Naropa University Summer Writing Program Co-hosts
“Moving Images” Poetry and Film Symposium with the University of Colorado

1st Symposium of its kind brings scholars, filmmakers and poets together to explore the intersection of film and poetry

What: “Moving Images” Poetry and Film Symposium When: Friday, June 24 through Sunday, June 26, 2011 Where: Naropa University Summer Writing Program and University of Colorado Why: To explore the intersections between film and poetry Cost: Free and open to the public Info: www.naropa.edu/swp/swp2011_events.cfm

BOULDER, Colo. (May 16, 2011)—Naropa University’s Summer Writing Program is
co-sponsoring “Moving Images,” a Poetry and Film Symposium in conjunction with the
University of Colorado Brakhage Center, Film Studies Program, English Department and Creative Writing Programs, from June 24 through June 26, 2011. The first symposium of its kind, sponsored in part by a grant from the Mellon Foundation, will feature leading scholars, as well as filmmakers and poets who will gather over the three days to explorethe diverse intersections between film and poetry. The conference, free and open to the public, will be held on both campuses, with the CU events to be held at the Boulder campus, in VAC 1B20.

Led by Tom Gunning, Professor of Art History, Cinema and Media Studies, as
well as Chair, Department of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago and the Edwin A. and Betty L. Bergman Distinguished Service Professor, the conference will explore the era of silent cinema and European avant-garde, to the post-war American avant-garde film and the special influences the genres of poetry and cinema have on each other. “Films are most frequently associated with genres
of storytelling or with documentary, but from the beginning of film history the genre of film poetry has also challenged filmmakers and viewers,” says Professor Gunning. “In what ways have poems influenced filmmakers? And how has cinema transformed the nature of modern poetry? These and other issues will be explored in this unique event.”

Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics’ “Outrider”
lineage has a long relationship within the avant-garde film community, the most famous being “Pull My Daisy,” based on a collaboration with Jack Kerouac, painter Alfred Leslie and photographer Robert Frank, and which featured poets Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Peter Orlovsy, and was narrated by Kerouac. Scheduled speakers include Aaron Angello, Cooper Battersby, Christiana Battle, Robert Bird, Lisa Birman, Dan Boord, Ed Bowes, Junior Burke, Heather Butler, Julie Carr, Erin Costello, Emily Duke, Lis Gill, Tom Gunning, Daniel Kane, Sarah Keller, Jeanne Liotta, John Lucas, Michele Menzies, Jennifer Peterson, Claudia Rankine, Phil Solomon, Luis Valvodino, Anne Waldman and Christophe Wall-Romana.

“Film Poetics will be a milestone for the Kerouac School at Naropa,” says Anne
Waldman. “Acknowledging the long collaboration and mutual inspiration between poets and avant-garde filmmakers in a town that Stan Brakhage and Allen Ginsberg both worked in is an historical event. We are working in a great partnership with CU for this occasion and with the film historian Tom Gunning from Chicago. This flicker of light and words outside Hollywood is strong and riveting...”

The event will kick off with a special evening held at the Naropa University
campus, during Week Two of the Summer Writing Program, and will premiere Ed
Bowes’ “The Value of Small Skeletons,” (2011), shot in Boulder with poetry by Anne
Waldman, Elizabeth Robinson and Bin Ramke. The full conference schedule (subject to
change) is as follows:

FRIDAY, June 24
Location: Naropa University Performing Arts Center
Time: 7:30–10:30 p.m.
Naropa Summer Writing Program Short Film Program: A short film
program, in which the works are juxtaposed with poetic responses by the filmmakers and poets. A short film program, in which the works are
juxtaposed with poetic responses by writers.
Writers include Reed Bye, Junior Burke, Anne Waldman, Jack Collom, and Danielle Vogel. Filmmakers include Robert Frank, Alfred Leslie, Ed Bowes, Bruce Conners, Abigail Child, Stan Brakhage, Nathaniel Dorsky, Maya Deren, Rudy Burckhardt, Dan Boord, Luis Valdovino, and Kenneth Anger.

SATURDAY, June 25:
Location: VAC 1B20, CU campus
Time: 10:00 a.m.–1:30 p.m.
Panel on Moving Image: organized by Professor Tom Gunning
Presenters: Michele Menzies, Sarah Keller, Tom Gunning, Robert Bird

SATURDAY, June 25:
Location: VAC 1B20, CU campus
Time: 3:00–5:00 p.m.
CU Film Studies Panel:organized by Phil Solomon, Jennifer Peterson

SATURDAY, June 25:
Location: VAC 1B20, CU campus
Time: 7:30–10:30 p.m.
Naropa Summer Writing Program Film Event organized by Anne
Waldman with introduction by Anne Waldman, Ed Bowes, Daniel Kane
Films: "The Value of Small Skeletons” by Ed Bowes &"The Time We
Killed" by Jennifer Reeves

SUNDAY, June 26:
Location: VAC 1B20, CU campus
Time: 11:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m.
Conference Panel: organized by Professor Tom Gunning
Presenters: Daniel Kane, Christophe Wall-Romana, James Rosenow

SUNDAY, June 26:
Location: VAC 1B20, CU campus
Time: 3:00–5:00 p.m.
CU Film Studies Panel: organized by Don Yannacito
Filmmakers Emily Duke and Cooper Battersby

SUNDAY, June 26:
Location: VAC 1B20, CU campus
Time: 5:30–7:30 p.m.
CU Creative Writing Panel: organized by Julie Carr
Presenters: Julie Carr & Christina Battle, David Gatten, Erin Espelie,
Claudia Rankine and John Lucas; Norma Cole, Wayne Smith, and Taylor
Brady; Jeanne Liotta and Lisa Gill

The Summer Writing Program, the birthplace of the Jack Kerouac School of
Disembodied Poetics, was founded in 1974 by the late Allen Ginsberg and Naropa
Distinguished Professor and Poet Anne Waldman. The four-week-long convocation
brings together students, scholars, fiction writers, translators, printers, editors, and others working in small press publishing. Participants work in daily contact with accomplished writers, meeting in small groups and individually so that both beginning and experienced writers find equal challenge in the program.

Naropa University is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission and a member of
the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools. Naropa University is a private,
nonprofit, nonsectarian liberal arts institution dedicated to advancing contemplative
education. This approach to learning integrates the best of Eastern and Western
educational traditions, helping students know themselves more deeply and engage
constructively with others. The university comprises a four-year undergraduate college and graduate programs in the arts, education, environmental leadership, psychology and religious studies.

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