Traversals: A Folio on Walking
Traversals: A Folio on Walking
Wednesday, February 21
Doors: 7:30pm
Reading: 8pm
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Please join the Poetic Research Bureau, The Hopkins Review, and co-editors, Anna Maria Hong and Christine Hume, as they host this reading of essays and poems on walking by writers including Nabil Kashyap, Youna Kwak, Sesshu Foster, Rina Palumbo, and Willa Zhang.
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Traversals: A Folio on Walking features essays, fiction, and poetry by 29 writers on the walk as a conceptual and generative practice and as a place where private reveries and public perception intersect. Published in 2023 in The Hopkins Review, Traversals reinvigorates the genre of the walk as a forum for both mental meandering and as a form for talking about how we move through urban and rural locales as women, writers of color, queer writers, writers with disabilities, and trans and nonbinary writers, contending with the possibility of harm and harassment, while claiming walking’s physical and intellectual pleasures and reclaiming public space. You can find the folio online and in print here.