AWP 2010 Annual Conference April 7–10, 2010

Naropa is a Benefactor Sponsor for the
AWP Conference

Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics is pleased to announce its benefactor sponsorship of the 2010 Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) Annual Conference in Denver at the Colorado Convention Center from April 7-10. As one of the biggest literary gatherings in North America with over 8,000 people and 500 publishers in attendance, AWP will provide Kerouac School faculty, students, and alumni an international stage to share their writing and contribute to conversations about emerging trends in our discipline, curricular development, the publishing industry, and more through discussions, readings, lectures, and book signings. AWP also presents important opportunities for program development, pedagogical and career resources, and student recruitment. The Kerouac School is sponsoring three readings, two panels, a reception, and a series of book signings while maintaining a joint booth for the Kerouac School and Bombay Gin at the Bookfair. There will also be unofficial off-site events, including a Kerouac School reading hosted at the Mercury Café on the final evening of the conference. This is the first year the Kerouac School has been involved with AWP at this scale. We are grateful to the faculty and staff at Naropa who have supported this sponsorship, and we hope to provide such vital programming in the future.

Please read below for a list of events sponsored by and related to Naropa.

Wednesday, April 7, 2010  

7:00–9:00 p.m.
Non-Naropa sponsored event
Breathing, In Dust book release (off-site event)
Participants: Naropa alum Tim Z. Hernandez
Location: CHAC, Chicano Humanities & Arts Council,
772 Santa Fe Dr, Denver
Registration pass not required

Thursday, April 8, 2010  

10:30–11:45 a.m.
Sponsored by the CLMP
Anne Waldman's CLMP Keynote
Small Press Heaven: Poetics from the Floating World
Location: Mineral Hall, Hyatt Regency Denver
Registration pass required

10:30–11:45 a.m.
Non-Naropa sponsored event
Bollywood, Bullets, and Beyond:
The Poetry of South Asian America
Participants: Bhanu Kapil, Summi Kaipa, Pireeni Sundaralingam, Srikanth Reddy, Subhashini Kaligotla, Monica Ferrell
Location: 102, 104, Convention Center
Registration pass required

12:00–1:15 p.m.
Sponsored by Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School
of Disembodied Poetics
Jack Kerouac School Reading
Participants: Lisa Birman, Danielle Dutton, Anselm Hollo, Junior Burke, Amy Catanzano
Description: Naropa University is home to one of the most prestigious and diverse writing programs in the West, the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics. Five faculty members will celebrate the school’s 35th anniversary with a reading of recent work, including short prose and poetry.
Location: 303, Convention Center
Registration pass required

1:30–2:45 p.m.
Sponsored by Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac
School of Disembodied Poetics
And the Beat Goes On...
Participants: Elizabeth Robinson, Anselm Hollo, Maureen Owen, Reed Bye
Description: Since its inception, Naropa University’s Writing & Poetics program has been a living model of ‘outrider’ traditions.  This roundtable includes poets who have lived through and shaped poetic movements central to the 20th & 21st centuries: from Beat and Black Mountain experiments through New York School and Language poetries, this panel offers conversations with Naropa poets who have been at the center of American poetic history.
Location: Agate Room, Hyatt Regency
Registration pass required

7:00 p.m.
Sponsored by Julie Carr
Colorado Writers Reading (off-site event)
Description: Reading featuring many Colorado writers including Kerouac School faculty Amy Catanzano, Maureen Owen, Sara Veglahn and more.
Location: The Mercury Café: 2199 California St., Denver
Registration pass not required

7:00 p.m.
Sponsored by Shearsman Press, Flim Forum, SongCave, EtherDome Press, Instance Press, and Woodland Editions
Poetry Reading (off-site event)
Description: Reading featuring many authors including Kerouac School faculty Elizabeth Robinson.
Location: Plus Gallery: 2501 Larimer Street, Denver,
Registration pass not required

10:30 p.m.–1:00 a.m.
Sponsored by Bombay Gin, Fast Forward, Tarpaulin Sky Press, Monkey Puzzle Press, Fact-Simile, and Zero Ducats
Reading (off-site event)
Location: Dazzle Restaurant & Lounge:
930 Lincoln St., Denver
Registration pass not required

Friday, April 9, 2010

3:00–4:15 p.m.
Sponsored by Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac
School of Disembodied Poetics
Camp Kerouac:
35 Years of Naropa’s Summer Writing Program
Participants: Lisa Birman, Max Regan, Akilah Oliver, Shane Jimenez
Description: In June 1974, Allen Ginsberg and Anne Waldman launched a Summer Arts Festival in Boulder, Colorado. Over the last 35 years, a who’s who of US and international poetics has taught, learned, lectured, listened, written and read at Naropa’s Summer Writing Program. The SWP is now an integral part of Naropa’s MFA degrees, in addition to its thriving undergraduate and non-credit populations. Faculty, staff and students will discuss diversity, community building, recruitment and pedagogy.
Location: 210, 212, Convention Center
Registration pass required

4:30–5:45 p.m.
Sponsored by Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac
School of Disembodied Poetics
Featured reading for Michael Nava & Achy Obejas
Location: Mineral Hall, Hyatt Regency
Registration pass required

4:30–5:45 p.m.
Non-Naropa sponsored event
Colorado's Innovative Writers Past and Present
Participants: Julie Carr, Noah Eli Gordon, Eleni Sikelianos, Bhanu Kapil, Dan Beachy-Quick and Matthew Cooperman
Location: 301, 302, Convention Center
Registration pass required

7:00–8:00 p.m.
Sponsored by Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac
School of Disembodied Poetics
Naropa University Reception
Before Anne Waldman’s reading, please join us for a reception with students, faculty, staff and alumni, past and present.
Location: Hyatt Regency: Quartz room; 650 15th St., Denver
Registration pass required

7:00–11:00 p.m.
Sponsored by Astrophil Press
Reading (off-site event)
Participants: Keith Kumasen Abbott, Laird Hunt, Selah Saterstrom, David Gruber, Joanna Howard, Sandy Florian, and Brett Ralph
Description: A night of readings and music. Free door prizes include free drinks and books. A DJ and live bands will cap off the night! Come celebrate independent publishing!
Location: Hi-Dive: 7 South Broadway, Denver
Registration pass not required

8:00–10:00 p.m.
Sponsored by the University of Denver
Reading featuring Anne Waldman and Gary Snyder
Location: Four Seasons Ballroom, Convention Center
Registration pass required

Saturday, April 10, 2010

10:30–11:45 a.m.
Non-Naropa sponsored event
Re-writing America:
Complicating the Poetics of Identity.
Participants: Tim Z. Hernandez, Neelanjana Banerjee, Hayan Charara, Samantha Thornhill, Ching-In Chen, and Summi Kaipa
Description: Even as the minority surges towards the majority in making up the New America, poets seek out the nurturing spaces of ethno-literary organizations like Kundiman and Cave Canem. Popular ethnic-specific anthologies are being published each year. Yet the work coming out of these cultural boundaries is incredibly diverse in style and influence. This panel examines the ways in which hyphenated American poets are rethinking the concept of identity and, in turn, shaping the national zeitgeist.
Location: 201, Convention Center
Registration pass required

11:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m.
Sponsored by Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac
School of Disembodied Poetics
Naropa Faculty Book signing
11:00 a.m.: Keith Kumasen Abbott, Andrew Schelling, Indira Ganesan
12:00 p.m.: Anne Waldman, Bhanu Kapil, Anselm Hollo
1:00 p.m.: Amy Catanzano, Junior Burke, Lisa Birman, Elizabeth Robinson
Location: Jack Kerouac School Bookfair Booth, Convention Center, registration pass not required

1:30–2:45 p.m.
Non-Naropa sponsored event
Both Sides of the Mouth:
Teaching Bilingual Workshops
Participants: Tim Z. Hernandez, Cheryl Klein, Daniel Chacón, Naomi Hirahara
Description: Writers on this panel will talk about the challenges and the literary and cultural opportunities that arise when teaching workshops for audiences with mixed linguistic backgrounds in both community and academic settings.
Location: 107, Convention Center
Registration pass required

7:00–11:00 p.m.
Sponsored by Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac
School of Disembodied Poetics
Mercury Café Reading (off-site event)
Description: Please join us for a reading and celebration with Kerouac School faculty and staff, past and present. Readers include Anne Waldman, Lisa Birman, Reed Bye, Amy Catanzano, J’Lyn Chapman, Jack Collom, Danielle Dutton, HR Hegnauer, Laird Hunt, Bhanu Kapil, Julie Kazimer, Maureen Owen, Michelle Naka Pierce, Elizabeth Robinson, Andrew Schelling, Eleni Sikelianos, Daniel Staniforth, Sara Veglahn and more.
Location: The Mercury Café: 2199 California St., Denver
Registration pass not required

7:00–11:00 p.m.
Sponsored by Ahadada Books
Poetry from Ahadada Books & Unlikely Stories (off-site event)
Featured readers include Kerouac School faculty Amy Catanzano, alum Mark DuCharme, and other Ahadada Books authors
Location: Michelangelo’s: 1 Broadway Ste. B, Denver
Registration pass not required.