University At Buffalo / The Poetics Program

Description

The Poetics Program, State University of New York at Buffalo, is a center for the study of poetry and poetics, with many national and international scholars and poets visiting for short-term and postdoctoral residencies. The program also sponsors a wide range of poetry-related magazines and presses, both print and electronic. The activities of the program are suppolemented by UB’s Special Collections Library, which is second only to the Library of Congress in its holdings in contemporary poetry books and manuscripts (including the largest collection of James Joyce’s manuscripts and papers in the United States); and by Buffalo’s Electronic Poetry Center.