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Everything All at Once: Readings & Conversation with Four Alice James Books Poets
Friday, March 10, 2023
3:20 pm to 4:35 pm
Four principal poets debut new collections from Alice James Books and discuss the expansive nature of storytelling in poems. Expressing individuality via internal and external landscapes; disabling hierarchies; examining lineage and familial influences; and uncovering how personal and collective histories collapse–and inform and obscure our memories, languages, and selves–the poets communicate collective visions of our myriad borders and query origins with an approach akin to transillumination. This event will be livestreamed. ASL interpretation and live captioning will be provided.
Participants
Joseph O. Legaspi is the author of the collections Threshold and Imago, and the chapbooks Postcards, Aviary, Bestiary, and Subways. Recent works appeared in Poetry, New England Review, World Literature Today, and Best of the Net. A former Fulbright fellow, he cofounded Kundiman (www.kundiman.org).
Ina Cariño holds an MFA in creative writing from North Carolina State University. Their poetry appears in Apogee, Wildness, Waxwing, New England Review, Tupelo Quarterly, and elsewhere. They are the winner of the 2021 Alice James Award for their manuscript Feast, forthcoming from Alice James Books.
Aldo Amparán is the author of Brother Sleep (Alice James Books, 2022), winner of the 2020 Alice James Award. They have received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and CantoMundo. Their work most recently appears in the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, Ploughshares, and Poetry.
J. Estanislao Lopez
Janine Joseph, a poet and librettist, is the author of Decade of the Brain and Driving without a License, winner of the Kundiman Poetry Prize. A co-organizer for Undocupoets, she is an associate professor at Oklahoma State University and a Dean's Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Virginia Tech.
