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1) Event Title: "Girlness" as Stance in the Work of Five Contemporary Authors2) Event Description: Join a panel of four poets and one fiction writer, each with a distinct stylistic approach, as they discuss how their work is taking “girlness” by storm, expanding it as a stance in bold ways. These writers, from a debut poet to seasoned authors and literary arts activists, push against the expected "girl/women/gurl/hood,” re-examining vulnerability, power and its sources in breakthrough ways, using craft, subject matter, style, visual and linguistic choices. This panel brings together five award-winning writers, among them a 2017 Jackson Poetry Prize winner, to discuss a wide range of takes on how “girlness” as a stance has opened up each writer’s approach to evoking women's lives. This panel asks timely questions on what it is to write as “women,” and, if this is really what we write as, exploring on a more cellular level how “girlness” is being renegotiated, seeping into the most intimate craft choices of each writer. 3) Type of Event: Multiple Literary Genres Craft4) Event Organizer: Alexandra van de Kamp5) Event Moderator: Alexandra van de Kamp6) Event Participants & Short Bios:Participant/Moderator: Alexandra van de Kamp is the Executive Director of Gemini Ink, a literary arts nonprofit. She has published widely and is the author of two full-length poetry collections, the most recent of which is Kiss/Hierarchy (2016). She teaches poetry workshops at Gemini Ink and online at The Poetry Barn. Participant: Patricia Spears Jones, author of A Lucent Fire: New and Selected Poems (2015), and two plays for Mabou Mines. Anthologized in BAX: Best American Experimental Writing (Wesleyan, 2016) and Renga for Obama (Harvard Review, 2018). Recipient, 2017 Jackson Poetry Prize. Taught at Barnard, Adelphi University, and CUNY.Participant: Megan Peak received her M.F.A. in Poetry from The Ohio State University. Her first book of poetry, Girldom, won the 2018 Perugia Press Prize from Perugia Press and The 2019 John A. Robertson Award for Best First Book of Poetry from the Texas Institute of Letters.Participant: Veronica Golos is the author of 4 poetry books: Rootwork, Vocabulary of Silence (translated into Arabic), A Bell Buried Deep, and newly published, Girl. She's co-editor of Taos Journal of International Poetry & Art, and former Poetry Editor of Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion. She lives in Taos, NM.Participant: Marisela Barrera is a single working-class mother, Tejana writer, and teatrista with published works in Latina Critical Feminism, Out in SA, Texas Matters, the San Antonio Current, the Brooklyn Rail, HowlRound, the Rivard Report, Concho River Review, Radio Esperanza, and TheaterJones, among others.Welcome to "Girlness" as Stance in the Work of Five Contemporary Authors:A few reminders before we begin: ? For those needing or wishing to follow along to a written text, please let the moderator of the panel (identify moderator) know and a printed copy of the presentation will be delivered to you. ? Please make sure that spaces marked for wheelchairs remain clear of chairs or other barriers. ? Treat service animals as working animals and do not attempt to distract or pet them. ? Be aware of those with chemical sensitivities and refrain from wearing perfume. ? Please be aware that your fellow attendees may have invisible disabilities. Do not question anyone’s use of an accommodation while at the conference, including for chairs reserved for those with disabilities. ? We realize the lines for the bathrooms may be long, but please refrain from using an accessible stall unless you require such accommodation. Please also be aware family restrooms located on level 2 are reserved for those with disabilities or those wishing to use a single-stall restroom. If you have any questions or concerns regarding conference accessibility, please call or text the Accessibility Hotline (503) 455-4127 or email events@. Introduction of all speakers in the order in which they are sitting: Patricia Spears Jones, Megan Peak, Veronica Golos, Marisela Barrera and Alexandra van de KampPresentation: Opening Remarks and intial thoughts by the moderator. This is a broad description of the opening remarks for this panel and reading and may not fully represent all the moderator will say at the start of this event:Alexandra van de Kamp, the moderator, will discuss how a wide range of takes on “girlness” in contemporary poetry and prose has opened up writers’ approaches to evoking women's lives. This panel will celebrate and examine the innovative methods contemporary writers are employing to reinvigorate “being a girl” and the the more cellular level craft choices that are pivotal in the creation of these breakthrough points-of-view and bold voices. Participants Opening Remarks on how their work explores and renegotiates “girlness” as a stance, pushing against the expected norms and re-examining vulnerability, power and its sources in breakthrough ways (2-3 mins).Patricia Spears Jones opening remarks on how her work explores and renegotiates “girlness” as a stance, pushing against the expected norms (2-3 mins). Megan Peak opening remarks on how her work explores and renegotiates “girlness” as a stance, pushing against the expected norms (2-3 mins).Veronica Golos opening remarks on how her work explores and renegotiates “girlness” as a stance, pushing against the expected norms (2-3 mins).Marisela Barrera opening remarks on how her work explores and renegotiates “girlness” as a stance, pushing against the expected norms (2-3 mins).Some Sample Moderator Questions:After the opening section, Alexandra van de Kamp, the moderator, will ask the panelists the following questions. This is a sampling of some of the questions that will be asked and not a complete list. These questions may be addressed to all of the panelists at once or to certain panelists, as van de Kamp determines on the day of the event:1) This question is for Megan Peak: What inspired you to title your debut collection Girldom? Did the poems in this book build this concept for you, poem by poem, or did you approach this book from the outset as one that would examine and upend the idea of writing from a women’s or “girl’s” perspective? Feel free to discuss 1-2 specific poems that exemplify this exploration you experienced while writing this book.2) This is a question for Patricia Spears Jones: Many of your poems take on the voices or predicaments of a wide range of women, from Sylvia Plath, Etta James and Rita Hayworth to poems about film heroines, such as “Laura,” which opens with the ever-so-memorable line: “The most beautiful woman in the room nailed to the wall.” Can you talk about what draws you to evoking these women on the page and how doing so is challenging and/or examining perceptions of femininity? 3) This is a question for Veronica Golos: Your newest book is entitled Girl. Tell us how this book was born.4) This is a question for Marisela Barrera: I’ve seen you perform your one-woman shows on the Donkey Lady, an urban legend here in San Antonio. Can you tell us about this legend and how your stories and performances bring her to life in new and bold ways? What attracted you to her legend?There will be more questions that follow after these openers. Responses of each participant to moderator questions: Each of the participants will respond to the moderator’s questions, with room for spontaneity depending on the conversation that ensues.Reading: As part of the panel discussion, the writers will be reading samples of their poetry and prose to exemplify their ideas on “girlness” and how their work is expanding and taking by storm "girl/women/gurl/hood.”Q&A session:At the end of the event, there will be time for a 5-10 minute Q&A session. The wireless microphone will be passed to the person posing the question or all questions will be repeated into one of the wired microphones. ................
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