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Extending the Frame: Toward a New Ekphrasis
Thursday, March 24, 2022
3:20 pm to 4:35 pm
Traditional notions of ekphrasis often give poet and poem passive roles like observing or reflecting. These poets expand the aesthetics of ekphrasis into active modes of research and documentary, creating works that are not so much products but processes of exploration and interrogation. Fusing the verbal and the visual into a single lens, they go beyond the museum and gallery to elucidate not only other art forms but also the social, political, economic, and linguistic forces shaping all.
Participants
Dean Rader has written, edited, or coedited eleven books, including Self-Portrait as Wikipedia Entry, a finalist for the Oklahoma Book Prize and the Northern California Book Award. He is a professor at the University of San Francisco and a 2019 Guggenheim Fellow in Poetry.
Heid E. Erdrich is a poet, writer, editor, and winner of a National Poetry Series Award for Little Big Bully. She teaches in the low-residency MFA program of Augsburg University. Heid is Ojibwe, enrolled at Turtle Mountain.
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.
Cole Swensen is the author of nineteen books of poetry, most recently Art in Time. A 2006 Guggenheim Fellow, she has won the Iowa Poetry Prize, the SF State Poetry Center Book Award, and the 2004 PEN/USA Award in Translation. She teaches in literary arts at Brown University.
Biswamit Dwibedy is a poet, novelist, and nonfiction writer with six books published in India and the United States. He has an MFA from Bard College, New York, and he now teaches at the American University of Paris. His memoir, Hundred Greatest Love Songs, is forthcoming.
