Author Event: Eileen G'Sell & Tola Sylvan
Join us as we welcome poet and critic Eileen G'Sell as she reads from and discusses her newest volume of poetry Francofilaments.
G'Sell will sign copies after the presentation and they will be available to be mailed anywhere in the country.
About the Writers:
Eileen G'Sell is a poet and culture critic whose work focuses on gender, sexuality, and economic class. Her poetry has been published in Poetry magazine, Fence, DIAGRAM, Oversound, The Rumpus, and The Boston Review; her essays have been published in The Baffler, Chronicle of Higher Education, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Current Affairs, and Jacobin. In 2023, she won the Rabkin Prize for excellence in arts writing. Her first full-length volume of poetry, Life After Rugby, was published in 2018 by Gold Wake Press; her second volume, Francofilaments, is available late 2024 from Broken Sleep Books. In 2025, her first book of nonfiction, Lipstick, will be published by Bloomsbury Academic's Object Lessons Series. She teaches writing and media studies at Washington University in St. Louis.
Tola Sylvan is a poet from Massachusetts. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in journals such as Poetry Northwest, Ploughshares, Vallum, and Poetry magazine.
About Francofilaments:
Vacillating between prose and verse, Francofilaments presents a varied sojourn through a woman's trials and tribulations as reimagined, and filtered through, French culture and film. Several poems are based on, or excerpt from, interviews G'Sell conducted with French or French-speaking actors and filmmakers—including Juliette Binoche, Celine Sciamma, and Isabelle Huppert—while others excerpt from an extensive list of reviews and essays published on Francophone cinema. In investigating Francophilia, G'Sell likewise plumbs the depths of national, gendered, and racial identity. This volume is a cinematic excavation of interiority—the author's, but also that which we see and hear onscreen.
Event Links
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