Boston Poetics Workshop

The Boston Poetics Workshop is a forum for poetry and poetics, organized around a monthly works-in-progress series. We seek to generate a space for sustained conversations about poetry that spans any number of languages, time periods, and regions. The workshop is open to presentations by scholars and poets. These presentations may be wide-ranging in focus and form, from poetry criticism and analysis to drafts of poems or translations. To date, our meetings have brought together scholars from Boston University’s English, World Languages and Literatures, Classics, and History departments. Past and prospective discussion participants also include poets and scholars from Harvard, Northeastern, and the University of Massachusetts, Boston. We welcome undergraduate participation in the sessions.

As an intellectual endeavor, the workshop seeks to hold space for questions of comparison, method, and the necessary conditions for engagement with work that is familiar to us and beyond the scope of our existing knowledge and experience. In soliciting diverse creative and scholarly workshop contributions, we maintain an openness to work that makes its comparative aspects known and work that is deeply situated in a tradition, region or archive.

BPW is run by Kilachand Honors College postdocs Talia Shalev and Sravanthi Kollu, and is supported by funding from Kilachand Honors College and the BU Center for Humanities. To learn more about the workshop or to subscribe to BPW’s newsletter, send an email to bostonpoetics@gmail.com.


BPW’s work-in-progress sessions meet once a month from 12-1:30 pm at Kilachand Honors College (91 Bay State Road). Lunch will be provided. RSVP in the dropdown below.