R237. Reimagining the Author: Pedagogies of Collaboration, Chance, and New Media in Poetry Workshops

Room 205 A&B, Level 2
Thursday, April 9, 2015
3:00 pm to 4:15 pm

 

Collaboration, digitization, automation, and conceptualization are just some of the ways traditional notions of authorship can be reimagined in the classroom. Panelists will discuss how rethinking these notions can unlock students' creativity and critical thinking about their own writing, and they will share lesson plans geared toward helping community, undergraduate, and graduate students generate innovative work and practice new methods they can later apply in more traditional assignments.


Participants

Moderator:

Timothy Bradford is the author of the introduction to Sadhus, a photography book on the ascetics of South Asia, and Nomads with Samsonite, a collection of poetry. Currently, he is a visiting assistant professor at Oklahoma State University.

Susan Briante is the author of two books of poetry: Utopia Minus and Pioneers in the Study of Motion. She also writes essays, some of which can be found in Creative Nonfiction, Jacket2, and the Believer. She is an associate professor of creative writing at the University of Arizona.

Joseph Harrington is the author of Things Come On (an amneoir), a Rumpus Poetry Book Club selection; the critical work Poetry and the Public; and the chapbook Earth Day Suite.

Cheryl Pallant, writer and dancer, is the author of several books of poetry and nonfiction, most recently the poetry collections Continental Drifts and Morphs. Winner of the Theresa Pollak Prize and finalist for the Bechtel Award, she teaches at the University of Richmond.

Grant Matthew Jenkins teaches contemporary literature and creative writing at the University of Tulsa and has published two books of poetry. His current poetry manuscript, Returns: A De-selected Poems, is under consideration. His work in digital poetry animation is online at Turbulence and YouTube.

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