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Saturday, March 28 • 11:30am - 1:00pm
Don’t Call It Lyric: Inquiry, The Essay, and Independence

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This is a reading by four essayists (some of them poets as well) whose prose work is not (and cannot be or will not be) assimilable by the term lyric essay. The blend of autobiography and analysis, of inquiry and observation and intellection, is embedded in the long tradition of essaying; and some of the most innovative and staunchly independent prose writing is happening now without recourse to lyric technique. The reading will be followed by an opportunity for discussion. What is the category of lyric essay doing and performing, in and out of the academy? What kind of essay is lyric? What kind of essay isn’t? 
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avatar for Brian Blanchfield

Brian Blanchfield

Brian Blanchfield is the author of three books of poetry and prose, most recently Proxies, published by Nightboat Books in 2016 and forthcoming from Picador UK in 2017. The collection of essays—part cultural close reading, part dicey autobiography—was awarded a 2016 Whiting... Read More →
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Maggie Nelson

Maggie Nelson is the author of five books of nonfiction and four books of poetry. Her most recent book is The Argonauts, a work of "autotheory" about gender, sexuality, sodomitical maternity, queer family, and the limitations and possibilities of language (Graywolf Press, May 2015... Read More →
avatar for Amarnath Ravva

Amarnath Ravva

Amarnath Ravva has helped run and curate events at Betalevel, a venue for social experimentation and hands-on culture located in Los Angeles’ Chinatown, for the past 10 years. He is currently working on a book about Victorian era botanical expeditions called The Glass House. His... Read More →
avatar for Aisha Sabatini Sloan

Aisha Sabatini Sloan

Aisha Sabatini Sloan is the author of The Fluency of Light and Dreaming of Ramadi in Detroit. She is the Helen Zell Visiting Professor of Creative Nonfiction at the University of Michigan's MFA program.

Saturday March 28, 2015 11:30am - 1:00pm PDT
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