Poetry of the Holocaust

New Texts and Enduring Debates Sunday, May 4 at 2 pm This program is free but reservations are recommended. Call 312.322.1773. In 2006, poet Joy Ladin convened a special issue of the Michigan Quarterly Review to debate the challenges — both aesthetic and moral — of poetry about the Holocaust. What is a "good" Holocaust poem? How have poets grappled with this, confronting the limits of art, language, and imagination? In this special Yom HaShoah conversation, Ladin and DePaul University professor Eric Selinger explore Holocaust poetry, including Ladin’s own remarkable work, The Book of Anna, a collection of narrative poems and diary entries written in the voice of a fictional Czech-German Jewish concentration camp survivor. An open discussion and booksignin