F225.
Voyage Image Poem: An Exploration of Hybrid Texts
Friday, March 25, 2022
3:20 pm to 4:35 pm
Photographs, writing, and travel have been inextricably linked since the dawn of the postcard. A photo says, “I was here,” and a poem asks “Where and who was I?” By bringing the two art forms together, these book-length explorations—of Antarctica, of the parallels between dust-bowl migrants and today’s California, of Japanese American incarceration, of the aftermath of a brother’s suicide, and of post-1848 violences against Mexicans/Mexican Americans—show how poem and image dynamically converse.
Participants
Diana Khoi Nguyen is a poet, multimedia artist, and the author of Ghost Of . A recipient of a 2021 NEA fellowship and a Kundiman fellow, she is core faculty in the Randolph College Low-Residency MFA and an assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh.
Anthony Cody is the author of Borderland Apocrypha, winner of the 2018 Omnidawn Open Book Prize and a 2020 National Book Award Finalist in Poetry. He is a CantoMundo fellow from Fresno, California, who serves as a poetry editor for Noemi Press and Omnidawn Publishing.
Elizabeth Bradfield’s most recent book is Toward Antarctica. Her work has been published in the New Yorker, Poetry, and her honors include the Audre Lorde Prize and a Stegner fellowship. Founder of Broadsided Press, she works as a naturalist/guide and teaches creative writing at Brandeis University.
Tess Taylor is the author of five collections of poetry, including The Misremembered World, The Forage House, and Work & Days. In spring 2020 she published two books of poems: Last West, part of Dorothea Lange: Words & Pictures at the Museum of Modern Art, and Rift Zone, from Red Hen Press.
Brynn Saito is the author of two books of poetry, Power Made Us Swoon and The Palace of Contemplating Departure. Brynn is an assistant professor in the MFA program at California State University, Fresno.
