Thursday (Sept. 20)
7:00–8:30: Keynote Lecture: Dr. Diana Brydon (Crabtree M14)
8:30–10:00: Opening Reception at Cranewood
Friday (Sept. 21)
9:00–10:30: Panel 1A (Avard-Dixon 116) and 1B (Barclay 311)
10:30–11:00: Coffee break (TBA)
11:00–12:30: Panel 2A (Avard-Dixon 120) and 2B (Hart Hall 101)
12:30–1:30: Lunch (provided at Tweedie Hall)
1:30–2:30: Roundtable: Poetry and the Academy: Tanis MacDonald, derek beaulieu,
Rob Winger, Kevin McNeilly, Erín Moure. Moderated by Christl Verduyn (Avard-Dixon 118)
2:30–4:00: Panel 3A (Avard-Dixon 111) and 3B (Avard-Dixon 116)
4:00–4:15 Coffee break (Crabtree M14)
4:15-5:45: Keynote Readings: “The Impossible and The Unmentionable” by derek beaulieu and Erín Moure (Crabtree M14)
6:00–7:30: Conference Dinner (provided at Tweedie Hall)
7:30–8:30: Keynote Lecture: Sina Queyras (Crabtree M14)
9:00–?: Concert sponsored by Sappyfest
(Artists: Tanya Davis, El Jones, Ardath Whynacht, Old Man Luedecke)
Saturday (Sept. 22)
(Free time in the morning to check out the market, fair, and poetry on poles)
11:00–12:30: Panel 4A (Crabtree M14)
12:30–1:30: Roundtable: Poetry and Activism: El Jones, Karis Shearer, Tanya Davis, Ardath Whynacht, Phanuel Antwi. Moderated by Erin Wunker (Crabtree M14)
1:30–2:30: Lunch (provided at Convocation Hall Foyer)
2:30–4:00: Panel 5A (Crabtree M2) and 5B (Crabtree M10)
4:00–4:15 Coffee break
4:15–5:45: Panel 6A (Crabtree M2) and 6B (Crabtree M10)
6:00–7:30: FREE TIME
7:30–9:00: Mass Poetry Reading! (Owens Art Gallery)
9:00–?: RECEPTION AND FREE TIME
Sunday (Sept. 23)
10:00-10:30: Introduction to CWRC: Susan Brown, project leader (Crabtree M14)
10:30-11:00: Roundtable on creative/critical projects (Crabtree M14)
11:00-12:30: Experimentation: Using digital tools (Crabtree M14)
12:30-1:30: Lunch (provided at Convocation Hall Foyer)
1:30-3:00: Roundtable on Networking: Chaired by Susan Brown and Erin Wunker (Crabtree M14)
Keynote Lectures
Diana Brydon: Canadian Poetry and Poetics in a Globalizing World
(Thurs. 7:00–8:30, Crabtree M14)
Sina Queyras: Public Poet, Private Life: On The Dream of a Communal Self
(Fri. 7:30–8:30, Crabtree M14)
Panels
1A: POETRY’S PLACE (Fri. 9:00–10:30, Avard-Dixon 116)
Chair: Tanis MacDonald
Ian Rae
: The City as Stage: James Reaney and Stratford
Will Smith:
Poetry is Public is Poetry: Toronto, Civil Space and Public Poetics in the work of Raymond Souster and Dennis Lee
J. A. Weingarten
: Reimagining the Wasteland: Postwar Literary History and the Rise of Prairie Poetry Communities
1B: LYRICAL (IM)BALANCE (Fri. 9:00–10:30, Barclay 311)
Chair: Rob Winger
Natalie Childs:
“Things, things add up”: Breaking the frame of ungrievability in Inventory
Kevin McNeilly:
“We jimmied the radio”: Gillian Jerome, Brad Cran and the Lyric in Public
Emily Ballantyne: Rearticulate, Renovate, Rebuild: Sachiko Murakami’s Architectural Poetics of Community
2A: POLITICS OF POETRY (Fri. 11:00–12:30, Avard-Dixon 120)
Chair: Katherine MacLeod
Robert David Stacey:
The Work Labour
of Poetry: Notes Towards an Impossibility
Andrea Hasenbank
: Canadian Pamphleteers and the Poetics of Refusal
El Jones: The Threat of Black Art or: On Being Unofficially Banned in Canada
2B: SPACE-TIME COLLABORATIONS (Fri. 11:00–12:30, Hart Hall 101)
Chair: Vanessa Lent
Michael Minor: Collaborative Editing in Margaret Avison’s Last Poems
Andrea Cabajsky
: Alternative Responses to Nation-Formation: Variant and Lost Poems by Rosanna Mullins Leprohon
Gaby Divay
: Rigid versus Flexible Aesthetics: FPG (Greve/Grove)’s & Else von Freytag-Loringhoven (FrL)’s Poetry
Dean Irvine: Salvage Modernism: Indigenous Knowledges, Public Domain, and Digital Repatriation
3A: OUTSIDE POETRY? (Fri. 2:30–4:00, Avard-Dixon 111)
Chair: Kirsty Bell
Andrea Beverley: Non-Status and No Borders: Reading the Undocumented
Ardath Whynacht: Making an Opening; on oral poetry, disciplinarity and community dialogue
Zachariah Wells
: Why I Am Not a People’s Poet
3B: EXPERIMENT WHERE? NOW! (Fri. 2:30–4:00, Avard-Dixon 116)
Chair: Karis Shearer
John Stout
: Canadian experimental poetry of the last decade
Amanda Lim
: Swarming the Publics: Poetries of the Present
Simona Bertacco:
Where is the Public in Experimental Poetry?
4A: POETRY’S CRITICISM (Sat. 11:00–12:30, Crabtree M14)
Chair: Kevin McNeilly
Amanda Jernigan:
Poetry, Criticism, and Culpability in Peter Sanger’s Aiken Drum
Rob Winger
: The People’s Poet: Al Purdy as Organic Intellectual?
Tanis MacDonald: The Counter/Public in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of Poetry in Canada
5A: ALTERNATIVE CONTEXTS FOR POETRY (Sat. 2:30–4:00, Crabtree M2)
Chair: Travis V. Mason
Kathleen McConnell:
Producing an on-line Archive of Atlantic Canadian Poets
Janine Rogers
: Literature in “the lab”: Canadian poetics of science
Vanessa Lent
: Disrupting Poetry: Wilfred Watson’s let’s murder Clytemnestra according to the principles of Marshall McLuhan at the 1969 “Poet and Critic ’69 Poète et Critique” Conference.
5B: VOICES CALLING (OUT) THE PUBLIC (Sat. 2:30–4:00, Crabtree M10)
Chair: Deborah Wills
Geordie Miller
: To the Bone: Instrumental Aesthetics in Dionne Brand’s Ossuaries
Erín Moure
and Karis Shearer: Poetry Reading: Call for a New Paradigm
6A: CALLING OUT TO A PUBLIC (Sat. 4:15–5:45, Crabtree M2)
Chair: Andrea Hasenbank
Shannon Maguire:
Distributed Text-Work: The Publics & Privates of Margaret Christakos’s Influency Salon
Michael Nardone
: A Transcriptive Poetics
Heather Milne
: Canadian Feminist Poetics and the Global Political Imaginary
6B: RADIO SIGNALS (Sat. 4:15–5:45, Crabtree M10)
Chair: Erin Wunker
Laura Cameron: Phyllis Webb and “Mr. John C. Public”: Promoting Poetry in the 1950s
Joel Deshaye: Fighting Words: Irving Layton on Radio and Television
Katherine McLeod: Radio Poetics: Publishing and Poetry on CBC’s “Anthology”
