docu-poems

An interview with Susan B.A. Somers-Willett (Part II)

Screen shot, Susan B.A. Somers-Willett, Wild Animals I Have Known pamplisest via Landmarks

Last week I posted Part I of my interview with Susan Somers-Willett. Today I'm excited to bring you Part II in which we continue to talk digital poetics and new uses of ekphrasis. Susan holds forth on other projects, including her work with UT's Landmarks prorgram and the Blanton Museum's poetry project. We also discuss her upcoming work that responds simultaneously to the recent Abu Ghraib photographs and early 20th-century lynching photographs.

On representing "the city and its women": An interview with Susan B.A. Somers-Willett (Part I)

  via "Women of Troy," In Verse on vimeo

A few months ago, I happily stumbled upon and blogged about poet, scholar, and UT alum Susan B.A. Somers-Willett’s docu-poetry project “Women of Troy.” Recently,  Susan kindly took a break from her busy semester of writing and teaching to have coffee with me. We talked about multimedia poetics, issues of representation, the complications of collaboration, and the role of technology in the poetry classroom. Because the transcript of our interview is rather long, you can read Part I of our conversation below. I'll post the second installment next week. After that you'll also be able to find the interview in its entirety on our "Views" page.

Docu-Poems 2: The Work of Kwame Dawes

In continuing to focus on the intersection of poetry and visual media, I refer back to my post from last fall concerning the "docu-poems" of Susan Somers-Willet and Natasha Trethewey. Similarly, the poet Kwame Dawes is working in this hybrid medium with very moving and memorable results.

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