R196. The Radioactive Muse: Nuclear Disaster and Poetry

Room 513, LA Convention Center, Meeting Room Level
Thursday, March 31, 2016
12:00 pm to 1:15 pm

 

To commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster and the 5th anniversary of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster (as well as the 70th anniversary, in 2015, of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki), four women poets whose lives have been marked by the nuclear industry read from their work and discuss the convergence of research and personal history in the making of their poems.


Participants

Moderator:

Mihaela Moscaliuc is the author of the poetry collections Father Dirt and Immigrant Model, translator of Carmelia Leonte’s The Hiss of the Viper, and editor of a forthcoming collection of essays on poet Gerald Stern. She is assistant professor of English at Monmouth University (NJ).

Judith Vollmer's most recent book of poems is The Water Books. Vollmer has received the Brittingham, the Cleveland State, and the Center for Book Arts prizes; finalist honors for the Paterson Prize; and grants from the National Endowment and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.

April Naoko Heck is a Kundiman fellow and the author of A Nuclear Family, a poetry collection. Her writing appears in publications including the Margins, Asian American Literary Review, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Poets & Writers, VIDA, Kartika, and many others. She has held residencies at VCCA and VSC.

Lissa Kiernan’s first book of poetry, Two Faint Lines in the Violet is a Foreword Reviews’ 2014 INDIEFAB Book of the Year Award Finalist, as well as a finalist for the 2014 Julie Suk Award for Best Poetry Book by an Independent Press. Lissa founded and directs The Poetry Barn, a literary center in New York's Hudson Valley.

Kathleen Flenniken is the author of two books of poetry, Famous and Plume, a meditation on the Hanford Nuclear Site in eastern Washington State and finalist for the William Carlos Williams Award.

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