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Order within Chaos: Finding New Forms from Free Verse
Saturday, March 26, 2022
10:35 am to 11:50 am
Despite the forms that have arisen since the mid-20th century, conversations about poetic form are often limited to binary notions of traditional forms and free verse. But there need not be firm delineation between them: new forms often arise from free verse. We will explore how free verse spawns different approaches to structures and their subjects and how changes in form demand performative engagement with the texts, in which writers and readers conspire to form order within a chaotic milieu.
Participants
Vincent A. Cellucci wrote Absence Like Sun and An Easy Place / To Die. Vincent performed "Diamonds in Dystopia," an interactive poetry web app, internationally and at SXSW in 2017, and the poem was anthologized in Best American Experimental Writing 2018.
Jiwon Choi is a poet, teacher, and urban gardener. She is the author of One Daughter Is Worth Ten Sons (2017) and I Used To Be Korean (2021). She teaches preschool at the Educational Alliance in NYC. She gardens at the Pacific Street Brooklyn Bear’s Garden near Downtown Brooklyn.
Teow Lim Goh is the author of two books of poetry, Islanders and Faraway Places. She has also published many essays on social issues and criticism on poetic forms. She earned her MFA from Western Colorado University.
Christopher Shipman is the author or coauthor of eight books and three chapbooks. His work appears in journals such as Cimarron Review, PANK, Pedestal, Plume, and Salt Hill. His poem “The Three-Year Crossing” was a winner of the 2015 Big Bridges Prize, judged by Alice Quinn.
Wendy Taylor Carlisle lives and writes in the Arkansas Ozarks. She is the author of four books and five chapbooks and is the 2020 winner of the Phillip H. McMath Post-Publication Award for The Mercy of Traffic. See other work in Persimmon Tree, Rattle, the Atlanta Review, and others.
