F124. The Living Text: Writers on the Praxis of Performance

Room 618/619/620, Washington State Convention Center, Level 6
Friday, February 28, 2014
9:00 am to 10:15 am

 

Challenging the limited binary of page versus stage, this panel explores literature as a live form with rich modes of aesthetic and cultural delivery. Panelists working in multiple genres discuss techniques, experiments, and practices that cross text into song, call and response, sound, movement, and persona. Readings and micro-performances exemplify discussion and invite dialogue with the audience about vital modes of delivering hybrid text.


Participants

Moderator:

K. Bradford is a poet, performer, and cultural worker whose work has appeared in literary journals and experimental performance venues. She has taught poetry and literature at Columbia College Chicago for nearly a decade and is now pursuing a dual MFA in Writing and in Art and Technology at CalArts.

Roger Sedarat is the author of Dear Regime: Letters to the Islamic Republic and Ghazal Games, as well as a chapbook, From Tehran to Texas. A translator of classical and modern Persian poetry, he teaches creative writing and literary translation at Queens College, City University of New York.

Douglas Kearney (poet/performer/librettist) teaches in Cal Arts’ School of Critical Studies and he has taught in the Theater and Music schools. A Whiting Award winner, his second collection, The Black Automaton, was a National Poetry Series selection. His operas include Sucktion and Crescent City.

Tracie Morris is a poet, performer, vocalist, and scholar. She is Professor of Performance and Performance Studies at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York.

LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs is a writer, musician, and author of TwERK. Her poetry has appeared in Ploughshares, Jubilat, Fence, Rattapallax, Nocturnes, and LA Review. She has received awards from Cave Canem, New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Jerome Foundation.

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