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A Cat's Belly: Structuring Your Debut Collection through Place and Movement
Saturday, February 10, 2024
9:00 am to 10:15 am
In Marbles on the Floor: How to Assemble a Book of Poems (Giragosian and Konchan, eds.), Diane Seuss asks: “Might your book's arrangement, taken far enough, be you?” This craft talk will look at various ways poets have engaged in the amorphous process of arranging, scrubbing, and sewing together poems. The panelists will examine how poems can cohere and create necessary movement and coda throughout a collection, and how the sounds, cadences, and colors of a place can ground a written work.
Participants
Tiffany Troy is the author of Dominus (BlazeVox [books]) and the chapbook When Ilium Burns (Bottlecap Press), as well as cotranslator of Santiago Acosta’s The Coming Desert /El próximo desierto (forthcoming, Alliteration Publishing House). She is the managing editor of Tupelo Quarterly.
India Lena González is a poet, editor, and multidisciplinary artist. She received her BA from Columbia University, where she graduated with honors, and her MFA from NYU’s creative writing program. fox woman get out! is her debut poetry collection.
Meghan Maguire Dahn is the author of Domain (2022) and the chapbook Lucid Animal (2021). A winner of the Discovery/92Y Prize, her work has appeared in a wide range of publications including the Best New American Poets (2017). She teaches at Fordham University and lives with her family in New York.
Ryan Cook is a Brooklyn-based poet, performer, bookseller, and publicist. They are an MFA candidate in poetry at Columbia, where they served as a teaching fellow. Their work has been published/ is forthcoming in Thimble Lit Mag, the Nightboat Blog, No, Dear magazine, Hot Pink, Poetry Project, and others.
