Come listen to fresh cuts and cultural classics where poets and musicians have converged to create multidimensional acoustic experiences. After listening to the collaborations, we, poets and musicians, will discuss the creative symbiosis required to perform poems with music and to create music for poems. We’ll explore where and how we merge our crafts and open the conversation to those curious about the same.
The Windfall Room editorial team invites you to delve into the genesis of our online journal, a distinctive platform spotlighting poetry engaged in the art of recitation. Join us in discussing the elements of poet and poem responding to anamnesis, locale, and transformation in our editorial vision. Our dialogue will cover the pivotal role of memorization and the nuanced challenges of bringing poetry from the page and into the recitative realm.
This roundtable will interrogate the possibilities and limitations for poetry as a vehicle for horror (and vice versa) by attending to their shared interests in forms, affects, cultural narratives and taboos, and social functions. Candice Wuehle’s presentation will consider the unheimlich in the work of Sylvia Plath as presented through the poet’s depiction of domestic space as well as her constructions of femininity.
This panel proposes bilingualism as a form of poetic inquiry, one that enables poets to observe the culturally expressive potential of remaking monlingualized, standardized forms of languages reflexively and expressively. As each of the poets demonstrates through their own innovative work, bilingual poetry happens amid the socially constraining monolingualist assumptions about language, and breaking free from this unleashes linguistic power across borders between genres, forms, and languages.
Bodies define and shape us yet are in a constant state of transience, as much a tangible, living thing as a social and cultural entity. What stories do our bodies tell? How do we move within these physical and poetic spaces, including the ways we move against racial, gendered, hetero and able-bodied norms?
Julian Talamantez Brolaski, as part of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry, presents his talk: “Rhymes and Lies in Medieval Poetry” explores the role of rhyme in the verse narratives, or “romances,” of the early fourteenth century. These anonymous texts are characterized by their use of repeated formulae at the end of the line, so-called “stock phrases” or rhyming tags like “I swear,” or “without lying.” The rhyme tags are metatextual, in that they refer to the text itself; they tend to occur at sexually scandalous, gruesome, or hyperbolic moments, and assert the p
This roundtable discussion brings together seven dynamic poetry editors, each at the forefront of challenging traditional notions of poetry as confined to the printed page. In an era dominated by hypermedia, where words coalesce with visuals, sounds, and digital elements, this diverse group of editors explores the evolving landscape of mixed and intermedia poetry. From avant-garde digital platforms to cutting-edge print presses, our editors will engage in a thought-provoking dialogue about the transformative potential of poetry in the digital age.
The war between Israel and Gaza prompted strong and passionate responses all over the world as it rightly should have--and within the U.S. literary world as well. But often even poets have fallen into rhetoric. What does poetry have to say for itself? Can poetry have the floor? Can poems create a space to prompt heartfelt honest and painful dialogue instead of two or three word slogans? As poets we listen to a voice within us which is complex, full of feeling, and capable of holding more ideas than one at the same time.
This panel on environmental and ecological justice explores how poetry supports making our communities more equally resilient through the languages of poetry. Panelists identify how to strengthen our communities in a more balanced way and how poetry can contribute to a more inclusive way of speaking about and addressing climate change. Current capital structures change through poetry and poetics' spaces as these spaces change how we use words? Since metaphor scales, audiences will hear points of view at different scales.