Nationally renowned spoken word artist Kit Yan will be on campus to do a slam poetry performance followed by a dinner discussion. Kit is a “queer, transgender, and Asian American Brooklyn based slam poet” who has made a career of touring mostly college campuses and giving performances, talks, and workshops based on his experiences with his intersecting identities through stories of “family, love, and social justice.”
April 10, 2015 – 5:00pm
Wednesday, April 1st
Reading by Tracy K. Smith
6:00 PM, Labyrinth Books
Friday, April 3rd, and Saturday, April 4th
Decreations: A Graduate Symposium on the Work of Anne Carson
Wednesday, April 8th
Susan Stewart: “Wordsworth’s Ruins” (18th c. and Romantic Studies Colloquium)
4:30 PM, 40 McCosh Hall
Thursday, April 9th
Poetry Reading by Devin Johnston and Robert Adamson
4:30 PM, Chancellor Green 105
Friday, April 10th
Slam Poetry Performance with Kit Yan
5:00 PM (doors open at 4:30), Wilson Black Box Theater
Wednesday, April 15th
Reading by John Yau and Rachel Kushner
4:30 PM, Berlind Theater at McCarter Theater Center
Friday, April 17 – Saturday, April 18
Program in Latin American Studies Colloquium: Poetry, War, and Citizenship: The 70th Anniversary of Carlos Drummond de Andrade’s A Rosa do Povo
Begins Friday 2:oo P.M, 216 Aaron Burr Hall
Talks in Portuguese. Discussion in Portuguese, Spanish, or English. Event Details.
Wednesday, April 22nd
Department of German Lecture Series: Christoph Konig: “How to Modernize Hermeneutics?” Readings of Rilke’s Late Poems”
4:30 PM, East Pyne 205
Thursday, April 23rd
Pierre Joris reads his translations of Paul Celan
4:30 PM, Chancellor Green 105
Thursday, April 23rd
The Year of the Long Poem: Evie Shockley on the Contemporary Long Poem: “Seeing the Future: The ‘Colorblind’ Present and Blackness Past.”
4:30 PM, Hinds Library, McCosh Hall
Monday, April 27th
Jennifer Scappettone presents “Street Linguistics and Phrasebook Pentecosts in LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs: Tuning to the “Clusterf*ck of Tongues”
12:00 PM, Mathey Private Dining Room
(Email osxr@princeton.edu for a pdf of the paper)
Monday, April 27th
Poetry Reading by Jennifer Scappettone and Craig Dworkin
4:30 PM, McCosh 40
Wednesday, April 29th
Discussion of Claudia Rankine’s Citizen with Kinohi Nishikawa
4:30 PM, Rocky/Mathey Classroom
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