S192. Intense/Beautiful/Devoted: Poems of Provocation & Witness
Saturday, March 1, 2014
12:00 pm to 1:15 pm
Participants
Sarah Browning is Executive Director of Split This Rock: Poetry of Provocation & Witness. Author of Whiskey in the Garden of Eden and co-editor of DC Poets Against the War, she is an Institute for Policy Studies Associate Fellow and cohosts Sunday Kind of Love at Busboys and Poets in Washington, DC.
Natalie Diaz is Mojave and Pima. She was awarded 2012 Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Literature Fellowship, a 2012 Lannan Residency, and a 2012 Lannan Literary Fellowship. Her first book, When My Brother Was an Aztec, was published in June 2012.
Danez Smith, a Cave Canem Fellow and two-time Pushcart Nominee, works as a Student Advisor for the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His recent work appears or is forthcoming in journals such as decomP, the Cortland Review, Anti-, Southern Indiana Review, and Muzzle.
Patricia Smith's six books of poetry include Blood Dazzler, National Book Award finalist, and Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah. She is featured in Best American Poetry, Best American Essays, and Best American Mystery Stories. She teaches at the College of Staten Island and Sierra Nevada College.
Ping Wang has published eleven books of poetry and prose, including American Visa, Foreign Devil, Of Flesh and Spirit, New Generation, and Aching for Beauty. Recipient of NEA, Bush, Lannan, and McKnight fellowships, she founded and directs the Kinship of Rivers project.