Proposal Title
Mischief, Mermaids, and Mismanagement : A Poetry Hotline
Submission Type
Virtual Engagement Session
Start Date
17-7-2020 4:00 PM
End Date
17-7-2020 4:30 PM
Abstract
A curated, collaborative poetic happening
In the new age of social distancing, poetics and collaboration don’t get much attention, but we would like to use experimental poetic techniques to facilitate collaborating, creating, and connecting through poems and mischief. This happening takes inspiration from the childhood game Telephone, where a message whispered and passed from player to player morphs in meaning through repetition and revision. In our version, Emily Dickinson poems get passed and morph into thirteen new shapes. Our hope is that participants, regardless of their familiarity with poetry, will engage this happening as an opportunity for like-minded creative miscreants to socialize and share with poetry as a focal point. Participants will leave this happening with two collaboratively revised Emily Dickinson poems, a smattering of poetry dates to share with friends and goes, and sparks for original creative work.
Mischief, Mermaids, and Mismanagement : A Poetry Hotline
A curated, collaborative poetic happening
In the new age of social distancing, poetics and collaboration don’t get much attention, but we would like to use experimental poetic techniques to facilitate collaborating, creating, and connecting through poems and mischief. This happening takes inspiration from the childhood game Telephone, where a message whispered and passed from player to player morphs in meaning through repetition and revision. In our version, Emily Dickinson poems get passed and morph into thirteen new shapes. Our hope is that participants, regardless of their familiarity with poetry, will engage this happening as an opportunity for like-minded creative miscreants to socialize and share with poetry as a focal point. Participants will leave this happening with two collaboratively revised Emily Dickinson poems, a smattering of poetry dates to share with friends and goes, and sparks for original creative work.
Bio
Emily Carr writes murder mysteries that turn into love poems that are sometimes (by her McSweeney’s editors, for example) called divorce poems. After she got an MFA in poetry from the University of North Carolina-Wilmington, she took a doctorate in ecopoetics at the University of Calgary. These days, she’s Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the New College of Florida. Her newest book, whosoever has let a minotaur enter them, or a sonnet—, is available from McSweeney’s. It inspired a beer of the same name, now available at the Ale Apothecary. Emily’s Tarot Romance, Name Your Bird Without A Gun, is forthcoming from Spork in 2020.
Avni Vyas has a PhD in Creative Writing and teaches in the Writing Program at the New College of Florida. Her research interests include contemporary poetics, Hindu mythology, and their intersections within popular culture.