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Amy Catanzano offered a webinar, “Quantum Poetics: On Poetry and Physics,” featuring a prerecorded talk and livestream Q&A as part of the Sam Gladding Writing Experience, sponsored by Wake Forest University Special Collections & Archives and Z. Smith Reynolds Library. Catanzano talks about her poetry practice, collaborations with physicists, and forthcoming book on poetry and physics, The Imaginary Present: Essays in Quantum Poetics.

Amsterdam Review publishes two poems by Catanzano, “The Politics of Abstraction” and “Thingie.”

The University of Michigan Press will be publishing Amy Catanzano’s book, The Imaginary Present: Essays in Quantum Poetics, in the Poets on Poetry Series. Drawing from her residencies at scientific research centers and collaborations with physicists, the book presents a series of linked essays exploring poetry in relation to some of the most groundbreaking discoveries in physics over the past 100 years.

Amy Catanzano worked at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in a research residency with the U.S. ATLAS Experiment at the Large Hadron Collider to conduct collaborations with particle physicists from July 1-August 7, 2023 in Switzerland.

At the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) conference in Seattle, Amy Catanzano participated in a panel, “Art and Science in Collaboration,” and gave a poetry reading in Entanglements Seattle: Readings & Performances at the The Rabbit Box Theater.

With Lee Ann Brown, Amy Catanzano gave a talk on Mei-mei Berssenbrugge and Gertrude Stein at the 50th Louisville Conference on Literature & Culture in the panel, The Secret Garden: Poets Respond to the Books of Station Hill Press. She also gave a poetry reading in a group event.

Conjunctions (Bard College) presents an audio recording of Amy Catanzano reading her poem, “Slay,” first published by Conjunctions online.

The Entanglements Network, a global collective of transdisciplinary poets, scientists, artists, and scholars co-founded by Amy Catanzano, goes live.

Conjunctions online (Bard College) publishes two poems by Amy Catanzano, “Slay” and “Resonance.”

Amy Catanzano presents at a gathering of interdisciplinary researchers, writers, artists, and environmental thinkers at the Guelph Institute for Environmental Research at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada.

Amy Catanzano serves as a guest speaker on a science communications panel at the Canadian Undergraduate Physics Conference at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada.

Filling in for a colleague, Amy Catanzano co-teaches with Lee Ann Brown, Into the Light: Ekphrastic Poetry Workshop Based on the Work of Leo Amino, at the Black Mountain College Conference ReVIEWING in Asheville, North Carolina.

Amy Catanzano joins Will Alexander, Madhur Anand, and Adam Dickinson for Entanglements and Transformations at the Niagara Artists Centre in Ontario, Canada. The poetry reading and panel discussion was part of Brock University’s initiative, “Beyond Sustainability: Radical Transformation Through Systems Thinking.” Alexander and Catanzano also visited Dickinson’s poetry workshop at Brock University.

“Poetry in Superposition: An Essay-Poem in Quantum Poetics” by Amy Catanzano is published in the international journal of political thought and philosophy, Crisis and Critique, co-edited by Frank Ruda and Agon Hamza, in an issue on “The Present of Poetry.”

Physics World quotes Amy Catanzano’s op-ed in APS Physics Magazine for their picks of the best recent published comments.

Amy Catanzano’s op-ed, “Physics and Poetry in Radical Collaboration,” is published by APS Physics.

APS Physics, a publication of the American Physical Society, presents Amy Catanzano’s poem, “Higgs Boson: The Cosmic Glyph,” as a special feature in a portfolio celebrating the 10th anniversary of the discovery of the elementary particle at CERN.

“The Positron Passport: An Essay-Poem in Quantum Poetics” by Amy Catanzano is published in CounterText: A Journal for the Study of the Post-Literary in an issue on “Poetry Elsewhere, Elsewhere Poetry,” guest edited by Ming-Qian Ma. Informed by literary criticism, cultural criticism, philosophy, and political theory, and studying technology’s reshaping of literary and post-literary cultures, the journal is edited by Ivan Callus and James Corby and published by Edinburgh University Press.

Amy Catanzano joins theoretical physicist Giuseppe Mussardo and quantum software engineer Marta Mauri in a dialogue between poetry and quantum science, curated by Antonella Varesano for DANTE HUB and THE FUTURE OF THE CITIES, at the International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP). View Live Stream here (one hour in).

Amy Catanzano is hosted by the CUBit Quantum Initiative at the University of Colorado Boulder.

Amy Catanzano and Rae Armantrout visit the class Science Writing, co-taught by Orchid Tierney and Siobhan Fennessy, at Kenyon College in Ohio. (Remote event.)

Amy Catanzano gives a poetry reading at the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics (NCSSM), sponsored by the NCSSM Student Poetry Club. (Remote event.)

Amy Catanzano begins Phases II and III of her collaborative project with astrophysicist Satya Gontcho A Gontcho, Mapping the Universe in Three Dimensions: A Spectroscopic Poetics, in Tucson, Arizona. The research is supported by a W.C. Archie Endowed Fund for Faculty Excellence Award in Arts and Humanities and the English Department at Wake Forest University.

Eric William Carroll’s book of photography, A Light Year of Lead, with poetry by Amy Catanzano, is published as a limited-edition artist’s book.

The Dark Energy Survey: The Story of A Cosmological Experiment, published by World Scientific, includes a poem drawing from her research on the Dark Energy Survey at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory.

Denver Quarterly, the literary journal of the University of Denver, publishes a poem by Amy Catanzano drawing from her research on the Dark Energy Survey at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in a special themed issue on Collaboration.

P-QUEUE, the literary journal of the SUNY Buffalo Poetics Program, publishes Amy Catanzano’s poem, “Ace in the Hole.” The poem, drawing from her research at CERN, explores matter-antimatter asymmetry, kaons and koans, and James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake.

Poems and Poetics, Jerome Rothenberg’s online literary magazine, publishes a new edition of Catanzano’s “Quantum Poetics: A Serialized Essay,” which it first presented a decade ago.

Amy Catanzano contributes to Amaranth Borsuk’s project, “What is a Book?: 101 Responses,” in the American Book Review.

Amy Catanzano contributes a poem to “Unearthing Connections,” a collaboration between Wake Forest University poets and visual artists in Wake Forest Magazine. Catanzano’s poem, “Notes on the Enclosure of Notes” is paired with Somatic Memory #22 by Leigh Ann Hallberg.

Winston-Salem Journal features Amy Catanzano in the article, “Wake Forest University professor bridges poetry with quantum physics.”

Symmetry Magazine: Dimensions of Particle Physics, a joint publication by Fermilab and the Stanford National Accelerator Laboratory, features Amy Catanzano’s World Lines: A Quantum Supercomputer Poem in the article, “The quantum poet.”

San Francisco’s Rigetti Computing invites Amy Catanzano to be project advisor in a National Science Foundation proposal to develop a quantum computer.

Amy Catanzano is invited to give a second talk and participate in a residency on poetry and science in the Mestizajes Programme at the Donostia International Physics Center.

Amy Catanzano is awarded a W.C. Archie Endowed Fund for Faculty Excellence Award in Arts and Humanities from Wake Forest University to conduct research and collaborative projects at CERN for a third visit.

Amy Catanzano is awarded a Reynolds Research Leave from Wake Forest University for the 2020-2021 academic year.

A poem and essay by Amy Catanzano on chaos and complexity, translated by Víctor E. Bermúdez, is published in #Nodes: Entangling Humanities and Science, edited by Gustavo A. Schwartz and Bermúdez and published by Intellect Press, U.K.

Amy Catanzano serves as a research artist during her second visit to CERN, funded by the U.S. ATLAS Experiment at the Large Hadron Collider and sponsored by Arts at CERN.

Jennifer Pilch’s La Vague Journal publishes Amy Catanzano’s poem, “For Immediate Release.”

SciArt Magazine publishes an interview with Amy Catanzano, “Quantum understanding in the work of Amy Catanzano.”

YES! Weekly publishes the article, “Amy Catanzano’s investigative poetics.”

Amy Catanzano gives poetry readings and talks on CERN at the Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center in Los Angeles with Will Alexander and Adam Dickinson; Skylight Books with Karen Leona Anderson, Adam Dickinson, Kristin George Bagdanov, and Stephanie Strickland; and the annual conference of the Society of Literature, Science and the Arts in Irvine.

Sponsored by the North Carolina Writers’ Network, Amy Catanzano gives a poetry reading at Bookmarks Book Store in Winston-Salem.

Amy Catanzano is hosted by the Department of English at the University of Tulsa for a poetry reading and author visit.

Amy Catanzano convenes the 2019 Reynolda Conference, Entanglements: A Conference on the Intersections of Poetry, Science, and the Arts, at Wake Forest University. The conference was made possible with a competitive award granted by the Wake Forest Humanities Institute and the Reynolda Museum of American Art and funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

With Rae Armantrout and Laynie Brown, Amy Catanzano gives a talk and poetry reading on poetry and science at the &Now Festival of Innovative Writing, sponsored by the MFA in Writing and Poetics at the University of Washington Bothell.

Amy Catanzano gives a poetry reading and talk on the panel, “Mind Meld: Reimagining Creative Writing and Science,” with Will Alexander and Adam Dickinson at the annual conference of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) in Portland.

Amy Catanzano teaches the Master Poetry Workshop, “Investigative Poetry,” drawing from Ed Sanders’s manifesto, at the North Carolina Writers’ Network Spring Conference.