Tin House Summer Workshop Lectures: Patricia Smith, Claire Vaye Watkins, and Kaveh Akbar
Reed College 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd, Portland2:30 pm-3:20 pm, Vollum Lecture Hall Congratulations! You Are a Writer—Therefore, You Own the World, with Patricia Smith For as long as there have been Moleskins, #2 pencils, Bics, keyboards, and imagination, there has been a feverish, high-decibel debate about who has the right to tell what story. Can a white, middle-aged man from Vermont do justice to the story of a young woman in the antebellum South? Can a sighted storyteller have a blind protagonist? What “qualifications” do we need in order to write across lines of race, region, religion, history, and ability? 3:30 pm – 4:20 pm, Vollum Lecture Hall Revisiting Kate Chopin’s The Awakening, with Claire Vaye Watkins This lecture will reconsider Chopin’s classic novella through multiple critical lenses and wonder after…