Conference Schedule
UCSC’s Poetry and Politics presents
Emergent Communities in Contemporary Experimental Writing,
a two-day conference and book fair with nightly readings
Friday
Conference Panels, Humanities 1, Room 210
Book Fair, Humanities 1, Room 202, 9-3pm
8:30-9:00
Sign-in with coffee, bagels, fruit
9:00-9:30
Welcome and opening comments with Juliana Leslie and Andrea Quaid
9:30-10:45
Performing Community/Performing Narrative
Respondent: Tisa Bryant
Atlanta Poets Group: Local Plural Vocal: Community, the We-Agent, and the APG
Janice Lee: Narrative As Conceptual & Cognitive Process Or What Specter Haunts the Sentence We’ve Created
Wendy S. Walters: Some Notes on The Short-term We: Building Goal-Oriented Communities of Known Duration
11:00-12:15
Emergent Feminisms
Respondent: Sueyeun Juliette Lee
Michelle Detorie: Notes Toward a Feral Poetics
Belladonna* Collaborative: Intentional Communities and the Role of Curatorship
featuring
Cara Benson: Material Lives
Krystal Languell: The Coming-To
Rachel Levisky: Or Trying to Tell it Straight, Though it is So Very Slant
12:15-1:15
Lunch (nearby University cafes will be open, or please bring your own)
Lunchtime Readings
1:15-2:30
Small Press Roundtable
Moderators: Harold Abramowitz and Amanda Ackerman
Participants include Teresa Carmody David Lau, Kristine Leja and James Maughn
2:45-4:00
Community and Anti-Community
Respondent: Juliana Spahr
Brian Ang: The Occupy Phenomenon and Anti-Community Poetics
Angela Carr: Reluctant Subjects of “Territory, Identity and Winter” (or, Government Arts Funding for Poetry and the Uncertain Community)
Jeanine Webb: “Weak Intimacy,” Celebrity, and Bay Poetics
4:30 – 6:30
Dinner at the Kresge Provost House for conference participants
Reading at Felix Kulpa Gallery, 107 Elm Street, Santa Cruz, 7pm
Anna Moschovakis
Vanessa Place
Ronaldo Wilson
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Saturday
Conference Panels, Humanities 1, Room 210
Book Fair, Humanities 1, Room 202, 9-3pm
8:30-9:00
Coffee, bagels, fruit
9:00-10:15
Towards a Poetics of Perishability
Respondent: Ronaldo Wilson
Brent Armendinger: Radical Impermanence: Notes Towards a Poetics of Perishability
Jen Hofer: Materiality: Mortality: notes on the making and context of “Uncovering: A Quilted Poem Made from Donated and Foraged Materials from Wendover, Utah.”
Tung-Hui Hu: The Last Time You Cried
Genevieve Kaplan: Erasure, Perishability & The Appropriated Book
Jill Magi: Manifesting the Perishable / Quitting the Perishable
10:30-11:45
Emergent Conceptualisms
Respondent: Vanessa Place
Natalia Fedorova: Reanimating Conceptualism
Trisha Low: 4 REAL: On authenticity, influence & post-conceptual narcissism
Katie Price: The Clinimatic Poetics of the Noulipo
11:45-1:00
Catered Lunch, for all conference participants and conference goers
Lunchtime Readings
1:00-2:15
Poetry Communities: Embodied Poetics workshop
Introduction: Matthew Landry
Amber DiPietra
Petra Kuppers
Denise Leto
2:30-4:00
Editing/Transcription/Ethics
Respondent: Anna Moschovakis
Jessica Beard: “Far from the reality of their loves”: Textual Editing, Virtual Readers and the Unstable Text
Kate Eichhorn: The Affective Economies of Editing
Michael Nardone: A Transcriptive Poetics
4:00-6:00
Dinner Break
Reading at the Felix Kulpa Gallery, 107 Elm Street, Santa Cruz, 6pm
Tisa Bryant
Sueyuen Juliette Lee
Juliana Spahr
Sponsored by the Institute for Humanities Research, Porter College
Hitchcock Poetry Fund, Literature Department, the Division of Graduate Studies, the Graduate Student Association and Kresge College.
Staff support provided by the IHR, UCSC.
