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Build Your Sharp & Unforgettable Bouquet: On the Making of Anthologies
Friday, February 9, 2024
9:00 am to 10:15 am
Why and how do we make anthologies? What do anthologies allow us to share and see that single-authored volumes do not? How can building an anthology be an act of community building or resistance? And, importantly, what is the path to building an anthology in real life? Remembering that the word anthology means at its root "bouquet of flowers,” we will talk about the work of curating sharp and meaningful gatherings. We will also give practical suggestions for doing this work in future projects.
Participants
Tess Taylor is the author of five collections of poetry, including The Misremembered World, The Forage House, and Work & Days. In spring 2020 she published two books of poems: Last West, part of "Dorothea Lange: Words & Pictures" at the Museum of Modern Art, and Rift Zone from Red Hen Press.
Jennifer Barber's poetry books are The Sliding Boat Our Bodies Made, Works on Paper, Given Away, and Rigging the Wind. She is a coeditor, with Fred Marchant and Jessica Greenbaum, of the anthology Tree Lines: 21st Century American Poems. She was the founding editor of the journal Salamander.
Elise Paschen (Osage) is the author of four books of poetry, most recently, The Nightlife. Her poems have appeared in A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry and Poetry, among others. She is the editor or coeditor of numerous anthologies, including Poetry Speaks and The Eloquent Poem.
Brynn Saito is the author of three books of poetry and is coediting an anthology of poems by descendants of the Japanese American / Nikkei incarceration. She teaches in the MFA program at California State University, Fresno.
LeAnne Howe (Choctaw) is a novelist, poet, and playwright at the University of Georgia. Her new play The Keening, coauthored with Colm Summers, was workshopped at Berkeley Rep in 2023. Her 2019 novel Savage Conversations was adapted for the stage by Starz Theater, Tampa. She's working on the poetry collection 1918.
