Elastic Collision: Dorothy Allison & Tristan Silv

The Calisthenics for Shrapnel Festival presents Elastic Collision: a night of poetry and dialogue around gender and sexuality featuring Dorothy Allison and Tristan Silverman Elastic Collision brings together a poet esteemed for her/his work in print, a poet highly regarded for her/his work in performance, and a youth poet for dialogue in verse and conversation. In physics, an elastic collision is one in which equal forces meet and... no kinetic energy is lost -- in Elastic Collision, the worlds of academia and performance meet and fuse, intersecting with and investing that energy in the next generation of poets. Dorothy Allison is an award-winning poet, novelist, essayist and activist most famous for her novel

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