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	"id": "4227665",
	"title": "Hybrid Futures: Image, Music and Text, a Reading with J. Mae. Barizo",
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	"description": "\u003Cp\u003EAward\u002Dwinning poet, librettist, and interdisciplinary artist\u003Cspan\u003E\u0026nbsp\u003B\u003C/span\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJ. Mae Barizo\u003C/strong\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u0026nbsp\u003B\u003C/span\u003Eexplores the intersections of image, music and text in this special performance lecture and conversation. Drawing from her acclaimed poetry, opera and multimedia work, Barizo examines how artistic forms merge, transform, and inspire new ways of thinking about creative expression. Join the Graduate Writers\u0027 Association\u0027s Literary Arts Series for an afternoon of readings, performance and discussion with one of today\u0027s most innovative literary voices. Held in partnership with the UCF English Department, UCF Libraries and the College of Graduate Studies.\u003C/p\u003E\u000A\u003Cp\u003EBio: J. Mae Barizo is the author of three books of poetry, \u003Cem\u003ETender Machines, The Cumulus Effect,\u003C/em\u003E\u0026nbsp\u003Band \u003Cem\u003ECloud Pantoums,\u003C/em\u003E\u0026nbsp\u003Bforthcoming from Alice James Books. \u003Cem\u003EBecoming Hybrid,\u003C/em\u003E\u0026nbsp\u003Bher book on creative process and literary theory, is forthcoming from University of Michigan Press. A finalist for the Graywolf Nonfiction Prize, her work has been anthologized by Simon \u0026amp\u003B Schuster and W. W. Norton and published in \u003Cem\u003EThe Atlantic, Poetry, Esquire, Los Angeles Review of Books, \u003C/em\u003Eand more\u003Cem\u003E.\u003C/em\u003E Her operas and dramas have been performed most recently\u0026nbsp\u003Bat Carnegie Hall. She is the recipient of awards from Bennington College, the Mellon Foundation, Poets House, and elsewhere. She teaches in the MFA program at The New School.\u003Cspan\u003E\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E",
	"location": "John C. Hitt Library: 402",
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	"starts": "Fri, 06 Nov 2026 16:00:00 -0500",
	"ends": "Fri, 06 Nov 2026 18:00:00 -0500",
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	"category": "Speaker/Lecture/Seminar",
	"tags": ["English Department","creative writing","College of Graduate Studies"],
	"contact_name": "Graduate Writers\u0027 Association",
	"contact_phone": null,
	"contact_email": "gwa@ucf.edu",
	"url": "https://events.ucf.edu/event/4227665/hybrid-futures-image-music-and-text-a-reading-with-j-mae-barizo/"
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