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Other Influences : A Celebration at Pratt Institute
December 6, 2024 @ 6:00 pm
Celebrate this groundbreaking volume with
essay contributors:
Julie Patton
Carla Harryman
Brenda Coultas
Patricia Spears Jones
Hoa Nguyen
and the editors: Marcella Durand and Jennifer Firestone
Readings, Roundtable, Refreshment
Hosted by the Writing Department and Writer’s Forum
Other Influences frames a new literary history in which feminist, avant-garde, and poetry practices intersect, foregrounding critically neglected but artistically powerful lineages in twentieth- and twenty-first-century North American poetry. In this collection, Marcella Durand and Jennifer Firestone assemble original essays by a range of leading contemporary feminist avant-garde poets asked to consider their lineages, inspirations, and influences. Their reflections contain many surprises, with writers citing scientists, artists, and little-known feminist writers from other eras and traditions; for example, Tracie Morris discusses the Gee’s Bend quilters, Carla Harryman writes about her collaboration with Lyn Hejinian, and Cecilia Vicuña cites the Tao Te Ching.