MFA Residency Public Lecture and Reading Schedule for Sunday, July 7th

All lectures will be in Canon Lounge, Gladfelter or Upper Fellowship Hall, as noted below, on the WWC campus. For more information, call the MFA Office at Warren Wilson College: (828) 771-3715. The schedule is subject to change. Please check www.friendsofwriters.org for updates.

Sunday, July 7th  

9:30 AM Canon Lounge

PABLO MEDINA ~ The Chinese Written Character a Medium for Poetry       Reconsidered                                     

The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry by Ernest Fenollosa, edited by Ezra Pound, caused a sensation in poetry circles when it was first published in 1919. Though Fenollosa’s theories on the pictorial nature of written Chinese were eventually disproven, the essay had a remarkable influence on poets in the Anglophone world for decades to come. Arguably, it led T.S. Eliot to call Pound “the inventor of Chinese poetry in English.” Is the essay read at all today? Has its influence waned or its ideas still current? This talk will explore these questions and attempt to evaluate the relevance of Fenollosa’s–and Pound’s–poetics in the twenty-first century.

10:45 AM Canon Lounge

ROBERT BOSWELL ~ Reinventing Revision: How Changing the Way You Think about Revision May Breathe Life into Comatose Work                           

This lecture will focus on pragmatic strategies for reviving failed stories by offering revision as something like a life-support system. I’ll refer to numerous published pieces, but no advance reading is required.

8:15 PM Canon Lounge

FACULTY READINGS by 

Debra Allbery

Charles Baxter

Daisy Fried

Matthew Olzmann

Peter Turchi

The public is welcome to attend the morning lectures and evening readings in fiction and poetry offered during the Master of Fine Arts Program summer residency.  Events last approximately one hour. Admission is free. The schedule is subject to change. 

For more information, call the MFA Office: (828) 771-371