Mutants & Hybrids: Mixing Genres with Eleni Sikelianos
Poets House, Tuesday, September 23, 2014 at 7pm
Our earliest writers combined forms naturally: Herodotus wrote stories about what he saw or heard and called it history; Sappho wrote songs we call poetry. In this talk, Eleni Sikelianos, poet and memoirist, whose newest book is the mixed-genre You Animal Machine (The Golden Greek), discusses how she and other writers are reviving the flow of genetic material between forms to reflect our complicated minds and lives (rmharris)… (more)
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