Past Events

2015

Jan 29
Culture, Power, and History in Modern Turkey
Jan 28
Evolution of Cognition
Jan 28
The Latin American Short Story
Jan 27
Capital Fictions: Talk by Professor Ericka Beckman
Jan 27
The Abrahamic Family Reunion
Jan 27
Scandalous Females in Film
Jan 27
Ancient Greek Mythology
Jan 26
Germany's Roaring Twenties
Jan 26
Dance and the Human Image
Jan 23
Survival Skills for Writers
Jan 22
Reading by Ander Monson and Kate Bernheimer
Jan 20
Book Club - Plainwater: Essays and Poetry by Anne Carson
Jan 16
The Force of What's Possible
Jan 12
Translating Transgender

2014

Dec 11
Poetry Center Classes & Workshops Reading
Dec 6
"Poetry In the Gardens" Series
Dec 3
China’s Future, China’s Children: Meanings of “Youth” in Tiananmen Square, 1989
Nov 22
First Meeting of "Precision Through Wildness: Building The Emotional Image"
Nov 22
Family Days
Nov 20
The Forever War by Dexter Filkins
Nov 19
Screening: Planet of the Apes
Nov 18
Placebo or Belief? Religion and Health in the 21st Century
Nov 13
Robin Robertson
Nov 13
Dante's Inferno
Nov 12
Die Mauer and Memory: Looking back at the Rise and Fall of the Berlin Wall
Nov 10
Shop Talk: The Work of Robin Robertson
Nov 7
Poetry Center @ Phoenix Art Museum: Reading by Thomas Sayers Ellis
Nov 7
Coffee Cantata/Kaffeekantate and Poetry Center Open House
Nov 7
From the Past to the Future: Why is Germany Doing So Well Today?
Nov 7
College of Humanities Homecoming Celebration 2014
Nov 6
Poetry Craft Talk by Thomas Sayers Ellis: “The Assassination of Poetry, or How I Discovered I Was Writing Cover-Story Poetics"
Nov 1
"Poetry In the Gardens" Series
Nov 1
Meeting of "Finding the Fragment in the Complete Thought that Makes Lyric Meaning and Movement"
Oct 30
Lecture by Thomas Sayers Ellis: “We, the People, Percussively Agree: Where the Pocket Beats and Breaks Between Go-Go and Hip Hop”
Oct 27
The String Quartets of Beethoven
Oct 25
Family Days
Oct 23
Day of the Dead Memorial Reading
Oct 23
A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments by David Foster Wallace
Oct 18
First Meeting of "Poetry and the Photograph: Ekphrasis and Beyond"
Oct 17
Wives, Widows, & Whoopee: The Lives and Loves of Russian Women
Oct 17
City Girls: Berlin’s Modern Women of the Weimar Republic
Oct 16
A Reading by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Oct 15
The Silkscreen Revolution: An Exhibit of Cuban Poster Art
Oct 14
Mama is a Man: Gender and the Goddess Śrī Nārāyaṇī of Śrī Puram
Oct 14
Daughters of Eve: Images of Women in the History of Christianity
Oct 14
Mama is a Man: Gender and the Goddess Śrī Nārāyaṇī of Śrī Puram
Oct 14
Shop Talk: The Work of Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Oct 14
Daughters of Eve: Images of Women in the History of Christianity
Oct 13
Heroines, Hellraisers, and Homemakers: Famous Females in African Literature and Film
Oct 13
Breaking the Mold: The First(?) Woman in Italian Literature