[Yale-readings] Douglas Kearney @ Yale Lit - April 15, 4PM

[Kuhl, Nancy]

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I Killed, I Died: Banter, Self-Destruction, and the Poetry Reading: A Lecture by Douglas Kearney | 4pm April 15, 2021 | https://yale.zoom.us/j/92086661577

A Bagley-Wright Lecture hosted by the Yale Literary Magazine, Yale Creative Writing, Yale Public Humanities, and the Beinecke Library.

While reading from early drafts of Patter, a collection about miscarriage, infertility, and making a Black family in the U.S., Douglas Kearney's relationship to audiences at poetry gigs changed. Informed by stand-up, improvisational music, and artists from Nina Simone to the Black Took Collective, Kearney began engaging the time between poems-the banter-to activate the imaginative space of association, mess, and discomfort he pursues in his written work: live. This lecture will get into the tension between pain and its performance, comedians' ideas of "killing" and "dying,"along with tips on how to sprint into a stone wall without getting hurt much.

Douglas Kearney has published seven books, including Sho, just out from Wave Books, the award-winning Buck Studies (Fence Books, 2016); a collection of libretti, Someone Took They Tongues. (Subito, 2016); and writings on poetics and performance, Mess and Mess and (Noemi Press, 2015). He has received a Whiting Writer's Award, residencies/fellowships from Cave Canem, The Rauschenberg Foundation, and others. Kearney teaches at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities.

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