A panel-style conversation that will begin with brief comments from Jackson and three University of Michigan graduate students: Annie Bolotin (English Language and Literature), Annika Pattenaude (English Language and Literature), and Talin Tahajian (M.F.A., Poetry). Each scholar will discuss how issues of genre and theories of genre—both qua and beyond the question of whether lyric, itself, is a genre—factor into their current work. The conversation will then open to all in attendance.