Peter P. and Margaret A. D’Angelo Chair 2025 Lecture
Lines set afloat towards hope
Erica Hunt, M.F.A., a poet, essayist, and author, works at the forefront of experimental poetry and poets, critical race theory, and feminist aesthetics.
Professor Hunt will give a reading, a performance, and engage with questions regarding her new and recent poems that float through hope and heartache. Drawing on her most recent collection, Jump the Clock, her poems speak into the strangeness and the beauty of our own days. In this reading, dedicated to National Poetry Month, she guides us to places that only poetry discovers.
Queens Campus
Monday, April 14, 2025 1:50 pm – 3:15 pm (Common Hour)
Location: Bartilucci Auditorium, B75, St. Albert Hall
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Professor Hunt, a poet, essayist, and author, works at the forefront of experimental poetry and poets, critical race theory, and feminist aesthetics. She has authored Local History; Arcade; Piece Logic; Veronica: A Suite in X Parts; and Jump the Clock: New and Selected Poems, published by Nightboat Books in November 2020. Her poems and essays have appeared in BOMB magazine, Boundary 2, Brooklyn Rail, Conjunctions, Fence magazine, Hambone, In the American Tree, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Poetics Journal, Recluse, and Tripwire, among others. With Dawn Lundy Martin, Professor Hunt co-edited an anthology of new writing by Black women, Letters to the Future, Black Women/Radical Writing. In addition, her essays on poetics, feminism, and politics have been collected in Moving Borders: Three Decades of Innovative Writing by Women; A-LINE; and The Politics of Poetic Form, The World, and other anthologies.
She has won many prestigious awards, including from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the Fund for Poetry, the Blue Mountain Center, and the Djerassi Foundation. Also, Professor Hunt is a past fellow of Duke University/the University of Cape Town Program in Public Policy and a past Bonderman Visiting Professor of Practice in the Department of Literary Arts at Brown University. Most recently, she was awarded the Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize Fellowship in Literature and completed a residency at the American Academy in Rome in 2024. Her current project, The Mood Librarian Tells Stories, is a retelling of One Thousand and One Nights set in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
Throughout her career, Professor Hunt has held several academic positions: Program Director for the M.F.A. in Creative Writing and the Parsons Family Professor of Creating Writing at Long Island University; Visiting Assistant Professor at Wesleyan University; and Fellow in Poetics & Poetic Practice at the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing, University of Pennsylvania, and Writer in Residence at Bard College’s M.F.A. program.
Professor Hunt earned a M.F.A. in Creative Nonfiction from Bennington College. During the spring, she will teach an undergraduate seminar, A Poet’s Tour of the Essay, where students will read essays that draw them into the question of art and evidence, surveying hybrid forms that blend elements of poetry and prose to create innovative writing to animate memoir, letter, argument, and observation.
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