AWP 18 Round-Up: Aggarwal, Morris, & The White Shame Panel
Some Notes and Reflections on AWP, Tampa from Vidhu Aggarwal, Tracie Morris, Natalia Treviño, Ching-In Chen, LeeAnne Howe, Rita Dove and …
Queer Performance Salon: May 23
Queer Performance Salon Curated by Denise Uyehara Wed, May 23, 5:30-7:30pm Photo of T Loving (above) by Eddie Diaz As part of the Kore Institute Salon Series at the Dunbar, join us for this pop-up evening of love, new performance, food, and conversation. The evening may ask, How do we enter into performance? How do we …
June 30 / Dinner in the Garden Party
Kore’s 25th Anniversary Dinner in the Garden Party At sundown on Saturday, June 30, 2018, come start celebrating 25 years of literary works and intersectional feminist publishing, education, and community building with Kore Press! On The Franklin House lawns, downtown Tucson, AZ. Fresh, local summer fare by Gallery of Food, music, and summer surprises. Details …
Sound, Music, Musing
Sound, Music, Musing by Tracie Morris, for an AWP 2018 panel on sound and the body It’s a great pleasure to be back at AWP and to attend the conference every year. It’s lovely to speak with friends and get advice about how to manage this big literary world. We’ve remarked on how to negotiate the grind …
Notes From the Swamp
Notes From the Swamp: AWP 2018 by Vidhu Aggarwal There was talk at AWP: why Tampa, Florida? Driving down from Orlando, I am part of the I-4 corridor–a strip of freeway connecting terraformed vacation spots. And yet, despite all the energies spent on draining, Disneyfying, master-planning this bit of artificial paradise, the swamp is always encroaching. …
Erasures, White Shame: We Need to Talk
Erasures, White Shame: We Need to Talk. An AWP 2018 panel presented in Tampa, FL, on Friday, March 9, 2018, moderated by Natalia Treviño. Thank you everyone for us for this very necessary conversation. I’d like to begin by introducing all of our panel members, sharing some opening thoughts, my questions, and then asking each …