PNCA offers talks, discussions, and readings by acclaimed writers as part of the Low-Residency MFA in Creative Writing program
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 |