Documentary Poetry, Popular Protest and Activism - An International Poetry and Poetics Seminar

Registration: 14:00–16:00

Lobby of the Combes Student Life Center (6, rue du Colonel Combes, 75007 Paris).

Opening Remarks: 17:30–18:00 (Q-801)

Official AUP Welcome by Provost William Fisher and professors Geoff Gilbert and William Dow

Plenary 1, 18:00-19:00 (Q-801)

Mark Nowak, “Slo-mo Doc-Po: Writing the Insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.”

Reception: 19:00–20:00 (Q-801)

Provisional list of poets:

• Lauren Russell
• Carlos Sotos Roman
• Biswamit Dwibedy
• Mark Nowak 

Panel 1: 9:30-11:00 (C-103 and C-104)

Diverse Beginnings: Documentary Forms and Poetics

Chair: Mark Nowak

• Amir Hussain. “Poetic Pasts in Muriel Rukeyser’s The Book of the Dead.”
• Jo A. Giardini. “Surveillance Autobiography and Dissident Reading.”
• Whitney Devos. “Documentary Poetry: An Inter-American Genre.”

Plenary 2: 11:00-12:00 (Q-801)

Abigail Lang, « notre tradition “objectiviste” », or How the Document Can Extend Poetry. (Gleize, Quintane, Leibovici).

Lunch: 12:00–13:15

At area cafes and restaurants.

Panel 2: 13:15-15:00 (C-103 and C-104)

Radical Politics, the News from Documentary Poetry, Poetics of Resistance

Chair:  Aurélien Bellucci

• Alvaro Seica. “Veiling and Unveiling: Poems that Protest by Erasing Documents.”
• Aurélien Bellucci, “A Poetry of the Audience: Street Performance with the Janya Netya Manch.”
• Carlos Soto Roman. "Cacería de Mujeres" (Women Hunt) by Carlos Droguett: a missing manuscript on violence against women during the Chilean dictatorship.

Coffee break: 15:00-15:30

Panel 3: 15:30-17:30 (C-103 and C-104)

Documentary Ethics and Appropriations

Chair: Ryan Clark

• Jessica L. Wilkinson. “Dealing with Difficulty.”
• Shiv Kotecha. “Documentary Fakery.”
• Ryan Clark. “Appositional Writing,” Ethics of Appropriation in Documentary Poetry.”

20:00 Dinner at Macéo Restaurant Dêpots de Vins (separate ticket needed)

Panel 4: 9:00-10:45 (C-103 and C-104)

Contemporary Forms of Documentary Poetry: Race, Polyvocality, and Documentary Mediation

Chair: Marie Lienard-Yeterian

• Marie Lienard-Yeterian. “Reginald Dwayne Betts’s Felon: the Shadid (Witness) Speaks of Rivers Beyond.”
• Naomi Toth. “Reginald Dwayne Betts: writing, redacting and fighting mass incarceration in the United States.”
• Lauren Russell. “First Person Second?: A Writerly Reckoning with Uneasy Implications for the Author in Documentary and Investigative Poetics Projects.”

Plenary 5: 11:00-12:00 (Q-801)

Franck Leibovici, "des œuvres-outils."

Lunch: 12:00-13:15

At area cafés and restaurants.

Panel 5: 13:15-15:15 (C-103 & C-104)

Documentary Poetry: Public Spaces, Activism, and Intersectional Identities

Chair: Geoff Gilbert

• K. Bellamy Mitchell. “Unsettling Racialized Regimes of Documentation in Divya Victor’s Curb.”
• Sophie Rashmuhl. “Amy Uyematsu: ‘A Yellow Power Advocate Turned Poet’ ‘determin[ed] to create beauty/in defiance of barbed wire jails’.”
• Andrés Guillo. “An Approach to Rap as Documentary Poetry.”
• Lisa Waller and Jessica L. Wilkinson. “A poetic approach to understanding journalists’ experiences of covering institutional child sexual abuse.”

Panel 6: 15: 30-16:30 (C-103 and C-104)

Framing, Performance, and Documentary Referencing

Chair: Abigail Lang

• Célia Galey. “Jackson MacLow’s Performance Poetry: A Living Archive.”
• Josh Corson. “Against Erasure: Examining Persona, Race and Subjectivity in DocuPoetry.”
• David Reckford. “A Documentary Turn in Poems Referencing Geography: from Langston Hughes’s ‘The Negro Speaks of Rivers’ to John Ashbery’s ‘Into the Dark Charged Air’.”

Closing Remarks

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