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Visiting Writers Series: "Thinking in Fragments: How to Approach the Lyric Essay" (Online)
Venue: Virginia Tech, Blacksburg
Directions: Google Map Link
Organizations: Visiting Writers Series at Virginia Tech
Date: Thursday, March 25, 2021
Time: 7:00 - 8:00 PM
Event Types: Arts & Theatre, Speaking Engagements, Class
Cost: Free

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Description:
The Virginia Tech Department of English continues the 2020/2021 Virginia Tech Visiting Writers Series featuring writer Jenny Boully presenting the lecture "Thinking in Fragments: How to Approach the Lyric Essay" on Zoom on Thursday, March 25, 2021.

The 2020 Guggenheim Fellow in General Nonfiction is the author of "Betwixt-and-Between: Essays on the Writing Life". Her work consists of essays ripe with romance, drawing connections among the digression, reflection, imagination, and experience that characterize falling in love.

Boully will discuss her works, including her 2018 collection “Betwixt-and-Between: Essays on the Writing Life.” The collection consists of essays on writing, moving among digression, reflection, imagination, and experience as a lover might, bringing art into the world.

Boully was born in Thailand and grew up in San Antonio, Texas. She’s an alumna of Hollins University, where she double majored in English and philosophy and earned a master’s degree in English criticism and writing. Her other degrees include a master of fine arts in creative writing from the University of Notre Dame and a Ph.D. in English from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

Boully teaches at Columbia College Chicago and the Bennington Writing Seminars.

For more information on the poet, visit: https://www.jennyboully.com/p/authors-bio.html.

In the face of the pandemic, the department has shifted its robust Visiting Writers Series to an even more engaging virtual opportunity this semester.

Following the lecture there will be a Q&A session.

The Zoom link for the event is: https://virginiatech.zoom.us/j/88082418870.

The event is free and open to the public.

To view the event flyer, visit: https://imgur.com/ZGRL0mG.

For more information, visit: https://vtnews.vt.edu/articles/2021/03/department-of-english-visiting-writers-series-unites-authors-fro.html or https://liberalarts.vt.edu/news/events/2021/02/jenny-boully-presents--thinking-in-fragments--how-to-approach-th.html or email Matthew Vollmer at vollmer@vt.edu.