NEW NATURE: REWRITING PLACE IN THE ANTHROPOCENE

Split Rock Review celebrates nine years of publishing literature and art that centers on place, environment, and the relationship between humans and the natural world. Four featured authors published by Split Rock Review will read and discuss how their work explores place and complicates the traditions of nature poetry in the Anthropocene. Crystal S. Gibbins, founder and editor of Split Rock Review, will introduce and moderate. A brief Q&A session will follow the reading.

MODERATOR: 

Crystal S. Gibbins is the founder and editor of Split Rock Review and Split Rock Press, editor of the anthology Rewilding: Poems for the Environment, and author of Now/Here, winner of the 2017 Northeastern Minnesota Book Award in Poetry. Her poetry and comics have appeared in Coffee House Writers Project, Hobart, North American Review, Verse Daily, and elsewhere.

PANELISTS: 

Rosemarie Dombrowski is the inaugural Poet Laureate of Phoenix, AZ and the founder of both rinky dink press and. She is the recipient of a 2020 Laureate Fellowship from the Academy of American Poets and the director of the therapeutic poetry nonprofit, Revisionary Arts.

Jen Karetnick is the author of 10 poetry collections, including The Burning Where Breath Used to Be and Hunger Until It's Pain (forthcoming). Co-founder and managing editor of SWWIM Every Day, she works as a lifestyle journalist, co-author of Dishtillery newsletter, and trade book author.

Rachel Morgan is the author of the chapbook, Honey & Blood, Blood & Honey. She was a finalist for 2017 National Poetry Series Contest and recipient of a grant to the Vermont Studio Center. She teaches at the University of Northern Iowa and is the Poetry Editor for the North American Review.

Wendy Oleson is the author of two award-winning chapbooks, Please Find Us and Our Daughter & Other Stories. Her recent work appears in Denver Quarterly, Passages North, Cimarron Review, and elsewhere. Wendy serves as the Managing Editor of Split Lip Magazine and Associate Prose Editor for Fairy Tale Review.

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Best Practices for Submitting to Journals

Journals are an crucial part of the literary ecosystem, but the volume of publications can be daunting when trying to decide where and how to submit your work. What are some of the best ways to approach this world? In this session, Crystal Spring Gibbins (Split Rock Review) and Chris Fink (Beloit Fiction Journal) will join moderator Kathryn Savage for a conversation around how to find the right home for your work.

Location: Ski-U-Mah room at the McNamara Alumni Center on the University of Minnesota campus.

This event is organized and sponsored by The Loft’s Wordsmith, a craft, career, and connection conference that takes place November 2 - 3.

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