F158. When a Poem Can't Tell the Whole Story: Why Poets are Taking up Nonfiction
Friday, February 28, 2014
10:30 am to 11:45 am
Participants
Julia Koets is the author of Hold Like Owls, a collection of poetry. Her work has been published in journals such as Indiana Review and the Los Angeles Review. She is currently a PhD student in poetry at the University of Cincinnati.
Danielle Cadena Deulen is the author of two books: a poetry collection, Lovely Asunder, and a memoir, The Riots. She teaches at the University of Cincinnati.
Katharine Coles’s fifth poetry collection, The Earth Is Not Flat, was written under a 2010 grant from the NSF’s Antarctic Artists and Writers Program. The recipient of a 2012-13 fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation, she teaches creative writing and English at the University of Utah.
Gregory Orr is the author of twelve collections of poetry, including River Inside the River, Concerning the Book that is the Body of the Beloved, and How Beautiful the Beloved. He is also the author of Poetry as Survival, and the memoir, The Blessing. He teaches at the University of Virginia.
Linwood Rumney's work has appeared or is forthcoming in Ploughshares, Cold Mountain Review, Potomac Review, and Superstition Review. He has received awards from the Writers’ Room of Boston and the St. Botolph Club Foundation. He is currently pursuing a PhD in creative writing.