Use the words you have to get the words you need

In this performance-lecture we’ll feel our way with the words we have toward the ones we need. Periphrasis is a key on a ring, a set of words to pass. To unmap lands. To dignify wounds. To resurrect.

There are things happening and the words surround them, or the words make these things happen in the first place. There are feelings in and around these things and the words brush up against them and sometimes they stop and get to know each other. The words and the feelings speak to each other. They take their time at this. Lifting belly is. The pleasure of the. I am outside, incredible panic. Another victory like that and we’re. A floating thing, a seed with wings.

About the speaker:

Kimberly Campanello's most recent poetry collection An Interesting Detail is published by Bloomsbury Poetry. Her debut novel Use the Words You Have is the inaugural title from Somesuch Editions, the imprint of BAFTA and Oscar-winning production company Somesuch. Extracts from her work-in-progress, This Knot: a new version of Dante’s Commedia with the poet K, have appeared or are forthcoming in Firmament, Poetry Ireland Review, Still Point and Notre Dame Review. She is Professor of Poetry at the University of Leeds.

This keynote lecture forms part of the series of EUTERPE lectures honoring Susan Stanford Friedman.

Photo credit: Olivia Braggs

This is a hybrid event. Wine reception to follow.

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