Presented By: University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program
Presentation and Q&A: "On Provocation and Precarity"
Poetry Editor Cortney Lamar Charleston, The Rumpus
This event is open to MFA students, English PhD students, Zell Fellows, and recent MFA alumni only. Please email asbates@umich.edu for login instructions.
Lamar's presentation will explore provocation and precarity. Poets have, at various times and in many cultures, been looked to for social and/or political revisioning of their times, but how are their provocations impacted by the immediacy of social unrest, instability and violence?
Cortney Lamar Charleston is the author of Telepathologies (Saturnalia Books, 2017) and Doppelgangbanger (Haymarket Books, 2021). He has been awarded a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation as well as fellowships from Cave Canem and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. Winner of a Pushcart Prize, his poems have appeared in POETRY, The American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, Granta, The Nation and elsewhere.
Charleston is a member of the Alice James Books editorial board and serves as Original Poetry editor at The Rumpus alongside the poet Carolina Ebeid. Assuming his position in December 2017, Charleston has helped diversify the original poems offered to Rumpus readers; published original poetry with greater frequency; and transitioned to an open submission model to surface more work from emerging poets—such as Threa Almontaser, Kemi Alabi and Justin Rovillos Monson—to compliment that of established poets ranging from Ross Gay to Ada Limón to Patricia Smith.
Lamar's presentation will explore provocation and precarity. Poets have, at various times and in many cultures, been looked to for social and/or political revisioning of their times, but how are their provocations impacted by the immediacy of social unrest, instability and violence?
Cortney Lamar Charleston is the author of Telepathologies (Saturnalia Books, 2017) and Doppelgangbanger (Haymarket Books, 2021). He has been awarded a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation as well as fellowships from Cave Canem and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. Winner of a Pushcart Prize, his poems have appeared in POETRY, The American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, Granta, The Nation and elsewhere.
Charleston is a member of the Alice James Books editorial board and serves as Original Poetry editor at The Rumpus alongside the poet Carolina Ebeid. Assuming his position in December 2017, Charleston has helped diversify the original poems offered to Rumpus readers; published original poetry with greater frequency; and transitioned to an open submission model to surface more work from emerging poets—such as Threa Almontaser, Kemi Alabi and Justin Rovillos Monson—to compliment that of established poets ranging from Ross Gay to Ada Limón to Patricia Smith.
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