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Erasure Poetry: Ethics & Best Practices

Virtual
Friday, March 25, 2022
9:00 am to 10:00 am

 

This panel will focus on erasure poetry in all of its myriad variations (procedural, self-erasure, blackout, grayscale, etc). Questions we will consider include: When may one take liberties with someone else’s text? How does one reconcile found texts with one’s own voice as a poet? How does one present erasure material from a visual standpoint (meaning its layout on the printed page)? What questions of power and privilege emerge within an erasure project, and how can we be more responsible?



Outline & Supplemental Documents

Event Outline: AWP_Outline_.pdf
Supplemental Document 1: Srikanth_Reddy.pdf
Supplemental Document 2: Sam_Taylor.pdf
Supplemental Document 3: Kristina_Marie_Darling.pdf

Participants

Moderator:

Kristina Marie Darling is author of thirty books, including Dark Horse and Look to Your Left: The Poetics of Spectacle. She currently serves as editor in chief of Tupelo Press and Tupelo Quarterly, a columnist at the Los Angeles Review of Books, and a contributing writer at Publishers Weekly.

Sam Taylor is the author of three books of poems, Body of the World, Nude Descending an Empire, and The Book of Fools, which applies self-erasure into a book-length poetic elegy for our earth and oceans. He directs the MFA program at Wichita State.

Srikanth Reddy's most recent book of poetry is Underworld Lit. A recipient of fellowships from the NEA, Creative Capital, and the Guggenheim Foundation, he is currently a professor of English at the University of Chicago.

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