Join us for poetry and conversation about creative, research, and transformative practices. Featuring contemporary poets reading from their recent books and in dialogue with KU student writers and artists. In collaboration with this spring's graduate poetry seminar (ENGL 752) and the Global Grasslands CoLABorative's Encounter + Engagement workshop. 

For more information, contact Professor Megan Kaminski at kaminski@ku.edu 

Register in advance for this webinar:

https://kansas.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_u3A--kBeQMW9WjNktX264w

About The Way a Line Hallucinates Its Own Linearity:

Danielle Vogel's newest collection creates a latticework for repair--the repairing of past trauma, the calling-into-presence of a dissociated self--but does so while keeping the material of this net of thinking in a fragmented, diaphanous state, glowing in the space between the poem and essay. Across three sections of "displacements," "miniatures," and "volume," Vogel initiates readers into the séance of the book; she asks the reader to hold vigil for the most crucial phase of its composition, which can only happen when the reader and she meet at the site of the page, within a "new, interrupted unity." In The Way a Line Hallucinates its Own Linearity, accord--writing with, reading with--is always a verb, always kinetic, alchemical, and alive. "It only takes one letter on the page," Vogel writes, "and we are already inside one another's lungs." To consent to walk through these spaces is to give up that part of you that wishes to remain anonymous and un-entrained. You will be grateful that you did.

Danielle Vogel is a long-form poet, artist and herbalist working at the intersections of poetry, ecology, somatics and ceremony. She is the author of Edges & Fray, The Way a Line Hallucinates Its Own Linearity and Between Grammars, as well as the artist book Narrative & Nest and the chapbooks In Resonance and lit. Her forthcoming collection, A Library of Light, was adapted to the stage as an experimental opera by Source Material Collective. Vogel teaches at Wesleyan University and makes her home in Connecticut on the ancestral lands of the Hammonassets and Wappinger peoples, with her partner, the writer and artist, Renee Gladman.