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Friday, December 14, 11:00am–7:00pm — All Welcome
Saturday, December 15, 11:00am–4:00pm — Last Chance!

Poet Lorine Niedecker (1903–1970) lived most of her life on Blackhawk Island in rural Wisconsin. However, she was not isolated from the avant-garde poetry practices of her time.

Inspired by the feminist and civil rights movements, many 20^th century women poets adopted an “I”-empowered poetics that intertwined personal and public worlds.

Saturday, March 16, 10:00am–4:00pm
Sunday, March 17, 9:30am–12:00noon

This class is for advanced writers of poetry.

The genius of Henry Darger—a reclusive Chicago janitor now recognized as one of the most important outsider artists of the 20^th Century—is visited through the poetry of John Ashbery