This panel of community-based writers and artists of color expands and troubles the practice of writing by composing across genres to explore issues of race, identity and aesthetics. Through an experimental exploration of sound, text, and visual art including breath chorus and multimodal queries, the panelists will share and discuss work which mines the richness of archive and memory to craft maps of identity and possibility.
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Date and Seattle Convention Center location: Rooms 335-336, Summit Building, Seattle Convention Center, Level 3
Panelists: Ching-In Chen, Emgee Dufresne, Tonya M. Foster, Aliah Lavonne Tigh, and Stalina Emmanuelle Villarreal
About the Panelists:
Ching-In Chen(Moderator) is author of The Heart's Traffic, recombinant, to make black paper sing, Kundiman for Kin and co-editor of The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence within Activist Communities. A Kundiman and Lambda Fellow, they teach at the University of Washington Bothell.
Emgee Dufresne is an author, multimedia artist, and bodyworker. She works as an editor for Kelsey Street Press and she is a Kundiman Fellow. Emgee is the author of not so, sea and Anemal Uter Meck. Her current work explores vessels, bodies, and flight.
Tonya M. Foster is the author of A Swarm of Bees in High Court and the bilingual chapbook La Grammaire des Os. Co-editor of Third Mind: Creative Writing through Visual Art, she holds the George & Judy Marcus Endowed Chair in Poetry at San Francisco State University.
Aliah Lavonne Tigh is the author of Weren’t We Natural Swimmers, a 2022 Chapbook with Tram Editions, with poems appearing in the Academy of American Poets' Poem-A-Day, Guernica, The Rupture, and others. Tigh writes and works in Houston, Texas.
Dr. Stalina Emmanuelle Villarreal is a poet, translator, and essayist whose book Watcha is forthcoming from Deep Vellum Publishing. She has published translations of poetry by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Minerva Reynosa, Maricela Guerrero, and Sergio Pérez Torres.