News from School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences
Category: Creative Writing and Poetics
Ching-In Chen’s “Queer Poetry: a Zuihitsu” published in The Margins
IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen’s “Queer Poetry: a Zuihitsu” and “Love Letter to Dear Zuihitsu” in the 随筆 | Zuihitsu Notebook, a folio of twenty-one poets’ pieces inspired by the Japanese genre of “following the brush,” published in The Margins ...
April 20, 2022
Anida Yoeu Ali engages Atlanta community in a 10-day residency at The Carlos Museum
IAS faculty member Anida Yoeu Ali completed a 10-day residency at the Michael C. Carlos Museum in Atlanta, Georgia. Ali’s artworks comprising of photos, videos, installation and live performance from her Buddhist Bug series are part of a group exhibition titled "And I Must Scream”. ...
April 18, 2022
Ted Hiebert publishes “Art and the ‘Pataphysics of Exception: Or, how a sieve becomes a time machine”
IAS faculty member Ted Hiebert published "Art and the 'Pataphysics of Exception: Or, how a sieve becomes a time machine" in Katie Price & Michael Taylor's edited volume, 'Pataphysics Unrolled. Pennsylvania State University Press, 2022. pp. 153-170. Hiebert's essay examines ...
April 14, 2022
Naomi Macalalad Bragin brings Waacking/Punking dance research to Paris
April 9 and 11, IAS faculty member Naomi Macalalad Bragin moderated a roundtable and gave a research talk on Waacking/Punking, a dance that derives from the first gay clubs of Los Angeles, California, during the Disco and Funk music era of the early 1970s. Her groundbreaking work highlights ...
April 12, 2022
Ted Hiebert: The camera is a raft
The coronavirus pandemic may have closed theaters and art galleries, but it didn’t quell the desire to create works of art that would eventually fill those spaces or provide comfort to others. As the great painter Dorothea Tanning once said, “Art has always been the raft onto which we climb to save our sanity.” ...
April 12, 2022
MFA alum Liezel Moraleja Hackett publishes with Sampaguita Press and Write or Die Tribe
Liezel Moraleja Hackett (MFA '17) never thought she would be writing about writing, but the MFA alum has discovered both the pleasure and community-building possibilities of sharing her poetics as a contributor to the website Write or Die Tribe, an online collective that provides resources for writers of all genres seeking, in their words ...
April 11, 2022
Amaranth Borsuk publishes collaborative poems and interview
The latest issue of Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review includes a series of poems from IAS faculty member Amaranth Borsuk's collaboration with Terri Witek, W/\SH, a book of speculative ecopoetics that grapples with climate catastrophe. Comprising a series of myths and visual transmissions, the poems connect women on ...
April 11, 2022
Ching-In Chen’s works selected for Re-Examining Conservation exhibit book
IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen’s “Lantern Letter: a Zuihitsu,” “Original,” “Predator,” and “Guest/Stalker” were selected to be included in an artist book to accompany the Re-Examining Conservation: Questions at the Intersection of the Arts & Sciences exhibit, on view April 4-June 10 in the ...
April 7, 2022
Ching-In Chen: Poetry of Activism
IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen attended the annual Association of Writers & Writing Programs conference in Philadelphia last week. Chen presented work on the intersection of community organizing and poetry as part of the “Whenever the Wounds of Injustice are Salted We Will Gather: Poetry of Activism” ...
April 1, 2022
MFA Alum Eric Acosta Organizes Local Reading and Film Festival
Since completing his MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics, poet Eric Acosta (MFA 2020) has been engaged in fostering community among his cohort and within Seattle's vibrant literary and art scenes. Together with fellow alums Ashley Noelle (MFA 2020) and Reed Lowell (2019), he started a workshop to keep the conversation and feedback that are so central to the MFA experience flowing ...
March 29, 2022