Dear Center for the Literary Arts Supporters,
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Welcome back for the Fall 2023 Semester!
As we embark upon our second year of CLA programming, we are thrilled at the opportunities that the new year provides to expand our creative community and bring internationally renowned artists to our campus.
This semester-launching newsletter will give you an overview of what we have planned and give you a number of opportunities to reconnect with the Center. We hope to see you soon at a reading, discussion, or workshop!
Sincerely,
Danielle Dutton
Ignacio Infante
Co-Directors, Center for the Literary Arts
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Mary-Alice Daniel is the Center for the Literary Arts' inaugural Visiting Writer in Residence. Join us for a reception, followed by readings from her celebrated, genre-spanning works.
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| In conjunction with the Kemper Art Museum's Adam Pendleton: To Divide By, join us for a reading by poet Simone White and a talk on creative practice in relation to the role of language and poetry in Pendleton’s work.
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| This hands-on workshop invites participants to produce their own publications using various source texts, images, and printing and other compositional analog techniques.
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Guggenheim Fellowship Info Session
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CLA will host an informal session at noon on September 8 for any faculty members applying for a Guggenheim Fellowship in creative arts (due date September 21).
If you're applying for the 2024 GF, or planning to apply for the 2025 competition, please RSVP here to be included in the session.
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| Fulbright Creative and Performing Arts Grant Info Session
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CLA will host an informal session at noon on October 20 for students interested in applying for the grant in fall 2024.
We’ll discuss how to prepare for the extensive application process as a creative practitioner, including tips for starting your project proposal, finding potential affiliations abroad, and more.
Please RSVP here to be included in the session.
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Creative Practice Workshop Info Session
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Learn more about the Center for the Literary Arts' Creative Practice Workshop from initiative co-director Ignacio Infante, including how to apply. The session will take place November 3 at noon. Please RSVP here to be included in the session.
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Q&A with CLA's new postdoctoral fellow, Ashley Colley |
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Ashley Colley's poems have appeared in Colorado Review, Black Warrior Review, Southern Indiana Review, Orion, Prelude, and elsewhere. She is the author of the chapbook, In the Garden (dancing girl press 2022). The recipient of a Fulbright creative writing research grant, she has an MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and a PhD in English & Literary Arts from the University of Denver.
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Tell us about your role at the Center for the Literary Arts. What excites you most about this program and your involvement in it?
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As the CLA’s Postdoctoral Fellow, I’ll help develop and implement programming aimed at providing resources for and building community among folks engaged with the literary arts at WashU and beyond.
The ambitious scope of the CLA is really exciting to me. It works to bring together creative practitioners and intellectuals across the University, St. Louis, the States, and the continents. For the CLA, “literary arts” means poetry and prose and nonfiction but also translation and inter-arts practices, while “community” transcends departmental and campus bounds.
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CLA focuses on applying creative practice to different disciplines. What does your personal creative practice look like?
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I’m primarily a poet, but my creative practice is very interdisciplinary. I rely on my background in music to build the sonic elements of my poems, and I often incorporate visuals in my poetry and write in response to visual art. In my work, I think a lot about the difficulty of defining “life”—as opposed to matter or liveliness or the bare fact of being alive—and how that definitional difficulty has come into the spotlight recently in the wake of the climate crisis, fights for social justice, and the overturning of Roe.
I find overlaps in seemingly disparate conversations generative to my writing because they give me what feels like a vital mystery to solve. What hums under the surface of these connections? Can it help us stay alive and live better?
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Stay in touch for upcoming opportunities |
Starting this fall, the CLA will be sending out an announcement each semester listing deadlines for upcoming applications for residencies, fellowships, and grants for creative practitioners in the literary arts. Stay tuned for more information coming soon.
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