Join us during National Poetry Month for an afternoon with award-winning author, Jen Scappettone.
- Poetry as Environmental Justice -
Jen Scappettone is the author of the cross-genre verse books From Dame Quickly and The Republic of Exit 43: Outtakes & Scores from an Archaeology and Pop-Up Opera of the Corporate Dump, and of the critical study Killing the Moonlight: Modernism in Venice, which was a finalist for the Modernist Studies Association Annual Book Prize. Her most recent chapbook is Smokepenny Lyrichord Heavenbred: Two Acts, soon to be freely downloadable from The Elephants Press in Vancouver. Installations of her visual poetry were exhibited most recently at Una Vetrina in Rome and WUHO Gallery in Los Angeles. Currently, she is Associate Professor at the University of Chicago.
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Co-sponsors: Center for Contemporary Poetry & Poetics, American Communities Program, Center for the Study of Genders & Sexualities, Department of English, Cross Cultural Centers, & the MFA Creative Writing & Literary Arts Program.