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Please join Poetry & Poetics for a lecture by Craig Dworkin, "Every Mark on Paper is an Acoustic Mark: Sounding Susan Howe," as part of our event series, UNSETTLING SOUND.

Unsettling Sound foregrounds the entanglement between poetics and sound to explore the integral, esoteric, and, occasionally, uncomfortable manner in which sound contributes to and develops expressive meaning. Defining sound as vibrational and only sometimes including audio, we track the vibrations and resonances between text-based and non-text-based arts. Unsettling Sound asks: What is the sound of poetry? What makes poetry sound? What are the new and vanguard interventions in the dark matter between language and sonority? Shepherding together inquiries into text, music, translation, embodiment, performance, and materialities, Unsettling Sound stewards the development of poetic practices in sounding and listening, critically and creatively, in both orthodox and unorthodox ways. 

Craig Dworkin is an American poet, critic, editor, and professor of English at the University of Utah. He is the author of several volumes of poetry and scholarly monographs, most recently Helicography (Punctum, 2021), in which he examines questions of scale in relation to Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty.