Self Elegy

Petra Kuppers

Self-Elegy: A Poets’ Panel, with Kara Dorris, Tanaya Winder, Denise Leto, Stephanie Heit, and Rusty Morrison.

Who can’t reach back into time, find a moment that feels unfinished, a moment we wish had ended differently, a moment that still haunts and defines us? The self-elegy is reflective, reinventive, and confrontational, interrogating and elegizing past versions of self. To say self-elegy is new would be naïve - for how can we truly mourn another without mourning the self created through that relationship? Yet, this awareness of self (and how the self is created) seems more prevalent than ever before. In this panel, 5 poets contemplate self-elegaic moments. With Kara Dorris (organizer), Tanaya Winder, Denise Leto, Stephanie Heit and Rusty Morrison.Please register here, and we'll send the Zoom link to the event on the day. Live captioning provided.Kara Dorris is the author of two poetry collections: Have Ruin, Will Travel (2019) and When the Body is a Guardrail (2020) from Finishing Line Press. Her poetry has appeared in Prairie Schooner, DIAGRAM, Puerto del Sol, and Crazyhorse, among others literary journals, as well as the anthology Beauty is a Verb (2011). Her prose has appeared in Waxwing and The Right Way to be Crippled and Naked (2016). For more information, please visit karadorris.com. Image description: a white cis woman smiling with brownish, curly chin-length hair sitting on a porch and hugging a black and white Siberian huskyTanaya Winder is an author, singer/songwriter, poet, and motivational speaker. She comes from an intertribal lineage of Southern Ute, Pyramid Lake Paiute, and Duckwater Shoshone Nations where she is an enrolled citizen. Tanaya’s performances and talks emphasize “heartwork” – the life path one is meant to follow by using their gifts and passions. She blends storytelling, singing, and spoken word to teach about different expressions of love. Her specialties include youth empowerment and healing trauma through art.Image Description: Woman with dark hair standing facing camera with Nevada desert behind her.Denise Leto is a white queer multidisciplinary poet, writer and dance dramaturge with a neuro-speech disability. Her current project, home (Body) is a dance, video, poetry installation/performance. She co-creates the San Francisco Baylands Eco-Poetry Project. Work has appeared most recently in Baest, Orion, Rogue Agent, About Place: Practices of Hope, and the Italian American Review. Her poetry/prose Villanelle collaboration appeared in the magazine InDance. She does cross-genre, disability culture work with Olimpias Art Collective.Image Description: A queer white woman with a neuro-disability and with long brown curly hair, burgundy jacket, three necklaces, smiling and standing in front of a window with mirrored images and a candelabrum.Stephanie Heit is a queer poet, dancer, teacher, and codirector of Turtle Disco, a somatic writing space on Anishinaabe territory in Ypsilanti, Michigan. She is a Zoeglossia Fellow, a shock/psych system survivor, bipolar, and a member of the Olimpias, an international disability performance collective. Her poetry collections are the forthcoming hybrid memoir poem Psych Murders (Wayne State University Press, 2022) and The Color She Gave Gravity (Operating System, 2017). Website: https://stephanieheitpoetry.wordpress.com/Image Description: headshot of a white woman smiling, wearing a purple wrap, with brown wavy hair in a bob. She is on (perhaps in, feet dangling) the Huron River with background muted green of tree leaves, and dappled light before dusk. Photo credit: Tamara WadeRusty Morrison co-publishers Omnidawn. Her five books include After Urgency (won Tupelo’s Dorset Prize), the true keeps calm biding its story (won Ahsahta’s Sawtooth Prize, James Laughlin Award, N.California Book Award, &amp; DiCastagnola Award). Her recent Beyond the Chainlink was a finalist for the NCIB Award &amp; NCB Award. She’s a recipient of fellowships from Civitella Ranieri, UC Berkeley ARC’s Poetry &amp; the Senses Program, and others. She teaches, gives writing consultations. Website: www.rustymorrison.comImage description: White cis woman with glasses that have tinted dark in the sun, on a porch at midday, arms crossed, a little protectively; shaggy blonde hair that's graying; in a black v-neck sweater, with a small wooden pendant with carved art swirls on it. Facial expression is a slightly-crooked, friendly smile.

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