Literature News
WAMC’s On the Road Broadcasts Live from Arendt Center’s Annual Conference “JOY”
Opening the show, Donahue will speak with Bard President Leon Botstein and Academic Director of the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and the Humanities at Bard College Roger Berkowitz.
Ingrid Becker Named a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study
Becker will work on a new research project about the rise of the questionnaire—a sociological technology and ubiquitous mass cultural form—in relation to the shifting status of the question in post-1945 Anglo-American poetry.
Robert Kelly and Charlotte Mandell ’90 Write About Pierre Joris ’69 for the Poetry Foundation
“He was never jealous of anybody,” said Mandell. “He was always happy for other people's success.”
Upcoming Events
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3/10Tuesday5:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Olin Humanities, Room 205
Poetry as Praxis? Building Cabins and Living in Ruins with Jean-Marie Gleize
With André Pettman, Assistant Professor in French Studies at the University of Arizona
Tuesday, March 10, 2026Can poetry be political practice? This talk attends to this question through examination of the work of contemporary French poet Jean-Marie Gleize. Throughout his recent poetry, Gleize draws on a recurrent motif, the cabin, connecting it with both contemporary French political struggles and theoretical notions of community. This talk will demonstrate how his sustained engagement with the cabin ultimately opens onto a conception of a radical form of community that is autonomous from the French state. Close formal readings reveal how Gleize is less concerned about what poetry is and more about what poetry does, treating it as a means of confronting the myriad crises and ruinous logics afflicting our contemporary world, from capitalist expansion to ecological devastation. Our discussion of Gleize’s work will culminate with consideration of how his poetry is conceived as a form of anti-institutional and anti-capitalist political practice that cultivates new modes of inhabiting the earth in its vulnerability.
5:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Olin Humanities, Room 205
André Pettman is Assistant Professor in French Studies at the University of Arizona, in Tucson, where he teaches contemporary French & Francophone literature. His current research examines twenty-first-century French literature as a site of radical political imagination.
Contact: Éric Trudel
E-mail: [email protected]
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3/11Wednesday7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Weis Cinema
The Voice of Hind Rajab
Directed by Kaouther Ben Hania (2025 - 1 hr 29 mins)
Distributed by Watermelon Pictures
Starring Saja Kilani, Motaz Malhees, and Clara KhouryWednesday, March 11, 2026January 29, 2024. Red Crescent volunteers receive an emergency call. A 5-year old girl is trapped in a car under fire in Gaza, pleading for rescue. While trying to keep her on the line, they do everything they can to get an ambulance to her. Her name was Hind Rajab.
7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Weis Cinema
Oscar-nominated
Contact: Elizabeth Holt
E-mail: [email protected]
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4/22Wednesday5:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Stevenson Library - 1st Floor
Literature Open House
Wednesday, April 22, 2026
5:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Stevenson Library - 1st Floor
Please join us for the Literature Program's Spring Open House. The Open House will be an opportunity to meet Literature faculty, hear about next semester's courses, talk with Literature seniors and other students about their experiences, and celebrate the spring semester.
Everyone, whether or not you've already taken a course in Literature, is welcome!
Contact: Marisa Libbon
E-mail: [email protected]