S262. CANCELLED: It's Not Ekphrastic: Contemporary Poets, Contemporary Art

Status: Not Accepted

Room 214A, Henry B. González Convention Center, Meeting Room Level
Saturday, March 7, 2020
3:20 pm to 4:35 pm

 

This reading features poets whose work is in deep dialogue with contemporary art, who go beyond ekphrasis, using strategies, techniques, ideas based in contemporary art in their writing practice. This cross-pollination between creative practices stems from these writer's hybrid practice as curators, collaborators, art reviewers, and artists themselves. We will read hybrid works, text-based artwork, poems, and prose that push past collaboration and toward mutual entanglement.


Participants

Moderator:

Jared Stanley is the author of three collections of poetry, most recently Ears. Recent poetry and prose have appeared in the New York Times, The Brooklyn Rail, Harvard Review, Make, and PoetryNow. He teaches in the MFA program at the University of Nevada, Reno.

Raquel Gutiérrez is an Arizona-based poet and essayist who publishes chapbooks with Econo Textual Objects. Her work explores tensions and creates intimate portraits of being a brown, queer child of immigrants. She holds a master's degree in performance studies from New York University.

Farid Matuk is the author of This Isa Nice Neighborhood and The Real Horse. He serves as an editor at Fence and on the MFA faculty at University of Arizona. Matuk’s work has earned a New Works Grant from The Headlands Center for the Arts and a Holloway Visiting Professorship at UC Berkeley.

Jared Stanley is the author of three collections of poetry, most recently Ears. Recent poetry and prose have appeared in the New York Times, The Brooklyn Rail, Harvard Review, Make, and PoetryNow. He teaches in the MFA program at the University of Nevada, Reno.

Cole Swensen is the author of 17 books of poetry, most recently On Walking On. A 2006 Guggenheim Fellow, she has won the Iowa Poetry Prize, the SF State Poetry Center Book Award, and the 2004 PEN/USA Award in Translation, among others. She teaches in Literary Arts at Brown University.

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