Poetry & Hybrid Consultations with Kristina Marie Darling
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Kristina Marie Darling is the author of over thirty books, which include recent releases from Bloomsbury, Dzanc, Persea, and Penguin Canada.
A twice-awarded Fulbright Scholar, Dr. Darling was granted a five-year tenure as an expert consultant with the U.S. Fulbright Commission and now serves on the jury for Fulbright awards. Her work has also been recognized by Yaddo, the Villa Lena Foundation, the American Academy in Rome, Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, the Ucross Foundation, Fundación Valparaíso, the Andorran Ministry of Culture, the American Academy in Berlin, where she was nominated for the Distinguished Visitor Fellowship, the European Law and Governance School, the Clews Foundation, where she will serve as faculty at their Chateau La Napoule Retreat Series in the south of France, and many other leading institutions in the U.S. and abroad.
A prolific educator and public speaker, Dr. Darling has also lectured (or is scheduled to lecture) at Yale University, the American University of Rome, Stanford University, the Leopardi Writers Conference in Recanati, Italy, the Leysin American School in Switzerland, the Universidade do Porto, Columbia University in the City of New York, the New School, the University of Cyprus, the Prague Summer Program for Writers, the University of Zadar, the University of Montenegro, the University of Pécs in Hungary, the University of Bangka Belitung in Indonesia, the San Miguel Writers Conference & Literary Festival, and the Ionian Center for the Arts & Culture, where she is now permanent faculty.
Dr. Darling lives in Croatia, spends her summers teaching in Greece, on the islands of Andros and Kefalonia respectively, and her winters in San Michele on the Amalfi Coast.
Kristina is accepting everything from individual poems to full-length collections. The fees and parameters for each of these categories are as follows:
- Single poem or hybrid piece of up to 2 pages: $25
- Folio of five poems/short hybrid work of up to 7 pages: $55
- Chapbook of up to 40 pages: $275
- Manuscript of up to 80 pages: $425
- Manuscript of up to 200 pages: $625
Kristina will provide detailed comments on your manuscript as well as a cover letter. After receiving these files, participants who submit chapbooks and full-length manuscripts may also book phone/video conferences with Kristina at no additional charge.
All manuscripts should be formatted in 12-point font. The deadline to submit work for this consultation program is May 31. Kristina will complete her work and respond to all participants by June 30.
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Kristina Marie Darling's Statement of Purpose
Most of my work as a teacher and an editor attempts to expand what is possible within received forms of writing. For many writers, the question of genre is inherently a question of power. These beliefs about what texts are legible, what texts are considered legitimate, reflect larger structures of authority in the literary community and in the academy. Poet and critic Sarah Vap writes, “I am extremely interested in what is often called hybrid or conceptual within the outstandingly elastic abilities of poetry-- these efforts that pose a challenge to the categories of writing (scholarship, journalism, coding, etc.), asking them to also expand their abilities and considerations and concerns and ways. To democratize.” What Vap is suggesting is that dismantling the categories of writing is a larger ontological and metaphysical challenge to the social order – it calls into question the values and hierarchies that we impose upon language. So when she’s saying that hybridity is a democratization, this is what she means. Hybridity – placing disparate forms and or types of language in conversation – is a way of challenging rules but also the people and institutions in power who make those rules. When working with writers, I welcome unruly texts, unclassifiable texts, the innovative and the experimental. After all, a new message -- and a challenge to the status quo -- often requires new forms of discourse.