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&Now 2019 Conference

We look forward to seeing you this September at &Now: Points of Convergence!
Registration is now open. Please visit Ticketspice to reserve your pass and order boxed lunches.
Complete conference details, including travel, accessibility, and technology information, can be found at the conference website: andnowfestival.com.
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Registration questions: iasinfo@uw.edu.

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Benjamin Krusling

Benjamin Krusling is the author of a chapbook, GRAPES (Projective Industries, 2018), and a multimedia project, I have too much to hide, from Triple Canopy (forthcoming 2019). Work can be found or is forthcoming in Black Warrior Review, Denver Quarterly, The Recluse, and elsewhere.

9:00am PDT

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 Writing and Embodiment UW2-021 Dance StudioNaomi Macalalad Bragin • Jen Soriano

10:45am PDT

Witnessing, Speculation, and Surveillance UW1-051Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint • Eldritch Priest • Emma Rayward • Davis Schneiderman

1:15pm PDT

Real Life: An Installation UW2-021 Dance StudioEmma Gomis • Abraham Avnisan • Courtlin Byrd • Julie Carr • Joe Steele • Edwin Torres Poetry, Pedagogy, and Prison Abolition UW1-050Rob Halpern • Adam Malinowski • Rosie Stockton Recombinant Poetics UW1-030Lillian-Yvonne Bertram • Joel Katelnikoff • Katie Schaag • Marci Vogel Neurodivergent Poetics: The Writing Lives of Exceptional Minds UW1-121Chris Martin • Saretta Morgan • Lauren Russell • DJ Savarese • Naima Yael Tokunow • Adam Wolfond

3:00pm PDT

Radical Altars UW1-030Jane Wong Asymptotic Convergence, Restless Slippage: Roundtable on the Work of Nathaniel Mackey DISC-252Will Alexander • Maria Damon • Joseph Donahue • Jeanne Heuving • Erica Hunt • Adalaide Morris

9:00am PDT

Shards to Mosaic: The Power of Making Art Across Disciplines DISC-061 AuditoriumSamuel Ace • Laura Christina Dunn • Sawako Nakayasu • Sarah Rosenthal • Valerie Witte

10:45am PDT

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 Sounding Failure: Against Convergence as a Utopian Ideal UW2-021 Dance StudioSara Deniz Akant • Ashna Ali • Daisy Atterbury

1:15pm PDT

Performing Translation/Translating Performance UW1-030Toby Altman • Benjamin Krusling • Bianca Rae Messinger Where Languages Converge / Collide UW2-005 AuditoriumTonya Foster • Stefania Heim • Prageeta Sharma • Mónica de la Torre • Simone White

3:00pm PDT

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

4:45pm PDT

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

9:00am PDT

Hannah Weiner, Wellness, and Critical Archival Praxis UW1-121Nina Mamikunian • Siloh Radovsky • Adriana Tosun