Lannan Center Podcast
Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice at Georgetown University is a literary, critical, and pedagogical undertaking devoted to the situation of poetry and poetics in the contemporary world. Based in the President’s Office, the Center brings attention to a traditional domain of academic research, but sees poetry as a current practice rather than as a field of historical research. The Center recognizes that “art’s social presence,” in the phrase of Adrienne Rich, is vital to contemporary culture; that poetry, or writing more generally, traverses the fields of aesthetic, social, political, and religious thought: it reconfigures these fields according to the designs of imagination. The Lannan Center hosts Readings and Talks throughout the academic year. Music: Quantum Jazz — "Orbiting A Distant Planet" — Provided by Jamendo.
Podcasting since 2019 • 53 episodes
Lannan Center Podcast
Latest Episodes
2024 Lannan Literary Festival | "The Writer in Prison" with Reginald Dwayne Betts and Zeke Caligiuri
On March 21, 2024, renowned authors Reginald Dwayne Betts (Felon: Poems) and Zeke Caligiuri (This is Where I Am) offered their thoughts on the intersection of literature and the prison system as they discussed the impact of in...
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2024 Lannan Literary Festival | An Evening with Sara Nović
On March 20, 2024, bestselling author and deaf rights’ activist Sara Nović talked about her writing life and novelTrue Biz, with the Washington Post‘s Amanda Morris. This event was coponsored by the Disability Cultural Center ...
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2024 Lannan Literary Festival | An Evening with Pulitzer Prize-winner Viet Thanh Nguyen
On March 19, 2024 , acclaimed author Viet Thanh Nguyen discussed his memoir, A Man of Two Faces, and reflected on the TV adaptation of his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Sympathizer. With former Newshour host Razia...
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Nikola Madzirov and Aleš Šteger | 2023-2024 Readings & Talks
On Tuesday, February 27, 2024, the Lannan Center presented a reading featuring Macedonian poet Nikola Madzirov and Slovene poet Aleš Šteger.Nikola Madzirov is the author of Remnants of Another Age and Relocated Stone...
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A Group Reading Featuring Victoria Adukwei Bulley, Saddiq Dzukogi, Henneh Kyereh Kwaku, and Tolu Oloruntoba | 2023-2024 Readings & Talks
On Tuesday, February 6, 2024, the Lannan Center presented a reading by poets Victoria Adukwei Bulley, Saddiq Dzukogi, Henneh Kyereh Kwaku, and Tolu Oloruntoba.Victoria Adukwei Bulley is a poet, writer and artist. Her debut poetry...
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