&Now Festival

Monday April 14

6:30 Registration

Doubletree Hotel

Tuesday April 15

8:30 – 10:00 Registration

Hallway outside Argyros Forum 209

10:30 – 12:00 Session I

• Les Figues Press
  Teresa Carmody, Vanessa Place, Axel Thormählen, Christine Wertheim, Allison Carter
• Red Love; Is There a Plot?; Future Catastrophes
  Anna Joy Springer, Michael Harold, Davis Schneiderman
• Online Writing: The Best of the First Ten Years
  Ted Pelton, Carol Novack, Daniel Grandbois, Sheila Murphy
• Wreckage of Reason
  Amina Cain, Sandra Doller, Cynthia Reeves, Alicita Rodriguez

1:00 – 2:30 Session II

• Mad Hatter’s Review
  Marc Lowe, Davis Schneiderman, Sheila Murphy, Julie Ann Shapiro
• Video Poetry; not-God; Body Shaped Bodies
  Stacy Cartledge, Brian Egdorf, Lara Odell/Logan Esdale
• Questionstruck; Houndstooth; American Flamingoes, An Experimental Monologue; Merciless Beauties
  William Walsh, David Wirthlin, Reneé D’Aoust, Sam Eisenstein
• New Openings for Aspects of Innovative Cultural Practice
  Harold Abramowitz, Amanda Ackerman, Mathew Timmons, Allison Carter, Joe Potts

2:45 – 4:00 Session III:

• The New Conversation/The Agency of Solitude/Towards a Transformational Poetry/The Bay Area Now
  Kati Knox, Allegra Chabay, Ariel Goldberg, Stephen Ratcliffe
• Mars; Structuralist Theory for Fiction; Your Brain on Fiction
  Alexandra Chasin, James Ryan, Harry Youtt
• Pub Club I
  Aja Smith, Adam Griffith, Courtney Wadman, Cruz Medina, Meghan Fitzpatrick, Daniel Schutz
• Starcherone Press
  Ted Pelton, Zachary Mason, Janet Mitchell, Aimee Parkison

4:15 – 5:30 Session IV

Argyros Forum 201

• Featured Reader: Steve Katz

6:00 – 7:00 Reception Hosted by Leatherby Libraries

Jim and Kay Burra Rotunda - 2nd Floor Leatherby Libraries

7:00 – 8:30 Session V

Doy and Dee Henley Reading Room, 2nd Floor, Leatherby Libraries

• A Celebration of the Innovative Press:
  Honoring Sun & Moon / Green Integer Press and the Douglas Messerli gift to Leatherby Libraries
• A Green Integer Reading:
  Stacey Levine, Wendy Walker, Tom Lafarge

Wednesday April 16

9:00 – 10:30 Session VI

• The No-Narrator in Fiction
  David Kress, Christina Milletti, Dimitri Anastasopoulos
• Digital Literature: Three Readings
  Marjorie C. Luesebrink, Stephanie Strickland, Mark Marino
• I Thou’d It
  Anna Joy Springer, Vanessa Place, Tisa Bryant
• Proteus Gowanus Gallery/Reading Room
  Tom LaFarge, Wendy Walker, Sasha Chavchavadze

10:45 – 12:15 Session VII

• Fictionalist; Edgelessness; Poesia; By Land
  Ruben Casas, Ryan Wirick, Kevin Toth, Gretchen Henderson
• Live Typing - Improvised; The Animation of Word; The Sleeping People
  Bonnie Jones, Tim Guthrie, Ric Royer
• Spuyten Duyvil Press
  Will Alexander, Noam Mor, David Lincoln, Mark Spitzer
• Graduate Writing Faculty from Otis College of Art and Design: Place and Location: Readings and Conversations
  Douglas Messerli, Dennis Phillips, Moderated by Paul Vangelisti

1:15 – 2:30 Session VIII

Argyros Forum 201

• FC2 – Flash Readings
  Alexandra Chasin, Jeffrey DeShell, Debra Di Blasi, Steve Guttierez, Michael Joyce, Vanessa Place, Elizabeth Sheffield, Yuriy Tarnawski, Lance Olsen, Lidia Yuknavitch

2:45 – 4:00 Session IX

• Noulipean Analects
  Allison Carter, Christine Wertheim, Mathew Timmons, Matias Viegener, Vanessa Place
• The Critifictional Moment
  Yuriy Tarnawsky, Lance Olsen, Michael Joyce, Lidia Yuknavitch
• Going Commando
  Alexandra Chasin, Debra Di Blasi, Megan Milks, Aimee Parkison
• New Books from Green Integer
  Denyse Delcourt, Rebecca Goodman, Dennis Phillips

5:00 – 7:00 Reception

Balcony, Beckman Hall 404

7:00 – 8:30 Session X

Beckman 404

• Plenary Session
• Plenary Speaker : Ishmael Reed

Thursday April 17

9:00 – 10:30 Session XI

• &THEN
  Danielle Soucy, Nidzara Pecenkovic, Daniel Fingerhut, Wesley Frazee, Hyrum Taylor
• Science & Literature: Systems Theory, Scientific Language,Generative Science/Scientifically Generated
  Debra Di Blasi, Jennifer Calkins, Andrea Fitzpatrick, Vanessa Place
• Narratives Inspired by Oulipo
  Pedro Ponce, Wendy Walker, Alicita Rodriguez, Joseph Starr, Danielle Alexander
• Artists’ Institutions and Participatory Models
  Harold Abramowitz, Teresa Carmody, Danielle Adair Correll, Anthony McCann, Mathew Timmons

10:45 – 12:15 Session XII

• Graduate Writing Faculty from Otis College of Art and Design: Place and Location: Readings and Conversations
  Brian Blanchfield, Peter Gadol, Beatrice Mousli, moderated by Paul Vangelisti
• Statement, Cuts of Phi on Heidegger/Adorno’s Turn; The Rousselian Pun-Puzzle
  Danielle Adair Correll, Mike Barrett, James Ryan
• Written on the Body: The Scar Project; Ephemeral City; I Exhume Myself
  Andi Olsen, Donna Cameron, Christine Hume
• Pub Club II
  Jennifer Strickland, Jessica Quadra, Jazmine Green, Jonelle Bowden, Steven Kowal

1:15 – 2:30 Session XIII

Beckman Hall 404

• Featured Reader: Steve Tomasula

2:45 – 4:00 Session XIV

• Dysfunctional Fictions
  Greg Bills, Jeffrey DeShell, Michael du Plessis, Elizabeth Sheffield, Jeff Soloman
• Questionstruck; Poetry: Finish Your Sentence; Non-Binary/Fractal Politics
  William Walsh, Hugh Tribbey, Frankie Drayus, Brandon Wyant
• Mad Hatter’s Review 2
  Carol Novack, Stephanie Strickland, Andrea Fitzpatrick, Martin Nakell
• Disruptions in Language - A Discussion
  Harold Abramowitz, Allison Carter, Mathew Timmons

4:15 – 5:30 Session XV

• Poet; The Painted; The Public Word; Wit
  Thérèse Bachand, Mark Wallace, Fred Dewey, Christopher Reiner
• A Show of Hands:
  Mark Marino, Roberto Leni, Gabriel Fumero
• Sexual Stealing; Skin; Fabulous; Exile/Home/Immortality
  Wendy Walker, Tom LaFarge, Jim Blaylock, Alicia Kozameh
• Disruptions in Language - A Reading
  Danielle Adair Correll, Allison Carter, Mathew Timmons, Joe Potts, Ara Shirinyan

7:00 – 8:00 Session XVI

Beckman 404

• Closing Reading/Performance: David Antin

8:30 Closing Party

Citrus City Grill