POETRY AFTER BARBARISM IN WARSAW

Join us for the next lecture of the American Studies Colloquium Series!

American Studies Center, University of Warsaw / Ośrodek Studiów Amerykańskich, Uniwersytet Warszawski

Warsaw, Poland

We are pleased to host Jennifer Scappettone (University of Chicago) with a lecture titled "Mother(less) Tongues of 'America': Xenoglossic Writing and Xenoglossic Breathing in the Poetry of Etel Adnan and LaTasha N. Nevada-Diggs".

Thursday, Dec 11, 2025

4:45 p.m.

Room: 2.118

3 OZN

Drawn from Jennifer Scappettone’s 2025 book Poetry After Barbarism, this talk will explore poetry’s transmutations of national and native languages through the work of two contemporary U.S. women artists: poet/journalist/painter Etel Adnan (Lebanon 1925 - Paris 2021) and poet/curator/performer LaTasha N. Nevada-Diggs.

See you there!