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Breaking the Rules on Chapbooks: New Approaches to an Old Form
Friday, February 9, 2024
10:35 am to 11:50 am
A chapbook is often a prelude to a first book—or so the conventional wisdom goes. But what if a chapbook comes along later in an established career? Or if it marks a turning point from scholarship to original poetry or from prose to poetry? Or if it is a way of introducing a writer in translation to English-language audiences? Four writers and publishers will discuss breaking the rules on chapbooks, what the future holds for this format, and how a well-timed chapbook can reshape a career.
Participants
Aviya Kushner is the author of Wolf Lamb Bomb, a New York Times New & Noteworthy selection and winner of the Chicago Review of Books Award in Poetry; The Grammar of God, a National Jewish Book Award and Sami Rohr Prize finalist, and the poetry chapbook, Eve and All the Wrong Men.
Adriana X. Jacobs is an associate professor of modern Hebrew literature at the University of Oxford. She translates contemporary Hebrew poetry into English and is the author of the poetry collections Afterlife is Sweet (rinky dink press) and The Turning (Dancing Girl Press).
Ruben Quesada is editor of Latinx Poetics: Essays on the Art of Poetry, author of Revelations and Next Extinct Mammal. He teaches in the MFA program in creative writing at Antioch University. His writing appears in the New York Times Magazine, Best American Poetry, Harvard Review, and elsewhere.
Michelle Gil-Montero is an Argentine-American poet-translator. She has translated several books by contemporary Latin American writers, including Maria Negroni and Valerie Mejer Caso. Her work has appeared widely and been supported by the NEA, Howard Foundation, and Fulbright.
Jace Brittain is the author of the novel Sorcererer (Schism Neuronics, 2022), a founding editor of Carrion Bloom Books, and a PhD candidate at the University of Utah. Their writing, poetry, and translations have been featured in Annulet, ANMLY, Dream Pop, Propagule, Snail Trail, and elsewhere.
