Dec 4th 2019

Critical Inquiry and the Pearl Andelson Sherry Memorial Series are thrilled to announce three lectures by celebrated poet and classicist, Anne Carson. Carson will be joined by Robert Currie and choreographer, Jonah Bokaer.

This lecture, titled “Corners,” will take place at Kent 107 at The University of Chicago from 6–8pm. Books will be available for sale by Seminary Co-op.

Anne Carson is a Canadian poet, essayist, translator, and scholar. She has been honored with the Lannan Award for Poetry and a MacArthur Genius fellowship. She is the author of, most recently, Float (2016) and translator of Euripides’s Bakkhai (2017).

All events are free and open to the public on a first come, first served basis. For more information, please visit the Critical Inquiry website:

https://criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/anne_carson_stillness_corners_and_chairs_lectures_with_robert_currie_and_jo/

For accessiblity needs and other questions or concerns, please email cisubmissions@gmail.com for assistance. Sponsored by the Pearl Andelson Sherry Memorial Series, Critical Inquiry, The Program in Poetry and Poetics, UChicago Arts, The John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought, Department of Classics, The Committee on Theater and Performance Studies, the Department of English Language and Literature, and the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts.

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