Brown Bag Biography: When Poetry, Life, and Documents Collid
September 20, 12:00pm - 1:15pmMānoa Campus, Kuykendall 410
“Interventions of Experience and Memory: When Poetry, Life, and Documents Collideâ€
By Amalia Bueno, Donovan KūhiŠColleps, and No‘u Revilla
In the spring of 2012, Amalia, Donovan, and No‘u enrolled in a graduate seminar on Documentary Poetry, led by Susan M. Schultz. Each poet constructed a chapbook from the language of documents—blueprints, newspaper articles, obituaries, data, journal entries, how-to manuals. Donovan wrote about his grandfather, Amalia wrote about her former job in the correctional system, and No'u wrote about her childhood home in Kahului. Today, as they share their projects and explore the fraught relationships between poetry, memory, “fact, †and desire, we are invited to experience what Phillip Metres describes as the seething and breathing of multitudes.
Speaker Bios:
Amalia Bueno is a graduate student pursuing a Master's degree in English at UH MÄnoa. Her poems and stories have appeared in various journals, literary magazines and anthologies. A publicist and researcher, Amalia's interests include issues of gender, culture, and representation.
Donovan KÅ«hiÅ Colleps is a graduate student in UH MÄnoa's English department. He has taught creative writing workshops for the Pacific Writer's Connection in various public schools on OÊ»ahu and was also the editor of HawaiÊ»i Review. He is currently working on a collection of documentary poems called Proposed Additions, inspired by documents found in his grandfather's file cabinet.
No'u Revilla is a Ph.D. student in the English program at UH-MÄnoa. Her chapbook Say Throne was published by Tinfish Press in 2011, and her poetry will be featured in the upcoming exhibition A Thousand Words and Counting at the Honolulu Museum of Art.
Event Sponsor
Center for Biographical Research, Mānoa Campus
More Information
956-3774, biograph@hawaii.edu, http://www.facebook.com/CBRHawaii
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