New Century Poetics: A Poetry Colloquium - Event Schedule
Monday, October 19, 2009 - Mark Doty Poetry Reading.
8 p.m. -10 p.m. Reading by Mark Doty with interview by Jared Harel, followed by reception and book signing.
Tuesday, October 20, 2009 - A Full Day Colloquium.
Please register by calling (908) 852-1400, ext. 4669, or emailing salasa@centenarycollege.edu. Please indicate which workshops or panels you plan to attend.
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9:00 a.m. - 9:20 a.m. Receive colloquium materials; sign in - Seay Building.
9:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. Workshops and Panels. Pre-registration is required.
Morning Workshops:
Material Metaphors: Using Man-Made Things as Metaphors for Natural Ones.
With Robert Carnevale, poet and poetics instructor. Enrollment is limited.
Blues Poetics: from Lyrics to Verse.
With Jared Harel, poet and Centenary College poetry instructor.
Morning Panels:
The Art of Poetry and the Poetry of Art: Ekphrasis in the Contemporary Poem. With:
- Burt Kimmelman, NJIT, poet and scholar
- Basil King, poet and artist
- Corinne Robins, Pratt Institute, poet and art historian
- Michael Heller, poet and writer
- Mark Lamoureux, CUNY, poet and publisher of Cy Gist Press
- Therese Halscheid, poet and writer
Resources and Publication Options. With:
- Peter Murphy, local poetry organizer and poet
- Melissa Hotchkiss, co-editor of Barrow Street, teacher, poet
- Laura McCullough, Brookdale CC, poet
- Ken Ronkowitz, Passaic County CC, poet and online publisher
- Mark Tursi, editor of Double Room, publisher of Apostrophe Books
11:30 a.m. Break in Seay Front Parlours
11:45 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Round Table with Mart Doty: Poetry's Role in Contemporary Culture. Moderated by Mary Newell, Director of Writing at Centenary College and conference organizer.
1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. Lunch on your own (See dining options in program.)
2:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Workshops and Panels. Pre-registration is required.
Afternoon Workshops:
Practicing Poetry, a writing workshop.
With Sally Dawidoff, NY poet and teacher. Writers who are new to poerty workshops are encouraged to register; all are welcome. Please bring 12 copies of a poem to exchange with workshop members. Enrollment is limited.
How to Understand a Poem: taking the mystery out of contemporary poetry.
With Laura McCullough, Brookdale CC, poet. Learn skills for interpreting poetry with examples from contemporary writers. Enrollment is limited.
Afternoon Panels:
Poetics of Place: New Jersey, the West, and Other Habitats of the Mind. With:
- Angela Elliott, Centenary College Professor and Poet-in-Residence
- Betsy Andrews, poet
- Marcella Durand, poet
- Adele Kenny, poet
- Madeline Tiger, poet
- BJ Ward, poet, Warren County CC faculty
Experimenting with Forms. With:
- Laura Hinton, CUNY, poet, critic, and publisher “Mourning and Multi-Media Poetics”
- Lorna Blake, poet, teacher, and editor Melissa Hotchkiss, co-editor of Barrow Street, teacher, poet
- Kristin Prevallet, poet, Institute for Writing Studies, St John's University. “We Sit Like Hot Stones: The Performance of Mourning”
- Mark Tursi, editor of Double Room (prose poem journal), publisher of Apostrophe Books
- Tiphanie Yanique, Drew University, Asst. Professor of Creative Writing and Literature; prose poetry; performance
Poetry and Translation: Bridging the Discontinuities. With:
- Edward Foster, editor of Talisman, co-ed. of Contemporary Turkish Studies, poet, essayist, History Professor and Assoc. Dean at the Stevens Institute of Technology.
- Carlos Hernandez Peña, bi-lingual writer, editor, and reading series organizer
- Ravi Shankar, poet, Assoc. Professor, editor of Drunkenboat.com and a Norton anthology of Asian and Middle Eastern poetry
- Paul Sohar, poet, translator of Hungarian poetry
- Mark Weiss, poet, translator, and editor of Across the Line / Al otro lado: The Poetry of Baja California and The Whole Island: Six Decades of Cuban Poetry.
5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. Open discussion with Mark Doty. Seay Front Parlours.
6:30 p.m. Readings by participant poets.
Please register by calling (908) 852-1400, ext. 4669, or emailing salasa@centenarycollege.edu. Please indicate which workshops or panels you plan to attend. Register online here.
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