S251. CANCELLED: Healing the Divide: Poetry of Kindness and Connection

Status: Not Accepted

Room 007C, Henry B. González Convention Center, River Level
Saturday, March 7, 2020
3:20 pm to 4:35 pm

 

At a time of greed-driven politics and environmental destruction, it can seem impossible to hold the space for poetry that highlights kindness and connection. Yet relational, accessible writing, at this divisive historical moment, has the power to lift readers out of isolation and blur the artificial borders between us. This panel will address how poetry can serve both as a potent form of resistance and connective force in the lives of ordinary people.


Outline & Supplemental Documents

Event Outline: AWP-Outline-Healing.docx

Participants

Moderator:

James Crews is the author of two collections of poetry, The Book of What Stays and Telling My Father. He is also the editor of two anthologies--the forthcoming Queer Nature, a gathering of LGBTQ environmental poetry, and Healing the Divide: Poems of Kindness and Connection.

Amy Fleury is the author of the poetry collections Beautiful Trouble and Sympathetic Magic. She directs the the MFA program in creative writing at McNeese State University in Lake Charles, Louisiana.

Albert Garcia is the author of three collections of poetry: Rainshadow, Skunk Talk, and A Meal Like That. He serves as Vice President of Instruction at Sacramento City College.

Danusha Lameris's poems have been published in American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Tin House, The Sun, The New Ohio Review, The New York Times Magazine, and other journals and anthologies. Her books are The Moons of August and Bonfire Opera. She is the poet laureate of Santa Cruz, California.

Natalia Trevino is the author of Lavando La Dirty Laundry. She is a professor of English, a winner of the Alfredo Cisneros del Moral Award, the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prize, and others. Her first novel, This Thin Edge of Barbwire is forthcoming.

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