Grad Students Attend UPenn Event Featuring Solmaz Sharif and Charles Davis

A few students from Kamran Javadizadeh's What Is Poetry course attended an event this past Monday featuring Charles Davis, a professor of Architectural History, and Solmaz Sharif, a poet and Creative Writing professor, in conversation around architectural utopianism in postwar African-American writing, the work of June Jordan, and the intersections of poetics and power. The What Is Poetry class just finished reading Sharif's first collection, LOOK, and the event was a wonderful opportunity to hear Sharif read poems from the collection in person. Students also got to briefly meet and chat with Sharif following the event.

Solmaz Sharif reading from her collection

Students Caitlyn Dittmeier and Olivia Stowell meeting Sharif