{"id":322,"date":"2014-03-23T09:59:49","date_gmt":"2014-03-23T16:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.arras.net\/wordpress-melt\/?p=322"},"modified":"2014-03-26T20:52:45","modified_gmt":"2014-03-27T03:52:45","slug":"friends-bitches-countrymen-contemporary-feminist-poetics-visions-and-voices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arras.net\/wordpress-melt\/2014\/03\/23\/friends-bitches-countrymen-contemporary-feminist-poetics-visions-and-voices\/","title":{"rendered":"Friends, Bitches, Countrymen: Contemporary Feminist Poetics Visions and Voices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This looks like a really great event that I just found out about this morning. I&#8217;ve been meaning to see most of these writers for a long time! The website states:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What are the relationships between feminism, poetry and power? In a reading and performance, five American poets will define, discuss, question, subvert, celebrate and explode their varied feminist poetics.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.arras.net\/wordpress-melt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/i_2014_03_26_FemPoetics_150x200.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-327\" alt=\"i_2014_03_26_FemPoetics_150x200\" src=\"http:\/\/www.arras.net\/wordpress-melt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/i_2014_03_26_FemPoetics_150x200.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"201\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wednesday, March 26, 2014 : 7:00pm<br \/>\nThe Ray Stark Family Theatre<br \/>\nSchool of Cinematic Arts 108<br \/>\nUniversity Park Campus<\/p>\n<p>Book signing to follow. Admission is free. Reservations required. RSVP at the links below beginning Monday, March 3, at 9 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>USC Students, Staff and Faculty: To RSVP, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usc.edu\/dept\/pubrel\/visionsandvoices\/RSVP\/reserve.php?RSVPEvtCode=588\">click here<\/a>.<br \/>\nGeneral Public: To RSVP, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usc.edu\/dept\/pubrel\/visionsandvoices\/RSVP\/reserveGeneral_NoTickets.php?RSVPEvtCode=589\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>via\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/web-app.usc.edu\/ecal\/custom\/113\/index.php?category=Item&amp;item=0.903806&amp;active_category=Reading\">Visions and Voices: The Arts and Humanities Initiative<\/a>.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Arielle Greenberg<\/strong>\u00a0is co-author of Home\/Birth: A Poemic and co-editor of Gurlesque: The New Grrly, Grotesque, Burlesque Poetics.\u00a0<strong>Dawn Lundy Martin<\/strong>\u00a0won the Cave Canem Prize for A Gathering of Matter \/ A Matter of Gathering.\u00a0<strong>Danielle Pafunda<\/strong>\u2019s The Dead Girls Speak in Unison was a finalist for the National Poetry Series.\u00a0<strong>Carmen Gim\u00e9nez Smith<\/strong>, the author of a memoir and four poetry collections, is an American Book Award winner as well as editor of the journal Puerto del Sol and publisher at Noemi Press.\u00a0<strong>Stacey Waite<\/strong>\u00a0is the author of Love Poem to Androgyny and Butch Geography.<\/p>\n<p>The reading and performance will be moderated by\u00a0Sarah Vap, a PhD student in literature and creative writing at USC, and followed by a discussion facilitated by USC English professor\u00a0Susan McCabe.<\/p>\n<p>Organized by Sarah Vap (Literature and Creative Writing) and Susan McCabe (English). Co-sponsored by the Women&#8217;s Student Assembly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This looks like a really great event that I just found out about this morning. I&#8217;ve been meaning to see most of these writers for a long time! The website states: What are the relationships between feminism, poetry and power? In a reading and performance, five American poets will define, discuss, question, subvert, celebrate and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arras.net\/wordpress-melt\/2014\/03\/23\/friends-bitches-countrymen-contemporary-feminist-poetics-visions-and-voices\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Friends, Bitches, Countrymen: Contemporary Feminist Poetics Visions and Voices<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[52],"tags":[50,51,49,7],"class_list":["post-322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-so-cal-poetry","tag-bitches","tag-countrymen","tag-friends","tag-reading-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.arras.net\/wordpress-melt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/1925278_757193820959765_1179379289_n.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4riuZ-5c","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arras.net\/wordpress-melt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arras.net\/wordpress-melt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arras.net\/wordpress-melt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arras.net\/wordpress-melt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arras.net\/wordpress-melt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.arras.net\/wordpress-melt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330,"href":"https:\/\/www.arras.net\/wordpress-melt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions\/330"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arras.net\/wordpress-melt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arras.net\/wordpress-melt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arras.net\/wordpress-melt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arras.net\/wordpress-melt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}