The seminar was divided into two sessions. In the first part, Professor Pfeiler provided
doctoral students with an overview of performance-centred and cross- or inter-media
American poetry of the late-twentieth and twenty-first century. She discussed how
these traditions and innovations relate to historic and ongoing debates about the
relationship of the poem to subjectivity, political and cultural contexts, and the material
conditions of its production. The following workshop involved group discussions of
texts in performance by Gil Scott-Heron, Maya Angelou, Patricia Smith and Daniel
Beaty.
11 maggio, 2022