The University of Hartford Humanities Lecture Series for Spring 2024, focusing on the theme “Fiction, Fabulation, Futurity,” continues on Monday, Feb. 26, 5 p.m. to 6 p.m., in Hillyer Hall 229.
The fourth talk in the series, “Ars Octopoetica: New Poems of Fabulation,” will be given by Benjamin Grossberg, Humanities Center Faculty Fellow and Professor of English (A&S). Here, he will present a poetic manifesto that articulates methods based in fabulation, sexual otherness, alienation, and the challenges of intimacy that have long shaped his work, as well as poems from his book Space Traveler and new poems. Professor Grossberg’s new poems, which explore romantic engagement with an octopus, are the latest in his expansive oeuvre that speak to the joys of fabulation, speculation, and imagination, all the while juxtaposed with a raw meditation on the queer experience.
The Humanities Center Lecture series is developed and led by Rashmi Viswanathan, Assistant Professor of Art History. For more information, contact Nicholas Ealy, director of the Humanities Center (ealy@hartford.edu), visit our website, or follow us on Facebook.