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Speaking With/Speaking From: Perugia Press Poets Discuss Linguistic Diversity
Saturday, March 26, 2022
12:10 pm to 1:25 pm
What community and cultural languages define your work as a writer? Five Perugia poets guide a discussion investigating the challenges of language acquisition and loss, the use of terms as weapons of exclusion in military and civilian spaces, the reclamation and affirmation of mother tongues, and ways of speaking from and for the environment. Explore how linguistic experience intersects with craft in this conversation featuring women poets from one press who represent myriad places and voices.
Participants
Lynne Thompson was appointed poet laureate of Los Angeles in 2021. She is the author of three collections of poetry: Fretwork, Start With a Small Guitar, and Beg No Pardon. She serves on the boards of directors of Cave Canem and the Los Angeles Review of Books.
Ida Stewart is the author of Gloss. Her poems have appeared in journals including Field, Pool, and Typo Magazine, as well as Eyes Glowing at the Edge of the Woods, an anthology of West Virginia writers. Ida is the managing editor of an academic journal in Philadelphia.
Rebecca Pelky is an assistant professor of film studies at Clarkson University. She has two collections of poetry, Horizon of the Dog Woman and Through A Red Place. She is a member of the Brothertown Indian Nation of Wisconsin and writes in Mohegan and English.
Jacqueline Balderrama is the author of the full poetry collection Now in Color and chapbook Nectar and Small. She is a PhD candidate in English at the University of Utah, poetry editor for Iron City Magazine, and a Piper Fellow-in-Residence at Arizona State for the 2021–2022 academic year.
Abby E. Murray (MFA & PhD) is the editor of Collateral, a literary journal concerned with the impact of violent conflict and military service beyond the combat zone. Her first book of poetry, Hail and Farewell, examines the conflict between civilian and military life from a feminist perspective.
