Porcelain Poems: A Conversation with Sally Wen Mao

My series of interviews with women writers on visual culture and politics for the LA Review of Books continues with another installment. This time, I’m in conversation with poet-artist Sally Wen Mao:

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In Conversation with Lorna Goodison at Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center

All my gratitude to Lorna Goodison for joining me in conversation and sharing her work in Asheville, North Carolina! And thanks to the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center for inviting us. Here I am with Lorna on the site of Black Mountain College in front of the “Studies Building,” which was built by…

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Podcast with Ocean Vuong

I recently sat down with Ocean Vuong to record the season opener of one of my favorite podcasts! Listen to “We Have This-ness, Y’all! Ocean Vuong and Amy E. Elkins” over at Novel Dialogue or wherever you get your podcasts. Season 5 of Novel Dialogue opens with an impassioned refresher course in literary theory brought…

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Artists’ Conversation: Highpoint

Really looking forward to moderating a discussion between Amy Sands and Nicole Sara Simpkins this week! Although the event sold out pretty fast, you can read all about their incredible work here: https://www.highpointprintmaking.org/calendar/2022/2/1mcknight?fbclid=IwAR0kHtR6I-J2FrP6OBC5U4RnIhUEeWl9vGsbYDP_tl7aOlaNC24JKEwhc1w

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Book Launch! (with promo code)

Crafting Feminism from Literary Modernism to the Multimedia Present is out now (or out soon, depending on where you are and which platform you use). If you order through Oxford University Press, promo code AAFLYG6 applies a 30% discount. A recent (first) spotting of my book in the wild…a display copy at the Modernist Studies…

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Film-Essay “The Weaver’s Handshake”

My forthcoming book begins with thinking about Eve Sedgwick’s idea of the “weaver’s handshake” as “a tactile interrogation,” an inherited gesture for testing our surroundings, a subtle movement that measures the “rub of reality.” In my final section, I return to this idea, adding to it the “threader’s kiss”–a term I use to describe the…

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Post45 Cluster: Ali Smith NOW!

The Museum of Art and Design currently features an exhibit on “garmenting,” described as artists “making or altering clothing for expressive purposes” to “create garments, sculpture, installation, and performance art that transform dress into a critical tool. Adopted globally as an artistic strategy, garmenting uses the language of fashion to challenge traditional divisions of form…

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Typestruck: On Women and Writing Machines

Recent publication: “Typestruck: On Women and Writing Machines” co-authored with Glenn Adamson over on the Modernism/Modernity Print Plus platform, part of the “Visualities” series annd edited by Alix Beeston: https://modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts/elkins-adamson-typestruck We argue for the gendered significance of typewriting and look closely at Stevie Smith’s Novel on Yellow Paper as a technographic text. The collaborative, dynamic…

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Feminist Poetics of the Archive: A Forum

Feminist Poetics of the Archive: A Forum Edited by Karla Kelsey I met Karla Kelsey at the Beinecke Library at Yale earlier this year, and we instantly had so much to discuss. I’m thrilled we continued the conversation in the pages of Tupelo Quarterly! Here is Karla’s vision for the Forum along with her brilliant,…

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handiwork’s Crafting of the New Global Elegy

Irish writer-artist Sara Baume makes things–both on the page and with her hands–that inspire my thinking and challenge me to revisit the idea of craft across various environmental, literary, and historical contexts. Her new work of narrative nonfiction, handiwork, is a book that does all of those things. I recently wrote a review essay for Decorating…

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