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Craft: Hybrid work

Craft: Hybrid work

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Sean Singer
May 01, 2021
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On some level writing a dissertation derailed my poetic output. A dissertation is its own genre, and is as opposite from poetry as anything. But it’s also how I became involved in producing “hybrid work.” Hybrid is a form that blurs the genre boundaries of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction to include things like lists, prose poetry, epistles, footnotes, a…

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