Event
PARADIGM SHIFTING: EDWIN TORRES AND WILL ALEXANDER IN CONVERSATION
Co-sponsored by: the Creative Writing Program and the Caroline Rothstein Oral Poetry Fund
WILL ALEXANDER and EDWIN TORRES, both practitioners in the fields of poetry, art, and commitment to making the creative process visible, will read from their works and then engage in an open discussion of process, genesis, the way language evolves from within a poem, and how we allow ourselves to travel within a universe of our own making in parallel to humanity's continuous shift.
WILL ALEXANDER is a poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, aphorist, visual artist, and pianist. Writing in various genres he is approaching his 30th title. He is a Whiting Fellow, a California Arts Counsel Fellow, a PEN Oakland Award winner, and an American Book Award winner. In 2016 he received the Jackson Prize for poetry.
EDWIN TORRES is a 2016-2017 Poetry and Poetics Fellow at the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing at the University of Pennsylvania. His books include Ameriscopia (University of Arizona Press), Yes Thing No Thing (Roof Books), and The PoPedology of an Ambient Language (Atelos Books). A self-proclaimed ‘lingualisualist’ rooted in the languages of sight and sound, he has received fellowships from NYFA, The Foundation for Contemporary Performance Art, The DIA Arts Foundation and The Poetry Fund, among others. Anthologies include: Angels of the Americlypse: New Latin@ Writing, Post-Modern American Poetry Vol. 2, Kindergarde: Avant Garde Poems, Plays and Songs For Children and Aloud; Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Café. Most recently, he's created a series of site-specific text works called "Palympslips" which will be exhibited Oct. 7-Nov. 6 at The Drawing Center in New York as part of a two-year artist residency.