2010 Conference on Constrained Poetry, UNC Asheville |
We are delighted to announced the 2010 Conference on Constrained Poetry, to be held on November 19th and 20th, 2010 at UNC Asheville, in order to acknowledge the 50th anniversary of the founding of Oulipo.
Please click here to register for the conference. (Please note that there is no registration fee; we only ask that people register in advance so that we can estimate conference attendance and send out information concerning activities to take place at the conference.)
Please click here for a complete program.
The conference will feature talks and workshops by leading poets, including Lee Ann Brown. Brown is a poet, performer and the author of poetry collections Polyverse and The Sleep That Changed Everything. She has had a long-time involvement with Oulipo and also worked with Brown University Math Professor Thomas Banchoff on a course on the fourth dimension and the intersection between math and poetry. She now teaches poetry at St. John's University in New York City and is the editor of Tender Buttons Press which published books such as Trimmings by Harryette Mullen and Sonnets by Bernadette Mayer. She is also co-founder of the French Broad Institute (of Time and the River), a new multi-disciplinary performance space in Marshall, NC. Recordings of her poetry performances can be found on the web at PENNSOUND.
Participants will be invited to submit their work for inclusion in the proceedings, to be published in a special issue of the on-line journal Critiphoria.
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This event is co-sponsored by the UNC Asheville Departments of Literature & Language and Mathematics, the P.B. Parris Fund, the UNC Asheville Curricular Enhancement Fund, and the UNC Asheville Literature and Math Clubs.
For more information please contact one of the conference organizers: Patrick Bahls (pbahls@unca.edu) or Rick Chess (rchess@unca.edu).
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