KSW August Conference: August 19 - 24, 2008, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Kootenay School of Writing
August Conference
N 49 15.832 - W 123 05.921
:: Positions Colloquium ::

August 19 - 24, 2008
at/with VIVO Media Arts Centre
1965 Main St, Vancouver

Tuesday 19 August
Afternoon-Evening Session only
*not* at VIVO, location TBA
4:00 pm - late
Opening day social - a party + bbq with readings by poets who have been members of the KSW board or collective.
Sachiko Murakami, Donato Mancini, Maxine Gadd, Peter Culley, Steve Collis, Ted Byrne, Andrea Actis
+ surprise guests

Wednesday 20 August

Morning - Afternoon Session
11:00 am
Panel presentation
Title / theme: "On Line: Poetics and the Distribution of Meaning"
Moderator and Curator: Andrew Klobucar
Panellists: Darren Wershler-Henry, Brian Kim Stefans, Judy Radul, Sianne Ngai

1:00 pm
Theatrical presentation
Kevin Killian and Dodie Bellamy w/guests
"The Clifford Irving Show"

Evening Session
7:00 pm
Readings, presentations, and performances by:
Darren Wershler-Henry, Brian Kim Stefans, Colin Smith, Robert Fitterman, Clint Burnham

Thursday 21 August

Morning - Afternoon Session
11:00 am
Panel presentation
Moderator and Curator: Rita Wong
Title / theme: "Alpha Bets: Language Gambles on a Gift Economy"
Panelists: Juliana Spahr, Pat O'Brien, Reg Johanson, Peter Cole

1:00 pm
Talk
Michael Davidson
"On the Outskirts of Form: Cosmopoetics in the Shadow of NAFTA."

Evening Session7:00 pm
Readings, presentations, and performances by:
Rita Wong, Juliana Spahr, PILLS (A. Vidaver, R. Johanson, R. Farr), Pat O'Riley, Peter Cole, Louis Cabri, Jules Boykoff

Friday 22 August

Morning - Afternoon Session
11:00 am
Seminar
Seminar leaders: Kaia Sand and Jules Boykoff
Title / theme: "Landscapes of Dissent: Guerilla Poetry & Public Space"
Respondents: Catriona Strang, Colin Smith, Juliana Spahr, Nicholas Perrin, Laura Elrick, Clint Burnham

1:00 pm
Panel presentation
Moderator and Curator: Jeff Derksen
Title / theme: "Neoliberalism and the Politics of Poetics"
Panellists: Rodrigo Toscano, Rod Smith, Dorothy Lusk, Roger Farr, Laura Elrick

Evening Session
7:00 pm
Readings, presentations, and performances by:
Rodrigo Toscano, Rod Smith, Kaia Sand, Dorothy Trujillo Lusk, Jeff Derksen

Saturday 23 August

Morning-Afternoon Session
11:00 am
Seminar
Seminar leader: Sianne Ngai
Title / theme: "The Zany Science: Post-Fordist Performance and the Problem of Fun
Respondents: Tyrone Williams, Mark Wallace, Andrew Klobucar, Rob Fitterman, Stacy Doris, Michael Davidson, Louis Cabri, Dodie Bellamy

1:00 pm
Audio feature
Lisa Robertson and Stacy Doris
"The Perfume Recordist"

Evening Session
7:00 pm
Readings, presentations, and performances by:
Tyrone Williams, Mark Wallace, Catriona Strang, Judy Radul, Laura Elrick

Sunday 24 August
Afternoon-Evening Session only
*not* at VIVO, location TBA

Browning, Cohen, Doxsee, Svalina: August 10, 2008, Richmond, VA

Sommer Browning! Julia Cohen! Julie Doxsee! Mathias Svalina!

Really, who's not to love, says we.

2pm @ Chop Suey Books
1317 W. Cary Street
Richmond VA

Doxsee, Schmall, Taylor, & Yankelevich: August 9, 2008, Brooklyn, NY

Book Release Party for Octopus & X-Ing Press:
Julie Doxsee, Matvei Yankelevich, Jeremy Schmall & Justin Taylor

Saturday, August 9, 2008
6:00pm - 8:00pm
Melville House
145 Plymouth Street
Brooklyn, NY (DUMBO)

Celebrate the independent small press with a poetry reading featuring three new books: Undersleep by Julie Doxsee (Octopus), The Senator Letters by Jeremy Schmall (X-ing) and More Perfect Depictions of Noise by Justin Taylor (X-ing). The authors are joined by Matvei Yankelevich, author of The Present Work (Palm Press) and editor and translator of Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings of Daniil Kharms (Overlook).