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Welcome to OPR: The Organism for Poetic Research

This critical-poetic creature generates readings, seminars, installations, books, digital residency projects, and Pelt, a sporadically published (print + digital) magazine

 

The Organism for Poetic Research stands in solidarity with Palestinians and pro-Palestinian student protestors in New York City and across the United States. We strongly support their demands towards divestment and condemn university administrators’ reactionary conduct towards protestors, particularly their weaponization of campus safety towards justifying brutal policing of collective action and dissent.
Free Palestine. 
In solidarity and care,
OPR

Upcoming Events

We are delighted to invite you to the launch of My Poetics (University of Chicago Press, 2024), an experimental work of criticism ranging across Romantic and contemporary poetry by acclaimed poet and critic Maureen N. McLane. This event is brought to you by the NYU Center for the Humanities in collaboration with the NYU Department of English, the NYU Creative Writing Program, Poetics and Theory at NYU, the Organism for Poetic Research, and the NYU Department of Comparative Literature.

May 7th, 2024 | 5:30 PM Reception | 6:00 PM Reading
NYU Center for the Humanities, 20 Cooper Square 5th Floor

McLane, Henry James Professor of English and American Letters at NYU, will read from My Poetics, followed by a conversation with Wendy Anne Lee, Professor of English at NYU and Alliya Dagman, doctoral candidate and Public Humanities Fellow at NYU.
Registration is required for this event for both NYU and non-NYU attendees: RSVP here

 

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