Caryl Pagel and Hilary Plum Reading & Conversation

1124 Parsons Ave.,Columbus OH 43206

10 November, 2022

Description

Please join us in welcoming Hilary Plum (Hole Studies) and Caryl Pagel (Free Clean Fill Dirt) to the Unicorn Stage to read from their new collections, followed by a discussion moderated by Marlo Starr. Hole Studies is a book about care and the forms it may take. An essay collection on writing and labor, art and activism, attention as a transformative practice, difference and collaboration, adjuncting and the margins of the academy, whiteness and its weapons, professionalization and its discontents, the radical importance of surprise, friendship at work, the self and its public and private modes: Hole Studies keeps listening. Hilary Plum is the author of several books, including the essay collection Hole Studies (Fonograf Editions, 2022), the novel Strawberry Fields (Fence, 2018), and the work of nonfiction Watchfires (Rescue Press, 2016), which won the GLCA New Writers Award. A collection of poetry, Excisions, is forthcoming from Black Lawrence Press in 2023. She teaches at Cleveland State University and is associate director of the CSU Poetry Center. Free Clean Fill Dirt, Caryl Pagel's third book of poetry, is a study in disruption, interruption, and ruin, tracing geological and historical palimpsests via caesura, fragmentation, echo, and humor. Caryl Pagel is the author of three books of poetry—Free Clean Fill Dirt (University of Akron Press), Twice Told, and Experiments I Should Like Tried At My Own Death—as well as the essay collection Out of Nowhere Into Nothing (FC2). She is a publisher and editor at Rescue Press and the director of the Cleveland State University Poetry Center. Marlo Starr is a writer and assistant professor of English at Wittenberg University. Her poems have appeared in The Threepenny Review, Ghost City Review, Napkin Poetry Review, and elsewhere.