Poetics Plus featuring Eleni Stecopoulos

Name: Poetics Plus featuring Eleni Stecopoulos
Start: 2024-10-22T07:30:00-04:00
Location: Fitz Books

Schedule

Tue Oct 22 2024 at 07:30 am

UTC-04:00

Location

Fitz Books | Buffalo, NY

Join us for an evening of poetry and discussion with Eleni Stecopoulos! – Introduction by Theo. Triandos; reading followed by conversation with Judith Goldman –
In Dreaming in the Fault Zone, Eleni Stecopoulos set out to investigate the imagination, aesthetics, and ideology of healing: she talks to physicians, poets, psychotherapists, disability activists, ethnographers, spiritual seekers; curates performances and takes part in community rituals; documents pilgrimages and visits therapeutic landscapes. These essays travel in a space of impasse and unending experiment, as Stecopoulos confronts the poetics and politics of affliction, empathy, memory, and survival.
Eleni Stecopoulos is author of Dreaming in the Fault Zone: A Poetics of Healing (Nightboat 2024), Visceral Poetics (On Contemporary Practice 2016), and Armies of Compassion (Palm Press 2010). Her writing has appeared in Pamenar Magazine, [φρμκ], Best American Experimental Writing, Open Space (SFMOMA), Harvard Review, and many other venues. She has taught at Bard College and University of San Francisco and now works as an independent editor, manuscript consultant, and mentor. From New York, she lives in Northern California.
Theo. Triandos is an Assistant Professor of Art History and Visual Studies at UB, specializing in gender and sexuality in 20th century North American art. Author of “Inside and Outside of Queer: Deborah Kass’s Feel Good Paintings for Feel Bad Times,” Woman’s Art Journal (2024), Triandos’s Gender Deconstruction in North American Art: 1960- 1999 will appear with Routledge.
Judith Goldman is Associate Professor and Director of the Poetics Program in the Department of English at UB. Author of four books of poetry and articles on contemporary Anglophone poetry and poetic and British Romanticism, she directs the HOW(ever) & How2 Digital Archive Project.