ANU, CALC In conversation: Rae Armantrout with Kate Lilley
Thursday 12 September, 4:30pm
Room 2.02 Sir Roland Wilson Building,
Australian National University
Pulitzer Prize winning US poet Rae Armantrout will be in conversation with major Australian poet Kate Lilley, where they will discuss poetry and poetics.
Rae Armantrout’s books include Finalists, Wobble, Partly: New and Selected Poems, Just Saying, Money Shot and Versed. In 2010 Versed won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and The National Book Critics Circle Award. She has received a fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation (2007) and her poems have appeared in Poetry, Conjunctions, Lana Turner, The Nation, The New Yorker, the London Review of Books, The New York Review of Books, Bomb, Harpers, The Paris Review, Postmodern American Poetry: a Norton Anthology, and The Open Door: 100 Poems, 100 Years of Poetry Magazine. A new book, Go Figure, has recently appeared from Wesleyan University Press.
Kate Lilley is a queer poet-scholar and adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Sydney. Her three books of poetry are Versary, Ladylike and, most recently, Tilt, winner of the Victorian Premier’s Award. Recent poems have appeared in Griffith Review, Australian Poetry Journal, Rabbit and Plumwood Mountain. She has published widely on the history of poetry and poetics and is the editor of Margaret Cavendish: The Blazing World and Other Writings (Penguin Classics) and Dorothy Hewett: Selected Poems(UWAP).
If you are attending on zoom please contact Amelia Dale (amelia.dale@anu.edu.au) for the zoom link.
This CALC seminar is supported by the Research School of Humanities & the Arts (RSHA).