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 is a member of the Core Faculty specializing in literature and aesthetic philosophy and theory. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and her scholarly interests include comparative poetry and poetics, critical theory, and dream houses of the collective (paradise, Arcadia, the Golden Age, utopia, and the given world).

• 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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