Friday, October 1, 2004

9 am - Welcome

9:15 am - SMALL PRESS COMMUNITIES. Moderator, Mike Kelleher, Artistic Director, Just Buffalo Literary Center, and Editor of ELEVATOR.
Partly due to chance, partly to choice, the history of small press activity in America is one of active production of communities: of writers, of readers and of other publishers, all acting outside the mainstream of publishing houses and distribution networks. What has resulted is an entire alternate universe of publication and distribution, one in which publishers, largely freed from profit concerns actively participate in the production of various esthetic and ideological communities centered on writing. This panel, consisting of a group of contemporary independent publishers, will discuss the challenges of creating communities through small press publication and distribution.

Panelists:
Joel Kuszai (Ithaca, NY), editor of Meow Press
Dan Machlin (New York, NY), editor of futurepoem
Mark Nowak (St. Paul, MN), editor of xcp: cross cultural poetics
Jonathan Skinner (Buffalo, NY), editor of ecopoetics
Jane Sprague (Long Beach, CA), editor of Palm Press

10:45 am - Coffee Break

11:00 am - RAYMOND FEDERMAN TRIBUTE. Moderator, Ted Pelton, Medaille College and Starcherone Books.
Writers, teachers, and former students discuss Federman’s career, his 20 books of fiction, poetry, playscripts, and criticism; his notions of surfiction and playgiarism, accompanied by Federman himself. Panelists TBA.

12:20 pm - Lunch

1:30 pm - Poetry/Fiction Reading: MICHAEL KELLEHER and NINA SHOPE.
Michael Kelleher is Artistic Director of Just Buffalo Literary Center and Editor of ELEVATOR.

Nina Shope is the author of Hangings: Three Novellas, winner of the 2004 Starcherone Fiction Prize. She has published fiction in Open City, Third Bed and elsewhere, and has been awarded a residency at the Millay Colony for the Arts.

3 pm - Open reading

All guests and participants are invited to sign up to read their works, observing a 10 minute time limit, please.

8pm - KEYNOTE READING: RAYMOND FEDERMAN, with introduction by Ted Pelton.
Raymond Federman is the author of 20 books of fiction, poetry, playscript, and criticism, most recently Aunt Rachel’s Fur (FC2, 2001) and The Farm (forthcoming, FC2). He has two books with Starcherone Books, The Voice in the Closet (2001), and My Body in Nine Parts (forthcoming, 2005).

A reception will follow the reading.

Saturday, October 2, 2004

9 am - EXPLORATIONS IN SMALL PRESS POETRY. Moderator, Michael Basinski , Assistant Curator, Poetry/Rare Books Room, University Libraries, Univ. at Buffalo.

Panelists:
Michael Basinski (Buffalo), “Characters . . . and Characteristics in Small Press Poetry”
Doug Manson (Buffalo), “His Best Suit:  bpNichol's Conception of the Small Press”
Diane Marie Ward (Buffalo), “The Evolutionary Lineage of Small Press Women Poets”

10:35 - Coffee break

11:00 am - UNDERGRADUATE LITERARY MAGAZINES PANEL.
Student editors from Buffalo colleges discuss the challenges of editing and design. Panelists TBA.

12:20 - Lunch

1:30 - BuffFLUXUS PERFORMANCE
BuffFluxus is a performance ensemble led by Michael Basinski which explores poetry and sound through intermedia compositions, choral voice collages, and sound texts.

3:00 pm - Poetry Reading: MARK NOWAK and JANET HOLMES
Mark Nowak, College of St. Catherine, is the author of the poetry collections Shut Up Shut Down (Consortium, 2004) and Revenants (Coffee House Press, 2000). He is editor of the journal Xcp: Cross-Cultural Poetics ( www.xcp.bfn.org).

Janet Holmes, Boise State University, is the author of Humanophone (Notre Dame, 2001) and The Green Tuxedo (Notre Dame, 1998). She is the editor of Ahsahta Press and the much-frequented blog 'Humanophone' ( www.humanophone.com).

8 pm - KEYNOTE READING: DENISE DUHAMEL, with introduction by Ethan Paquin, Medaille College and Slope/Slope Editions.
Denise Duhamel is the author of numerous books of poetry, including Queen for a Day: Selected and New Poems (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2001), The Star-Spangled Banner, winner of the Crab Orchard Poetry Prize (SIU Press, 1999), Kinky (Orchises Press, 1997), and Girl Soldier (Garden Street Press, 1996).

                                                                                                                           
                                   
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