S256. You Can Drive 800 Miles

Room 209, Henry B. González Convention Center, Meeting Room Level
Saturday, March 7, 2020
3:20 pm to 4:35 pm

 

In Texas you can drive 800 miles in a straight line and still be in Texas. The influence of place upon one’s writing is known, but what if one is from a place that has many places within place? How does one write about expanse and a conflicting sense of terrain?—A place of borders, yet an openness seemingly without borders. Is there a writing of place in Texas? Four writers will discuss how to write about place when it is fragmented and expansive and includes several cultures and voices.


Outline & Supplemental Documents

Event Outline: AWPproposal.pdf

Participants

Moderator:

Diane Glancy is professor emerita at Macalester College. Her latest books are The Collector of Bodies, Concern for Syria and the Middle East, (poetry), Mary Queen of Bees (a novella), The Servitude of Love (short stories), and an anthology, The World Is One Place, Native American Poets Visit the Middle East.

Bruce Bond is the author of twenty-one books including Black Anthem (Tampa Review Prize), Gold Bee (Helen Smith Award, Crab Orchard Award), Sacrum, Blackout Starlight: New and Selected Poems 1997-2015 (Phillabaum Award), Dear Reader, and Rise and Fall of the Lesser Sun Gods (Elixir Poetry Prize).

Alex Lemon’s most recent books are Feverland: A Memoir in Shards and The Wish Book. He is the author of Happy: A Memoir and three other poetry collections: Mosquito, Hallelujah Blackout, and Fancy Beasts. A fifth poetry collection, Or Beauty, is forthcoming. He teaches at TCU.

Leslie Ullman has published five poetry collections, most recently The You That All Along Has Housed You and Library of Small Happiness, a hybrid collection of craft essays, writing exercises, and poems. She teaches in the low-residency MFA program at Vermont College of the Fine Arts.

Nathaniel Lee Hansen is the author of Measuring Time & Other Stories and Your Twenty-First Century Prayer Life: Poems. He is associate professor of English at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor, where he also edits the literary biannual, The Windhover.

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