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Innovative Poetries – Innovations in Poetry
University of Łódź, 29-30 September 2016
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
28 SEPTEMBER
Registration at the conference venue, beginning at noon.
29 SEPTEMBER
9:00 – 10:30 Opening remarks and Keynote lecture:
Carla Billitteri (University of Maine): “Dissipative structures of subjectivity,
intersectionality of address, and new poetics of facticity”
10:30 – 10:45 coffee
10:45 – 12:15 Session 1: Avant-garde experiment and its political efficacies, part One
Chair: Małgorzata Myk (University of Łódź)
Magdalena Zurawski (University of Georgia): “Marxism for Single Mothers: the
Politicization of the Personal in Anne Boyer’s Garments Against Women and Sandra
Simond’s Steal It Back”
Jerzy Kamionowski (University of Białystok): “Racist (Micro)Agressions, the Lyrical
You, and Increased Legibility in Claudia Rankine's Citizen. An American Lyric”
Paweł Kaczmarski (University of Wrocław): “June Jordan and the Politics of Parataxis”
[break; no coffee]
12:30 – 13:30 Session 2: Beyond the strictly literary – poetry and its external environments
Chair: Kacper Bartczak (University of Łódź)
Eran Hadas (Tel Aviv): “The Consequences and Biases of Computational Poetry”
Marianne Ølholm (University of Copenhagen): “Other Discourses in Poetry”
13:30 – 15:00 lunch [at the conference venue; provided by the organizers]
15:00 – 16:30 Session 3: The poetic text and its readings
Chair: Paweł Kaczmarski (University of Wrocław)
Joel Katelnikoff (University of Alberta): “Inhabitation: Steve McCaffery: ‘great poems
are read from the bottom up’”
Miikka Laihinen (University Of Turku): “A-signifying stream of language in Mikael
Brygger's poems”
Tomasz Cieślak-Sokołowski (Jagiellonian University): “Experimental, innovative,
radical, difficult poetics – a terminological confusion and ‘new poetries’”
16:30 – 16:45 coffee
16:45 – 18:00 Session 4: Biography and identity in the Language poetry stylistics
Chair: Joel Katelnikoff
Tadeusz Pióro (University of Warsaw): “Autobiography and the Politics and Aesthetics
of Language Poetry”
Alba Cid (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela): “When The Poem Does Not Tell:
Reading a Galician Poet Through Language Writing”
19:00
poetry reading and evening meal (barbecue)
30 SEPTEMBER
9:00 – 10:15
Keynote lecture:
David Herd (University of Kent): Writing the non-sovereign space: law, movement,
poetry
10:15 – 10:30 Coffee
10:30 – 12:00 Session 5: From poetry to prose
Chair: Jacek Partyka (University of Białystok)
Joanna Orska (University of Wrocław): “The American Prose Poem in Polish
Translation”
Grzegorz Kość (University of Łódź): “When Poetry Tips into Prose: Prose Memoirs by
American Post-WWII Poets”
Mikołaj Wiśniewski (University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw): “The
Matrix of Poetry: James Schuyler's Diary”
[break; no coffee]
12:15 – 13:15 Session 6: Session on Susan Howe
Chair: Paulina Ambroży (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań)
Floriana Puglisi (University of Catania): “Sounding the Text: The Transformations of
Susan Howe and David Grubbs”
Jacek Partyka (University of Białystok): “The 'Disjunctive' and the 'Unoriginal': The
Poetics of Susan Howe”
13:15 – 14:30 lunch [lunch at local restaurants]
14:30 – 15:30 Session 7: Traditions and continuities
Chair: Tomasz Cieślak-Sokołowski (Jagiellonian University)
Ginevra Paparoni (Università degli Studi di Milano): “The Religious Imagery of
Theodore Roethke's Greenhouse Poems”
Stamatina Dimakopoulou (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens): “With
and Against the wagers of language and conceptualism: Interiority and Exposure in
US poetry in the late 1960s and early 1970s”
[break; no coffee]
15:45 – 17:15 Session 8: Between the natural and the artificial
Chair: Magdalena Zurawski
Paulina Ambroży (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań): “’In your synthesis the
signal condenses’: Plastic Poetics in Adam Dickinson’s Polymers and Kacper Bartczak’s
Organic Poems”
Jerzy Jarniewicz (University of Łódź): “"Beyond Syntax? Ian Hamilton Finlay's Garden
of Poem-Objects”
Monika Kocot (University of Łódź): "’Every day is a journey, and the journey itself
home’: From Matsuo Bashō to Kenneth White’s Geopoetics”
17:15 – 17:30 coffee
17:30 – 18:30 Session 9: Avant-garde experiment and its political efficacies, part Two
Chair: Małgorzata Myk
Marta Koronkiewicz (University of Wrocław): “Politics of the Poetic Form: Adrienne
Rich, James Scully”
Wit Pietrzak (University of Łódź): “Taking experiment out of the hut: J. H. Prynne and
ethics of critique”