Poetry &: insights into collaboration

This intimate roundtable explores the relationship between creative writers and their collaborators, delving into perspectives offered by multiple disciplines including music, film, photography, and visual arts. Inviting curiosity and dialogue around fostering meaningful poetical partnerships, this session will spotlight non-hierarchical approaches to art-making, emphasizing equity, mutual inspiration, and the fusion of perspectives. Kristen Nelson and Samantha Bounkeau will discuss a decade of collaborative music and poetry performances. Mathew Stadler and Afrasiab Pashangpur will discuss their writing and editing collaborations with The GOAT PoL (the Geopolitical Open Atlas of The Polity of Literature), a radical international editing and publishing community for disenfranchised writers. Bo McGuire will discuss poetry and film and how both ways of making bleed into one another. Melissa Mack will discuss deep listening with other-than-human life and land in her series of site-specific walking poems written in landscapes across California.