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Structure as Muse: The Generative Rewards of Daily Practice & Constraint
Saturday, March 26, 2022
10:35 am to 11:50 am
The blank page looms. What if self-imposed rules and practices could help you generate your most inspired work? This panel explores ways in which writers across genres pair daily ordinary activities (morning walks, art-making) with self-imposed writing constraints (mandated vocabulary, word limits) to unlock creative potential and create full-length books. Panelists will discuss their practices and constraints and offer tips and exercises to help audience members begin their own projects.
Participants
Aaron Angello is a writer and theatre artist who lives in Frederick, MD. He teaches theatre and creative writing in the new MFA program at Hood College. His first book, Close Reading, is forthcoming from Rose Metal Press (2022).
CA Conrad is the author of eight books and has received fellowships from Lannan Foundation, MacDowell Colony, Headlands, and Pew Center for the Arts. For his books and details on the documentary The Book of Conrad (Delinquent Films, 2016), please visit http://CAConrad.blogspot.com.
Julie Carr is the author of five books of poetry, most recently 100 Notes on Violence, Sarah—Of Fragments and Lines, RAG, and Think Tank. Prose books include Surface Tension: Ruptural Time and the Poetics of Desire in Late Victorian Poetry and Objects from a Borrowed Confession.
Alexis Almeida is a poet. She teaches writing at Bard College, and she is the author of several chapbooks and the translator of several books by Argentine and Chilean authors. She also edits 18 Owls Press.
J. Michael Martinez is the author of Museum of the Americas, selected for the National Poetry Series and longlisted for the National Book Award, and Heredities, winner of the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets. He is an assistant professor of poetry at San Jose State University.
