F258. CANCELLED: Pre-Apocalyptic Writing

Status: Not Accepted

Room 207, Henry B. González Convention Center, Meeting Room Level
Friday, March 6, 2020
3:20 pm to 4:35 pm

 

If the postapocalyptic visualizes consequences of our current economic, environmental, and political train wrecks, pre-apocalyptic writing grapples with the long moment before these disasters culminate. We consider healing borders, plastic ruins, imaginative technologies—string theory, speculation, autoimmunity, computational and exploratory programming—that expand rather than contract our humanity,  reorder the constellations that spell end times, and offer hope in the hopeless moment.


Outline & Supplemental Documents

Event Outline: Pre-Apocalyptic_Writing_AWP_2020.pdf

Participants

Moderator:

Danielle Pafunda is author of nine books including Beshrew, The Book of Scab,The Dead Girls Speak in Unison, and Spite (forthcoming). She has taught at the University of California San Diego, University of Maine Orono, and is assistant professor of English at Rochester Institute of Technology.

Rosebud Ben-Oni received a 2014 NYFA Fellowship in Poetry and a CantoMundo Fellowship in 2013. She is the author of Solecism, a poetry collection, and an editorial advisor for VIDA: Women in Literary Arts.

Lillian-Yvonne Bertram is the author of But a Storm is Blowing from Paradise, chosen by Claudia Rankine as winner of the 2010 Benjamin Saltman Award. Her poetry and prose has appeared in numerous journals.

Ching-In Chen is author of The Heart's Traffic, recombinant, and to make black paper sing, and co-editor of The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence within Activist Communities. They are part of Kundiman, Lambda, Watering Hole, Callaloo, Macondo, and VONA communities.

Paisley Rekdal is the author, most recently, of The Broken Country and Nightingale. A Guggenheim fellow and Utah's Poet Laureate, she teaches at the University of Utah, where she edits the web archive project Mapping Salt Lake City.

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