One Makes Many: A Conference of Poetic Interactions

Mark your calenders. The Duke/UNC Contemporary Poetry Working Group is excited to announce

ONE MAKES MANY: A CONFERENCE OF POETIC INTERACTIONS

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11 (DUKE) & SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12 (UNC)

"One Makes Many: A Conference of Poetic Interactions" brings together local, national, and international scholars and poets to participate in panels, readings, exhibitions, and events. Each of our panels orients itself along one or more disciplinary boundaries and aims to interrogate poetry’s relation to visual art, technology, history, folk tradition, religion—to name just a few. We are enthusiastic about the multidisciplinary nature of the conference, which draws interest and participation from multiple departments across both campuses.

http://onemakesmany.siteslab.org

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

Friday, November 11

Location: Franklin Humanities Institute, Duke U., Smith Warehouse, Bay 4, Floor 1, C105

10:30-12:00 Sacred Poetry: Carl Ernst, Paul Losensky, Murat Nemet-Nejat, and David Need

12:00-1:00 Lunch

1:00-2:30 Latin America (in Translation): Steve Dolph, Carlos Soto-Román, and Guillermo Parra

2:45-4:15 The Digital Muse: Steve Roggenbuck, Dan Anderson, and Bill Seaman (Moderator: Patrick Herron)

Gather at concurrent digital/new media poetry exhibition

Break for dinner

8:00 Reading by Nathaniel Tarn

Saturday, November 12

Location: YMCA, UNC, 180A East Cameron Ave., Chapel Hill

10:30-12:00 Black Mountain Aesthetics: Tyrone Williams, Kimberly Lamm, and Julie Thompson

12:00-1:00 Lunch

1:00-2:30 Afrosonics: Andrew Rippeon, Shirlette Ammons, and Harmony Holiday

2:45-4:15 Folk Poetics and Oral History: Christopher Green, Frank Sherlock, and Ali Neff

Break for dinner

8:00 Musical performance by Lightnin' Wells (Durham, TBA)

For more information, http://onemakesmany.siteslab.org

We would like to thank our major sponsors:

The Kenan-Biddle Partnership and the Duke English Department,

our Duke co-sponsors: the Program in Literature, Department of Cultural Anthropology, Romance Studies, and the Franklin Humanities Institute,

and our UNC co-sponsors: The Department of English and Comparative Literature, the Graduate School, the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, and the Center for the Study of the American South.

Sigo & Taylor Read POEMS!

SECOND MINOR AMERICAN READING OF THE SCHOOL YEAR!

Cedar Sigo
&
Ken Taylor

Wednesday, October 19, 2011, 8pm
PLACE: Women's Studies Lounge, 1st Fl., East Duke Bldg, East Campus, Duke University

Map is Here.
BYOB, FREE, & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!

[This Event is sponsored by Duke English Department's

Faculty/Graduate Student Reading Group in Contemporary Poetry]

Cedar Sigo is a poet and sometime teacher, active in the art and literary worlds since 1999. He studied writing and poetics at the Naropa Institute. He is the author of seven books and pamphlets of poetry, including two editions of Selected Writings (Ugly Duckling Presse , 2003 and 2005) Expensive Magic (House Press, 2008) and most recently, Stranger In Town (City Lights, 2010) His poems have been included in many magazines and anthologies, and he has published poetry books and magazines under the Old Gold imprint. He participated in “Coordinates: Indigenous Writing Now,” a conference at California College of the Arts. He has given readings and performances at the Poetry Project at St. Marks Church, Bowery Poetry Club, PS1 Museum of Contemporary Art, Beyond Baroque, San Francisco Poetry Center, The San Francisco LGBT Center, Intersection for the Arts, and Small Press Traffic, among others. He has collaborated with visual artists including Cecilia Dougherty, Frank Haines, Will Yackulic and Colter Jacobsen. He lives in San Francisco.

Ken Taylor's poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in The Chattahoochee Review, The Stony Thursday Book, elimae, MiPOesias, The New Guard, Whale Sound, Eclectica Magazine, OCHO, Poets & Artists, HAM Literature and Gigantic Sequins. His manuscript "dog with elizabethan collar" is a finalist for this year's National Poetry Series. He is the 2011 winner of the Fish Publishing Poetry Prize.