Lydia Davis spent three days with us as a Kelly Writers House Fellow. On April 24, 2017, she met with the students in the KWH Fellows Seminar for three hours and then gave a reading, in which she performed several dozen new micro-fictions (most of them unpublished; all of them uncollected as yet in a book). On Tuesday morning, April 25, I moderated an interview/conversation with her. Here are some photos I took. Click on any image for a larger view.
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PROJECTS:

Convener/teacher, “ModPo.” an open online course on modern & contemporary U.S. poetry—overview of the course ][ intro video
Publisher of Jacket2 magazine—my Jacket2 commentary series ][ "First Readings"
Producer/host, PoemTalk podcast series—co-sponsored by Kelly Writers House & the Poetry Foundation
Director of the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing—Creative Writing ][ RealArts internships ]
Co-founder & co-director of PennSound—50,000 files ][ 15 million downloads annually
Teacher & host, "Kelly Writers House Fellows"—since 1999 ][ Susan Sontag, John Ashbery, Jamaica Kincaid, Laurie Anderson, Adrienne Rich, Joan Didion, John Edgar Wideman & more
Teacher, "Representations of the Holocaust"—a course on survivor testimony ][ my holocaust site