R127. You Are Here: A Pacific Northwest Poetry Sampler

Room 301, Western New England MFA Annex, Level 3
Thursday, February 27, 2014
9:00 am to 10:15 am

 

Addressing wilderness theory, cultural displacement, memory, doubt, and desire, these Pacific Northwest-engaged poets read from recent work that explores how our idea of the frontier complicates the place we write from, and toward. Representing a spectrum of sources (archival research, experience, and the imagination) and approaches (from formal to experimental), these poets use frontiers as lines by which to claim the Pacific Northwest’s place in contemporary poetry.


Participants

Moderator:

Megan Snyder-Camp's first poetry collection is The Forest of Sure Things. She has been awarded grants and residencies from the 4Culture Foundation, Bread Loaf, and Djerassi, and her work has been featured on the PBS NewsHour.

C.S. Giscombe teaches English at the University of California, Berkeley. His recent and forthcoming books include Prairie Style, Back Burner, and Into and Out of Dislocation. He is at work on a mixed-genre prose book titled Railroad Sense and a poetry book titled Plantation Songs.

Sean Hill is the author of Blood Ties & Brown Liquor and the forthcoming Dangerous Goods. His poems have appeared in Callaloo, Poetry, Tin House, and numerous other journals and anthologies. He is currently a visiting professor in the creative writing program at University of Alaska-Fairbanks.

Gregory Sherl is the author of four poetry collections: Glow, Monogamy Songs, The Oregon Trail is the Oregon Trail, and Heavy Petting. His debut novel, The Future For Curious People (in participation with Julianna Baggott), is forthcoming.

Laura Jensen has published poetry books and chapbooks and a broadside compilation. Linked to her blog, Spice Drawer Mouse, is work at Salt River Review. A poem was at the State Poet Laureate’s blog in 2012.

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