events
Joyelle McSweeney Reading and Workshop
Saturday, April 6, 1:00-3:00 PM EST
Hyperdiction: A Generative Writing Workshop with Joyelle McSweeney
@ Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia
About the workshop:
Let’s investigate the premise and promise of hyperdiction, an intensive use of language rife with political and aesthetic possibility. Hyperdiction is a vivid, viscous soundprint, an uncanny sonic ecology; it is an assemblage of the voices, sounds, dictions, languages, lingos, terminologies, and slangs a person encounters in their experience of life, art, dream, ghost, family, community, region, work, subculture, the state, studies, etc. Through guided writing and listening, participants will bring into audibility their own hyperdictions, then investigate the aesthetic and political possibilities of hyperdiction for dream terrains and ecologies, translation and performance, among other cosmic and lyric endeavors.
About Joyelle McSweeney:
Guggenheim Fellow Joyelle McSweeney is the author of the recently released Death Styles (Nightboat, 2024), as well as nine other books of poetry, drama, fiction, criticism and translation, including The Necropastoral, an influential work of goth ecopoetics. McSweeney's previous title, Toxicon and Arachne,was called "frightening and brilliant" by Dan Chiasson in the New Yorker and won the Shelley Memorial Prize from the Poetry Society of America. A co-founder of the international press Action Books, McSweeney teaches at Notre Dame, and lives in South Bend, Indiana.