S131. CANCELLED: Towards a "Third Language": Rethinking Text and Image Assignments in the Workshop

Status: Not Accepted

Room 213, Henry B. González Convention Center, Meeting Room Level
Saturday, March 7, 2020
9:00 am to 10:15 am

 

Of synthesizing verbal and visual material, C.D. Wright wrote: “In collaboration we create a third language.” How can we adapt the workshop to practice this “third language”? On this panel, we’ll present useful assignments—essays, films, poems, stories—that help students engage the flux and friction between text and images: from adaptation to activism, sampling to speaking out, illustration to transfiguration. We’ll also consider how multimodal forms call us to rethink the workshop itself.


Outline & Supplemental Documents

Event Outline: AWP_2020_General_Outline.docx

Participants

Moderator:

Katy Didden is the author of The Glacier’s Wake (a book of poems). She holds a PhD from the University of Missouri and an MFA from the University of Maryland. A former Hodder Fellow at Princeton University, Katy is currently an assistant professor of creative writing at Ball State University.

Kelcey Parker Ervick is the author of The Bitter Life of Bozena Nemcova, a hybrid work of biography, memoir, and visual art. Her two previous books of fiction are Liliane's Balcony and For Sale by Owner. She teaches creative writing, comics, and collage at Indiana University South Bend.

Sarah Minor is the author of The Persistence of the Bonyleg: Annotated, a digital chapbook. She runs a series on visual essays at Essay Daily and teaches as a doctoral candidate in creative nonfiction at Ohio University. Her recent work appears at The Normal School, Passages North, and Territory.

Saara Myrene Raappana is author of A Story of America Goes Walking and Milk Tooth, Levee, Fever. She's a founding editor of Cellpoems, a poetry journal distributed via text message, and is director of communications and educational initiatives for Motionpoems, a poetry film production organization.

Kristen Radtke is the author of the graphic nonfiction book Imagine Wanting Only This, and the forthcoming Seek You: Essays on American Loneliness and Terrible Men, a graphic novel. She is the art director and deputy publisher of The Believer.

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