I’ll be at AWP in San Antonio with poets and essayists Cmarie Fuhrman, Keila Vall de la Ville, and Erica Watson!
Panel description: Virgin wilderness, fertile land, Mother Nature, barren ground: American English is infused with gendered metaphors describing our landscape, and these metaphors inform our experiences, our cultural identities, and our writing. A diverse panel explores the creative spaces and limitations of these metaphors across genre, examining the settler colonial roots of common perceptions of land and bodies, and the potential such metaphor can offer stories of environmental and social justice and survival.
Time: 9:00-10:15 am, Saturday, March 7 2020
Location Room 217B, Henry B. González Convention Center, Meeting Room Level