BISR Public Conversations: Uses of Poetry

Participants

• Maureen McLane

  Poet and divagator Maureen N. McLane is the author of four books of poetry: Same Life (FSG 2008), World Enough (FSG, 2010), This Blue (FSG, 2014), Finalist for the National Book Award in Poetry, and most recently Mz N: the serial (FSG, 2016). Her book My Poets (FSG, 2012)—an experimental hybrid of memoir and criticism—was named a New York Times Notable Book and a Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Autobiography.  A professor of English at New York University, she has published two books on British romanticism, as well as numerous essays, reviews, squibs, and screeds.

• Rebecca Ariel Porte

  Rebecca Ariel Porte holds a Ph.D. in English Language and Literature from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her research, which centers on nineteenth- and twentieth-century movements in British and American poetry, concentrates on crossings between early analytic philosophy and modern theories of poetics and aesthetics. Reviews and essays have appeared in the Boston Review, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and io9, among other publications.

• Christine Smallwood

  Christine Smallwood holds a Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University. Her reviews and essays have been published in The New Yorker, Bookforum, T: The New York Times Style Magazine, and Harper’s Magazine, where she writes the monthly “New Books” column. Her fiction has been published in The Paris Review, n+1, and Vice. 

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