The genre of the “poet talk” long has encouraged authors to dazzle audiences with extensive exuberant riffs. But how and when today might poets most constructively talk to, hear out, learn from, think with the widest possible range of interlocutors—from fellow poets and artists, to scholars, to philosophers, to political leaders, and beyond? This course will position you to conduct and publish informed exploratory conversations far beyond your immediate social circles. Readings will include dialogues with variously loquacious and/or reticent poets (Etel Adnan, Wayne Koestenbaum, Srikanth Reddy, Lisa Robertson), as well as poetically attuned philosophers (Anthony Appiah, Jill Frank), journalists (Emily Bazelon, David Plotz), literary critics (Daniel Kane, Simone White), political organizers (Michael Hardt, Liz Theoharis), and policy advocates (Danielle Allen, James Forman).
Poet Talkings-To: The Aesthetics and Ethics of Dialogue — 3-Session Workshop with Andy Fitch
Andy Fitch
Andy Fitch has a weekly interview column for the Los Angeles Review of Books. His most recent books are Sixty Morning Talks, Sixty Morning Walks, and (with Amaranth Borsuk) As We Know. With Cristiana Baik, he recently assembled the Letter Machine Book of Interviews. He has dialogic books forthcoming from 1913 Press and Nightboat Books. He is a founding editor of The Conversant and edits Essay Press.