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&NOW/Lake Forest Literary Festival (LFLF) > Schedule

(download printable pdf schedule) (Rev. 3/29/06)

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5

3:15-4:15: Registration (Hotchkiss Hall lobby)

4:15-5:15: &NOW Opening Panel (Meyer Auditorium/Hotchkiss Hall)
“Innovation Now” featuring William H. Gass, Shelley Jackson, Nambi Kelley, and other mystery guests….

7-8: Plenary 1 (Meyer Auditorium/Hotchkiss Hall)
Shelley Jackson

Shelley Jackson will discuss her work-in-progress, The Shelley Jackson Vocational School for Ghost Speakers and Hearing Mouth Children.  The talk will incorporate images from the project website as well as demonstrations of some of the paper crafts projects designed to assist in channeling the dead.

8-9: Reception (Hotchkiss Hall lobby)

THURSDAY, APRIL 6

8:15-5: Book Fair/Registration (continuing)
 
*Session A: 9-10:30 (all rooms in Library, second floor)

A1: Library 205: Excerpts on the Edge of Cunning (reading)
Martin Nakell (moderator): “from Settlement (Spuyten Duyvil)” (post-apocalyptic epistolary)
Beth Couture: “from Myths of the Mud City: A History of the City of Mount Airy, North Carolina” (Andy Griffith!)
Wendy Walker: “from Blue Fire: Constructing an Ideogrammatic History” (true crime poetry?/poetic dossier?)
Tom Miller: “from ‘How the Smokecarver Crete Cadwallader Saved America’” (folklore/American ahistory)

A2: Library 221: Theory, Praxis, and the Present of Fiction [FC2[ (critical)
R. M. Berry (moderator): “Theory and the Art of Fraud: On Not Reading Michael Martone’s The Blue Guide to Indiana”
Brian Evenson: “The Genre of Genre and Patrick Ourednik’s Europeana”
Steve Tomasula: “When Genres Collide (in Real Time), Or, Truth in Theory and Practice in Truth and Theory in Truth and Practice in Theory and Truth (A Mobius Strip When They Don't)”

A3: Library 221: Cross-discourse and/or Cross-genre Writing: Readings and Discussion (reading/critical)
Gregory Howard (moderator)
Sandy Florian
Deb Olin Unferth
Danielle Dutton

A4: Library 203: Sound and Vision (multimedia)
Paul A. Toth (moderator): “Recording the Audio Story” (how to…)
Chris Glomski and Ralph Johnson: “Shades of Play” (two multimedia playlet/poems)
Seth Ellis: “Kunstler's Anatomy” (computer-based animation of interior-body forms/reading)

*Session B: 11-12:30 (all rooms in Library, second floor)

B1: Library 211: Poetry Video as an Emerging Genre (multimedia/critical: videopoems/poetry video/cinepoems/aural literacy)
Gerard Wozek (moderator)
Kurt Heintz
Mary Russell

B2: Library 203: Borderblur—from Canada (multimedia/reading)
m.m. cross (moderator): “mmc: a mecca” (irreducible and untranslatable performance)
Rob Read: “SPAM:M.A.P.S. (Marketing A Poetics of Spam)” (spam poetry performance)
gustave morin: “the phantom real the phantom reel” (slideshow reading-performance with effects [polaroid, popcorn machines])

B3: Library 221: Two collectives: Engaging the Electro-ecstatic (multimedia/reading)

1. “Eroica, a hypermedia fiction for CD and Web” (Vienna 1900, New York 1950, and Manaus, Brazil 2000)
Eugene K. Garber (moderator)
Lynn Hassan
Cortlandt Winters

2. “Hyperchondria: A Profile in Pleasure” (MySpace v. the richness of the female body)
Kirsten Jorgenson
Harmony Button
Pepper Luboff

B4: Library 205: FC2 (reading)
Debra Di Blasi (moderator)
Lucy Corin
Jessica Treat

*Session C: 1:30-2:30: Plenary 2 (Meyer Auditorium/Hotchkiss Hall)
Jason Salavon: “Poetics of Information”

*Session D: 2:45-4:00 (all rooms in Library, second floor)

D1: Library 205: Who Killed the Radio Star? Contemporary Poetry and its Sources (critical)
Catherine Daly (moderator)
William Allegrezza: “Using Sources in Contemporary Poetry: Susan Howe’s The Liberties.”
Raymond L. Bianchi: “Sources/History in South American Poetry: Focus on Pablo Neruda's Poetic and the history of Latin America and Paulo Leminski's global Brazilian poetic”
Garin Cycholl: “The Lyric and Epic Impulses in Ronald's Johnson's radios”
Eric Elshtain: “Bytes of Time:  Computer-generated Poetry as Retelling History”

D2: Library 203: Shunning the Daisies of Nostalgia (reading)
Mark Spitzer (moderator): “Polemics from the Adjunct Generation” (selections from The Pigs Drink from Infinity, Spuyten Duyvil Press)
Stacy Cartledge: “Poems from Tableaux” (desert paintings of Peru/building of Stonehenge/papyrus-making of ancient Egypt)
David Lincoln: “Thing into Being” (word-image essays/logic game/fun with stuff)
 
D3: Library 221: Re/Un/Overwriting History [FC2] (reading)
Steve Tomasula (moderator)
R.M. Berry
Lance Olsen
Michael Mejia

D4: Library 211: Mapping: Finding the Way (critical)
Karen Lebergott (moderator)
Laurie Palmer
Michael Ryan

*Session E: 4:15-5:30 (all rooms in Library, second floor, except E1 held in Meyer Auditorium)

E1: Robert Adamson (poetry reading) (Meyer Auditorium/Hotchkiss Hall)

E2: Library 205: Poetry, Materiality, Difficulty (critical)
Martin Riker (moderator): “David Antin and the Materiality of Talk”
Steve Halle: “Crossing an Abyss: The Poets and Practice of Relational Investigative Poetics”
Grant Jenkins: “Harryette Mullen's Difficult Dictionary”

E3: Library 221: Reading, Discussion, Performances…Oh My! (reading/discussion)
Elizabeth Block (moderator): “Leaky Faucet and Dr. Leakey (the raw and electronically cooked)” (literary/audio performance from A Gesture Through Time [Spuyten Duyvil Press])
Charles Blackstone: “The Week You Weren't Here: reading and discussion” (essay v. fiction ‘Steel Cage’ match)
Rebecca Goodman: “from The Surface of Motion (Green Integer)” (restoration/image-language/chapel of San Simpliciano)

E4: Library 211: Calamari Press/Sleepingfish (reading)
Derek White (moderator/publisher)
Michael Peters
Steve Timm
Peter Markus

Session F: 7-8:30: Plenary 3 (Lily Reid Holt Memorial Chapel)
William H. Gass

8-10: Reception: Glen Rowan House featuring The Other Brothers:
Johnse Holt, guitar & percussion
Lloyd Brodnax King, flute & double bass
Maninder Singh, tablas & dhol

The Other Brothers play roots-oriented and improvised music, drawing on Punjabi pop, jazz and acoustic R&B and country.  They even toss in a little Bach for good measure. 

FRIDAY, APRIL 7

8:15-5: Book Fair/Registration (continuing)

*Session G: 9-10:30 (all rooms in Library)

G1: Library 221: Spuyten Duyvil Press (Reading)
Tod Thilleman (moderator/publisher)
Eugene K. Garber
Noam Mor
Tsipi Keller: “reading from her new novel, Retelling”
Christian TeBordo

G2: Library 211: The Nature of the Computer-Eating Puppet Stage (multimedia)
Eric Elshtain (moderator): “Gnoetry 2.0” (Oulipo-inspired machine poetry)
Laura Goldstein: “The Four Reasons” (sound performance poem in four voices/plus audience-controlled sound elements)
Bill Marsh and J.R. Osborn: “Bluegreen Algebra: The Nature of the Book” (self-reflexive word-gesture translation/text-image juxtaposition/ audience call-and-response)

G3: Library 205: An FC2 sampler [FC2] (reading)
Matt Roberson (moderator): “Possible Side Effects”
Ricardo Cortez Cruz
Brian Evenson
Elizabeth Sheffield

G4: Library 203: New Artists of the Purple Sage (multimedia/reading)
Trevor Dodge (moderator): “from Everyone I Know Lives on Roads (Chiasmus Press)” (art-text and Shockwave/Flash-enabled performance)
The Jimmy Wynn Ensemble (Dale Barrigar, Garin Cycholl, Michael Antonucci): “Jeff Park” (great American confidence men/group reading)
Renee D’Aoust: “Playbill: Ballerina Blunders and a Few Male Danseurs” (mash-up: prose and playbills)
Joe Amato: “Poetry for Mummies” (poetry. sort of.)

*Session H: 11-12:30 (all rooms in Library)

H1: Library 221: Sexual Textual Experiments: The Avant-Garde Laid Bare [FC2] (critical)
Lidia Yuknavitch (moderator)
Lucy Corin
Debra Di Blasi

H2: Library 211: 4xStarcherone: A Convening (reading)
Ted Pelton (moderator/publisher)
Jeffrey DeShell
Aimee Parkison
Nina Shope

H3: Library 203: Pixelated Handshake: The Verbal Meets the Virtual (multimedia/reading)

1. “The End” (montage of rural southwest Wisconsin's abandoned 19th century buildings/an era of Organic Poetry...)
Maria Damon (moderator)
mIEKAL aND
Camille Bacos

2. “Slip” (audio IM/gulps of breath/elliptical narrative)
Joanna Goodman
David Kasdorf

H4: Library 205: Experiments in Film (multimedia)
Andi Olsen (moderator): “Where the Smiling Ends” (a film, sans words, on the nature of photography, portraiture, and the self)
Tim Guthrie: “The Nature of the Creative Process” (a film from Lance Olsen’s novel Burnt) and “Recalling Trinity” (a film from a J. Robert Oppenheimer quotation)
Andy Mingo: “Beatings” (a film from a short a short story by Lidia Yuknavitch

*Session I: 1:30-2:30 (Meyer Auditorium/Hotchkiss Hall)
Nambi E. Kelley: “Language in Play”

Playwright Nambi E. Kelley will read selections from The Alibi Transcripts, as well excerpts from some of her other plays including Antigone, Hoochie Mama, and The First Woman, which was performed as part of the Lincoln Center at the Here space in New York City. Her readings will be accompanied by live music created by resident musicians of MPAACT.

*Session J: 2:45-4 (all rooms in Library)

J1: Library 203: Stay Informed (An Exhibition of Information Produced by Fiction Machines) (critical)
Dimitri Anastasopoulos (moderator)
Edward Desautels
Dave Kress
 
J2: Library 205: Better Living Through Chemico-Mathematics! (reading)
Kass Fleisher (moderator): “The Book of Surrealist Games” (in which, finally, we worry about the solvency and chemistry of representation)
Lily Hoang: “X: A Quadratic Story” (constraint and mathematics)
Teresa Sparks: “Chemistries of Grammar” (mathematical love poetry)

J3: Library 221: The Text of Her Body [Chiasmus Press] (reading)
Lidia Yuknavitch (moderator)
Gina Frangello
Cris Mazza

J4: Library 211: Visualizing the Aesthetic: Meta-Authorship and Reality (critical)
Trey Strecker (moderator): “The Postsoul Aesthetic in Experimental Black Metafiction”
Michael Barrett: “Visualizing Spacetime: On Kawara, Edward Tufte & Poetry”
Tyrone Williams: “Sherrie Levine’s Quotations and ‘Originals’: Scale as Authorship”
Paul Nelson: “The Field, Olson's stance toward reality and how it has manifested in 20th century North American Poetry”

*Session K: 4:15-5:30 (all rooms in Library)

K1: Library 203: Re:Sounds: A Discussion of Contemporary Sound Art (critical)
Tom Denlinger (moderator)
Lou Malozzi: Excerpts from Usi Scrutati
Olivia Block
Don Meyer: “Inter-Textual Pacific Air” (audio-collage w/ Davis Schneiderman)

K2: Library 221: The failure of Modern Politics: lecture + video (multimedia performance art)
Stephen Lapthisopon w/
Charlene Brooks
Stephen Burns
Mark Hanner
Tracy McCabe
Eli Robb

K3: Library 211: New Media Poetry: Redrawing Boundaries (critical)
Lance Olsen (moderator): “Twelve Sentences & One Fragment About 10:01 & The Aesthetics of Collapse”
Stephanie Strickland: “Writing the Virtual: Dimensions of E-Poetry”

K4: Library 205: The Writer, Attacked by Animals, Suddenly (reading)
Mike Theune (moderator): “‘Answer Key’: A Response to Pablo Neruda’s The Book of Questions” (heartbreaking and revelatory answers)
Matthew C. Guenette: from Sudden Anthem (poems of structure and surprise and wit)
Trudy Lewis: “Mother of Animals” (Constraint using Petroglyphs and Pictographs)

*Session L: 7-9 pm: Reception--Glen Rowan House
L1: LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs: “InN(betweEn)/Space: The accidental marriage between electronics, sound text and the wannabe linguist” (performance)

AFTER &NOW: SATURDAY, APRIL 8, 1-4 p.m. McCormick Auditorium
Nambi E. Kelley: “Playwriting into Performance Workshop”

The 3-hour workshop will consists of Ms. Kelley guiding participants through a writing workshop to construct their own monologues and scenes, including one-on-one guidance sessions with Ms. Kelley. Class participants will then focus on performing their own material culminating in a small showcase of each writer’s work by the end of the 3-hour session.