F113. The Flash Sequence: A Reading and Discussion

Room 406 AB, LA Convention Center, Meeting Room Level
Friday, April 1, 2016
9:00 am to 10:15 am

 

For 20 years, the Marie Alexander Series has published hybrid work: prose poems, flash fiction, lyric essays, and books that mix all three and defy categorization. For our 20th anniversary, we decided to publish an anthology of flash sequences—that is, pieces comprising short prose segments. We received over 400 submissions, and the resulting collection contains a wide variety of approaches to this form. Each participant will read and discuss his or her contribution to the anthology.


Participants

Moderator:

Debra Marquart directs the MFA program in creative writing and environment at Iowa State University and teaches in the Stonecoast low-residency MFA program. Marquart is the author of five books including The Horizontal World: Growing Up Wild in the Middle of Nowhere and Small Buried Things: Poems.

Irena Praitis is a professor of literature and creative writing at California State University, Fullerton. She has published three volumes of poetry, one biography comprised of nonfiction prose poems, and one cotranslated book of poems by Lithuanian poet Sonata Paliulyte.

Siel Ju writes poetry and fiction. She is the author of two poetry chapbooks: Feelings Are Chemicals in Transit and Might Club. She holds a PhD in literature and creative writing from the University of Southern California, and she teaches at Santa Monica College.

Jenn Koiter is a poet and essayist. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in a number of journals, including Barrelhouse, the South Dakota Review, Bateau, Rock & Sling, Ruminate, and Neon.

Sonia Greenfield is a poet, essayist, and fiction writer. Her first full-length book of poetry is Boy with a Halo at the Farmer's Market. She teaches writing at USC.

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