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Resurrection Not Erasure: When Poets Talk Back to History
Saturday, February 10, 2024
3:20 pm to 4:35 pm
Poets whose work complicates or writes against dominant narratives will discuss how the persona poem challenges historical erasure and revises both the past and present. Panelists will discuss the ethical implications of the personal poem, their decisions to use persona in their work, and their underlying methodologies and research in voicing the past.
Participants
Alyse Bensel is the author of Rare Wondrous Things: A Poetic Biography of Maria Sibylla Merian and three poetry chapbooks. She is an assistant professor of English at Brevard College, where she directs the Looking Glass Rock Writers’ Conference.
Nicole Cooley is the author of seven books of poems, including the forthcoming Mother Water Ash (Louisiana State University Press, 2024), a novel, and two chapbooks. She is the director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing and Literary Translation at Queens College-City University of New York.
Blas Falconer is the author of four poetry collections, including Forgive the Body This Failure (Four Way Books 2018) and Rara Avis (forthcoming Four Way Books 2024). Winner of an NEA fellowship and the Maureen Eden Writers Exchange, he teaches in the MFA program at San Diego State University.
Vandana Khanna
Paisley Rekdal
