Graduate Lecture Series: Maggie Nelson

April 25, 2012
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Lecture Forum
Graduate Fine Arts Building (IFT)
3001 S. Flower Street
Los Angeles, CA 90007

Maggie Nelson is the author of four books of nonfiction: a critically acclaimed work of art and cultural criticism, The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning (2011) – an examination of the “full-fledged assault on the barriers between art and life that much 20th-century art worked so hard to perform;” a meditation on the color blue, Bluets (2009); a critical study of poetry and painting, Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions (2007); and an autobiographical book about sexual violence and media spectacle, The Red Parts: A Memoir (2007). She is also the author of several books of poetry, including Something Bright, Then Holes (2007); Jane: A Murder (2005; finalist, the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of Memoir), The Latest Winter (2003), and Shiner (2001; finalist, the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber First Book Award). Her poetry has been widely anthologized, and included in The Best American Poetry series. Nelson is a member of the CalArts MFA Writing Program faculty. Her essays and reviews have appeared in a variety of publications, including The New York Times Book Review, Artforum, Bookforum, and Cabinet.