News
Recent & Upcoming
Literary Reading, Rediscovered Bookshop, Caldwell and Boise Idaho, November 4 & 5, 2020 @ 7:00 p.m.
“The Necessities of Survival,” review by Kimberley Ann Priest in Black Earth Institute blog. “This wilderness, says DJ Lee, subverts all our narratives.”
Zestful Aging Podcast “When the quarantine hit, I thought, I can do this. I’ve backpacked.”
LitHub Best 100 of University Presses “Offering readers a way to entertain and inform in a time when reading allows us a portal to other worlds, when we can’t quite get there in person.”
Inland 360 “Whatever happened there that made our relationship distant and difficult, the same land allowed us to and closure and intimacy,”
Ravishly “But I had grown up in cities and knew nothing about how to be a woman in the wild.”
The Debutante Ball “Everything important she taught us was through story – stories of warning or humor or transgression, and I learned early on to embrace narrative as a way of knowing.”
OSUP Blog “On my grandmother’s deathbed, she gave me this box that was full of documents and letters and photographs about the Selway-Bitterroot.”
Archived Events
Virtual Roundtable: Toward an Anti-Racist, “Undisciplined” Romanticism, Keats-Shelley Association, November 2020 – January 2021. “A Different Kind of Knowledge“
Practices of Hope Reading Series, hosted by DJ Lee and Petra Kuppers, Sponsored by Black Earth Institute, 10 July 2020.
Writing During A Crisis, Women’s National Book Association, 9 July 2020.
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William Blake LIVE – Romantic Circle Pedagogies, 25 June 2020.
Practices of Hope Reading Series, hosted by DJ Lee and Petra Kuppers, Sponsored by Black Earth Institute, 14 June 2020
Facebook LIVE Literary Reading, Rediscovered Bookshop, Boise, Idaho, 19 May 2020. 6:00 p.m. PST.
Writing Mental Health Panel Discussion Live Stream, Tuesday 12 May, 8:00 a.m. PST.
Writer’s Studio Arapahoe Community College, Friday 1 May, 5:00 p.m. MST.
Distāntia Reading Series via Off Topic Poetics
Selected Past Events
“Space Is the Place: Literary Spatialities and New Approaches to Placemaking,” AWP, San Antonio, TX, March 5, 2020.
“The Infinite Helix: Walking Spiral Jetty with Coleridge,” on the panel: Walking the Walk: Romantic Writing on the Trail. Modern Language Association (MLA). New York City Sheraton, Riverside Suite, 3:30-4:45 p.m., Thursday, January 4, 2018.
“The Land Speaks: Researching Public Lands at the Intersection of Oral and Environmental History,” A Roundtable. American Society for Environmental History (ASEH). Chicago, March 29-April 2, 2017.
“Life After Life,” Western Literature Association. Big Sky, Montana, September 21-24, 2016.
Public Humanities Lecture, Lehigh University, April 6-8, 2016.
Plenary Panel, “Writers of the Palouse.” Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment Conference. Moscow, Idaho. June 23-27, 2015.
“The Ponies of Caldbeck Commons,” Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment Conference. Moscow, Idaho. June 27, 2015.
Wilderness: The Storied Past, the Troubled Future, Mansfield Center, University of Montana, Missoula, September 7-11, 2014.
The Land Speaks I and II, Oral History Conference, Madison, Wisconsin, October 9-12, 2014.
A Mosiac of Wilderness Stoires, National Wilderness Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico, October 15-19, 2014.
National Council on Public History, “Sustainable Public History,” Monterey, California, March 19-22, 2014.
“Voices of the Selway-Bitterroot,” Herrett Forum Speaker Series, Southern Idaho College, Twin Falls, Idaho, October 16, 2013.
“Rewilding the West,” Stanford University, Bill Lane Center for the American West, October 29, 2013.
“The Storied Wilderness,” Nez Perce-Clearwater Forest Supervisor’s Office, March 25, 2013.
Exhibitions
RE-KINDLE. February 12-16, 2019. Curators: Trevor Bond and Richard Schneider. RE-KINDLE asks what it means to reawaken love. Featuring a selection of works from WSU’s Lynn R. Hansen Comics Archive and pieces by Seattle-based artist and poet Mita Mahato owned by the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, the exhibit looks at love, loss, and reconnection with one another and with the plants and animals who are our kin.
MAPS OF THE IMAGIONATION. February-September 2016. Curator: Kristin Becker featuring art on mapping and place with students from English 494, Senior Seminar “Walk, Think, Create.” February-September, 2016.
INTERSECTIONS: THE POETICS OF JIM DINE. A fine art-poetry collaboration between WSU Museum of Art, WSU Department of English, the University of Idaho’s Department of English, and Gonzaga University’s Department of English. December 2015.
NATURE TWICE: POETRY EXHIBIT IN THE CONNER MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY. Poetry-natural history collaboration with Larry Hufford, Chair of the Department of Biological Sciences, and graduate students from both English and biology. November 9-November 21, 2010.
