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Explosive Poetry w/ Shiloh Jines, Maxe Crandall & Jason Zuzga
HOSTED BY KEVIN KILLIAN
/Shiloh Jines/ received her BA from the University of Tennessee (Knoxville) in creative writing with an emphasis in poetry. In 2014, she did an internship at The Pioneer House of Letterpress and Design, formerly known as Yee-haw Industries, which inspired a love of antique wood type and the southern handmade aesthetic. Jines is currently an MFA canidate in creative writing and book art at Mills College in Oakland, California. Shiloh makes poem-books, printed matter, experimental videos & installations that explore temporal, tactile & sensual dissonance which manifest in queer feminine memory. https://www.tumblr.com/
/Maxe Crandall/ is a Lecturer in the Program in Writing and Rhetoric at Stanford University and a tutor in the Hume Center for Speaking and Writing. They hold a PhD in English and Gender Studies from the University of Michigan. Maxe is at work on a critical biography titled Gertrude Stein and Men and has co-authored several academic articles on transgender performance with fellow PWR lecturer Dr. Selby Wynn Schwartz. A playwright and poet, Maxe is the author of the chapbooks Together Men Make Paradigms and Emoji for Cher Heart. The play Together Men Make Paradigms premiered at Dixon Place (NYC) with an all poet and activist cast and was a finalist for the 2014 Leslie Scalapino Award. Prior to Stanford, Maxe taught literature, creative writing, and academic writing at Columbia University, Temple University, and the Georgia Institute of Technology. In Columbia’s Undergraduate Writing Program, Maxe began and co-directed the pilot program “Readings in Gender and Sexuality,” where they developed courses grounded in activist writing, intersectional feminism, and social justice. http://maxecrandall.com/
After a series of jobs in New York publishing and a residential poetry fellowship year at the Fine Arts Work Center, /Jason Zuzga/ completed an M.F.A. in poetry and nonfiction at the University of Arizona, followed by a year as the poet-in-residence in the James Merrill House. He is currently a graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania, pursuing a Ph.D. in the English Department, where he has taught classes such as “BAD KIDS” “SPOKEN ANIMAL” “HAUNTED HOUSES” and “20th C POETRY.” His debut book of poetry, HEAT WAKE was published by Saturnalia Books in March 2016. His poetry and nonfiction has been published in numerous journals, such as Tin House, the Yale Review, and the Paris Review. He is the Other/Nonfiction co-editor of FENCE. Words that appear in his new book include “queer,” “Ava Gardner” and “tardigrade.” http://jasonzuzga.com/