Material Poetics of Post-Digital Poetry w/ Holly Melgard

Text/Tech Lab, Kaplan Hall 211 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles

This event will include a reading and talk by Holly Melgard that will explore how the post-digital conditions of her textual environment play an integral part in shaping her creative practice as a poet. Register here to attend. Holly Melgard is the author of Read Me: Selected Works (Ugly Duckling Presse 2023) and Fetal Position (Roof 2021), the later of which was named by Jackie Ess as one of Artforum’s “Best of 2021.” She has self-published ten books of poetry on Troll Thread press, a publisher which she co-edits and designs with friends. Having performed her work at such sites...