S258. 50 Years of Denver Quarterly: A Conversation

Room L100 H&I, Lower Level
Saturday, April 11, 2015
3:00 pm to 4:15 pm

 

Denver Quarterly celebrates fifty consecutive years of publication in 2015. On this panel, former and current editors reflect on their experiences while on the masthead, consider how the journal’s aesthetic and mission has evolved, and examine the current state of innovative literature both in the pages of DQ and beyond.


Participants

Moderator:

Lindsey Drager is the author of the novel The Sorrow Proper. She has received residency fellowships from the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts and the Vermont Studio Center and is a PhD candidate at the University of Denver, where she teaches hybrid genres and edits the Denver Quarterly.

Julia Cohen is the author of two collections of poetry and a forthcoming collection of lyric essays. Her work appears in journals like jubilat, Boston Review, New American Writing, and the Kenyon Review Online. She is the former editor of the Denver Quarterly and currently a tenure-track professor.

Andrea Rexilius has authored two books of poetry: Half of What They Carried Flew Away and To Be Human Is To Be A Conversation. She is a member of the Poets’ Theater group, Girls Assembling Something Perpetual. She coordinates the summer writing program at Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School.

Karla Kelsey is author of three volumes of poetry: Knowledge, Forms, the AviaryIteration Nets; and A Conjoined Book. Along with editing and writing reviews for the Constant Critic, she is co-editor of Split Level Texts. She teaches in the creative writing program at Susquehanna University.

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