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Laura Moriarty - SPT Aggression, CCA - 5.31.08

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AGGRESSION
A CONFERENCE ON CONTEMPORARY POETICS AND POLITICAL ANTAGONISM

Panel: Community Histories

Laura Moriarty's most recent books are A Semblance: Selected & New Poetry 1975-2007 from Omnidawn Publishing and An Air Force, a chapbook from Hooke Press. Other recent books are Ultravioleta, a novel, from Atelos and Self-Destruction, a book of poetry, from Post-Apollo Press. She has taught at Mills College and Naropa University among other places & is currently Deputy Director of Small Press Distribution. She is findable on-line at A Tonalist Notes and related blogs.

Outlaws, Lone Wolves and Made Poets: Bay Area Poetics and Group Formation from the 70s to the Present: Who is in? Who is out? Who cares? What is the coin of the realm in the poetry world? How do we earn it? How spend it? Is there a secret spiritual history? What about politics? How do you tell if you are in a group or if your group exists? Laura Moriarty will address questions such as these by disscussing how publication, teaching, reading and one's personal and social lives come together to form the poetry world(s) we believe we are in.

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Robin Tremblay-McGaw - SPT Aggression, CCA - 5.31.08

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AGGRESSION
A CONFERENCE ON CONTEMPORARY POETICS AND POLITICAL ANTAGONISM

Panel: Community Histories

Robin Tremblay-McGaw's work has appeared in Poetry Flash, Mirage, Five Fingers Review, HOW(ever), HOW2, Biting the Error: Writers on Narrative, and elsewhere. She is currently at work on a manuscript entitled "Community and Contestatory Writing Practices in the San Francisco Bay Area 1970-Present."

Community–it’s the goo that is all over the place–facilitating and making a mess of relation, writing, and people’s access to one another, one another’s work, the world. An interest in (and an embattled relation with) community seems to have been ever a part of the discourse among writers in the San Francisco Bay Area, where from the 1970s onward this battle has been entangled in contesting identities, politics and aesthetics. The etymological and historical roots of community reveal that while community sometimes pertains to geographic location, shared interests, a relation (including a contestatory one) to a state or other government, it has very much also to do with sexuality, gender, class and race. read more

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Q and A, the Internet - SPT Aggression, CCA - 5.31.08

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A CONFERENCE ON CONTEMPORARY POETICS AND POLITICAL ANTAGONISM

Panel: The Internet

Apologies for the rough levels. I should have played like Donahue. See one of the lively discussions of this panel at http://garysullivan.blogspot.com/

craig santos perez - SPT Aggression, CCA - 5.31.08

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AGGRESSION
A CONFERENCE ON CONTEMPORARY POETICS AND POLITICAL ANTAGONISM

Panel: The Internet

'csperez' (craig santos perez) has published over 500 posts on his blog (blindelephant.blogspot.com) since 2006. His comments have appeared, or are forthcoming, in many prestigious sites: Poeta y Diwata, Silliman's Blog, Looktouchblog, The Poetry Foundation, The Newer Metaphysicals, Detainees, and Lime Tree, among others. He currently edits the Omnidawn Publishing blog (omnidawnblog.blogspot.com).

csperez will revisit his essay My Michael Magee and the Frontier of Democratic Symbolic Action, which he describes as follows: "This essay situates 'Their Eyes, Their Asian Glittering Guys, Are Gay' (which caused a stir in the online poetry community that generated more than 500 pages of online commentary) within the context of Magee's brilliant critical work Emancipating Pragmatism: Emerson, Jazz, and Experimental Writing (U of Alabama Press, 2004). I suggest that Magee's Emerson functions as a founding father of a "Pragmatist-Flarf." In addition, I question the limits of Pragmatist-Flarf's desire to intervene, through "democatic symbolic action," in racialized discourses." Advance / related reading: poeta y diwata (Barbara Jane Reyes), Unitedstatesean Notes (Javier Huerta), Letras Latinas (Institute for Latino Studies, Univ. of Notre Dame), Detainees (Linh Dinh), You Are Here (Lee Herrick) and Intuitive Intertextuality (Oscar Bermeo).

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Jasper Bernes - SPT Aggression, CCA - 5.31.08

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AGGRESSION
A CONFERENCE ON CONTEMPORARY POETICS AND POLITICAL ANTAGONISM

Panel: The Internet

Jasper Bernes is the author of Starsdown (in girum imus, 2007). He is a graduate student in English at UC Berkeley.

Jasper Bernes's essay "On the Poverty of Internet Life: A Call for Poets" (Action, Yes) argues for an understanding of internet culture in terms of the logic of capitalist accumulation and the ideological imperatives of the U.S. ruling class after 9/11. It closes with a call for poets to realize the emancipatory promise of the internet in a space and manner less susceptible to regulation and subsumption. His talk will focus on his plans for such a project, responses to the essay and the subsequent development of his thinking. Advance / related reading: from Jodi Dean, Publicity's Secret: How Technoculture Capitalizes on Democracy (rotate clockwise in Adobe reader to view), Cornell University Press, 2002 (link to come), Immaterial Labor and its Machinization, by Leopoldina Fortunati and "Apple - 1984" (dir. Ridley Scott).

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Erika Staiti - SPT Aggression, CCA - 5.31.08

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AGGRESSION
A CONFERENCE ON CONTEMPORARY POETICS AND POLITICAL ANTAGONISM

Panel: The Internet

Erika Staiti has found a new way to cope with her mild (and undiagnosed) obsessive compulsiveness. She searches, cuts, pastes, reformats, searches, cuts, pastes, reformats.

Erika Staiti will discuss her recent editorial/archival project, "RACE and GENDER". RACE is an archive of what remains from the conversation surrounding Michael Magee's poem "Their Guys, Their Asian Glittering Guys, Are Gay" (May-Dec 2006). GENDER is an archive relating to the Chicago Review essay "Numbers Trouble" by Juliana Sphar and Stephanie Young (Nov 07-Feb 08). Both projects are exclusively composed of blog posts and comments. RACE and GENDER can be found at http://www.saidwhatwesaid.com/.

Advance / related reading: : The Wayback Machine and excerpts from Archive Fever.

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Elizabeth Robinson was educated at Bard College, Brown University, and Pacific School of Religion. Her most recent books are Under That Silky Roof (Burning Deck, 2006), Apostrophe (Apogee Press, 2006),

Apprehend (Apogee/Fence/Saturnalia, 2003), Pure Descent (winner of the 2001 National Poetry Series; Sun & Moon, 2003), Harrow (Omnidawn, 2001), and House Made of Silver (Kelsey St. Press, 2000). She teaches at the University of Colorado. With Colleen Lookingbill, she edits EtherDome Press.

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AGGRESSION

A CONFERENCE ON CONTEMPORARY POETICS AND POLITICAL ANTAGONISM

SATURDAY, MAY 31
please note: all Saturday panels will be at the CCA Oakland campus

11:00-12:30, Macky Hall, first floor
The Internet
(click link for panel description and advance reading materials)

2:00-3:30, Macky Hall, first floor
Community Histories
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3:45 - 4:00, Nahl Hall
Viewing: SUPER-SOLID

4:00-5:30, Nahl Hall
An Ethnic Avant-Garde?
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7:30 PARTY AND READINGS
Readings from Tyrone Williams and Bhanu Kapil. Hosted by David Buuck. Directions/map to David Buuck's house will be available at the conference, or email: smallpresstraffic @ gmail.com

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Geoffrey G. O'Brien's books include Green and Gray (2007) and The Guns and Flags Project (2002). His work has appeared in many journals, including American Letter & Commentary, the American Poetry Review, and Ploughshares.

He has been the Distinguished Poet in Residence at St. Mary's College of California, and is currently the Holloway Lecturer in the Practice of Poetry at the University of California, Berkeley.

Forthcoming chronologically: Brenda Hillman, Geoffrey G. O'Brien, Graham Foust, Joanne Kyger, Marjorie Wellish, Robert Halpern and Taylor Brady, Rusty Morrison, Barbara Freeman, Elizabeth Robinson, Alli Warren, C.S. Giscombe, Rae Armantrout.

If any eager listeners happen upon bios or links about these poets please pass them along to akenower at gmail dot com.

Elizabeth Robinson - Pegasus Books - 4.13.08

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Elizabeth Robinson was educated at Bard College, Brown University, and Pacific School of Religion. Her most recent books are Under That Silky Roof (Burning Deck, 2006), Apostrophe (Apogee Press, 2006),

Apprehend (Apogee/Fence/Saturnalia, 2003), Pure Descent (winner of the 2001 National Poetry Series; Sun & Moon, 2003), Harrow (Omnidawn, 2001), and House Made of Silver (Kelsey St. Press, 2000). She teaches at the University of Colorado. With Colleen Lookingbill, she edits EtherDome Press.

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Other priorities have disabled my voice box. Massive update looming.

AGGRESSION

A CONFERENCE ON CONTEMPORARY POETICS AND POLITICAL ANTAGONISM

SATURDAY, MAY 31
please note: all Saturday panels will be at the CCA Oakland campus

11:00-12:30, Macky Hall, first floor
The Internet
(click link for panel description and advance reading materials)

2:00-3:30, Macky Hall, first floor
Community Histories
(click link for panel description)

3:45 - 4:00, Nahl Hall
Viewing: SUPER-SOLID

4:00-5:30, Nahl Hall
An Ethnic Avant-Garde?
(click link for panel description and advance reading materials)

7:30 PARTY AND READINGS
Readings from Tyrone Williams and Bhanu Kapil. Hosted by David Buuck. Directions/map to David Buuck's house will be available at the conference, or email: smallpresstraffic @ gmail.com

Geoffrey G. O'Brien - BRL, McNally's Irish Pub - 3.29.08

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Geoffrey G. O'Brien's books include Green and Gray (2007) and The Guns and Flags Project (2002). His work has appeared in many journals, including American Letter & Commentary, the American Poetry Review, and Ploughshares.

He has been the Distinguished Poet in Residence at St. Mary's College of California, and is currently the Holloway Lecturer in the Practice of Poetry at the University of California, Berkeley.

On the horizon

Forthcoming chronologically: Brenda Hillman, Geoffrey G. O'Brien, Graham Foust, Joanne Kyger, Marjorie Wellish, Robert Halpern and Taylor Brady, Rusty Morrison, Barbara Freeman, Elizabeth Robinson, Alli Warren, C.S. Giscombe, Rae Armantrout.

If any eager listeners happen upon bios or links about these poets please pass them along to akenower at gmail dot com.