Nathaniel Mackey
March 20–21, 2017
- Reading: Streaming video, MP3 audio
- Discussion: Streaming video, MP3 audio
- Highlights on Youtube: Part 1 - Influences, Jazz, and Avant-Garde, Part 2 - Race, Language and Space
Bio
Nathaniel
Mackey is a poet, writer, editor and critic whose work is widely known
for incorporating jazz, ritual, and African mythology, both as content
and form. Mackey often works with the long series, with his largest and
still ongoing series being the poetry series "Mu" and "Song of the
Andoumboulou," published across many volumes, including National Book
Award-winning Splay Anthem (2006), Nod House (2011),
and Blue Fasa
(2015). Mackey also writes an ongoing fiction series entitled From a
Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate, published in his books
Bedouin Hornbook (1986), Djbot Baghostus's Run (1993),
Atet A.D. (2001),
Bass Cathedral (2008), and the forthcoming Late Arcade, out in February
2017. He has also published two widely acclaimed books of literary
theory, Discrepant Engagement: Dissonance, Cross-Culturality, and
Experimental Writing (1993), and Paracritical Hinge: Essays, Talks,
Notes, Interviews (2005), and is the long-time editor of avant-garde
literary journal Hambone. In 2010, Mackey received a Guggenheim
Fellowship. Mackey was raised in California, and earned his BA from
Princeton and his PhD from Stanford University. For many years he was a
professor of literature and creative writing at UC Santa Cruz, and is
currently a professor of creative writing at Duke University.