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Love, Grief, Resistance: A Reading & Craft Conversation, Sponsored by Copper Canyon Press
Saturday, March 26, 2022
1:45 pm to 3:00 pm
Three powerhouse poets debut their new collections from Copper Canyon Press and discuss craft as it meets content. Resisting police brutality, lamenting the loss of the natural world, and grieving across distances of time and geography, these poems carry tremendous weight. How can poetry give shape and voice to complex emotional truths and urgent political convictions? These radically inventive authors explore transformative possibilities as they defy collapse and expand out of the status quo. This event will be prerecorded and available on the virtual conference platform, in addition to being screened onsite. ASL interpretation and live captioning will be provided.
Participants
Michael Wiegers is the editor in chief of Copper Canyon Press, and the poetry editor of Narrative Magazine. The editor of What About This: Collected Poems of Frank Stanford, he translates poetry from Spanish and has edited books from around the globe by poets at every stage in their careers.
Victoria Chang's books are Obit and Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief. Her children's books are Love, Love and Is Mommy?
Chris Abani's recent books are The Secret History of Las Vegas, The Face: A Memoir, and Sanctificum. Honors include Guggenheim Fellowship, the PEN/Hemingway Award, An Edgar Prize, A Ford USA Artists Fellowship, and the PEN Beyond the Margins Award. He is a Professor of English at Northwestern University.
Christopher Soto (aka Loma) edits Nepantla: A Journal Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color with the Lambda Literary Foundation. They are an MFA candidate in poetry at NYU and the 2014–2015 intern at Poetry Society of America. In 2015, they cofounded the Undocupoets campaign.
