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Reading & Craft Talk: "The Poetics of Listening" with Diana Khoi Nguyen

Join Diana Khoi Nguyen and Kelly Schirmann for a reading and discussion around the concept of listening. While poetry and lyric essay both share lineage with song-making and music, we might also consider poetry to be a study of soundlessness, or space. In this way, poetry strikes a balance between what is seen and unseen—the dead and the living, the said and the felt, what is here and what is missing. This conversation will explore what listening is or could be, and the ways we might attune, as artists and as humans, to what Tina Campt refers to as the "lower frequencies of transfiguration enacted at the level of the quotidian," and the "vibrations" present in, beyond, and behind the page.