Mode of Program Participation
Performances and Arts
Participation Type
Panel
Session Title
The Permeated Lyric
Session Abstract or Summary
"go in fear of abstractions..."
-from The Appalachian Book of the Dead by Charles Wright
These four writers from the West Virginia Wesleyan College low-residency MFA community write lyric poems that look beyond the touchable landscape of Appalachia to a more deeply buried emotional landscape inherent to the region. Inspired by Charles Wright and others, these poets look to free their own poems "from the stringencies of unity and closure demanded by the sort of poem most readers are used to" and "spin out extended meditations that pick up, work with, lay aside and return again to landscapes, historical events and ideas.”
Each panelist will read a representative selection of their original poetry and discuss how the lyric choices made in their work present Appalachian voices and landscapes in unexpected ways. During the final fifteen minutes of the session, the poets will engage one another and the audience in a conversation about how expected and unexpected images from their own regional experience permeate their work regardless of setting or subject.
Presentation #1 Title
The Permeated Lyric
Presentation #1 Abstract or Summary
Original Work
At-A-Glance Bio- Presenter #1
Vincent Trimboli has been teaching Poetry and Literature at Davis and Elkins College and varisous institutions throughout his home state. Vince's poetry can be found at Connotation Press as well as Still Journal, and in WVU Press’ anthology of Appalachian Writing, Eyes Burning at the Edge of the Woods, his essays can be found in various publications including Clemson University’s Upstart Journal. Vince’s first two chapbooks, Condominium Morte and Other Milkweed Diners, were released in 2016 by Ghost City Press of Syracuse NY.
Presentation #2 Title
The Permeated Lyric
Presentation #2 Abstract or Summary
Original Work
At-A-Glance Bio- Presenter #2
Laura Long co-edited the new anthology Eyes Glowing at the Edge of the Woods: Fiction and Poetry from West Virginia (WVU Press, March 2017). She is the author of two poetry collections and the novel Out of Peel Tree, a Finalist for the Balcones Prize, the Weatherford Award, and the IndieFab Award for Literary Fiction. She lives near Charlottesville, and teaches at Lynchburg College and as guest faculty in the W.V. Wesleyan Low-Residency MFA Program
Presentation #3 Title
The Permeated Lyric
Presentation #3 Abstract or Summary
Original Work
At-A-Glance Bio- Presenter #3
Mark DeFoe has published poems in Poetry, Yale Review, Paris Review, Christian Science Monitor, Salmagundi, and his tenth chapbook is In the Tourist Cave, published in 2012 by Finishing Line Press. Mark is a former Bread Loaf Scholar, and his work has received prizes and recognition from Appalachian Heritage, The Atlanta Review, and others. Mark is on the core faculty of WV Wesleyan’s MFA program.
Presentation #4 Title
The Permeated Lyric
Presentation #4 Abstract or Summary
Original Work
At-A-Glance Bio- Presenter #4
Phill Provance’s work has appeared in The Baltimore Sun, Noctua, Arsenic Lobster, The Axe Factory Review and many others. He is also the author of MediaTier Ltd.'s The Adventures of Ace Hoyle, and in 2011, Cy Gist Press published his first poetry chapbook, The Day the Sun Rolled Out of the Sky, whose contents were nominated three times for the Pushcart Prize. His second chapbook, Given to Suddenly Laughter, is forthcoming from Cy Gist Press, and he is presently under contract to write Woodbridge, New Jersey: A Brief History for The History Press.
The Permeated Lyric
Original Work
