The Dramatic I/Eye: Reflections on Voice and Form in Contemporary Poetry
A Virtual Conference
november 11 & 12
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2022
9:45 AM -11:00 AM: Panel: Pedagogy and the Politics of Interpretation (Included in
Registration)
Ellen O’Brien, Pedagogies of the Lyric: Attention, Dissent, and the Politics of Reading
Pauline Mari Hernando, The War and Wounds: The “I” in Poetry on Dissent and Defiance
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM: Workshop - Registration Required
Dilruba Ahmed
POEM PLUS PROMPT: Origin Stories: Mythologies of the Self
ZOOM LINK FOR POEM PLUS PROMPT
12:45 PM - 2:00 PM: Welcome and Keynote Address (Included in Registration)
Opening Remarks, Cherise Pollard, Director, WCU Poetry Center
Jen Bacon, Dean, College of Arts & Humanities
Keynote Reading: Alexis Sears, Creating Order from Chaos: A Reflection on Voice and
Poetic Form
ZOOM LINK FOR OPENING & KEYNOTE
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM: Reading: The Critical Eye/I: Critical Insight and Creative Vision
(Included in Registration)
The Critical Eye/I: Critical Insight and Creative Vision
Wendy Videlock, The Mother Tongue, Poetic Form, and The Poetic Imagination: A Worthy
Difficulty
Francis Daulerio
ZOOM LINK FOR READING
3:30 PM - 4:45 PM: Panel Presentation (Included in Registration)
Brian Brodeur with Shane McCrae, Alexis Sears, and Caki Wilkinson
A Talisman Against Disintegration: Tradition and Experimentation in Recent American
Sonnets
ZOOM LINK FOR PANEL
5:00 PM - 6:15 PM: Workshop – Registration Required
Steven Schneider
Approaches to Teaching Poetic Form
ZOOM LINK FOR APPROACHES TO TEACHING FORM
6:30 PM: Evening Reading: Open Mic followed by Workshop Leaders (Included with Registration)
ZOOM LINK for Faculty and Open Mic Readings
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2022
9:00-10:00 AM: Reading: International I/Eye in Contemporary Poetry (Included with
Registration)
Pratibha, Taboo and Other Poems
Pulkita Anand, Traces of I/Tracing Eye
ZOOM LINK FOR READING
10:15 AM-11:15 AM: Workshop – Registration Required
Julia Mallory
To Tease Out the Tension
ZOOM LINK FOR TO TEASE OUT THE TENSION
11:30 AM - 12:45 PM: Presentation: Pedagogical I/Eye in Contemporary Poetry (Included
with Registration)
A Conversation about Teaching Poetry featuring Shirley Geok-lin Lim and Julie Kane
ZOOM LINK FOR SHIRLEY AND JULIE
2:30 PM - 3:45 PM: Workshop – Registration Required
Josh Davis
Warping the Mirror: Poetic Form and Point of View
ZOOM LINK FOR WARPING THE MIRROR
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Panel Presentation: African American I/Eye in Contemporary Poetry
Anna Thomas, ‘I Had No Model’: Genealogies of I in Black Feminist Poetics
Remica L. Bingham-Risher, Folks as They Really Are: Helming Voice and Kindling Legacy
in SOUL CULTURE
Followed by:
Closing Remarks and Final Reading
Featuring Alexis Sears
Workshop Leaders
Open Mic
ZOOM LINK FOR READING AND CLOSING