On April 29, 2019, the English Department held a panel discussion featuring:
Jackie Wang
Jackie听Wang is s a student of the dream state, black studies scholar, prison abolitionist, poet, filmmaker, performer, trauma monster, and PhD candidate at Harvard University in African and African American Studies. She is the author of Carceral Capitalism (Semiotexte / MIT Press), a number of punk zines including On Being Hard Femme, and a collection of dream poems titled Tiny Spelunker of the Oneiro-Womb (Capricious). In her most recent work she has been researching the bail bonds industry and the history of risk assessment in the criminal legal system. She is currently a fellow at the Film Study Center, the Warren Center and the Weatherhead Center.听
Andrea Brady
Andrea Brady's books of poetry include听The Strong Room听(Crater, 2016),听Dompteuse听(Book Thug, 2014),听Cut from the Rushes听(Reality Street, 2013),听Mutability: Scripts for Infancy听(Seagull, 2012), and听Wildfire: A Verse Essay on Obscurity and Illumination听(Krupskaya, 2010). She is听at Queen Mary University of London, where she runs the听听and the听.听 She is also co-publisher of听.听 In 2018-19 she is a fellow at the National Humanities Center in North Carolina, where she is finishing a book on Poetry and Bondage.
Phuong Vuong
Phuong Vuong is an MFA candidate at CU Boulder and the winner of the 2019 Cookson Experimental Essay Prize.