Hybrid Futures: Image, Music and Text, a Reading with J. Mae. Barizo

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Award-winning poet, librettist, and interdisciplinary artist J. Mae Barizo explores the intersections of image, music and text in this special performance lecture and conversation. Drawing from her acclaimed poetry, opera and multimedia work, Barizo examines how artistic forms merge, transform, and inspire new ways of thinking about creative expression. Join the Graduate Writers' Association's Literary Arts Series for an afternoon of readings, performance and discussion with one of today's most innovative literary voices. Held in partnership with the UCF English Department, UCF Libraries and the College of Graduate Studies.

Bio: J. Mae Barizo is the author of three books of poetry, Tender Machines, The Cumulus Effect, and Cloud Pantoums, forthcoming from Alice James Books. Becoming Hybrid, her book on creative process and literary theory, is forthcoming from University of Michigan Press. A finalist for the Graywolf Nonfiction Prize, her work has been anthologized by Simon & Schuster and W. W. Norton and published in The Atlantic, Poetry, Esquire, Los Angeles Review of Books, and more. Her operas and dramas have been performed most recently at Carnegie Hall. She is the recipient of awards from Bennington College, the Mellon Foundation, Poets House, and elsewhere. She teaches in the MFA program at The New School.