F228. Finding the Poem: Working from Source Material

C125-126, Oregon Convention Center, Level 1
Friday, March 29, 2019
1:30 pm to 2:45 pm

 

Archives, field guides, dictionaries, literary texts, public records, oral stories—poets turn to these primary sources to fuel new poems. Five poets discuss working from sources as a means to research their way to inspiration, speak to the world outside of the self, and instigate surprising thematic connections. Reading examples from their own poems, they consider strategies for incorporating source materials, ethical and formal concerns, and the felicities of conversing with texts.


Participants

Moderator:

Judy Halebsky is the author of the poetry collections, Tree Line and Sky=Empty, as well as the chapbook, Space/Gap/Interval/Distance. Her honors include fellowships from the MacDowell Colony and the Millay Colony. She teaches literature and creative writing at Dominican University of California.

Chanda Feldman is the author of Approaching the Fields: Poems. She is a Cave Canem Fellow, and has received a NEA Fellowship for Poetry and a Wallace Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University. She holds an MFA from Cornell University. Chanda is a Visiting Professor at Oberlin College.

Nan Cohen is the author of two poetry collections: Rope Bridge and Unfinished City. She lives in Los Angeles, where she is chair of English at Viewpoint School. A former Stegner Fellow and Jones Lecturer at Stanford University, she is Poetry Program Director of the Napa Valley Writers' Conference.

Rebecca Lindenberg is the author of Love, an Index and The Logan Notebooks, winner of the 2015 Utah Book Award. She's the recipient of an Amy Lowell Traveling Poetry Fellowship and an NEA Literature Grant. She's a member of the poetry faculty at the University of Cincinnati.

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