The MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics at the University of Washington is happy to provide the venue for Lisa Jarnot’s fourth poetics talk, sponsored by the Bagley Wright Lectures in Poetry. This event is held in conjunction with Jeanne Heuving’s MFA course, Processes of Thinking and Memory. 

Juliana Spahr writes of Jarnot’s recent Flood Editions book a princess magic presto spell: “Lisa Jarnot writes the meter of everything . . . . As she does this, she reminds us what matters.  In case you don’t know, it is the small animals and the plum trees and the mothers of friends and the moon and her dreams. This book is funny and yet also is an elegy. I read it.  And then I read it several more times because I didn’t want it to end.  It is that lovely.”

Registering for this event will provide access to this event and an event hosted on April 27^th with Norman Finkelstein.

May 4, 2021: Lisa Jarnot

Lisa Jarnot was born in Buffalo, NY and educated at the State University of New York at Buffalo. She is the author of several collections of poetry, including Some Other Kind of Mission (1996), Ring of Fire (2001), Black Dog Songs (2003), Night Scenes (2008), Joie De Vivre: Selected Poems 1992-2012 (2013) and A Princess Magic Presto Spell (2019). She co-edited An Anthology of New (American) Poets (1997), and her biography of San Francisco poet Robert Duncan, The Ambassador from Venus, was published by the University of California Press in 2012. She has been a visiting professor at Naropa University, Brooklyn College, and the University of Colorado, Boulder. She lives in Jackson Heights, Queens, is a Masters of Divinity candidate at New York Theological Seminary and is a minister at Safe Haven United Church of Christ.

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About the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry
The Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry supports contemporary poets as they explore in-depth their own thinking on poetry and poetics, and give a series of lectures resulting from these investigations. Lectures are delivered publicly in partnership with institutions and organizations nationwide. Find out more about past, present, and future lecturers, and explore the archive at www.bagleywrightlectures.org.

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.