The Economy of the Short Line, with Randall Mann

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | This talk will discuss the efficiency, concision, currency, and expansiveness of the short poetic line, in poems by James Schuyler, Lucille Clifton, May Swenson, and in Randall Mann's own work.

Randall Mann is a queer, multiracial poet, critic, and medical writer. He is the author of five books of poems, most recently Proprietary (Persea, 2017) and A Better Life (Persea, 2021). He is also the author of a book of criticism, essays, and interviews, The Illusion of Intimacy: On Poetry, and coauthor of the textbook Writing Poems. His writing has appeared in Kenyon Review, LitHub, The Paris Review, Poetry, and The San Francisco Chronicle, and his books have been shortlisted for the Lambda Literary Award, California Book Award, and Northern California Book Award. Mann’s Deal: New and Selected is forthcoming with Copper Canyon in 2023. He lives in San Francisco.