Paisley Rekdal: Re-Engaged Reading: On Material and Digital Poetics
Join us September 25th at 6:30 pm at the University of Victoria Bookstore! Presented by the University of Victoria’s Department of English and Department of Writing as part of the Distinguished Women Scholars Lecture series with additional support from the Orion Series in Fine Arts:
“Re-Engaged Reading: On Material and Digital Poetics” will examine the work of poet and collage artist Susan Howe, the eco-poetry maps of David Hinton, and some recent digital projects to see how both book arts and digital poetics practices create (and require) more active, playful reader-text relationships.
Paisley Rekdal is a Distinguished Professor at the University of Utah, where she teaches in the Creative Writing Program and directs the American West Center. She is also the creator and editor of West: A Translation, as well as the community web projects Mapping Literary Utah and Mapping Salt Lake City. She has been a Distinguished Visiting Professor at both Stanford and the Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program. Between 2017-2022, she served as Utah’s Poet Laureate, receiving a 2019 Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship. She currently serves as poetry editor for High Country News, and as co-chair of PEN America’s Utah Chapter.
This free event is open to all community members and will take place at the University Bookstore. Light refreshments will be served, and Paisley’s books will be available for purchase courtesy of the bookstore.
Our Distinguished Women Scholars Lecture series was established by the Vice-President Academic and Provost to bring distinguished women scholars to the University of Victoria.