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The Dimensional Essay: A Multiform Performance

122AB, Pennsylvania Convention Center, 100 Level
Saturday, March 26, 2022
3:20 pm to 4:35 pm

 

This reading will feature five writers who have been invited to perform their written work "dimensionally" using sound, image, objects, and other performance strategies. The goal of the dimensional essay is to provide the space and equipment for writers to engage audiences by using elements that compliment and extend the work of language. This event invites readers to question the formal conventions of a literary reading and offers writers the opportunity to stretch out, collaborate, and play.



Participants

Moderator:

Sarah Minor is an interdisciplinary artist and the author of Slim Confessions, Bright Archive, and the chapbook The Persistence of the Bonyleg: Annotated. She is assistant professor of creative nonfiction at the Cleveland Institute of Art.

Douglas Kearney is a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Cy Twombly recipient, an award-winning librettist, a Howard/CalArts alum, and a Cave Canem fellow. He’s published seven books of poetry, essays, and libretti. He teaches creative writing at the University of Minnesota.

Brandon Shimoda is the author of seven books of poetry and prose. His books include The Grave on the Wall, which received the PEN Open Book Award, and Evening Oracle, which received the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America.

Keith S. Wilson is an Affrilachian poet, Cave Canem fellow, graduate of the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop, and recipient of three Bread Loaf scholarships. He holds an MFA in poetry from Chicago State University. Keith works as a writer and game designer in Chicago.

Zoë Bossiere is a doctoral candidate at Ohio University, where she studies creative nonfiction and rhetoric & composition. She serves as the managing editor of Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction and is a podcast host for the New Books Network. Find her at zoebossiere.com.

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