Something held by poetry

@ In this intimate workshop, UC Santa Cruz students, faculty, and staff are invited into conversation with poets Ronaldo Wilson and Terri Witek. Something held by poetry is part of there are no words, but melodies and will be held in the galleries. RSVP is required. RSVP Ronaldo V. Wilson is a poet, interdisciplinary artist, academic, and the author of Narrative of the Life of the Brown Boy and the White Man, winner of the Cave Canem Prize; Poems of the Black Object, winner of the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry and the Asian American Literary Award in Poetry; Farther Traveler: Poetry, Prose, Other, and Lucy 72. His latest books are Carmelina: Figures and Virgil Kills: Stories. He is the editor of three special issues of hybrid and experimental work in Interim: A Journal of Poetry and Poetics; and Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora. He has shown work and performed most recently at the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics, and The Woodberry Poetry Room at Harvard. The recipient of numerous fellowships, including Cave Canem, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MacDowell, and The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Wilson is Professor of Creative Writing and Literature at U.C. Santa Cruz, where he directs the Creative Writing Program, and serves on the core faculty of the Creative Critical PhD Program; principal faculty member of CRES (Critical Race and Ethnic Studies); and affiliate faculty member of DANM (Digital Arts and New Media). Terri Witek’s most recent books include her 2026 eco-poetics collection with Amaranth Borsuk, W/\ SH, which loops two rain prophets, both women, into a crisis between future worlds, and 2023’s Something’s Missing in This Museum (Anhinga Press) . A translation by Dona Mayoora of 2018’s The Rape Kit into Malayalam is forthcoming. Her work has been included in many anthologies, including 2 from 2021: JUDITH: Women Making Visual Poetry (Timglaset Editions ) and the WAAVe Global Gallery (Hysterical Books). Witek’s solo and collaborative work has been featured in a wide variety of text venues, including Fence, The Colorado Review, Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review, American Poetry Review, Poetry, Slate, Hudson Review, Lana Turner, The New Republic, and UTSANGA . With Brazilian visual artist Cyriaco Lopes (cyriacolopes.com) Witek co-founded Poetry in the Expanded Field in Stetson University’s low-residency MFA in Creative Writing; the duo have also led The Fernando Pessoa Game at the summer Disquiet International Literary Program in Lisbon. Their two decades of collaborative text/image work as cyriacolopesterriwitek has been featured at ARCO in Madrid and in Seoul, Chania (Crete), Miami, New York, Philadelphia, Lisbon, Valencia (Spain) and many other art and literary venues. Collaborations with new media artist Matt Roberts (mattroberts.com) often use augmented reality and have been featured in Matanza (Colombia), Lisbon, Glasgow, Vancouver, Orlando and Miami. Recent work with weaver Paula Damm ...