R171. Intersections of Poetry and Visual Art

F150, Oregon Convention Center, Level 1
Thursday, March 28, 2019
10:30 am to 11:45 am

 

From the works of William Blake to Japanese calligraphic scrolls, poetry and art have been intertwined since their origins. This reading presents the dialogue between visual art and writing in a contemporary context, showcasing works in which the two modes are inextricably linked. Moving beyond ekphrastic poetry, our panelists are engaged in a wide variety of multi-media projects from collaborative chapbooks to poetry comics to graphic poetry that melds words and images together.


Participants

Moderator:

Meghan Dunn is the author of Who Also Will Not Yield, a collaborative art and poetry chapbook, with artist Ben Pinder. She lives in Brooklyn, NY, where she teaches high school English. She is the Associate Poetry Editor of upstreet. Her work has appeared in Ploughshares and Narrative, among other places.

Gabrielle Bates's poems and poetry comics appear in The New Yorker, Poetry, and jubilat. She works for Open Books: A Poem Emporium and edits for the Seattle Review, Poetry Northwest, Broadsided Press, and Bull City Press.

Mita Mahato is a cut paper and comics artist whose poetry comics are collected in the book In Between. She is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Puget Sound, serves on the board for the arts organization Short Run Seattle, and is on the steering committee for Graphic Medicine.

Naoko Fujimoto translates her poems into contemporary picture scrolls. Her project, Glyph: Graphic Poetry=Trans. Sensory, is also meant for the viewer to transport their senses from the flat paper and bridge the gap between words and images that will connect with their physical counterparts.

Youmna Chlala is a writer and an artist. She is the author of The Paper Camera and founding editor of Eleven Eleven {1111} Journal of Literature and Art. She is an Associate Professor in the Humanities & Media Studies and Writing Departments at the Pratt Institute.

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