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Not often associated with poetry, horror’s genre elements can cut a poem open and make it bleed. Through embodiments of the grotesque, the Gothic, and the uncanny, panelists will discuss manifestations of the horror genre’s multifarious, mutating influences within their work. Where does horror lurk in historical and contemporary poetry and what possibilities does it offer poets as a means of exploring the past, trauma, speculative futures, and self-determination? What is the role of horror in contemporary poetry? Is it having a “moment” or has it been with us all along? The panel will explore the poetics of body horror, abjection, incantation, disturbance, and other horrific tropes, as generative praxis and access points to greater understandings of subjectivity and social identity, the living and the dead.