In this recording from Wednesday, March 20th, 2013, during the 44th Annual UND Writers Conference, “A Portrait of an Artist,” Mary Jo Bang reads poetry from The Bride of E and a canto from her translation of Dante\u27s Inferno. Before reading Dante\u27s Inferno, she discusses the process of writing it. She reads her more recent poetry and discusses “erasure” as a method of writing and reads from Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf. She answers questions from the audience. Topics for questions include: writing inspirations, over-arching arguments in collections of poetry, and metaphysical and physical spaces for writing.
Introduced by Laurel Perez
