Patricia Carlin received her Ph.D. from Princeton University, focusing on Shakespeare studies, and poetry and poetics. Her most recent poetry collection, Second Nature, appeared in May 2017. Previous books include Quantum Jitters and Original Green, poetry collections, and Shakespeare’s Mortal Men, a study of Shakespeare’s plays in their cultural context. She has published widely in journals and anthologies such as Pleiades, Verse, Boulevard, BOMB, American Letters & Commentary, and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency; and she co-edits the poetry journal Barrow Street. Honors include fellowships at The MacDowell Colony, and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She teaches literature and poetry writing at The New School, where she has received the University Distinguished Teaching Award.
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American Poetry Today
This roundtable brings together contemporary poets to discuss the evolving nature, role, and significance of poetry today, considering its relationship to other forms of communication and expression such as fiction, journalism, and film. Framed by reflections from figures such as Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams, the discussion explores how modern poetry engages with diverse aesthetic, sociopolitical, and psychological concerns, and what unique forms of meaning, perception, and experience it offers in an age of media saturation and rapid cultural change.