NOPF 2023: Writing About Illness, Recovery, Pain, and Survival
This is a combined panel and reading on writing about illness, whether that be of a mental or physical nature. Each poet on the panel will read a bit of their work, followed by a discussion about the work and the various approaches the panel members take to address-- or not address-- illness. The work of each of these panel members explores the many stages, and ways of processing illness, disease, and health. 1:37 Adele Elise Williams is a PhD candidate in Literature and Creative Writing at The University of Houston where she serves as Nonfiction Editor for Gulf Coast. She is the winner of the Inprint Marion Barthelme Prize in Creative Writing and Inprint Donald Barthelme Prize for Poetry as well as a finalist for the 2022 Loraine Williams Poetry Prize. Her work can be found or is forthcoming in Air/Light, The Georgia Review, Crazyhorse, Guernica, Cream City Review, The Florida Review and elsewhere. Her current goings-on can be found at adeleelisewilliams.com 1:37 Henry Goldkamp lives in New Orleans. Recent poems appear in Triquarterly, minnesota review, Afternoon Visitor, Idaho Review, Bat City Review, Narrative, Indiana Review, DIAGRAM, Denver Quarterly, and Best New Poets. His public art projects have been covered by NPR and Time, and he co-runs The Splice Poetry Series. More at henrygoldkamp.com 9:04 Mona Lisa Saloy, Ph.D, the new Louisiana Poet Laureate is an award-winning author & folkorist, educator, and scholar of Creole culture in articles, documentaries, and poems about Black New Orleans before and after Katrina. Currently, Conrad N. Hilton Endowed Professor of English at Dillard University, and Louisiana Folklife Commissioner, Dr. Saloy documents Creole culture in sidewalk songs, jump-rope rhymes, and clap-hand games to discuss the importance of play. She writes on the significance of the Black Beat poets--especially Bob Kaufman, on the African American Toasting Tradition, Black talk, and on keeping Creole alive today. Her first book, Red Beans & Ricely Yours, won the T.S. Eliot Prize and the PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Award. Her collection of poems, Second Line Home, captures New Orleans speech, family dynamics, and celebrates New Orleans, the unique culture the world loves. Her recent publications of verse: I am New Orleans, anthology. University of New Orleans Press, 2021, in the Chicago Quarterly Review, Vol. 33, Anthology of Black American Literature (now one of the best journals of that year): Obsidian journal; Water!!! Magazine 2022, Tribe journal NYC, April 2022; and most recently in the national anthology Bluck Fire This Time!!! In April, Saloy will be featured in Persimmon, a journal about and featuring women. Her new book, Black Creole Chronicles: poems, will appear this spring 2023 from University of New Orleans Press. Mona Lisa Saloy writes for those who don't or can't tell Black Creole cultural stories. wwww.monalisasaloy.com Tweet to @redbeansista 18:38 Nikki Ummel is a queer writer, editor, and educator in New Orleans. Nikki has been published or has work forthcoming in Painted Bride Quarterly, The Adroit Journal, The Georgia Review, and others. She has been nominated for Pushcart, Best New Poets, Best of the Net, and the CLMP Firecracker Awards. She is the 2022 winner of the Leslie McGrath Poetry Prize. She is a reader for Peauxdunque Review and editor for Bear Review, as well as the co-founder of lmnl lit, an arts organization focused on readings, workshops, and residencies. She has a poetry chapbook, Hush (Belle Point Press, 2022) and a hybrid chapbook, Bayou Sonata (NOLA DNA, 2023). You can find her on the web at www.nikkiummel.com 24:14 Karisma Price is from New Orleans, LA, and holds an MFA in poetry from New York University. Her work has appeared in Poetry, Four Way Review, Wildness, and elsewhere. She has received fellowships from Cave Canem and New York University, was winner of 2019 Best of the Net Prize, a finalist for the 2019 Manchester Poetry Prize, and awarded The 2020 J. Howard and Barbara M.J. Wood Prize from The Poetry Foundation. She is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Poetry at Tulane University. 35:47 Carolyn Hembree's third collection, For Today, will be published by LSU Press in 2024 as part of their Barataria Series. She is also the author of Rigging a Chevy into a Time Machine and Other Ways to Escape a Plague (Trio House Press, 2016), winner of the 2015 Trio Award and the 2015 Rochelle Ratner Memorial Award, and Skinny (Kore Press, 2012). She received a 2016-2017 ATLAS grant from the Louisiana Board of Regents and has also received grants and fellowships from PEN, the Louisiana Division of the Arts, and the Southern Arts Federation. A professor in the MFA program at the University of New Orleans, she was awarded the 2017 International Alumni Association Excellence in Teaching Award. Carolyn serves as poetry editor of Bayou Magazine.
This is a combined panel and reading on writing about illness, whether that be of a mental or physical nature. Each poet on the panel will read a bit of their work, followed by a discussion about the work and the various approaches the panel members take to address-- or not address-- illness. The work of each of these panel members explores the many stages, and ways of processing illness, disease, and health. 1:37 Adele Elise Williams is a PhD candidate in Literature and Creative Writing at The University of Houston where she serves as Nonfiction Editor for Gulf Coast. She is the winner of the Inprint Marion Barthelme Prize in Creative Writing and Inprint Donald Barthelme Prize for Poetry as well as a finalist for the 2022 Loraine Williams Poetry Prize. Her work can be found or is forthcoming in Air/Light, The Georgia Review, Crazyhorse, Guernica, Cream City Review, The Florida Review and elsewhere. Her current goings-on can be found at adeleelisewilliams.com 1:37 Henry Goldkamp lives in New Orleans. Recent poems appear in Triquarterly, minnesota review, Afternoon Visitor, Idaho Review, Bat City Review, Narrative, Indiana Review, DIAGRAM, Denver Quarterly, and Best New Poets. His public art projects have been covered by NPR and Time, and he co-runs The Splice Poetry Series. More at henrygoldkamp.com 9:04 Mona Lisa Saloy, Ph.D, the new Louisiana Poet Laureate is an award-winning author & folkorist, educator, and scholar of Creole culture in articles, documentaries, and poems about Black New Orleans before and after Katrina. Currently, Conrad N. Hilton Endowed Professor of English at Dillard University, and Louisiana Folklife Commissioner, Dr. Saloy documents Creole culture in sidewalk songs, jump-rope rhymes, and clap-hand games to discuss the importance of play. She writes on the significance of the Black Beat poets--especially Bob Kaufman, on the African American Toasting Tradition, Black talk, and on keeping Creole alive today. Her first book, Red Beans & Ricely Yours, won the T.S. Eliot Prize and the PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Award. Her collection of poems, Second Line Home, captures New Orleans speech, family dynamics, and celebrates New Orleans, the unique culture the world loves. Her recent publications of verse: I am New Orleans, anthology. University of New Orleans Press, 2021, in the Chicago Quarterly Review, Vol. 33, Anthology of Black American Literature (now one of the best journals of that year): Obsidian journal; Water!!! Magazine 2022, Tribe journal NYC, April 2022; and most recently in the national anthology Bluck Fire This Time!!! In April, Saloy will be featured in Persimmon, a journal about and featuring women. Her new book, Black Creole Chronicles: poems, will appear this spring 2023 from University of New Orleans Press. Mona Lisa Saloy writes for those who don't or can't tell Black Creole cultural stories. wwww.monalisasaloy.com Tweet to @redbeansista 18:38 Nikki Ummel is a queer writer, editor, and educator in New Orleans. Nikki has been published or has work forthcoming in Painted Bride Quarterly, The Adroit Journal, The Georgia Review, and others. She has been nominated for Pushcart, Best New Poets, Best of the Net, and the CLMP Firecracker Awards. She is the 2022 winner of the Leslie McGrath Poetry Prize. She is a reader for Peauxdunque Review and editor for Bear Review, as well as the co-founder of lmnl lit, an arts organization focused on readings, workshops, and residencies. She has a poetry chapbook, Hush (Belle Point Press, 2022) and a hybrid chapbook, Bayou Sonata (NOLA DNA, 2023). You can find her on the web at www.nikkiummel.com 24:14 Karisma Price is from New Orleans, LA, and holds an MFA in poetry from New York University. Her work has appeared in Poetry, Four Way Review, Wildness, and elsewhere. She has received fellowships from Cave Canem and New York University, was winner of 2019 Best of the Net Prize, a finalist for the 2019 Manchester Poetry Prize, and awarded The 2020 J. Howard and Barbara M.J. Wood Prize from The Poetry Foundation. She is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Poetry at Tulane University. 35:47 Carolyn Hembree's third collection, For Today, will be published by LSU Press in 2024 as part of their Barataria Series. She is also the author of Rigging a Chevy into a Time Machine and Other Ways to Escape a Plague (Trio House Press, 2016), winner of the 2015 Trio Award and the 2015 Rochelle Ratner Memorial Award, and Skinny (Kore Press, 2012). She received a 2016-2017 ATLAS grant from the Louisiana Board of Regents and has also received grants and fellowships from PEN, the Louisiana Division of the Arts, and the Southern Arts Federation. A professor in the MFA program at the University of New Orleans, she was awarded the 2017 International Alumni Association Excellence in Teaching Award. Carolyn serves as poetry editor of Bayou Magazine.