F128. Digital Poets & Nature: A Reading

Room L100 B&C, Lower Level
Friday, April 10, 2015
9:00 am to 10:15 am

 

Nature is one of the most enduring themes in poetry, especially in a world that faces environmental threats. Yet technology isn't always the enemy of nature. Amid a debate that often leans on nostalgia for a pre-tech era, this reading celebrates both the natural world and creative uses of technology. Poets from the online magazine Talking Writing will read from their work, draw connections between a love of the wild and virtual life, and invite the audience to join this evolving conversation.


Participants

Moderator:

Carol Dorf is Talking Writing's poetry editor. Her poems appear in Antiphon, the Mom Egg, Spillway, Sin Fronteras, Maintenant, JHMAScientific American, and anthologies including Not A Muse, and Best of Indie Lit New England. She has created collaborative works with artists, musicians, and poets.

JP Howard aka Juliet P. Howard is a Cave Canem graduate fellow and curator of Women Writers in Bloom Poetry Salon, a monthly literary salon in New York, which nurtures women writers of all levels. Her poems have been published widely, including in Muzzle magazine and the Best American Poetry Blog.

Athena Kildegaard is the author of three books of poetry: Rare Momentum, Bodies of Light (a Minnesota Book Award finalist), and Cloves & Honey. She teaches at the University of Minnesota, Morris.

Randall Horton is assistant professor of English at the University of New Haven. Pitch Dark Anarchy is his latest poetry collection.

Ellen McGrath Smith writes poetry, hybrid forms, and flash fiction, and has published in numerous journals in the US and in Canada. She teaches writing, literature, and composition at the University of Pittsburgh. Her work has been included in numerous anthologies, including Beauty Is a Verb.

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