Eléna Rivera and Jennifer Moxley Reading / March 20, 2008
Event Report
Poets Eléna Rivera and Jennifer Moxley read to a capacity audience in the Soderberg Auditorium on March 20, 2008. Both writers read from work in the manuscript.
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Set List (compiled by Katie Lattari)
Jennifer Moxley
Poetry
The Quest
You Are Not an Image
The Drip
The Price of Silence
Excerpt from “Approximations”
Excerpt from “Approximations”
Essays
“There Are Things We Live Among”
Lose All Companions
Clothes
Fetish
Secret Meaning
Eléna Rivera
The Reading
Gold
Orange
Silver
White
Red
Movement in the Upper Regions
* Poems 2-6 from a series of color poems Rivera thinks she considers a set
Questions
(For Moxley) Between your poetry or prose, what pushes you toward one or the other when you write?
Can you talk about the dialogue/ friendship you two share and how it impacts your work?
Can you discuss how poetics came into your life—were there early shaping forces or was it something inherent?
(For Elena) Do you find that writing in a space of discomfort is more fruitful than writing in your comfort zone?
(For Elena) Did you see yourself as a socially conscious writer to begin with?
Does translation work affect your own writing?