor of English and creative writing at USC College. The performance will be followed by a discussion. Poems by contemporary artists, including Joy Harjo, Robert Pinsky and others, will be read aloud by California Poet Laureate Carol Muske-Dukes, then interpreted by the Get Lit Players and USC dancers in a variety of styles, including jazz, tap, modern and hip-hop. The Get Lit Players - teenage poets from Los Angeles - and USC dancers led by USC dance director Margo Apostolos will enact and dance traditional and spoken-word poems. 31 with “Dancing the Poem,” a Visions and Voices event to be held in the Grand Ballroom of the Ronald Tutor Campus Center.Ī great poem dances on the page this event will translate the choreography of imagination into reality in a performance merging poetry and dance.
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This semester, members of the USC community may gather more insight into poetry by attending four free events hosted by USC College during roughly four weeks, beginning Jan. Poet Laureate Billy Collins and USC professor Carol Muske-DukesĮven Carl Sandburg admitted, “I’ve written some poetry I don’t understand myself.”
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