News from the School of IAS

Category: Creative Writing and Poetics

Ted Hiebert and Jin-Kyu Jung publish “Psychogeographic Visualizations: or, what is it like to be a bat?”

IAS faculty members Ted Hiebert and Jin-Kyu Jung published “Psychogeographic Visualizations: or, what is it like to be a bat?” in Cultural Geographies. The article takes a creative re-interpretation of psychogeography: psyschogeography less about the psychological dimensions of real space but more about the mind’s spatiality with the consideration of different forms of imagining as ‘places’ ...

December 5, 2019

Rebecca Brown: recent publications and an interview

IAS faculty member Rebecca Brown has had a very active 2019, publishing several pieces of writing: an essay, “Body, Soul and Word,” in @ KGB Bar Lit Journal; a story, “The Beanstalk,” in Willow Springs; an interview in Willow Springs ; two stories, “The Pigs” and “Gepetto,” in Brutus (translated into Japanese from her 2018 collection, Not Heaven, Somewhere Else); a short essay, also translated into ...

November 25, 2019

Amaranth Borsuk publishes in special issue of Enculturation: A Journal of Rhetoric, Writing, and Culture

IAS faculty member Amaranth Borsuk has a longstanding practice of making her digital works open-source and available for modification. This month, she opened up her collaborative project Abra: A Living Text for a special issue of Enculturation edited by Helen Burgess (North Carolina State University) and Roger Whitson (Washington State University). The issue, "Critical Making and Executable Kits" features scholars open sourcing digital humanities projects with ...

November 25, 2019

Amaranth Borsuk speaks in Texas

Last week IAS faculty member Amaranth Borsuk visited Texas for two speaking engagements related to The Book. In San Antonio, Borsuk visited the Southwest School of Art, where she gave an artist's talk and met with students studying paper making, book arts, and letterpress printing. She then traveled to Victoria to speak in the American Book Review reading series at the University of Houston Victoria. Her talk there ...

November 19, 2019

Snail Trail: MFA graduates launch eco-poetics press and journal

Recent graduates of the MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics at University of Washington Bothell have launched a unique publication project, a small press and a hand-bound journal of ecopoetics entitled Snail Trail. Nurtured in the spaces of the MFA program, the journal had multiple inspirations. Eric Sneathen’s Snail Poems (Krupskaya, 2016). AFTER LIFE (what remains), an exhibition/experience exploring Asian Pacific American and Indigenous artists’ exploring precarity and persistence under environmental and military devastation (June/July 2018, Alice Gallery, Seattle). Through dialogue with one another and faculty members Woogee Bae, Aya Bram BonnLuders, and Amy Jones developed Snail Trail: an ecopoetics journal as a way to think about poetry and social change.

November 18, 2019

Ted Hiebert and Jin-Kyu Jung: Mapping haunted data

IAS faculty members Ted Hiebert and Jin-Kyu Jung presented recent work on haunted data at the 2019 meeting of the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts (SLSA). Their paper, "Mapping haunted data: Occultations of psychogeography," shared experiments with the concept of haunted data ...

November 15, 2019

Ching-In Chen awarded Contemplative Social Justice Scholar grant

IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen has been awarded a grant as a Contemplative Social Justice Scholar to attend the 2019 Association for Contemplative Mind in Higher Education conference at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. The 2019 ACMHE conference is focused on Radical Well-Being in Higher Education: Approaches for Renewal, Justice, and Sustainability and will share how contemplative practices, including ...

November 12, 2019

Ching-In Chen curates a series of new poems in response to a New Asian Futurisms exhibit

IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen has curated a series of new poems in response to a New Asian Futurisms exhibit currently on display at Philadelphia’s Asian Arts Initiative through December 6. In New Asian Futurisms, artists re-repaired the imaginations of fragmented pasts and observed multiple histories of diverse communities in looking forward to the future. In their work ...

November 1, 2019