Name: Lightning Rod Poetry & Tuning Fork Poetics
Start: 2026-04-18T10:30:00-0400
End: 2026-04-18T11:15:00-0400

Lightning Rod Poetry & Tuning Fork Poetics

Saturday April 18, 2026 10:30am - 11:15am EDT

Prince Conference Center, Board Room

Jacob Schepers writes, writes about, and edits avant-garde and experimental poetry. In this talk, he discusses pushing the boundaries of poetic practice and what formal, thematic, and philosophical considerations may inform such decisions. He suggests writers and readers alike may benefit from testing riskier and uglier creative practices beyond typical "shock value" alone.

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Jacob Schepers

Jacob Schepers is cofounder and coeditor of Ballast, a 501(c)(3) non-profit online literary magazine, and the author of the poetry collections A Bundle of Careful Compromises and Ugly Ground Swell Moss, and the chapbooks Connections & Choreography and Shipwreck Abstracted... Read More →

Saturday April 18, 2026 10:30am - 11:15am EDT
Prince Conference Center, Board Room

Concurrent Session, Solo Session

2026 Festival of Faith and Writing

Jacob Schepers

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2026 Festival of Faith and Writing

Jacob Schepers

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