S278. Expanding the Canon

Capital & Congress, Marriott Marquis, Meeting Level Four
Saturday, February 11, 2017
4:30 pm to 5:45 pm

 

How do we seek out great writing by authors whose work has been forgotten or ignored? What role does the magazine or book publisher play in expanding the canon? In this panel, writers, editors, and publishers who have been involved in highlighting work from the archives of unheralded writers come together to seek answers to these questions. Panelists discuss the discoveries and challenges of bringing this work into the world and the importance of posthumous and later-life recognition.


Participants

Moderator:

Brigid Hughes is the founding editor of A Public Space and a contributing editor at Graywolf Press.

Kevin Prufer is the author most recently of Churches, In a Beautiful Country, and National Anthem. He is editor at large of Pleiades: A Journal of New Writing, codirector of the Unsung Masters Series, and professor at the University of Houston's creative writing program.

Lisa Pearson is the publisher and founder of Siglio, an independent press dedicated to publishing uncommon books at the intersection of art and literature—inimitable, visionary, and uncategorizable works by renowned as well as little known artists and writers.

Farnoosh Fathi is the author of Great Guns, the editor of the forthcoming Collected Poems of Joan Murray and the founder of YALDA, the Young Artists Language and Devotion Alliance, a literary intensive and publishing platform for young women authors ages twelve to nineteen.

Kendra Sullivan is the director of public engagement and collaborative research at the Center for the Humanities at the CUNY Graduate Center and publisher of Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative. She is a writer, artist, academic, curator, and organizer.

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