ENTANGLEMENTS OF LOVE AND MUSIC conversation with poetry reading and music

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Please join us for an exciting conversation, reading, and musical performance on the underthought entanglements of music and love, featuring acclaimed poet Maureen N. McLane and internationally renowned songwriter, jazz pianist, and singer Patricia Barber.

Maureen N. McLane is the widely celebrated author of eight books of poetry, two critical monographs on British romantic poetics, an experimental hybrid of memoir and criticism (My Poets), and numerous essays on romantic and contemporary literature and culture. Her most recent books are What You Want: poems (2023) and My Poetics (2024), an adventure in poeticriticism. She is the Henry James Professor of English and American Letters at New York University and a Finalist for the National Book Award. Patricia Barber has earned international acclaim as a dazzling and uncompromising jazz artist. Long known for her sultry vocals, compelling pianism, and sophisticated songwriting, she has come to be regarded as a deeply visionary artist who blurs the lines between poetry, jazz, and art music while rewriting the Great American Songbook through jazz song cycles, original lyrics, and nuanced harmony. Her studio albums have been issued by Blue Note, Premonition, and Impex. Her honors have included a Guggenheim Fellowship (2003), a Townsend Fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley (2007), and election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2019).

This event is part of the multi-year research project “Love / Music: Problematics of a Relationship,” sponsored by the University of Chicago’s International Institute for Research in Paris, its Department of Music, and the Office of the Provost.

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