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\"\"<\/a><\/a>The Boston Poetics Workshop is a forum for poetry and poetics, organized around a monthly works-in-progress series. We seek to generate a space for sustained conversations about poetry that spans any number of languages, time periods, and regions. The workshop is open to presentations by scholars and poets. These presentations may be wide-ranging in focus and form, from poetry criticism and analysis to drafts of poems or translations. To date, our meetings have brought together scholars from Boston University\u2019s English, World Languages and Literatures, Classics, and History departments. Past and prospective discussion participants also include poets and scholars from Harvard, Northeastern, and the University of Massachusetts, Boston. We welcome undergraduate participation in the sessions.<\/p>\n

As an intellectual endeavor, the workshop seeks to hold space for questions of comparison, method, and the necessary conditions for engagement with work that is familiar to us and<\/em> beyond the scope of our existing knowledge and experience. In soliciting diverse creative and scholarly workshop contributions, we maintain an openness to work that makes its comparative aspects known and work that is deeply situated in a tradition, region or archive.<\/p>\n

BPW was founded by Kilachand Honors College postdocs Talia Shalev<\/a> and Sravanthi Kollu<\/a> (now at the University of Washington), and is supported by funding from Kilachand Honors College, BU Center for Humanities, and BU English<\/span>. To learn more about the workshop or to subscribe to BPW\u2019s newsletter, send an email to bostonpoetics@gmail.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n


BPW\u2019s work-in-progress sessions meet once a month from 12-1:30 pm<\/strong> at Kilachand Honors College (91 Bay State Road)<\/strong>. Lunch will be provided. RSVP in the dropdown below<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Spring 2026 Series<\/h4>
<\/p>\n

January 30, 2026, 12-1:30 pm
Kilachand Hall, Common Room 101
<\/strong>Sandra Lim (RSVP<\/a>)<\/p>\n

February 27, 2026, 12-1:30 pm
online via Zoom<\/strong>
Nina Mouawad (RSVP<\/a>)<\/p>\n

April 24, 2026, 12-1:30 pm
Kilachand Hall, Common Room 101<\/strong>
Rebecca Moorman (RSVP<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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Fall 2025 Series<\/h4>
<\/p>\n

October 17, 2025, 12-1:30 pm<\/strong>
\nKilachand Hall, Common Room 101<\/strong>
\nProfessor William Waters<\/a> (BU World Languages and Literatures), \u201cRilke\u2019s Ecology\u201d<\/p>\n

RSVP here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

November 21, 2025, 12-1:30 pm<\/strong>
\nKilachand Hall, Common Room 101<\/strong>
\nFallon Murphy<\/a> (BU English), “The Dark Room Collective\u2019s Reading Series at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston”
\nRespondent: Professor Jovonna Jones<\/a>\u00a0(Boston College English)<\/p>\n

RSVP here.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Spring 2025 Series<\/h4>
<\/p>\n

January 31, 2025 @ 12-1.30 pm<\/strong>
Kilachand Hall, Common Room 101<\/strong>
Sunil Sharma<\/a> (BU World Languages and Literatures), \u201cTranslating Persian Love Lyric and Satire: Two Sides of the Same Coin\u201d
Respondent: Rebecca Moorman<\/a> (BU Classics)<\/p>\n

February 28th<\/sup>, 2025 @ 12-1.30 pm<\/strong>
Kilachand Hall, Common Room 101<\/strong>
Sravanthi Kollu<\/a> (BU Kilachand Honors College), “No Word is a Synonym: Comparing Indian Romanticisms\u201d
Respondent: <\/span>Bonnie Costello<\/a> (Professor Emeritus, BU English)<\/span><\/p>\n

March 28th<\/sup>, 2025 @ 12-1.30 pm<\/strong>
Kilachand Hall, Common Room 101<\/strong>
Sassan Tabatabai<\/a> (BU World Languages and Literatures), \u201c<\/span>The double-edged sword of literary translation: Translating Persian to English and English to Persian<\/span>\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

April 25th<\/sup>, 2025 @ 12-1.30 pm<\/strong>
Kilachand Hall, Common Room 101<\/strong>
Isabel Sobral Campos<\/a> (Northeastern English), \u201c<\/span>Entr\u2019acte: a work-in-progress\u201d<\/span>
Respondent: Nina Mouawad (Northeastern English)<\/p>\n

<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

Fall 2024 Series<\/h4>
<\/p>\n

September 20, 2024 @ 12-1.30 pm
<\/span><\/b>Kilachand Hall, Common Room 101
<\/span><\/b>AJ Gold<\/a> (Harvard College Writing Program), Frank O’Hara’s Death and Legacy<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

October 25, 2024 @ 12-1.30 pm
<\/span><\/b>Kilachand Hall, 9th Floor, Rm 920
<\/span><\/b>Anita Patterson<\/a> (BU English), “Modernist Legacies of Black Resistance: Gwendolyn Brooks and The Bean Eaters (1960)”<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

November 22, 2024 @ 12-1.30 pm
<\/span><\/b>Kilachand Hall, Common Room 101
<\/span><\/b>Vidyan Ravinthiran<\/a>\u00a0(Harvard English), \u201cPoetry and Opinion\u201d
<\/span>Respondent,\u00a0Keith Vincent<\/a> (BU World Languages and Literatures)<\/span><\/p>\n

December 13, 2024 @ 12-1.30 pm
<\/span><\/b>Kilachand Hall, Common Room 101
<\/span><\/b>Elif Irem Az<\/a> (Harvard Center for Middle Eastern Studies), “The Black Shape of Living”
Respondent, Carroll Beauvais<\/a> (BU Writing Program & Kilachand Honors College)<\/span><\/p>\n

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Spring 2024 Series<\/h4>
<\/p>\n

January 26, 2024 @ 12-1.30 PM
Kilachand Hall, Common Room 101\u00a0<\/strong>
Boston Poetics Workshop, Inaugural meet-and-greet<\/p>\n

February 23, 2024 @ 12-1.30 PM
Kilachand Hall, 9th Floor<\/strong>
\nProf. Laurence Breiner<\/a> (BU English), \u201cSemantic Space and Decolonization in Anglophone West Indian Poetry\u201d<\/p>\n

March 29, 2024 @ 12-1.30 PM <\/strong>
\nKilachand Hall, Common Room 101\u00a0<\/strong>
\nNoa Saunders<\/a> (PhD Candidate, BU English), \u201cEmergency and Emergence: The Affective Politics of Immediacy in Frank O’Hara and Diane di Prima\u201d
Respondent, Prof. Stephanie Burt<\/a> (Harvard University, English)<\/p>\n

April 26, 2024 @ 12-1.30 PM <\/strong>
\nKilachand Hall, Common Room 101\u00a0<\/strong>
\nProf. Keith Vincent<\/a> (BU World Languages and Literatures), excerpts from “I, who go…”: Masaoka Shiki and the Invention of Haiku<\/em><\/p>\n

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