AWP Panel: The Pocket Epic - Poets Writing at Length
Room 447-448, Summit Building, Seattle Convention Center, Level 4
The time listed is in PST.

With Melissa Crowe, Meg Day, and Paisley Rekdal.

In a form characterized by compression, what does it mean to write at length? Can such works cleave to standards of precision and concision as they extend beyond the standard one-pager? What kinds of world-building, expansiveness of thought, or complexity of experience might be achieved in multipage or even book-length poems? Panelists will read briefly from their work, discuss both formal and free-verse approaches to writing long poems, and offer strategies for generating and sustaining them.