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𝐀𝐫𝐬 𝐏𝐨𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚 is an evening of inquiry. Not into what poetry 𝘪𝘴, but into what it 𝘥𝘰𝘦𝘴, when the world burns, bends, and breaks. How does poetry respond to the world in which it is written and re-written? This an evening about staying with the trouble, and from there imagining otherwise.
𝐉𝐮𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐚 𝐒𝐩𝐚𝐡𝐫 presents her latest collection, 𝑨𝒓𝒔 𝑷𝒐𝒆𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒔 (
@weslpress 2024), a radical reworking of the classical tradition. Spahr gives us seven poetic meditations that fragment and recompose what an 𝘢𝘳𝘴 𝘱𝘰𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢 might be in an age of ecological collapse, surveillance capitalism, and resurgent authoritarianism.
Exploring the domestic as resistance, 𝐌𝐚𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐯𝐚𝐧 𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐚𝐟𝐟 reads from his latest collection 𝑯𝒖𝒊𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒅𝒃𝒐𝒆𝒌𝒋𝒆 𝒗𝒂𝒏 𝒅𝒆 𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒃𝒐𝒓𝒈𝒆𝒏 𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒏 (
@uitgeverijpluim 2025). Can we see the hidden, secret, or unspoken, not just as something to uncover, but as a way of understanding the world? What does it mean to care when the future is unequally distributed?
After Juliana and Maarten, 𝐏𝐞𝐥𝐮𝐦𝐢 𝐀𝐝𝐞𝐣𝐮𝐦𝐨 (
@pelumiadejumo ), 𝐒𝐚𝐬𝐤𝐢𝐚 𝐝𝐞 𝐉𝐨𝐧𝐠, and Ç𝐚ğ𝐥𝐚𝐫 𝐊ö𝐬𝐞𝐨ğ𝐥𝐮 (
@cglr_ksgl ) will respond to 𝑨𝒓𝒔 𝑷𝒐𝒆𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒔, opening up to a dialogue instead of a conclusion.
The evening asks how poetry resonates, ruptures, and reimagines. The question is fundamental: 𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒑𝒐𝒆𝒕𝒓𝒚 𝒅𝒐 𝒊𝒏 𝒅𝒂𝒓𝒌 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆𝒔?
The evening is co-funded by the Lira Fonds and supported by the Network for Environmental Humanities at Utrecht University
@environmentalhumanities_uu (with thanks to Mia You
@quelpart ).
The evening is hosted by 𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐚 𝐤𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐢 (
@a___.y.___a ) and will be conducted in both English and Dutch. 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐥 𝐉𝐨𝐲 (
@pareljoy ) and 𝐄𝐝𝐝𝐢𝐞 𝐀𝐳𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐲 (
@eddie.azulay ) will be providing some translations for the evening.
Artwork by
@alix.chauvet