A core component of CSREA’s mission is supporting the development of cutting-edge, collaborative, intellectual work. “What I Am Thinking About Now” is an informal workshop/seminar series where faculty and advanced students present recently published works and works in progress for early-stage feedback and development. See all of this semester’s WITAN events here.

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Making Moss on the Mountain: Literary Practice in the 21st Century

DaMaris B. Hill, CSREA Visiting Faculty Fellow; Professor of Creative Writing, English, and African American Studies at the University of Kentucky

In this presentation, Dr. Hill will read from a work in progress entitled Moss on the Mountain. This work is a coming-of-age story in the form of an epic poem that explores the effects of incarceration on young women and girls. In addition, Hill will discuss the use of digital archives in her work, and how this means of expression is connected to how we “know” Black women in American culture.

About the Presenter

DaMaris B. Hill, Ph.D. is a poet and creative scholar. She is the author of Breath Better Spent: Living Black Girlhood, A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland, The Fluid Boundaries of Suffrage and Jim Crow: Staking Claims in the American Heartland, \Vi-zə-bəl\ \Teks-chərs\ (Visible Textures) and other books. Her digital work includes “Shut Up In My Bones”, a twenty-first century poem. Similar to her creative process, Hill’s scholarly research is interdisciplinary. Hill is a Professor of Creative Writing, English, and African American Studies at the University of Kentucky.