This event is at the invitation of Jeanne Heuving and is held in conjunction with her MFA course Processes of Thinking and Memory.

Norman Finkelstein will be reading from his most recent book In A Broken Star and conversing about his poetry as a process-based serial writing, culminating in four different books each with the title of Track. Mark Scroggins comments about Finkelstein’s Broken Star:  “At its center is the astonishing narrative The Adventures of Pascal Wanderlust, in which Finkelstein has reinvented the quest narrative for our own moment.” Nathaniel Tarn writes, “Some planets are far too vast to ever see, passing through total darkness into a blinding light . . .. Star-born Pascal Wanderlust cannot sit still alone, and so moves outside into a singing world, while remaining inside a room, itself a world as well.  Pascal wills beauty, waking into astonishment.”

Registering for this event will provide access to this event and an event hosted on May 4th with Lisa Jarnot. You must have a Zoom account to attend.

April 27, 2021: Norman Finkelstein

Norman Finkelstein was born in New York City in 1954. He received his B.A. from Binghamton University and his Ph.D. from Emory University. He is an Emeritus Professor of English at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he has lived since 1980. He is also on the faculty of the Cincinnati Psychoanalytic Institute. Finkelstein is the author of ten books of poetry and six books of literary criticism, and has written extensively about modern poetry and Jewish literature. His most recent books are In a Broken Star (Dos Madres, 2021) and Like a Dark Rabbi: Modern Poetry & the Jewish Literary Imagination (Hebrew Union College Press, 2019). His poetry review blog is Restless Messengers.

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from The Convergence Zone is a series of author readings, and artist talks and performances, sponsored by the MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics at the University of Washington Bothell. It brings together sometimes peaceable, sometimes combustible, fronts of discovery and experiment. This series brings to the (virtual) Seattle metropolitan area exciting writers and artists who "cross" and "trans" genres and media. It discusses and performs written arts in an expanded field.