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Liminal Silences: (Un)Writing The First Poetry Collection
Saturday, February 10, 2024
1:45 pm to 3:00 pm
Silence, long a sign of complicity and conformity, is being reclaimed by a new generation of poets as a revolutionary and innovative force. For these poets, silence adds an ineffable dimension to their subject matter, gestures toward the limits of the English language, and honors the unsayable by tracing its outline. This multicultural panel of poets will discuss the role that silence plays in each of their first books in an attempt to find shared and distinct understandings of its poetic use.
Participants
Leslie Sainz is the author of Have You Been Long Enough at Table (Tin House, 2023). The recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, CantoMundo, and The Stadler Center for Poetry & Literary Arts at Bucknell University, she is the managing editor of the New England Review.
Xiao Yue Shan is a poet. then telling be the antidote won the Berkshire Prize and is forthcoming in 2023. How Often I Have Chosen Love was published in 2019.
Sahar Muradi is the author of Octobers (Pitt Poetry Series, 2023), selected by Naomi Shihab Nye for the 2022 Donald Hall Prize for Poetry and finalist for the National Poetry Series, as well as of the chapbook [ G A T E S ], the hybrid memoir Ask Hafiz, and the chaplet A Garden Beyond My Hand.
Alisha Dietzman is the author of Sweet Movie, selected for the 2022 National Poetry Series by Victoria Chang, and Slow Motion Something For No Reason, the editors’ choice selection for the Tomaž Šalamun Prize.
