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Conference Schedule 2019

Conference Schedule 2019

Friday, February 22, 2019, 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Talking Back to Dominant Narratives with Douglas Manuel

Date(s): Friday, February 22, 2019, 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Location: Traditions, University Club (view map)
Type(s): Lecture, Presentation
Genre and Form(s): African American, Asian American, Indigenous, Latinx, Poetry, Social Justice
Tags: Agency, Authority, Ideology, Culture, Form, Response, Race

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About the Session

In this session, we will examine poems by people of color that directly speak back to/are in conversation with previous poets of the dominant culture. By exploring poems by Robert Frost and Thylias Moss, Allen Ginsberg and Craig Santos Perez, Maggie Smith and Natalie Scenters-Zapico, we will seek to discover why poets of color often feel the impulse to remix/revise/clap back at older canonized poems. This lecture will suggest that a type of agency and authority is achieved by remixing older verses in order to make something new that includes peoples, ideologies, and cultures that have too often been omitted, removed, forgotten, and/or misunderstood.  

Meet the Presenter(s)

Piper Writers Studio Instructor Douglas Manuel


Douglas Manuel

Douglas Manuel was born in Anderson, Indiana. He received a BA in Creative Writing from Arizona State University and a MFA from Butler University where he was the Managing Editor of Booth a Journal. He is currently a Middleton and Dornsife Fellow at the University of Southern California where he is pursuing a Ph.D. in Literature and Creative Writing. He has been the Poetry Editor of Gold Line Press as well as was one of the managing editors of Ricochet Editions. His work is featured on Poetry Foundation's website and has appeared or is forthcoming in Poetry Northwest, Los Angeles Review, Superstition Review, Rhino, North American Review, The Chattahoochee Review, New Orleans Review, Crab Creek Review, and elsewhere. His first full length collection of poems, Testify, was released by Red Hen Press in the spring of 2017.


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