Jennifer Grotz: Ut Pictura Poesis (July 2016)

“Moi aussi je suis peintre,” once claimed Guillaume Apollinaire. Jennifer Grotz’s lecture explores how and why that statement might be true and considers the longstanding and varied relationship between poetry and painting. In investigating what poets might learn from looking at painting, focusing on works by Thom Gunn, Frank O’Hara, and Apollinaire, she concentrates on form, content, and, most of all, process.