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&Now 2019 Conference

We look forward to seeing you this September at &Now: Points of Convergence!
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3:00pm PDT

Registration and Bookfair Drop Off North Creek Events CenterBillie Swift • Mateó B. Ochoa

7:00pm PDT

Keynote Performance by LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs North Creek Events Center

8:00pm PDT

Opening Reception North Creek Events Center

8:30am PDT

Morning Coffee and Refreshments North Creek Events Center Registration North Creek Events Center A Collaboration of Amateurs Mobius Art GalleryEric Acosta • Amaranth Borsuk • Marina Burandt • Nicolas Hauser • Sabina Livadariu • Abigail Mandlin • Denise Calvetti Michaels • Ashley Noelle • Matthew Porter • Johanna Riggle Segesser • Stephanie Segura • Nicholas Sweeney Blue Monologue DISC-165BJo Stewart • Lyndsay Ellis Bloom Breathe the Machine UW2-121 Digital Media LabTeresa Carmody • Dengke Chen • Matt Roberts • Terri Witek CURB (an artists' book by Divya Victor, printed and bound by Aaron Cohick) Mobius Art GalleryAaron Cohick • Divya Victor • CJ Martin Home is a Flame Surrounded Mobius Art GallerySarah Minor The Ambrose J and Vivian T Seagrave Museum of 20th Century Art Mobius Art GalleryMatt Kirkpatrick The Mueller Report as Poetic Text Mobius Art GalleryBen Doller • Sandra Doller The Museum of Alternative History Pop-Up Exhibit Mobius Hall FoyerTim Guthrie • Andi Olsen • Davis Schneiderman Visualizing & Performing Poetry HH-1310 GalleryAnida Yoeu Ali

9:00am PDT

Breathe the Machine: An Introduction UW2-121 Digital Media LabTeresa Carmody • Dengke Chen • Matt Roberts • Terri Witek The Museum of Alternative History UW1-030Tim Guthrie • Andi Olsen • Davis Schneiderman Excavating Trauma & Elevating Self-Care: A Cross-Genre Conversation on Convergence DISC-061 AuditoriumSerena Chopra • Julia Cohen • Lily Hoang • Sara Renee Marshall • Joanna C. Valente On the Intellectual & Sensuous UW1-121S. Brook Corfman • Gabrelle Rajerison • S. Yarberry The Bear is at the Door, Knocking: The Absolute Need for Weird Fiction UW1-040Jessica Alexander • Jason Daniels • Janalyn Guo • Eric Howerton The World in the Word: Diction as World-Building DISC-252John Beer • Megan Kaminski • Rone Shavers • Rodrigo Toscano Updating Bachelard: Toward a Digital Poetics of Space UW1-050Catherine Bresner • Chris Campanioni • William Lessard • Nicole McCarthy Writing and Embodiment UW2-021 Dance StudioNaomi Macalalad Bragin • Jen Soriano

10:15am PDT

Break

10:45am PDT

Responding to Grief and Trauma UW1-121Tracy Jane Gregory • Corbin Louis • Reinetta Van, Captain, US Navy (Retired) • Quintan Ana Wikswo Witnessing, Speculation, and Surveillance UW1-051Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint • Eldritch Priest • Emma Rayward • Davis Schneiderman Cascadia by Anthology UW1-050Cate Gable • Nadine Antoinette Maestas • Paul E. Nelson • Matt Trease Fantasia Verde: An Opera in Progress UW1-030Jonathan Balsley • Andrew Buchman • Zhang Er Spelling: Poetry as spell-casting DISC-252Tamiko Beyer • Destiny Hemphill • Tatiana Figueroa Ramirez • Lisbeth White When Poetry Meets Science UW1-040Rae Armantrout • Laynie Browne • Amy Catanzano Performing Virtual Selves UW2-021 Dance StudioStine An • cris cheek • Erin E. Edwards • Ian Hatcher Horrors of the Family Romance DISC-061 AuditoriumRebecca Brown • Brian Evenson • Christina Milletti • Janet Sarbanes

12:00pm PDT

Climate Strike Climate Council North Creek Events CenterMiranda Mellis Lunch Break North Creek Events Center Bookfair—Open Books: A Poem Emporium North Creek Events Center

1:15pm PDT

Real Life: An Installation UW2-021 Dance StudioEmma Gomis • Abraham Avnisan • Courtlin Byrd • Julie Carr • Joe Steele • Edwin Torres Learning to Die, A lot DISC-252Katherine Agyemaa Agard • Meliza Bañales • Teresa Carmody • Miranda Mellis • Reema Rajbanshi • Anna Joy Springer Poetry, Pedagogy, and Prison Abolition UW1-050Rob Halpern • Adam Malinowski • Rosie Stockton Recombinant Poetics UW1-030Lillian-Yvonne Bertram • Joel Katelnikoff • Katie Schaag • Marci Vogel Writing and Performance Across Multilingual Networks DISC-061 AuditoriumGabrielle Civil • Angel Dominguez • ELÆ [Lynne DeSilva-Johnson] • Sawako Nakayasu • Orchid Tierney Notes in Passing: hypnotically porpoise exercises in lectures UW1-040Stine An • Mairéad Byrne • Darcie Dennigan • Stacey Tran Neurodivergent Poetics: The Writing Lives of Exceptional Minds UW1-121Chris Martin • Saretta Morgan • Lauren Russell • DJ Savarese • Naima Yael Tokunow • Adam Wolfond On Ugliness UW1-060Broc Rossell • Jordan Scott

2:30pm PDT

Break

3:00pm PDT

Radical Altars UW1-030Jane Wong Dreaming and Divination UW1-051Marilyn Freeman • Annie Grosshans Art Writing: Upending the Critic UW1-040Jared Stanley • Leora Fridman • Dorothy R. Santos • Anne Lesley Selcer Failure Biographies UW2-021 Dance StudioVidhu Aggarwal • Johnny Damm • Michael Tod Edgerton Visual Poetics UW1-121Austin Brady • Daniel Uncapher • Nico Vassilakis Fiction Collective Two: Performance & Conversation DISC-061 AuditoriumDarcie Dennigan • Jennifer Natalya Fink • Carol Guess • Evelyn Hampton • Michael Mejia • Lance Olsen • Joanna Ruocco • Aurelie Sheehan • Elisabeth Sheffield Asymptotic Convergence, Restless Slippage: Roundtable on the Work of Nathaniel Mackey DISC-252Will Alexander • Maria Damon • Joseph Donahue • Jeanne Heuving • Erica Hunt • Adalaide Morris Poetics as Play and Possibility: An Interactive Workshop UW1-060Lauren Russell • Keith S. Wilson

4:15pm PDT

Afternoon coffee and refreshments Mobius Hall Theater

4:30pm PDT

Keynote Book Sales Mobius Hall Theater

4:45pm PDT

Keynote Presentation by Barbara Browning Mobius Hall TheaterBarbara Browning

8:30am PDT

Morning Coffee and Refreshments North Creek Events Center Registration North Creek Events Center A Collaboration of Amateurs Mobius Art GalleryEric Acosta • Amaranth Borsuk • Marina Burandt • Nicolas Hauser • Sabina Livadariu • Abigail Mandlin • Denise Calvetti Michaels • Ashley Noelle • Matthew Porter • Johanna Riggle Segesser • Stephanie Segura • Nicholas Sweeney Blue Monologue DISC-165BJo Stewart • Lyndsay Ellis Bloom Breathe the Machine UW2-121 Digital Media LabTeresa Carmody • Dengke Chen • Matt Roberts • Terri Witek CURB (an artists' book by Divya Victor, printed and bound by Aaron Cohick) Mobius Art GalleryAaron Cohick • Divya Victor • CJ Martin Home is a Flame Surrounded Mobius Art GallerySarah Minor The Ambrose J and Vivian T Seagrave Museum of 20th Century Art Mobius Art GalleryMatt Kirkpatrick The Mueller Report as Poetic Text Mobius Art GalleryBen Doller • Sandra Doller The Museum of Alternative History Pop-Up Exhibit Mobius Hall FoyerTim Guthrie • Davis Schneiderman • Andi Olsen Visualizing & Performing Poetry HH-1310 GalleryAnida Yoeu Ali

9:00am PDT

Convergence and Divergence UW1-010Yanyi • Brian Evenson • Judith Goldman • Robert Mittenthal Difficult Women: Acceptance and Accessibility DISC-162Carol Guess • Evelyn Hampton • Aimee Parkison • Bailey Pittenger • Aurelie Sheehan Limit Texts and Synesthesia UW1-121Ryan Bell • Deven Philbrick • Jason Zuzga Shards to Mosaic: The Power of Making Art Across Disciplines DISC-061 AuditoriumSamuel Ace • Laura Christina Dunn • Sawako Nakayasu • Sarah Rosenthal • Valerie Witte Toward Topological Poetics, Media & Materiality, and the Impossibility of a Desaturated Media Environment UW1-040Brent Cox • Simon Eales • Amanda Hurtado • Blair Johnson • Travis Sharp Translation as Collaboration UW1-030Ali Araghi • Poupeh Missaghi • Riccardo Pieri • Deborah Woodard A Pilipinx Multiverse: Pilipinx Poetic Presence & Futurisms DISC-252Hari Alluri • Rachelle Cruz • Janice Lobo Sapigao • Angela Penaredondo • MT Vallarta Paris: Climate Crisis Chopped & Screwed CodexJennifer Calkins • Anne de Marcken

10:15am PDT

Break

10:45am PDT

Beyond Return: Translation, Diaspora, and the Poetics and Politics of Origin UW1-040Quenton Baker • Susan Gevirtz • Zhang Er • Eleni Stecopoulos Expanding the Inquiry: RAD! Residencies @&Now UW1-030Harold Abramowitz • Will Alexander • Michelle Detorie • Joseph Mosconi • Gillian Osborne • Andrea Quaid • Laura Vena Form and (Dis)Content, Volume II: Speculative and Experimental Approaches to Language by Authors of Color DISC-061 AuditoriumKrista Franklin • Douglas Kearney • Kenning JP Garcia • Jennifer Maritza McCauley • Rone Shavers Radical Place : The Poetics of Experimental Geography UW1-010Jalayna Carter • Demian DinéYazhi' • Sam Roxas-Chua • Adam Tedesco • Amie Zimmerman Text in Textiles: a critical/creative hybrid panel session DISC-252Jena Osman • Lisa Anne Auerbach • Francesca Capone Writing Girlhood DISC-162Christine Hume • Aisha Sabatini Sloan • Christina Milletti • Susan McCarty Sounding Failure: Against Convergence as a Utopian Ideal UW2-021 Dance StudioSara Deniz Akant • Ashna Ali • Daisy Atterbury Threads of Influence & Homage: Embodied Poetics UW1-060Laynie Browne • Peter Buller

12:00pm PDT

Lunch Break North Creek Events Center Bookfair—Open Books: A Poem Emporium North Creek Events Center

1:15pm PDT

Sound / Site / Archive UW1-010Abraham Avnisan • Ian Bawn • Kelly Dulaney • Carlito Espudo • Jeff T. Johnson Abstraction, Engagement, and Time: the Politics of Form DISC-252Deborah Meadows • Maya Sonenberg • Cole Swensen ALL THIS & MORE: Form, Subjectivity, and Difference in Hybrid, Multidisciplinary Works DISC-162Mary-Kim Arnold • Jan Maghinay Padios • Dao Strom • lê thi diem thúy Language Tactics UW1-040Joel Felix • Broc Rossell • Mady Schutzman • Edwin Torres Performing Translation/Translating Performance UW1-030Toby Altman • Benjamin Krusling • Bianca Rae Messinger Pushing Boundary: Trans, Genderqueer & Non-Binary Poets Off the Page DISC-061 AuditoriumSamuel Ace • Ching-In Chen • Jai Dulani • Duriel E. Harris Where Languages Converge / Collide UW2-005 AuditoriumTonya Foster • Stefania Heim • Prageeta Sharma • Mónica de la Torre • Simone White Little Brown Language UW2-021 Dance StudioAngel Alviar-Langley (Moonyeka) • Naomi Macalalad Bragin • Milvia Berenice Pacheco Salvatierra

2:30pm PDT

Break

3:00pm PDT

Asian/American Speculative Poetics DISC-061 AuditoriumVidhu Aggarwal • Ching-In Chen • Rachelle Cruz • Saba Syed Razvi • Margaret Rhee Whereby the Present Haunts Itself UW1-030Yanara Friedland • Tom Haviv • Robert Yerachmiel Sniderman • Jane Wong Following the Thread: Thinking and Making DISC-162Maria Damon • Jeanne Heuving • Julie Ezelle Patton Imagining the Anthropocene UW1-051Kanika Agrawal • Bill Basquin • Steve Tomasula CANCELLED—bodies of light. ensue UW2-021 Dance StudioJulie Dind • Nikolina Lazetic WITH WAVES: A Collaborative Performance DISC-252Harold Abramowitz • Toby Altman • cris cheek • Brad Gallagher • Kenning JP Garcia • Ian Hatcher • Marcy Rae Henry • Paolo Javier • Jennifer Karmin • Cy Ozgood • Deborah Poe • Matt Trease Paris: Climate Crisis Chopped & Screwed—Process Discussion UW1-121Jennifer Calkins • Anne de Marcken CANCELLED—Precarious Embodiment: Provocations in Trans/Gendered Justice UW1-060Shamala Gallagher • Mel Kutner

4:15pm PDT

Afternoon Coffee and Refreshments Mobius Hall Theater

4:30pm PDT

Bookfair—Open Books: A Poem Emporium Mobius Hall Theater

4:45pm PDT

Keynote Reading & Conversation with Nathaniel Mackey, Introduction by Jeanne Heuving Mobius Hall TheaterNathaniel Mackey

6:15pm PDT

Reception Mobius Hall Theater

7:00pm PDT

Marathon reading kick-off: Imre Lodbrog et sa Petite Amie (Sébastien Régnier and Barbara Browning) Mobius Hall TheaterBarbara Browning • Sébastien Régnier

7:30pm PDT

Marathon reading continues Mobius Hall Theater

8:30am PDT

Morning Coffee and Refreshments DISC-152 Makerspace Registration DISC-152 Makerspace Blue Monologue DISC-165BJo Stewart • Lyndsay Ellis Bloom Breathe the Machine UW2-121 Digital Media LabTeresa Carmody • Dengke Chen • Matt Roberts • Terri Witek

9:00am PDT

Multimodal Convergence: Situating Activist Poetics Through Multimodal Collaboration DISC-252Emerson Eads • Ananya Garg • C. R. Grimmer • Aaron Holloway • Patrick Milian • Jan Okemgbo Hannah Weiner, Wellness, and Critical Archival Praxis UW1-121Nina Mamikunian • Siloh Radovsky • Adriana Tosun Re-Building Realities: Experimental Forms & Formats in Queer Writing UW1-030Elanor Broker • Rachel Linn • Miranda Schmidt Shape-shifting Convergence: Conjuring the Feminine Divine, Power, and Creation UW2-021 Dance StudioGabrielle Civil • Ana-Maurine Lara • Purvi Shah • Sun Yung Shin The "Several Lives" of Multimedia Texts DISC-162Rajnesh Chakrapani • Noam Dorr • Chelsea Werner-Jatzke • Sarah Minor • Cori A. Winrock The Veer & the Verge: A Discussion of National Identity, Migration, and Diasporic Convergence in Divya Victor’s CURB UW1-010Aaron Cohick • Divya Victor • CJ Martin • Serena Chopra Resisting Futurity: An Equinoctial Workshop UW1-060Megan Kaminski • Linda Russo

10:15am PDT

Break

10:45am PDT

OPEN SYSTEMS: A Performance in Flux UW2-021 Dance StudioWoogee Bae • Zack Brown • Katelyn Oppegard Ask Not What Poetry Can Do For Video, But What Video Can Do For Poetry DISC-252Courtlin Byrd • Zak Byrd • Brent Cox • Corbin Louis • Madison McCartha Autotheory and Intersectional Form: Embodiment and the Politics of Hybridity UW1-010Shamala Gallagher • Jen Soriano • Arianne Zwartjes Grotesquing Gender: Deforming Narrative Now DISC-061 AuditoriumAimee Parkison • Jennifer Natalya Fink • Rebecca Brown • Michelle Donahue Homing: Rights, Relations and Rituals UW1-030Kanika Agrawal • Mildred K Barya • Poupeh Missaghi Queering Intersectionality | Difference and Convergence UW1-060Ever Jones • Sarah Chavez Bookfair—Open Books: A Poem Emporium DISC-152 Makerspace

7:00pm PDT

Special Event: Nathaniel Mackey and Marty Ehrlich: A Collaborative Performance Hugo House, Seattle, WANathaniel Mackey • Marty Ehrlich