Hybrid

I don't know if I've mentioned this already by Mark Wallace is progressively posting parts of his talk from the AWP about "hybridity" on his blog. It's good. In fact the whole panel was excellent.

Micheal Theune was also on the panel discussing two constellation Cole Swensen's "American Hybrid" very obviously leaves out, or tries to cover up: what Theune calls wit and the carnivalesque. Picking up on the carnivalesque, Arielle Greenberg discussed the gurlesque, Craig Peres Santos discussed the strange absence of ethnic hybridity in the anthology, and Megan Volpert gave a queer-lens critique.