What is “Poetic Research”?
Alternating Thursdays from 18:00 to 20:00, starting on the 13th of November
We meet in person at the CEP Reading Room (LB681)
In the twentieth century a poetry emerged that was inextricable from its poets’ diverse research practices. We will be reading the work of some of these poets with a particular eye to how these processes have changed poetic form and the limits of what a poem can say. Ezra Pound and Charles Olson are progenitors of this tendency in the United States, and we will read poets who have inherited their project, as well as others who’ve arrived at parallel positions. All are welcome, but if you’d like to be a regular member please email matthewalexanderking@gmail.com.
Our current schedule is as follows:
On the 13th of November we will discuss Susan Howe’s Singularities
On the 27th Lorine Niedecker’s North Central
And on the 11th of December, Kevin Davies’s The Golden Age of Paraphernalia
We resume on the 15th of January (2026) with Nathaniel Mackey’s Whatsaid Serif
On the 22nd of January (2026) with Will Alexander’s Across The Vapour Gulf
On the 5th of February we read C. S. Giscombe’s Giscome Road.