{"id":6206,"date":"2014-08-04T12:34:31","date_gmt":"2014-08-04T12:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/?p=6206"},"modified":"2026-03-03T14:34:43","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T22:34:43","slug":"fall-convergence","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/ias\/graduate\/mfa\/fall-convergence","title":{"rendered":"Fall Convergence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On this Page: <a href=\"#asap\">Conversation &amp; Connection<\/a> | <a href=\"#sched\">Current Schedule<\/a> | <a href=\"#presenters\">Current Keynote Speakers<\/a> | <a href=\"#previous\">Previous Fall Convergences<\/a> | <a href=\"#accomodation\">Access &amp; Accommodation<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"asap\"><strong>Fall Convergence: <strong>Poetics Research<\/strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0\"><strong>September 26-27, 2025<\/strong><br><strong>University of Washington, Bothell<\/strong><br><strong>Off-site reading in Seattle, WA<\/strong><br><strong>Free and open to the public<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-angled-gold-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSc2F_dsScBb8qsMxGLV60Kn6D7sp-HvST0XCv8AadPLjCj15A\/viewform\">Register here<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0\"><br>The Fall Convergence is a yearly gathering of local and international writers, artists, and thinkers dedicated to an interdisciplinary exploration of a vital contemporary theme. This free event marks the beginning of our academic year and draws students, alumni, and members of the artistic and literary communities in Seattle and beyond.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For this year\u2019s Convergence, our theme is <em>Poetics Research<\/em>. What are the various ways that formulating a research program or interest informs, extends and activates our writing practices?&nbsp; Beyond the questions of \u201cresearching <em>for<\/em> writing,\u201d we are interested in \u201cwriting <em>as<\/em> research.\u201d&nbsp; How does research complicate the relation between prose and poetry, or provide a source of energy and commitment that goes beyond the work itself? We will host two panels and a keynote related to this broad question, as well as a showcase of recent Essay Press Prize winning authors.<br><br>We will also spotlight our collaboration with the MFA student-led <em>Gamut: A Literary Series<\/em>, which hosts the off-site reading on Friday, September 26, 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"sched\">Current Schedule<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Friday, September 26, 2025 | 6:30\u20139pm<br>Off-Site Reading hosted by <em>Gamut: A Literary Series<\/em><br>Location: Vermillion Gallery, 1508 11th Ave, Seattle, WA 98122<br><br>Readers:<\/strong> Elizabeth Willis, Jeanne Heuving, Serena Chopra, Rob Fitterman, Joe Milutis, Srikanth Reddy, Kelly Puig and Jade Lascelles<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Saturday, September 27, 2025 | 9:30am\u20135:30pm<br>Convergence Panels<br>Location: North Creek Event Center (NCEC), UW Bothell<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>9:30\u201310:15 am<\/em>: <strong>Morning coffee&nbsp;<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>10:15\u201310:30 am<\/em>: <strong>Welcome<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>10:30 am\u201312:00 pm<\/em>: <em><strong>panel one, Between Prose and Poetry<\/strong><\/em>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Elizabeth Willis, Jeanne Heuving &amp; Serena Chopra<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>12:00 pm\u20131:00 pm<\/em>: Lunch provided<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>1:00\u20132:30 pm<\/em>: <em><strong>panel two, The Long Poem and Poetic Research<\/strong><\/em>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Rob Fitterman, Rachel Blau DuPlessis &amp; Joe Milutis<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>2:45\u20133:45 pm<\/em>: <strong><em>Keynote<\/em>, Srikanth Reddy<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>4:00\u20135:00 pm: <\/em><strong><em>Essay Press showcase:<\/em> Kelly Puig &amp; Jade Lascelles<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Special thanks to:<\/em><br>Faculty Curators: Joe Milutis &amp; Jeanne Heuving<br>Graduate Student Support: Asia N. Ashley, Erik Keevan &amp; the Gamut Team<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Keynote Presenter:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Srikanth \u201cChicu\u201d Reddy<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile is-vertically-aligned-top\" style=\"grid-template-columns:28% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com\/docsz\/AD_4nXfPhm4SuLiMtKMJibF9v2MlQQhmbLCX2bZV8iW5c0x8OWJKdkwWeJC5Va5649G4h4C2e-v3rC0vR1m1lHdRNzQ-DzHdmyRZBzKBTbthNgMNmzNw-Bd4HDg2Kp0fpPiwOZNjQEe8?key=D7SUAfk5hxRLLsZ3zQmoVQ\" alt=\"A picture of Srikanth standing on a beach, smiling in a white collared shirt.\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><strong>Srikanth Reddy\u2019s<\/strong> latest book of poetry, Underworld Lit, was a finalist for the Griffin International Poetry Prize, the Poetry Society of America\u2019s T.S. Eliot Four Quartets Prize, and a Times Literary Supplement \u201cBook of the Year\u201d for 2020. His writing has appeared in Harper\u2019s, The Guardian (UK), The New York Times, and The Washington Post; he is the poetry editor of The Paris Review, and a co-editor of the Phoenix Poets book series at the University of Chicago Press. The recipient of fellowships from the Creative Capital Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts, Reddy is Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Chicago. His book of lectures on poetry and painting, The Unsignificant, was published by Wave Books in Fall 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Photo Cred: Kaitlyn Shea<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Panelists:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Serena Chopra&nbsp;<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile is-vertically-aligned-top\" style=\"grid-template-columns:26% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com\/docsz\/AD_4nXcpQFwkXSd6o2ONzljpYlLxhwAxEOZm_4PWw5wyL3YkRD3ZGXG9ghRQ3a2RsBU5VciKvJIlEnlx-THEfGuAa5ftFlmjk8vPKuL4KFjc6gAxt8wdnoRftl8d0Ri1KVi9J7UHD546bw?key=D7SUAfk5hxRLLsZ3zQmoVQ\" alt=\"A picture of Serena with long, wavy dark hair sits on an orange couch wearing a black sleeveless top, large hoop earrings, with floral and text tattoos on their crossed forearms. \" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><strong>Serena Chopra<\/strong> is a writer, dancer, filmmaker and a visual and performance artist. She has a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Denver and is a 2025 NEA Creative Writing Fellow, a MacDowell Fellow, a Kundiman Fellow, a RedLine Artist In-Residence and a Fulbright Scholar (Bangalore, India). Her third book, <em>A Catalogue of Future Mercies,<\/em> is forthcoming from Graywolf Press in 2026. She has two films, <em>Dogana\/Chapti <\/em>(2019, Official Selection at Frameline43 and Seattle Queer Film Festival) and <em>Mother Ghosting<\/em> (2018). She was a featured artist in <em>Harper&#8217;s Bazaar <\/em>(India), <em>Revry,<\/em> as well as in the Denver <em>Westword\u2019s<\/em> \u201c100 Colorado Creatives.\u201d She has recent publications with The Academy of American Poets, <em>Burrow Press Review, Sink<\/em>, <em>Foglifter<\/em>, and the anthology <em>Alone Together: Love , Grief and Comfort in the Time of COVID-19 <\/em>(Washington State Book Award, 2021). She also has critical essays in <em>Matters of Feminist Practice <\/em>(Belladonna Collective, 2019)<em>,<\/em> <em>Rehearsing Racial Equity: A Critical Anthology on Anti-Racism and Repair in the Arts <\/em>(Amherst College Press, forthcoming 2025) and in the republication of Judy Grahn\u2019s <em>The Highest Apple: Sappho and the Lesbian Poetic Tradition <\/em>(Sinister Wisdom, 2023)<em>.<\/em> She has been featured on NPR\u2019s <em>Great American Folk Show<\/em> with Tom Brosseau as well as Shin Yu Pai\u2019s podcast, <em>Ten Thousand Things<\/em>. Serena is Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Seattle University.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:44px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Rachel Blau DuPlessis&nbsp;<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile is-vertically-aligned-top\" style=\"grid-template-columns:25% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com\/docsz\/AD_4nXe-7rJIeneg45to58-Zgj3OpCdLSjdKjxA9KDsN6OVVEa0B4d0fNzi6ANFDDkRuhSeZBH7o2gpEWokB5R-7tljycHiS2riK_Y3942ebKKbVDfBcS8a88Rh_jxCopXpRasIWunW9zg?key=D7SUAfk5hxRLLsZ3zQmoVQ\" alt=\"A picture of Rachel with short, light-colored hair, and red glasses on her head. She is sitting in a booth with a wooden backrest and red cushioning. Rachel is wearing a blue shirt with a decorative necklace.\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><strong>Rachel Blau DuPlessis<\/strong> is a poet, scholar\/critic and collagist whose notable long poem Drafts was published by Coffee House Press in May 2025, written between 1986 and 2012, and conceptualized as an excessive and wide-ranging work of socio-poesis exploring an ethical aesthetics. CHAX Press had published her Selected Poems 1980-2020 in 2022.\u00a0 Her recent, relevant critical books include A Long Essay on the Long Poem from University of Alabama Press (2023); and a fierce poetic response to the multiple events of\u00a0 2020, Daykeeping (Selva Oscura, 2023). In her career as a poet-critic, she has written extensively on gender, poetry and both feminist- experimental and objectivist poetics, including a classic gender trilogy The Pink Guitar\u00a0 Writing as Feminist Practice; Blue Studios: Poetry and Its Cultural Work;\u00a0 and Purple Passage: Pound, Eliot, Zukofsky, Olson, Creeley, and the Ends of Patriarchal Poetry.The collection Traces, with Days from 2015-2025 is her socio-lyric study of the era we are in, tracked in several short books (in process and in print).\u00a0 Her considerable critical work on Objectivist poetry and poetics includes her pioneering editing of The Selected Letters of George Oppen. Among her several awards are a residency at Bellagio, a Pew Fellowship in the Arts, and a year at the National Humanities Center.\u00a0 Poetry by DuPlessis in translation includes books in French, Italian and Russian, and individual works and chapbooks appearing in German, Portuguese and Spanish. Her website is\u00a0 www.rachelblauduplessis.net; all drafts are available and recorded at the website, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.writing.upenn.edu\/pennsound\/x\/DuPlessis.php\">PennSound<\/a>. She is Emerita Professor at Temple University.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:44px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Robert Fitterman<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile is-vertically-aligned-top\" style=\"grid-template-columns:26% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com\/docsz\/AD_4nXd5Qa7pyy29t8YEnbkFBal0bOOW9NiwXai1xYyiLw3mhVbEmmTRKkhuXxAXOhnJOxoKkwivYrjdJusL7xlETHX1hNQCg6KzIwAO-vbkI0A9F2fp2kUNJTuCa5o6esWWlSpfzTcrmg?key=D7SUAfk5hxRLLsZ3zQmoVQ\" alt=\"A picture of Robert lounging in a chair, holding a magazine with abstract shapes and a wavy neon white line in the background. This is a black and white photo. \" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><strong>Robert Fitterman<\/strong> is the author of 16 books of poetry. His most recent book, Creve Coeur, is a long poem published with Winter Editions (2024). Other titles include: This Window Makes Me Feel (Ugly Duckling Presse), No, Wait. Yep. Definitely Still Hate Myself. (UDP), Nevermind (Wonder Books) and Rob the Plagiarist (Roof Books). His long poem, Metropolis, was published in 4 volumes between 2000-2010: Sprawl: Metropolis 30A (Make Now Press, 2009), Metropolis 30: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Edge Books, 2004), Metropolis 16-29 (Coach House, 2002), Metropolis 1-15 (Sun &amp; Moon Press, 2000), He has collaborated with several visual artists, including Serkan Ozkaya, Nayland Blake, Sabine Herrmann, Natalie Czech, Tim Davis, and Klaus Killisch. He is the founding member of the artists-poets collective, Collective Task www.collectivetask.org. Fitterman&#8217;s poetry has been described as reaching for a new lyricism by composing with found language reconstructed to articulate a subjective, \u201cpersonal\u201d relationship to social themes. His books are often single book-length poems with broad critiques of institutions: e.g., social media, online forums, museums, reviews, etc. He lives in New York City and teaches writing at New York University.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:44px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Jade Lascelles<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile is-vertically-aligned-top\" style=\"grid-template-columns:25% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com\/docsz\/AD_4nXet2CH5Q0MHQ7KNrmAy0gdJNzE9L6ZSAlt8wTOHnZBa2_--UB4EU616f9sdKQNi0TKeWN99vwTP02HAThiYhfiobvER5goxHXgcUk_uumtHxuhL4t4zw6ru1PcMEGn5jXkWlDWhdg?key=D7SUAfk5hxRLLsZ3zQmoVQ\" alt=\"A picture of Jade with short, dark curly hair stands against a wooden wall painted brown and red wearing a sleeveless black lace top, a patterned red and gold skirt, and a statement necklace with round silver pieces. \" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><strong>Jade Lascelles<\/strong> is a writer, editor, musician, and artist based in Colorado. She is the author of Violence Beside (Essay Press), The Inevitable (Gesture Press), and All Things Born | Proximate Seams (with visual artist Todd Edward Herman, East Window). Her work has appeared in The Rumpus, various literary journals, and the anthologies Women of Resistance: Poems for a New Feminism, Dwell: Poems About Home, and Precipice: Writing at the Edge. She has been featured in the Ed Bowes film Gold Hill; the Bologna In Lettere festival\u2019s International Poetry Review; the visual art exhibits Shame Radiant, Joysome, and Disgust: Unhealthy Practices; and the Natalia Gaia short film A Spark Catches, which won second prize at the 2022 Maldito Festival de Videopoesia. Jade holds an MFA from the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University and plays drums in a few different musical projects.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:44px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Kelly Puig<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile is-vertically-aligned-top\" style=\"grid-template-columns:27% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com\/docsz\/AD_4nXeJ5YlH1g5JUXW_eqP-i6QHil4VANqsr44mzzTE0_9m-5lCIveSh6_Z9_OsUYDgjcpf9mUtnsOFSLBkNPCtU_qkqTiaYluULI5oyivraaxXYBDvSEfu4n4dXT1qSCVDWoDikRlmYQ?key=D7SUAfk5hxRLLsZ3zQmoVQ\" alt=\"A picture of Kelly with long, dark hair dressed in a black blouse poses against a neutral background, exuding a calm and confident demeanor.\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><strong>Kelly Puig<\/strong> is a Cuban-American writer and interdisciplinary artist. She holds an MFA in Fiction from Brown University where she was the recipient of the Weston Prize for best graduate work in addition to the Frances Mason Harris Prize for best manuscript of poetry or prose fiction written by a woman. Her cross-genre debut, <em>The Book of Embers<\/em>, was selected by Amaranth Borsuk for the Essay Press Book Prize. Her writing has appeared in <em>A Mouth Holds Many Things<\/em> (Fonograf Editions), <em>Hyena<\/em> (Hexentexte), <em>Witness<\/em>, <em>Denver Quarterly<\/em>, <em>Tupelo Quarterly<\/em> and elsewhere.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:44px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Elizabeth Willis&nbsp;<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile is-vertically-aligned-top\" style=\"grid-template-columns:27% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com\/docsz\/AD_4nXcauVyvTKUOxcepwhe5676mdw9O_tXUtfYSFchRjuTqzjFbAf9VHGvh18fYIWTc1sucVwViuSMuRzuCCU29j7PUDThUMK-bQgwCWvNY0euDEnA8BTB4xv0-J5pqe9vdRU5AuvuI?key=D7SUAfk5hxRLLsZ3zQmoVQ\" alt=\"A picture of Elizabeth with long blonde hair and a navy blue scarf stands indoors in front of a wall covered with various papers, sketches, and notes.\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><strong>Elizabeth Willis<\/strong> is the author of Liontaming in America (New Directions, 2024), a hybrid work engaged with American belief and relationship structures, theatre, activism, and film. Her other books of poetry include Alive (New York Review Books, 2015), a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, as well as Address; Meteoric Flowers; Turneresque; The Human Abstract; and the artist\u2019s book Spectral Evidence . She also writes about the intersection of art and labor and edited the volume Radical Vernacular: Lorine Niedecker and the Poetics of Place. She teaches at the Iowa Writers\u2019 Workshop.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:44px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"accomodation\">Access and Accommodation<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>CART and ASL interpretation are available by request at least ten days in advance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The University of Washington is committed to providing access, equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation in its services, programs, activities, education and employment for individuals with disabilities. To request disability accommodation contact the Disability Services Office at least ten days in advance at: 206.543.6450\/V, 206.543.6452\/TTY, 206.685.7264 (FAX), or e-mail at <a href=\"mailto:dso@uw.edu\">dso@uw.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"previous\">Previous Fall Convergences<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>To view previous Fall Convergences, please visit our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/ias\/graduate\/mfa\/fall-convergence\/fall-convergence-archive\">Fall Convergence Archive<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this Page: Conversation &amp; Connection | Current Schedule | Current Keynote Speakers | Previous Fall Convergences | Access &amp; Accommodation Fall Convergence: Poetics Research September 26-27, 2025University of Washington, BothellOff-site reading in Seattle, WAFree and open to the public The Fall Convergence is a yearly gathering of local and international writers, artists, and thinkers&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88,"featured_media":0,"parent":19465,"menu_order":13,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_is_archived":false,"_archived_contact_email":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6206","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"related_links":{"toggle_visibility":true,"link_1":{"title":"Fall Convergence Archive","url":"https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/ias\/graduate\/mfa\/fall-convergence\/fall-convergence-archive","target":""},"link_2":"","link_3":"","link_4":"","link_5":""},"highlight_box":{"toggle_visibility":false,"title":"","content":"","button":"","button_style":"angled-purple-button","button_screen_reader_text":""},"contact_type_1":{"toggle_visibility":true,"contact_title":"School of Interdisciplinary Arts &amp; 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