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Pollen, Rust, Lakes, & Plains: Writing Poems in the Midwest
Friday, February 9, 2024
10:35 am to 11:50 am
How can poetry account for the material conditions of the environment, tethering regional circumstances to questions of conservation, extinction, or the nonhuman? This panel of Midwest poets will consider what forms—ode, mess, palimpsest, somatic, plein air—might best connect a region’s particulars to global transformation. Poets will share experiences of writing their region and useful place-based prompts, texts, or fieldwork for landscapes that combine the urban, industrial, and agricultural.
Participants
Caryl Pagel is the author of three books of poetry, most recently Free Clean Fill Dirt, and the essay collection Out of Nowhere Into Nothing. She is an editor at Rescue Press and the director of the CSU Poetry Center. She teaches at Cleveland State University and in the NEOMFA program.
Zach Savich is the author of seven books of poetry, including Momently, and two books of creative nonfiction, including the memoir Diving Makes the Water Deep. His work has appeared in American Poetry Review, Boston Review, and elsewhere. He teaches at the Cleveland Institute of Art.
Robin Beth Schaer is the author of the poetry collection Shipbreaking. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ohio Arts Council, Yaddo, MacDowell, and others. Her work has appeared in Tin House, Bomb, the Paris Review, and elsewhere. She teaches writing in Ohio.
Jason Harris is a Black American writer. He currently serves as an editor for Gordon Square Review. He has received fellowships from The Watering Hole and Twelve Literary Arts. To read more of his work, you may visit his website: https://jasonharriswriter.com/.
