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

This year, our event series is "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 a poet, critic, editor, and professor at the University of Utah. He is the author of a dozen books of poetry, including Helicography (2021), The Pine-Woods Notebook (2019), and four scholarly monographs, including Dictionary Poetics: Toward a Radical Lexicography (2020) and Radium of the Word: A Poetics of Materiality (2020). He curates Eclipse, an online archive of radical small-press writing.