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The Long Haul: Keep Your Fire, Baby!
Thursday, March 24, 2022
1:45 pm to 3:00 pm
Over many years, a poet’s relationship to language, to self, and to society goes through many changes, some deliberate, some unconscious. This is especially true for writers from marginalized communities who often face biases that further complicate their lives—on and off the page. Using their own recently published new and selected collections, the panelists—four poets, two women, two men—will read original work and discuss the things that can sustain or confound a life in writing.
Participants
Tim Seibles has published several collections of poetry, including Buffalo Head Solos, Fast Animal—a finalist for the National Book Award in 2012—and, most recently, One Turn Around The Sun. His new and selected collection, Voodoo Libretto, will be released in January 2022.
Laurie Ann Guerrero is the author of A Tongue in the Mouth of the Dying, A Crown for Gumecindo, and I Have Eaten the Rattlesnake. San Antonio poet laureate (2014) and Texas poet laureate (2016), she is an assistant professor of poetry and gender studies at Texas A&M University-San Antonio.
Patrick Rosal is author of The Last Thing: New and Selected Poems. He is a professor of English and campus codirector of the Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice at Rutgers-Camden. He has been awarded the Lenore Marshall Prize, as well as fellowships from the NEA, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, and the Fulbright Program.
Lisa Russ Spaar is the author/editor of twelve books. Her awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Rona Jaffe Award. She is the director of creative writing at the University of Virginia, and her essays have appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, the Chronicle of Higher Education, and the New York Times.
