Poetry & the Digital World with Ellie Black
Sat, Apr 10
|Virtual on Zoom
The digital world is part of our everyday lives, including social media, Google, and AI. Explore how we can bring the digital world into our writing as setting or character. Through contemporary poetry and generative prompts, we will discover new ways to write about our increasingly digital lives.
Time & Location
Apr 10, 2027, 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM CDT
Virtual on Zoom
About the Event
Why might it be important to write about our increasingly digital world, and what are the consequences of trying to write around rather than with the internet? How can we describe and represent the digital world in poetry? What’s possible when we treat the internet as setting, character, or aesthetic influence in our work?
We’ll work towards answers to these questions by studying the work of poets like Franny Choi, Tracy Fuad, Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, Ryann Stevenson, and Nick Montfort and responding to prompts about our own relationships to the internet, social media, AI, and digital spaces and technologies.
ELLIE BLACK is a poet, memoirist, editor, critic, screenwriter, performer, and educator. She received a PhD in English, Creative Writing Concentration and MFA in poetry from the University of Mississippi.
She is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor in English–Creative Writing at Hendrix College.
Her debut poetry…
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