A Day With Writer-in-residence E. Tracy Grinnell

DEPARTMENT OF COMPARATIVE LITERATURE AND ENGLISH presents
 

A DAY WITH POET, PUBLISHER, EDITOR, AND TRANSLATOR E. TRACY GRINNELL, WRITER-IN-RESIDENCE, 2022
WEDNESDAY, 19 OCTOBER, 2022

E. Tracy Grinnell is the author of four books of poetry, Hell Figures (Nightboat Books), which was a finalist for the Firecracker Award in Poetry; portrait of a lesser subject (elis press); Some Clear Souvenir (O Books); and music or forgetting (O Books). She is also, along with Isabelle Garron, translator of way by Leslie Scalapino into French (Éditions Corti). Her poetry, essays and visual art have also appeared in a wide range of collections and publications, including BAX 2016: Best American Experimental Writing, edited by Charles Bernstein and Tracie Morris (Wesleyan). Grinnell is also the founding editor and director of Litmus Press, a nonprofit publishing organization dedicated to innovative poetry, prose and cross-genre writing, as well as plays and collaborations written in English and in translation. She received her MFA from Brown University in 2001 and has since taught in the MFA in Writing at the Pratt Institute, in the Summer Writing Program at Naropa University and elsewhere.


Ma(r)king Time & Space: Writing in Series
CROSS GENRE WORKSHOP WITH E. TRACY GRINNELL

WEDNESDAY, 19 OCTOBER. 2022
10:30, M-103, Monttessuy Center for the Arts,
9 bis Rue de Monttessuy, 75007 Paris


In her short essay, “I have not ‘seen’ war,” Etel Adnan writes “I have lived with ‘war’ all my life, I suffered deeply from it, I participated in some by writing a novel, or poetry, in indirect ways, in ‘peaceful’ ways, but the wars them-selves have always been somewhere else even when I was ‘there’…

In this workshop we will consider location, proximity, and recording daily life in Adnan’s poem-length chapbook From A to Z. How can we use serial form, such as Adnan’s use of the alphabet, to write ourselves into present realities, to contend with ongoing wars and existential threats (climate crisis, nuclear threats), to be there when we are always here? How can a serial form expand or alter the meaning of your writing?

AUP participants are not required to register, simply show up with writing tools.


Text:
From A to Z by Etel Adnan, Open Poetics Series (digital critical edition)

“I have not ‘seen’ war” by Etel Adnan, War & Peace #4: Vision & Text (edited by Judith Goldman and Leslie Scalapino). Page 80.
Link: https://media.sas.upenn.edu/jacket2/pdf/reissues/o-books/J2_Reissues_WarAndPeace-4_Goldman-Scalapino_2009.pdf


OFFICE HOURS WITH E. TRACY GRINNELL @G-116 GRENELLE BUILIDNG
WEDNESDAY, 19 OCTOBER. 2022
13:30-16:00

Ask our writer-in-residence questions about the writing life and her creative practice or have a conversation about craft. Feel free to send a sample of your work in advance, by Monday, 17 October to Prof. Dennis or Prof. Dwibedy
Sign up work the workshop here or write to bdwibedyaup.edu
Six slots of twenty minutes each available.
 

TALK AND READING BY E. Tracy Grinnell at the Centre Culturel Irlandais
Wednesday October 19th, Centre Culturel Irlandais, 5, rue des Irlandais, 75005 Paris
7:30-9pm
NO REGISTRATION REQUIRED

E. Tracy Grinnell will read from Hell Figures (Nightboat Books) alongside new work conceived as sequel to this earlier project and bridged by the afterword to Hell Figures: “between the figures & the elsewhere: notation as relation.” Grinnell will also discuss the ways in which poetics inform her editorial and publishing work via Litmus Press.

https://litmuspress.org