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Creative Writing: Brief Prose Forms

Session Chair: 
Megan Spiegel, Western Washington University
Time: 
Session 4: Friday 3:50-5:20pm
Location: 
Salon II (ET)
Topic Area: 
Creative Writing: Brief Prose Forms [1]

Presenters/Papers:

  1. Thanksgiving for Aurelia [2]
    Raul Moreno, University of South Dakota
    In “Thanksgiving for Aurelia,” the writer confronts a question: What is the value of telling family stories? On a stormy night in November, after breaking open Dungeness crab hauled up from the depths, a farmer’s son reads his mother an essay in fragments that changes their relationship in ways they struggle to understand. Is it anger that drives these bottled-up sketches of the land they call "infinite variety"? Or something else entirely?
  2. Compression, Cataloguing, and Collage in Flash Nonfiction [3]
    Kaitlyn Teer, Western Washington University
    I will read a work of flash nonfiction and several prose poems which test the boundaries of form, the balance between narrative explicitness and poetic compression. "Falling" develops a scene while also suggesting cosmological implications through poetic compression. Prose poems from a series, "Taxonomies," enact the rhythm of cataloguing kinds of phenomena. "Ways of Breathing Underwater" makes meaning in the gaps between brief segments collaged together through associative leaps.
  3. Meditation: Sutra, "Thread" [4]
    Jacqueline Lyons, California Lutheran University
    This short essay follows the etymologies of several Latinate words--desire, error, alone, and abide--to explore associations of the words themselves, and states of being associated with the dissolution of a relationship.
Session Cancelled: 
No

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[1] http://www.pamla.org/2015/topics/creative-writing-brief-prose-forms
[2] http://www.pamla.org/2015/proposals/thanksgiving-aurelia
[3] http://www.pamla.org/2015/proposals/compression-cataloguing-and-collage-flash-nonfiction
[4] http://www.pamla.org/2015/proposals/meditation-sutra-thread