Four poets from Suffolk University, graduating senior Mollie Chandler and creative writing faculty Jennifer Barber, George Kalogeris, and Fred Marchant will read from new work, both poems and translations, aiming to identify what he or she believes is new in the work that was read. It might be a new theme or a new form, or it could be a discovery about a given word or phrase or rhythm or figure of speech. Perhaps too the poem surprised the poet with something he or she had never thought of until the moment of composition. Overall the reading and discussion will offer a compendium of the various ways a poet might adapt and enact and even question Pound’s enduring injunction to “make it new.”
Saturday May 2, 2015 3:15pm - 4:15pm
Peabody Essex Museum, Bartlett Gallery
