Poetry Daily: Ecopoetry Now: Spring 2022 Reading Series

Thursday, March 31, 2022 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM EDT
Zoom

Brian Teare moderates an ecopoetic conversation across borders, with poets from Canada, Mexico, and the US.

About this event

Please join Poetry Daily editorial board member Brian Teare for the first of three conversations about ecopoetry with writers from Canada, Mexico, and the US.

All conversations will be held virtually. Please complete registration to receive the Zoom link. Register for the event.

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Panelists for the first conversation:

Isabel Zapata (Mexico City, 1984) is a writer, translator, and editor. She is the author of Las noches son así, Alberca vacía Una ballena es un país, and In vitro. Her critical and creative work has appeared in Periódico de Poesía (UNAM), Letras Libres, Este País, The Common, Waxwing, and World Literature Today, among others. In 2015, she and four friends founded the press Ediciones Antílope.

fahima ife is an artist-scholar of Black Studies based in New Orleans. Specializing in 20th and 21st century Black aesthetic production, they study literary, performance, visual art, corresponding art histories, and consider representations of black(queer) and trans* sociality. They produce fluid creative scholarship as poems, lyrical essays, and hybrid/open-genre works offering transgressive shadow meditations on aesthetics, intimacy, affect, grief, and ecstasy in contemporary art. They are author of Maroon Choreography (Duke University Press, 2021) and other works appearing in various places including liquid blackness: journal of aesthetics & black studies, Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora, and Interim. They are an assistant professor of English at Louisiana State University where they teach Black Studies, poetry and poetics, and pedagogies.

Chantal Neveu is a francophone writer from Québec, Canada. She is the author of six books of poetry: you, La vie radieuse, coït, mentale (La Peuplade), Une spectaculaire influence (l’Hexagone) et èdres (É=É), and has created numerous interdisciplinary literary works presented in Canada and abroad. Her books translated into English are all published by Book*hug Press : This Radiant Life by Erín Moure (Winner of the 2021 Governor General’s Literary Award for Translation, Winner of the 2021 Nelson Ball Prize), A Spectacular Influence by Nathanaël, and Coït by Angela Carr. Neveu lives in Montreal.

Rita Wong is a poet-scholar who attends to the relationships between water justice, ecology, and decolonization. She has co-edited an anthology with Dorothy Christian entitled Downstream: Reimagining Water, based on a gathering that brought together elders, artists, scientists, writers, scholars, students and activists around the urgent need to care for the waters that give us life.

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A 2020 Guggenheim Fellow, Brian Teare is the author of six critically acclaimed books, including Companion Grasses, a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Award, and The Empty Form Goes All the Way to Heaven. His most recent book, Doomstead Days, was longlisted for the 2019 National Book Award and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle, Kingsley Tufts, and Lambda Literary Awards. His honors include the Four Quartets Prize, Lambda Literary and Publishing Triangle Awards, and fellowships from the NEA, the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage, the American Antiquarian Society, the Headlands Center for the Arts, the Vermont Studio Center, and the MacDowell Colony. After over a decade of teaching and writing in the San Francisco Bay Area, and eight years in Philadelphia, he’s now an Associate Professor at the University of Virginia, and lives in Charlottesville, where he makes books by hand for his micropress, Albion Books.

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