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| Wednesday, March 8, 2023 | |
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12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. | |
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Virtual |
V103B. What does it mean to research the self? What’s it like to be a body in an archive? What happens when a living person comes into contact with physical and historical objects which they hope to turn into literature? In this panel, a diverse group of inter-genre writers will discuss their processes and experiences for research-based writing, with a specific focus on embodied research and the ethics of researching communities with whom one holds a visceral or personal connection. This event has been prerecorded, and will be available to watch on-demand online from March 8, 2023 to April 8, 2023. Download event outline and supplemental documents.Leora Fridman is author of My Fault and Static Palace, among other works of prose, poetry, and translation. She holds degrees with honors from Brown University and University of Massachusetts Amherst, and has taught and organized arts programming for universities and community groups since 2004. Twitter Username: ummleora Website: leorafridman.com Jenn Shapland is a writer and archivist living in New Mexico. Her first book, My Autobiography of Carson McCullers, was a finalist for the 2020 National Book Award and won the 2021 Lambda Literary Award. Her second book, Thin Skin, will be published by Pantheon Books in August 2023. Twitter Username: jennshapland Lauren Gabrielle Fournier is a writer and researcher who focuses on hybrid and multigenre writing, including autotheory and autofiction, as practices of storytelling and philosophical inquiry. Her first book is Autotheory as Feminist Practice, and her novella The Barista Boys is forthcoming. Twitter Username: lgfournier Arisa White is a Cave Canem graduate fellow and author of Who's Your Daddy and Home Is Where You Queer Your Heart. She collaborates with other artists to expand readership for poetry and to center the narratives of queer IBPOC. White is an assistant professor of creative writing at Colby College. Twitter Username: arisaw Website: arisawhite.com Julietta Singh is a decolonial scholar and nonfiction writer whose books include The Breaks, No Archive Will Restore You, and Unthinking Mastery: Dehumanism & Decolonial Entanglements. |
| Thursday, March 9, 2023 | |
1:45 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. | |
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Rooms 445-446, Summit Building, Seattle Convention Center, Level 4 |
T202. "Identity tends to be used as a thing to pin us down ... but I am imagining ways to become unpinnable," Natalie Diaz once said. In this panel, five poets will discuss writing queer identity under the cis-hetero-patriarchal gaze—how they use direct address, performance, epistles, the collective I, and other subversive craft choices to pursue the unpinnable in their poetry. They will explore the generative approaches that worked for them as they broke open against perspective and form. Download event outline and supplemental documents.Sarah Blake is the author of three books of poetry: In Springtime, Let's Not Live on Earth, and Mr. West. She was awarded an NEA fellowship for poetry in 2013. She is also the author of two novels, Clean Air and Naamah, winner of a National Jewish Book Award. She lives outside of London. Twitter Username: blakesarah Rachel Mennies is the author of The Naomi Letters and The Glad Hand of God Points Backwards, winner of the Walt McDonald First-Book Prize in Poetry and finalist for a National Jewish Book Award. She works as an adjunct professor and freelance writer, and serves as a member of AGNI's editorial staff. Twitter Username: rmennies Website: http://www.rachelmennies.com Arisa White is a Cave Canem graduate fellow and author of Who's Your Daddy and Home Is Where You Queer Your Heart. She collaborates with other artists to expand readership for poetry and to center the narratives of queer IBPOC. White is an assistant professor of creative writing at Colby College. Twitter Username: arisaw Website: arisawhite.com C. Russell Price lives in Chicago and is the author of Tonight, We Fuck the Trailer Park Out of Each Other (SRP) and oh, you thought this was a date?!: Apocalypse Poems (Northwestern University Press). They currently serve on boards with the Ragdale Foundation and The Anarchist Review of Books. Twitter Username: C_Russell_Price Wo Chan is a poet and drag performer. They are a winner of the 2020 Nightboat Poetry Prize and the author of Togetherness (2022). Wo has received fellowships from MacDowell, New York Foundation of the Arts, Kundiman, The Asian American Writers Workshop, and elsewhere. Find them @theillustriouspearl Twitter Username: wochanofficial |
