Join Fellows Ann Fisher-Wirth and Melissa Tuckey at the Eleventh Biennial Conference of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) at the University of Idaho

Posted on June 19, 2015 Posted By: BEI Interns Categories: News

Ann will be speaking on a panel as well as presenting work from her ongoing collaborative poetry/photography project Mississippi as part of a plenary session at the Eleventh Biennial Conference of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE), which will be held June 23-27, 2015, at the University of Idaho, Moscow. The panel is called “Rounding the Human Corners” and panel members are Ann Fisher-Wirth, Juan Carlos Galeano, Linda Hogan, Marybeth Holleman, and Laura-Gray Street. The plenary is called “Extractive and Underground Poetics: Readings and Conversation,” and plenary speakers will include Ann Fisher-Wirth, Tanure Ojaide, and Rita Wong.

Melissa will be presenting, reading and speaking about ecojustice poetry on a panel: “What Happens Off the Ecopoem’s Page? Weaving Knots, Nodes, Undercurrents” with José Manuel, Marrero Henríquez, Tiffany Higgins, and Roberto Forms-Broggion. Thursday, June 25.

To download the entire program for the conference click here.

To register for the conference click here.