Schedule

Pre-Symposium Event:

Thursday 24 March

Freed-Orman Centre, Assumption University [part of the University of Windsor campus]

7:00 p.m.

Jed Rasula, “A Telephone from the Beyond: iPod Wagnerism”

Reception follows; symposium registration opens

Symposium Day 1:

Friday 25 March

All Friday events (day & night) are free and open to the public: 

Ambassador Room, 2^nd Floor, C.A.W. Centre, University of Windsor

9:00 – 10:15 a.m. Keynote 1

Jed Rasula, “Panorama Sentence by Sentence: The Poetry of Ron Silliman”

10:15 – 10:30 a.m. Break

10:30 – 12:00 a.m. Panel 1: Susan Holbrook, Chair

Marianne Ølholm, “Formal Multiplicity in the Alphabet”

Brian Jansen, “Roland Barthes, the New Sentence, and Word as Commodity: the Alphabet as Contemporary Mythography”

Joshua Schuster, “Our Whole Archive Has Prepared Us for This”

12:00 – 1:30 p.m. Lunch

1:30 – 3:00 p.m. Panel 2: Nicole Markotic, Chair

Chris Kerr, “Watch Your Step! ’Pataphysics and the Pun of Engines in ‘Engines’”

Hilary Clark, “Trash Collection in The Alphabet”

Burt Kimmelman, “The Alphabet, Post Objectivist Poetics, and American Writing since The New American Poetry”

3:00 – 3:15 p.m. Break

3:15 – 4:45 Panel 3: Chris Kerr, Chair

Michael Hessel-Mial, “Earth and Sky: Eco-Phenomenology and the Alphabet”

Braydon Beaulieu, “Between sentences, something hides.”

Elisabeth Joyce, “Looking up and Looking Down: Ron Silliman’s Poetry of Accretion”

4:45 – 5:45 p.m. Open Reception (cash bar)

University Club, Vanier Hall, University of Windsor

Co-sponsored by the University of Alabama Press

6:00 – 7:30 p.m. Dinner

University Club, Vanier Hall, University of Windsor

[pre-book with lcabri at uwindsor dot ca]

PUBLIC EVENING READINGS & CONVERSATION

7:45 – 8:30 p.m. Poetry Reading

Ambassador Room, 2^nd Floor, C.A.W. Centre

Jeff Derksen

Steve McCaffery

8:30 – 8:45 p.m. Break

cash bar cont'd

8:45 – 10:15 p.m. Public Poetry Reading & Conversation

Ambassador Room, , 2^nd Floor, C.A.W. Centre

Rae Armantrout & Ron Silliman

Symposium Day 2:

Saturday 26 March

All panels – excluding evening readings & conversation (see below) – take place in:

Ambassador Room, 2^nd Floor, C.A.W. Centre. All events are free and open to the public.

9:30 – 10:45 a.m. Keynote 2

Barrett Watten, “After Radical Particularity: Language Writing and Late Capitalism”

10:45 – 11:00 a.m. Break

11:00 – 12:00 a.m. Panel 4: Jasmine Elliott, Chair

Andrew Klobucar, “Technical Difficulties: Informational Discourse and Poetics”

Jeff Derksen, "Urban 'What'"

12:00 – 1:30 p.m. Lunch

1:30 – 3:00 Panel 5: Karl Jirgens, Chair

Pierre Beaumier, “The Reader’s Encounter and the Difficulty of Form as Social Struggle”

Jasmine Elliott, “‘the map is not / built about the city’: metapoetics and the narrative struggle in the Alphabet”

Timothy Yu, “‘Yet His Best Friend Was Hispanic’: Race, Contradiction, and Autobiography in (and Under) Albany”

3:00 – 3:15 p.m. Break

3:15 – 4:45 p.m. Panel 6: Predrag Rogan, Chair

Brian Ang, “‘Quindecagon’, Literary History, and Strict Constructionism”

Ashley Girty, “‘The Most Beautiful of All Carpenter’s Tools is the Level’: On Seriality and Parataxis in the Alphabet”

Louis Cabri, “Play-drive Station (on aestheticizing the Alphabet)”

4:45 – 5:00 p.m. Break

5:00 – 6:30 p.m. Symposium Wrapup

“The Long Poem in the Age of Twitter”

Hosted by Steve McCaffery

6:30 – 8:30 p.m. Dinner

World Marathon Ethiopian Restaurant, 60 University Ave. W.

[pre-book with lcabri at uwindsor dot ca but dinners may also be available on first-come-first-served basis]

PUBLIC EVENING READINGS & CONVERSATION

9:00 – 11:00 p.m. Poetry Reading & Conversation

World Marathon Ethiopian Restaurant, 60 University Ave W.

Carla Harryman

Barrett Watten

Ron Silliman