VenueUniversity of Pittsburgh-Cathedral of Learning 

Date11/01/2013 

Time2:00 PM - 5:00 PM  

Event TypeOther 

GenreMultigenre 

SponsorUniversity of Pittsburgh Humanities Center 

Cost $0.00
 

Description and Reader Names: With Terrance Hayes (University of Pittsburgh), Lynn Keller (University of Wisconsin), Dawn Lundy Martin (University of Pittsburgh), Christopher Nealon (Johns Hopkins University), and Brian Reed (University of Washington).

Hosted by Piotr Gwiazda (University of Maryland, Baltimore County) and Charles Legere (University of Pittsburgh)

What do you have on repeat? In this colloquium, a group of poets and scholars of poetry will offer a series of short, open-ended, and partial readings of a variety of texts—poems, essays, pop songs, videos—that they have recently had stuck in their heads. These readings, combined, will then make up a kind of 'playlist,' where one text will take on added meaning in juxtaposition with the others. The group as a whole and the audience will then have a chance to contribute to (and/or criticize) these ongoing readings, and/or step back to comment on the nature of our encounters with these texts in general. How are we reading, and why? We hope to emphasize the validity and explorability of the reader’s/listener’s engagements—the ways that we, as listeners and readers, make texts open up off the page, into the soundtracks of our lives.

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Address 1Humanities Center 

Address 24200 Fifth Avenue 

Address 3Room 601 

CityPittsburgh 

StatePA 

Zip15260 

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