Low-Residency MFA in Creative Writing Program Kicks Off Inaugural Residency!!
June 10, 2019
Portland, OR — June 10, 2019 – The Hallie Ford School of Graduate Studies at Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) is pleased to announce the launch of the Low-Residency MFA in Creative Writing with its first residential intensive. In the low-residency model, students will attend two 14-day campus residencies then, beyond residencies, work one-on-one with mentors. Most of the programming during this residency is free and open to the public.
From July 28 through August 3, PNCA offers talks, discussions, and readings by acclaimed writers as part of the Low-Residency MFA in Creative Writing program. Every event is free and open to the public.
This innovative creative writing program is distinguished by its being situated within a school of art and design as well as its focus on experimentation and a focus on voices typically excluded from more traditional programs. 2019 Summer Residency Visiting Faculty include Vi Khi Nao, Brandon Shimoda, and Rachel Jamison Webster. da Carter and Reema Zaman are this summer’s visiting guest artists.
FREE PUBLIC PROGRAMS
TALKS
All talks are held at PNCA, 511 NW Broadway in Room 601
Sunday, July 28
Jay Ponteri
Words that Listen, 1:15pm
Monday, July 29
Brandon Shimoda
PROPOSITIONS FOR A POETICS OF POSTMEMORY, USING THE EXAMPLE OF POETRY BY THE DESCENDANTS OF JAPANESE AMERICAN INCARCERATION, 9am
Emily Kendal Frey Poem
Collaborating with The Hidden Mind AKA The Postcard Workshop, 3:30pm
Tuesday, July 30
da Carter
Aesthetic Refusals, Writing with and against loss, 9am
Vi Khi Nao
The Art of Discipline, 10:30am
Daniela Naomi Molnar
Unhinged Hinge : Writing in the ecotone-of-here-and-now, 1pm
Wednesday, July 31
Rachel Jamison Webster
Polyphonic Texts: Hybridity as Conversation, 9 am
Sara Jaffe
All Hooks, No Chorus: Pop music and plot, 4:30pm
Friday, August 2
Reema Zaman
More than a Memoir; a Movement, 4:30pm
Saturday, August 3
Walidah Imarisha
Writing Worlds Within and Beyond Prisons, 3:30pm
READINGS Some readings are at PNCA, 511 NW Broadway, Mediatheque. Others are held at partner locations including Powell’s Books, Mother Foucault’s Bookshop, and Literary Arts. See below.
Sunday, July 28
Brandon Shimoda and Vi Khi Nao, 7pm at PNCA; this is also the MFA in Creative Writing Launch Party
Monday, July 29
Emily Kendal Frey and Rachel Jamison Webster, 5pm at PNCA
Brandon Shimoda in conversation with Janice Lee, 7:30pm at Powell's Books
Tuesday, July 30
Daniela Naomi Molnar, Jay Ponteri, Taylor Eggån, 7pm at PNCA
Wednesday, July 31
da Carter, Sara Jaffe, Abra Ancliffe, 7:30pm at PNCA (Room 601)
Thursday, August 1
Monica Drake, Walidah Imarisha, Alejandro de Acosta, 7pm at Mother Foucault’s Bookshop
Friday, August 2
Reema Zaman, 8pm at Literary Arts