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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.

Free

Pratt Institute School of Architecture, Higgins Hall

61 Saint James Place
Brooklyn, Massachusetts 11238 United States
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