Joyelle McSweeney
Carrie Lorig
& Steven Duong
+ Film Screening
Saturday, April 6, 6:00-8:00 PM @ WhiteSpace Gallery
Guggenheim Fellow Joyelle McSweeney is the author of the recently released Death Styles (Nightboat, 2024), as well as nine other books of poetry, drama, fiction, criticism and translation, including The Necropastoral, an influential work of goth ecopoetics. McSweeney's previous title, Toxicon and Arachne,was called "frightening and brilliant" by Dan Chiasson in the New Yorker and won the Shelley Memorial Prize from the Poetry Society of America. A co-founder of the international press Action Books, McSweeney teaches at Notre Dame, and lives in South Bend, Indiana.
Carrie Lorig is the author of The Pulp vs. the Throne (2015, Artifice Books) and The Blood Barn (2019, Inside the Castle). Chapbooks include The Book of Repulsive Women (Essay Press), NODS. (Magic Helicopter Press), Reading as Wildflower Activist, and several collaborative chapbooks, including Labor Day (Forklift, Ohio) w/ Nick Sturm and rootpoems (Radioactive Moat) with Never Angeline Nørth. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate in School Psychology at Georgia State University.
Steven Duong is a writer from San Diego. His poems appear in The American Poetry Review, The New England Review, and Guernica, while his essays and short fiction appear in Astra Magazine, Catapult and The Drift. Having graduated from the University of Iowa with an MFA in fiction writing, he is the current 2023-2025 Creative Writing Fellow in Poetry at Emory University. His debut poetry collection, At the End of the World There is a Pond, will be published by W. W. Norton in 2025. To trace his online footprint, follow him either here (stevenduongwrites.com) or here (Twitter: @boneless_koi).
A year of innovative film released in 12 monthly installments, Good Symptom troubles the boundaries between cinematic and literary forms. The 3rd Thing’s first time-based publication showcases literary media arts experiments that push the language of poetry, essay, correspondence, autobiography, manifestos, thought pieces and hybrid literary works off the page and onto the screen. Every month, subscribers to this series enter a world that disregards genre and disturbs disciplinary lines between literary and media arts with 1-4 short films and accompanying critical essays by project curators and guest writers.