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.
- Update frequency
- every 18 days
- Average duration
- 59 minutes
- Episodes
- 64
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
Terrance Hayes I 2019-2020 Readings and Talks Series
On January 21, 2020, the Lannan Center presented a reading and talk featuring poet Terrance Hayes.
Terrance Hayes is the author of American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassins (Penguin, 2018), a…
“Power and Language”: Juan Gabriel Vásquez in Conversation with Marie Arana
On December 5, 2019, the Lannan Center presented a special event featuring author Juan Gabriel Vásquez. This event was introduced by Aminatta Forna and moderated by Marie Arana.
Juan Gabriel Vásquez i…
Ilya Kaminsky & John James | 2019-2020 Readings and Talks Series
On September 24, 2019, the Lannan Center presented a reading and talk featuring poets Ilya Kaminsky and John James. Introduced by Aminatta Forna.
Ilya Kaminsky is the author of Deaf Republic (Graywol…
Nikky Finney | 2018-2019 Readings and Talks Series
On April 23, 2019, the Lannan Center presented a reading and talk featuring poet Nikky Finney. Introduced by Aminatta Forna.
Nikky Finney is the author of the poetry collections Head Off & Split (Tri…