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Pick a DateSpeculative Persona: A Craft Talk with Sally Wen Mao
Poetry at Bennington—Fall 2022 Cricket Hill Barn
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | This craft talk explains the process of using speculative elements in poetry through persona poems, investigating how contemporary poets such as Adrian Matejka and Melissa Lozada-Oliva use speculative personae in their book-length projects The Big Smoke and Dreaming of You, as well as my own process writing speculative persona in Oculus.
Sally Wen Mao
Poetry at Bennington—Fall 2022 Tishman Lecture Hall
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Sally Wen Mao is the author of Oculus (Graywolf Press, 2019) a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry.