Beyond the Page: Poetry & Alternative Creative Practices

In this panel, five poets who work across genre and media will discuss how their alternative creative practices alter, inflect, or enliven their poetry. Stella Corso will discuss her background in fashion design and her experience making visual and performance art, and how these practices inform both her poetic style and approach to craft. Michael Joseph Walsh will talk about translation, improvisation, and collage. Rachel Franklin Wood will talk about sculpture and filmmaking as methods of being distracted (back) into poetry. Inna Krasnoper will talk about embodying a poem through practices of dance improvisation and voice recording. Leah Nieboer will discuss how the ethics and practices of Deep Listening lead to a poetry and poetics that is increasingly sound-driven, socially inscribed, and strange. Each poet will read from work refracted through these alternative practices. Through this roundtable, we hope to illuminate the manifold ways creative forces off the page get folded into relationship with a poem, as well as the ways the poetic process may extend far beyond the writing desk.