Exhibit Hall A
Colorado Convention Center, Upper Level

S100. Conference Registration. Attendees who have registered in advance may pick up their registration materials throughout the day at AWP's Paid Registrant Check-In area, located just inside the main entrance to the bookfair. Badges are available for purchase at the Unpaid Registrant Check-In located on the street level of the Convention Center.

Exhibit Hall A
Colorado Convention Center, Upper Level

S101. AWP Bookfair. With more than 500 exhibitors, the AWP Bookfair is one of the largest of its kind. A great way to meet authors, critics, and peers, the Bookfair also provides excellent opportunities to find information about many literary magazines and presses.

Rooms 102, 104
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

S102. The Colorado Prize for Poetry: A Reading by Recent Winners. (Stephanie G'Schwind, Rob Schlegel, Craig Morgan Teicher, Jaswinder Bolina, Endi Hartigan, Karen Garthe) The Colorado Prize for Poetry, judged every year by a different senior poet, is an aesthetically diverse book series. Winners from the past five years read from their award-winning collections.

Rooms 103, 105
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

S103. Don't You Hear This Hammer Ring? Socially Engaged Poetry in the Age of Obama. (Sarah Browning, Regie Cabico, Melissa Tuckey, Naomi Ayala, John Murillo) Split This Rock: Poems of Provocation & Witness was born in 2008 when the Iraq war and attacks on civil liberties made daily headlines. Now the terrain has shifted, with a historic president whose policies are a mixed bag of necessary changes and adherence to the status quo. What are the implications for our poetry and public work? The poet-organizers of Washington DC's national festival of socially engaged poetry share poems and insights into the evolving role of the poet as citizen.

Room 106
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

S104. Ghost Road Press Five Year Anniversary Reading. (Mathew Davis, Jessy Randall, Juliana Aragon Fatula, Jeff Kass, Eric Elkins) This cross-genre reading presents four Ghost Road Press authors reading nonfiction, fiction, and poetry concerned with adolescence. We have young adult novels on middle school awkwardness and the high school literary crowd, a collection of poems about growing up Chicana in Southern Colorado, and a nonfiction account of the 1999 Columbine school shooting, all published in 2009.

Room 107
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

S105. Siren Songs From Across the Seas: Women Poets in Translation. (Henry Israeli, Forrest Gander, Susanna Nied, Sawako Nakayasu, Kristin Dykstra) Extraordinary women poets from around the world have recently been given voice by a number of American poets and translators. This panel will feature readings of the work of Luljeta Lleshanau (Albania), Coral Bracho (Mexico), Inger Christensen (Denmark), Ayane Kawata (Japan), and Reina María Rodríguez (Cuba), followed by a discussion about capturing the poets' distinct voices in American-English.

Room 108
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

S106. The Poet As Arts Administrator. (Michael Kelleher, Stacy Szymaszek, Charles Alexander, Suzanne Stein, Stephen Motika) Poets are often seen as administratively-deficient "creative types" whose only hope for financial survival is administration-free academic work. Given the decrease in tenure-track jobs, many seek creative-friendly employment in the nonprofit arts sector, which offers unique opportunities to put poetic and non-poetic skills to work. Five poet/arts administrators discuss balancing creative and administrative work and offer tips, tricks, and suggestions for job-seekers in the non-profit arena.

Room 109
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

S107. Shared Locality: Fostering Community and Creating Posterity through Online Reading Series. (Amanda Choi, John Woods, Michael Hennessey, John Yi, Matt O'Donnell) While Internet venues such as online journals, blogs, and e-presses spearhead our current literary renaissance, online reading series have yet to come into their own. But such series merit our attention as important opportunities to foster community and create a record of our literary times. This panel features the organizers of literary podcasts, webcasts, and media archives who will discuss the unique potential of the medium, what content is currently available and how to create your own.

Room 110
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

S108. Fitting Cinderella's Shoe, or How to Construct a Short Fiction Collection. (Kathryn Lang, Kate Blackwell, Ann Harleman, T. M. (Mike) McNally, Mitch Wieland, Tracy Winn) Five SMU Press authors will talk about how they chose the stories to include, how they revised them, and how they positioned them as their collections took shape. They'll discuss how their initial conceptions differed from the finished books and how the stories jostled each other to create links or distances between them. Ranging from loosely linked to a novel-in-stories, the work of these writers showcases the craft and variety of the contemporary fiction collection.

Room 111
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

S109A. Insider Strategies for Getting your Books Published. (Jeff Herman) Learn proven insider techniques for getting commercially published.

Room 112
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

S109B. Redefining the 21st Century MFA in a Time of Rapid Growth: Opportunities & Hazards. (Catherine Brady, Matthew Burriesci, Kathleen Driskell, Terry Ryan) Representatives from AWP and the MFA community will discuss the growth, hazards, and opportunities of MFA programs. Topics to include recent changes within the community and the resulting adaptations and transformations taking place. The panel will also discuss how AWP and its various constituencies are assisting the field during this period of rapid growth and subtle change.

Room 201
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

S110. To Publish or Self-Publish? The Changing Landscape of Publication. (Christopher Meeks, Ivory Madison, Daniel Will-Harris, Henry Baum) Last year's panel on "Shameless Promotion" brought audience questions on marketing self-published books. It's clear more authors are turning to self-publication. Is it a viable option? It's estimated that 100,000 new titles arrive each year via self-publication, added to the 200,000 printed traditionally. Editor-in-chief Pat Walsh of MacAdam Cage has said, "Self-publishing will not bring you literary success. Books are still a brick-and-mortar industry." What options does today's writer have?

Room 203
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

S111. A Tribute to Robert Fitzgerald. (Judith Baumel, M.J. Fitzgerald, Rachel Hadas, Jacqueline Osherow, Sarah Ruden, Robert Shaw) At the centenary of his birth, we remember Robert Fitzgerald, and celebrate his career as poet, translator, scholar, and teacher. His Iliad, Odyssey, and Aeneid remain the best-loved American versions. Fitzgerald was a remarkable man, as generous to the cause of literature as he was to his students and friends. This panel of writer-translators will offer personal stories and critical assessment of Robert Fitzgerald's achievements and contributions to world of 20th century letters.

Room 205
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

S112. Mountains and Plainsong: New Writings from the American West. (Constance Squires, Douglas Goetsch, Rilla Askew, Margaret Dawe) From the Wichita Mountains of Oklahoma to Wichita, Kansas, five writers from the western plains region explore in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction the landscapes and sensibilities of both the classic and contemporary American West as seen from the viewpoints of both natives and transplants to the region. Is it boring? Provincial? Guilty? God-haunted? Tornado sundered? None and all?

Room 207
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

S113. Flarf and Conceptual Poetry. (K. Silem Mohammad, Christian Bök, Katie Degentesh, Vanessa Place, Mel Nichols, Yedda Morrison) Are the transcriptional blankness of Conceptual Writing and the deliberate awfulness of Flarf really the only relevant contemporary poetic options, as Kenneth Goldsmith has recently declared? Have they rendered both mainstream practice and what passes these days as experimental poetry obsolete? Six prominent Conceptualists and Flarfists explain why resistance is futile. And when they're done with each other, they're coming for you.

Rooms 210, 212
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

S114. Telling Other People's Stories: Narrative Nonfiction, its Pleasures and Perils. (Helen Benedict, Stephen O'Connor, Lis Harris, Dale Maharidge, Jo Ann Beard) As nonfiction writers turn to narrative to tell the stories of other people's lives, they take certain risks. A narrative style may be more pleasurable to read than traditional journalism, but it also takes liberties. Writers must use their imagination when extrapolating thoughts, feelings, direct dialogue, etc. from their interviews, which can put them at loggerheads with their sources. This panel will examine the risks, techniques and obligations of narrative nonfiction writers.

Rooms 301, 302
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

S115. Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi, and Fantasy... Seriously. (Anthony Smith, Brian Evenson, Stephen Graham Jones, Tod Goldberg, Mark Smith, Seth Harwood) Six writers of genre fiction who also teach and/or have graduated from university creative writing programs dicuss how they approach genre fiction as a serious literary pursuit rather than as a lesser form of fiction. In addition, they discuss attitudes towards genre fiction in the university and how those attitudes have changed over the years.

Room 303
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

S116. Uncommon Ground: Poets from the Institute of American Indian Arts' BFA Program. (Jennifer Foerster, Santee Frazier, Orlando White, dg okpik, Cathy Rexford, Layli Long Soldier) A poetry reading by graduates of the Institute of American Indian Arts' BFA program in creative writing.

Room 304
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

S117. Hot/Not: A Panel on Sentiment. (Joy Katz, Sally Ball, Mark Bibbins, Jenny Browne, Sarah Vap) Are performance, surprise, irony, and other forces acting against sentiment in contemporary poetry? Which poems now risk sentimentality most boldly—as Richard Hugo said all good poems should—and how do they do it? Hear five poets with wide-ranging aesthetic sensibilities talk about these questions, discussing their shifting citizenship in the lands of irony and sincerity and their models of what might be called Muscular Sentiment.

Agate Room
Hyatt Regency Denver, 3rd Floor

S118. Art School Faculty Caucus. (Hugh Behm-Steinberg, Joseph Lease, Monica Drake, Matt Hart, Rick Benjamin, Janet Desaulniers) Annual meeting of Art School Faculty Members to discuss programming, administration, and best practices particular to Art School writing classes and programs.

Granite Room
Hyatt Regency Denver, 3rd Floor

S119. Creative Multimedia, Creating Communities. (Christy Zink, Anne-Marie Yerks, Danika Myers, Tina Plottel) To address the paradox of an increasingly technically-interconnected world where making personal connection becomes not easier, but more complex, new writing must engage new technologies. This panel of writing faculty, media and technology specialists, and a librarian-faculty partnership argues, through working examples, for using emerging multimedia technologies to create writing communities within the classroom while vitally connecting student writers to critical communities around them.

Mineral Hall
Hyatt Regency Denver, 3rd Floor

S120. Write Your Way: Teaching Writing in Non-School Settings. (Victoria Sammartino, Celeste Rivera, Kamilah Moon, Tess Korobkin) This presentation will be geared towards writers who are currently teaching or are interested in teaching writing in non-school settings, including correctional facilities, juvenile detention centers, therapeutic communities, and group homes. Everyone who attends this presentation will walk away with tangible tools for introducing people in alternative and transitional settings to the craft of writing and there will be ample time made to answer specific questions from people currently teaching.

Room 101
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

S121. Somewhere Far from Habit: The Poet & the Artist's Book. An Exhibit Hosted by Creative Writing at Longwood University. A collaboration of some of the country's most inspiring poets and most exciting book artists, for which the artists have created one of a kind or limited edition artist's books inspired by the poets' work. The exhibit features poetry by Joy Harjo, Robert Pinsky, E. Ethelbert Miller, Natasha Trethewey, Aaron Smith, Michael Burkard, Tom Sleigh, Lucie Brock-Broido, Jason Shinder, and Liam Rector. Art work by Buzz Spector, Ben Blount, Kerri Cushman, Audrey Niffenegger, Margot Ecke, Richard Minsky, Shawn Sheehy, Karen Kunc, Hedi Kyle, and Beatrice Coron.

Rooms 102, 104
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

S122. Body as Landscape. Place as Blood. (Barrie Jean Borich, Achy Obejas, Ann Pancake, Brian Teare, Harrison Candelaria Fletcher, Ira Sukrungruang) From mountaintop to desert, city to bedroom, old countries to new—our departures from, arrivals to, and deep immersion into particular places make and remake our bodies, just as the living presence of our bodies and their stories changes the very nature of places. This panel of poets, novelists, and essayists, writing from and about diverse locations, will grapple with ways to represent the symbiotic relationship between geography and identity, memory, sexuality, movement, and change.

Rooms 103, 105
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

S123. Criticism for Its Own Sake: The Rewards of Writing (and Reading) Reviews. (Dinah Lenney, William Giraldi, Sven Birkerts, Amy Gerstler, Dana Goodyear) Panelists will discuss the role of the critic as it informs the culture, as well as the art of critical writing, and when it's most rewarding for readers and writers. Do we need critics? What are their obligations? Do they deepen or enhance our understanding even when we disagree with them? Does criticism stand up as literary nonfiction, entertaining, enlightening, or offensive in its own right, regardless of its subject.

Room 106
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

S124. 2011 Washington, D.C. Conference & Bookfair Forum.Join the AWP 2011 conference chair and AWP staff for an open forum to discuss topics of interest and relevance to AWP's upcoming conference in Washington, D.C.

Room 107
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

S125. CLMP Panel—Life on the D-List: Digital Publishing. (Richard Nash, Chad W. Post, Ivory Madison, LeAnn Fields, Leslie McGrath) Panelists savvy in the ways of zeros and ones—from University of Michigan Press, redroom.com, Drunken Boat, and Open Letter Books—talk about the hows and whys of this next phase of the published word.

Room 108
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

S126. American Lives: Exploring the Modern Memoir. (Kristen Elias Rowley, Lee Martin, Aaron Raz Link, Sonya Huber, Fleda Brown) Since 2002, University of Nebraska Press has highlighted the diversity of the American experience and the innovation of talented writers through American Lives, a series of memoirs edited by Tobias Wolff. The Press will launch the 25th book in the series at AWP 2010. American Lives: A Reader will celebrate the genre by pulling together excerpts from twenty series writers. Come listen to five of these renowned memoirists read and discuss their unique approaches to the genre.

Room 109
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

S127. Nebraskans-in-Exile Take Plain out of the Plains. (Terese Svoboda, Ron Hansen, Dan Chaon, Ladette Randolph, Erin Belieu, Eric Konigsberg) So what if the writing's not all moss-draped magnolias or the rattling of slave chains—Nebraskan writers-in-exile can take the paint off any region. From Ron Hansen's charged, mysterious eloquence, Dan Chaon's aching depictions of lost boyhood, Ladette Randolph's potent revelations, Eric Konigsberg's noir journalism, Erin Belieu's poetry of erotic innuendo, and Terese Svoboda's lyrical prose and poetry, Nebraskan writers challenge Southerners—even Californians—with a Midplain's high style.

Room 110
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

S128. The Joy of Assessment: Romancing Narratives of Student Success from Outcomes and Rubrics. (Kendall Dunkelberg, Anna Leahy, Stephanie Vanderslice, Mary Cantrell, Aileen Murphy, Judith Baumel) Assessment: we must do it, so let's make it useful! Panelists from different accrediting regions and varied programs—from the community college to the BA and BFA to the MFA—discuss practical ways to develop learning outcomes, write meaningful outcomes criteria, gather data, and describe the results. This panel provides ideas to streamline the assessment process, meet accreditors' expectations, and communicate the value of our programs as we identify ways to improve them.

Room 111
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

S129. From Bombs to Bindis: Trends and Tensions in S. Asian Diaspora Writing. (Mary Anne Mohanraj, Shilpa Agarwal, Roohi Choudhry, Minal Hajratwala, Mrigaa Sethi, Padma Viswanathan) Publishers often expect S. Asian books to focus on either sex (as in the classic arranged marriage novel) or violence (generally ethnic, communalist, or terrorist tensions). Many of us find ourselves writing on these two topics, but not always in the way publishers expect. Six authors discuss the extent to which their own work does or doesn't fit into trendy tropes, and consider the implications of writing about sex and violence in the current market, and in our politically-charged world.

Room 112
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

S130. The Writer as Thief: Stealing Effectively and Learning from the Greats. (Brigid Hughes, Aviya Kushner, Yiyun Li, Amy Leach, Fiona Maazel) This much is true: the best writers steal. But how do they steal, exactly, and is it ethical? We take apart the work of a few our of our favorite writers, giving careful readings of specific passages and listening closely to the influences rumbling beneath the surface. We discuss what they "stole" from earlier writers in order to create that particular work of art, as we ask: what is the difference between emulation, inspiration, and plagiarism?.

Room 113
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

S131. Writing Hawaii's Settler History. (Keala Francis, Ida Yoshinaga, Brandy Nalani McDougall) Settler colonialism challenges assumptions about land and cultural identity. Writers living in Hawai'i explore the implications of settler and native constructs from perspectives of cultural, geological, and linguistic translation. From the premise that language is a repository of culture and worldviews, writers analyze creative strategies in story, poetry, and Hawaiian mo'olelo, discussing how translation functions to explicate how people communicate, (mis)understand, and form communities.

Room 201
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

S132. Re-writing America: Complicating the Poetics of Identity. (Neelanjana Banerjee, Hayan Charara, Samantha Thornhill, Ching-In Chen, Tim Hernandez, Summi Kaipa) Even as the minority surges towards the majority in making up the New America, poets seek out the nurturing spaces of ethno-literary organizations like Kundiman and Cave Canem. Popular ethnic-specific anthologies are being published each year. Yet the work coming out of these cultural boundaries is incredibly diverse in style and influence. This panel examines the ways in which hyphenated American poets are rethinking the concept of identity and, in turn, shaping the national zeitgeist.

Room 203
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

S133. Translations of Contemporary Poetry from Latin America. (Kristin Dykstra, Urayoán Noel, Juan Manuel Sánchez, Mónica de la Torre, Daniel Borzutzky) We will present translations of contemporary poetry from Latin America. In addition to reading work from Puerto Rico, Cuba, Mexico, and Chile, presenters will discuss cultural and historical contexts which are significant for understanding the poems and may, in some cases, influence decisions made by the translator.

Room 205
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

S134. New Fiction from University Presses. (Mary Bisbee-Beek, Lucy Jane Bledsoe, Andrew Porter, David Vann, Lynn Stegner) From Nebraska to Massachusetts, from Wisconsin to Georgia, university presses are stepping beyond academia to publish exciting new works of contemporary fiction. The publishing playing field changes quickly and often, and many fiction writers are finding that university presses offer unique opportunities for connecting with welcoming audiences. Find out about this growing new scene. Come hear these award-winning university press authors read from their recent stories and novels.

Room 207
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

S135. Black Holes No More: The Importance of Science Storytelling Across All Genres. (MG Lord, Rebecca Skloot, Carol Muske-Dukes, Leslie Adrienne Miller) Science and literature are no longer separate cultures—writers must embrace science and technology. One of the best ways to do this is through telling science stories, yet many writers shy away from the subject. This panel examines scientific storytelling in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction through discussing technique, ethics, disclosure, the thrill of the chase, publication, and the importance of filling gaps in history of science by recovering lost figures and dramatizing their stories.

Rooms 210, 212
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

S136. Black Goes Green: New African American Poets on the Natural World. (Gregory Pardlo, Cyrus Cassells, Janice Harrington, Amber Flora Thomas, G.E. Patterson) Five African American poets discuss the way they write about the natural world: urban, suburban, and rural. The poets will discuss how their own poems have been influenced by personal and cultural history and what directions they believe nature writing by African Americans will take in the future. The panelists will read their own work and the nature-influenced poetry of African American poets they admire.

Rooms 301, 302
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

S137. Private Practice: Managing the Novel from Symptoms Through Recovery. (Elizabeth Brundage, Jennifer Haigh, Michelle Richmond, Meg Waite Clayton, Richard Bausch) Many new novelists suffer with the idea of a novel, with no treatment schedule or cure in sight. This introductory overview will address elements of the novel writing process from start to finish, including preparation, research, organization, and discipline. Panelists will discuss the importance of structural elements such as characterization, voice, conflict, and resolution, as well as how to sustain a reader's devotion for several hundred pages in a competitive marketplace.

Room 303
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

S138. jubilat 10th Anniversary Reading. (Robert Casper, Dara Wier, Lisa Olstein, Jen Bervin, Peter Gizzi, Cathy Park Hong) A reading to celebrate the past decade of publication by the venerable poetry journal, featuring editors and contributors reading their own work as well as selections from jubilat's history.

Room 304
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

S139. Poetry Behind Bars: Teaching and Publishing the Work of Incarcerated Youth. (Michelle Laflamme-Childs, Cynthia Ruffin, Jessie Workman, Amaryllis DeJesus Moleski, Deanne Brown) This panel will discuss the Santa Fe Art Institute's B.R.E.A.T.H. (Building a Revolution of Expression and Action Through Heartwork) program as a case study for other poetry teaching programs targeted to at-risk or incarcerated youth—the project will culminate in a published collection of poems. The panelists will also read a selection of youth poems produced during the program.

Rooms 401, 402
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

S140. Bearing the Mystery: Twenty Years of Image Journal. (Richard Chess, B.H. Fairchild, Erin McGraw, Gregory Orr, Pattiann Rogers, Martha Serpas) This reading celebrates twenty years of Image Journal, a unique forum for the best writing and artwork that are informed by—or grapple with—religious faith. Panelists will read work from Image's anniversary anthology, Bearing the Mystery.

Agate Room
Hyatt Regency Denver, 3rd Floor

S141. From Page to Stage and Screen: The Process of Adaptation Across Literary Genres. (Robbi D'Allessandro, Laura Harrington, Jami Brandli) Adaptations are born of writers so inspired by the storyline and imagery of various source materials they feel compelled to reformulate them into the visual medium of stage and screen. The barometer that deems success or failure of film or stage adaptations is most often gauged by the writer's ability to respect the unique aspects of the stage and screen and the audience's relationship to it. This seminar will aid writers of all genres to transform their works from page to stage and screen. In addition to viewing clips of successful adaptations, the differences in screen and stage play characteristics and structure will be discussed.

Granite Room
Hyatt Regency Denver, 3rd Floor

S142. Two-Year College Writing Programs: Three Models. (Simone Zelitch, Sharon Coleman, Kris Bigalk, Scott Wrobel) More and more two-year colleges are launching creative writing programs, as student interest and demand grows. Three common models of the two-year program, including the AFA in Creative Writing, the AA with Writing Emphasis, and the Certificate in Creative Writing will be discussed, along with the benefits and drawbacks of each, what kinds of students each model tends to attract, and how each model incorporates extracurricular activities and features.

Mineral Hall
Hyatt Regency Denver, 3rd Floor

S143. The National Endowment for the Arts: Updates and Opportunities for Arts Organizations. (Amy Stolls, Jon Peede) Staff members from the Literature Division of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) will address your questions and provide a status update on agency policies, programs, and initiatives that can have an impact on arts organizations. Topics covered will include: grant opportunities and their deadlines, eligibility, applying on line, The Arts & the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, the agency's new leadership, and tips for more effective proposals.

Rooms 102, 104
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

S144. Afro-Formalist Poets: Owning the Masters. (Charles Fort, Tara Betts, Erica Dawson, Allison Joseph) The panel of African-American Formalist Poets will discuss several of the following essays, articles, and questions: Are Afro-Formalists ostracized? How do Afro-Formalists re-define the Other and reveal the antecedents of traditional poetic forms? Under the anxiety of influence, do they attempt visionary works that, at times, exceed the form and content of the masters?

Rooms 103, 105
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

S145. Reading from The Ecco Anthology of World Poetry. (Susan Harris, Ilya Kaminsky, Valzhyna Mort, Ellen Dore Watson, Zhang Er) A reading to celebrate the January 2010 publication of The Ecco Anthology of World Poetry, featuring two poets and three translators reading their contributions to the volume.

Room 107
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

S146. Homing In: Migration as Place. (Pamela Pierce, Jennifer Sinor, Jenny Shank, Diane Bush, Melinda Rich) Writers keenly understand how where we live defines who we are and what we write. When movement, loss, or uncertainty disrupts our evolving identities, how do we find solid ground? No one is immune to change; constantly evolving technological, cultural, and political forces threaten to disrupt our sense of security even as we yearn for comfort and peace. Writing defined by an absence of a traditional sense of place and home defined by what it is not deserves more recognition than it has previously received.

Room 108
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

S147. Border Crossings: Women Writing the West Across Genres. (E.J. Levy, Sawnie Morris, Summer Wood, Valerie Martinez) This panel will focus on how women writers working in multiple genres narrate the iconic landscape of the American West: how are women rewriting a terrain often associated with masculinity? Panelist will look at the formal and thematic possibilities and challenges posed by place—including brief readings and discussion of how work can be launched by attention to the peculiar features of this landscape (borders, nuclear waste, water) and how place informs and inspires poetry, essay, and fiction.

Room 109
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

S148. Banned Goods: Smuggling Translation into the Poetry Writing Workshop. (Keith Ekiss, Sidney Wade, Michael McGriff, Wayne Miller, Jennifer Grotz, Alexis Levitin) Traditionally, the creative writing workshop and the seminar on literary translation are taught as separate courses, with the latter reserved for aspiring specialists in the field of translation. How can instructors use the writing workshop as a way to encourage beginning translators? How can translation studies add to our understanding of the creative writing process? In this panel, practicing poet-translators will discuss ways in which to integrate translation within the writing workshop.

Room 110
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

S149. All-Around Bitch: The Challenges of Writing Unlikable Female Protagonists. (Rose Bunch, Pam Houston, Elizabeth Stuckey-French, Quinn Dalton, Laurie Foos) Writing from a male perspective provides, historically, a broader, established behavioral spectrum than female. Male characters can be self-obsessed, duplicitous, murderous, or sexually deviant and still redeem themselves, yet female characters exhibiting these behaviors are more difficult to construct. This panel explores the challenges of writing female characters who reject the historical, social, and often institutional insistence upon passive, selfless, sacrificial women in modern fiction.

Room 111
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

S150. (WITS Alliance) What Do Kids Want? Building Community In and Around Schools. (Rebecca Hoogs, Sheryl Noethe, Jeff Kass, David Hassler, Margot Kahn Case) What do kids want from writing instruction? How do you figure out what kids want, and how do you go about providing it? Teachers and administrators from youth writing programs across the country share their experiences getting buy-in in order to build community in the classroom, after school, and beyond.

Room 113
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

S151. 2009/2010 Writers' Conference & Centers Meeting.This is an opportunity for members of Writers' Conferences & Centers to meet one another and the staff of AWP. We will discuss issues pertinent to building a strong community of WC&C programs.

Room 201
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

S152. Harper Perennial Presents: A Reading by Kevin Sampsell and Justin Taylor.Harper Perennial presents Justin Taylor and Kevin Sampsell reading from their newly published books. Justin Taylor reads from his debut story collection, Everything Here is the Best Thing Ever, a collection of prophetic, provocative, and dazzlingly written stories that explore the ways our everyday delusions invite pain, disappointment, and even joy into our lives. In A Common Pornography, a memoir told in vignettes, Kevin Sampsell intertwines recollections of small-town youth with darker threads of family history and reveals how incest, madness, betrayal, and death can somehow seem normal.

Room 203
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

S153. The Collage Novel. (Heid Erdrich, Eric Gansworth, James Cihlar, Jonis Agee, Brent Spencer) The 20th century witnessed the formulation of the collage novel, which utilized interwoven plot lines, interrelated characters, and sweeping timelines—with novels such as Love Medicine, The Way to Rainy Mountain, and Beloved replacing the austerity of Hemingway, harkening back to the richness of Faulkner, in new and inventive ways. This panel of established writers, critics, and editors will examine how 21st-century novelists are interpreting, translating, and reinventing the genre.

Room 205
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

S154. Beyond the I: Memoir as Cultural Criticism. (Mimi Schwartz, Michael Steinberg, William Ayers, Dustin Beall Smith, Kim Dana Kupperman) "True memoir," Patricia Hampl writes, "is an attempt to find not only a self but a world." Whether narrating a coming-of-age story, bearing witness to volatile political events, or recreating memories of the past, memoir, at its best, puts a personal face on history. Panelists will discuss strategies for writing and teaching memoir, exploring the alchemy of memory, imagination, and social context that moves memoir beyond the anecdotal and confessional and into the realm of cultural criticism.

Room 207
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

S155. The Western Landscape in Contemporary American Poetry. (Haines Eason, Oliver de la Paz, Alison Hawthorne Deming, Gabrielle Calvocoressi, C. Dale Young, Paisley Rekdal) From Robinson Jeffers to Alberto Rios, from the San Francisco Renaissance to Copper Canyon Press, the American West is an unending source of poetry that defies regional description. Panelists will discuss how the west shapes their poetics and will give short readings from their works. Haines Eason will moderate.

Rooms 210, 212
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

S156. Bilingual Writers and Their Aesthetic Choices. (Lucia Cherciu, Urayoán Noel, Brenda Cardenas, Hedy Habra, Emilie Pons, Claude Convers) The panel focuses on writing in two languages and analyzes the creative decisions made when choosing English or Spanish, French, or Romanian. How do writers switch between two languages? How does the language influence their writing style? What are the asthetic choices made when writing interlingually? Does writing in a second language offer distance and detachment? Does a writer negotiate between different voices?

Rooms 301, 302
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

S157. Before, After, Under, Over, Inside, and Beyond the Anti-War Poem. (Fred Marchant, Brenda Hillman, Nick Flynn, Afaa M. Weaver, Shanee Stepakoff) The poets on this panel bear witness in their works to the suffering brought about by war, but their writings also probe questions of conscience, protest, and the desire for justice and peace. In this discussion the panelists explore the implications of such commitments for their art, paying particular attention to the way each has responded to the American war on terror, both at home and abroad. In addition, each of the panelists will read and comment on relevant selections from her or his own work.

Room 303
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

S158. Celebrating Colorado State University's MFA Program: A 25th Anniversary Reading by Faculty and Alumni. (Leslee Becker, Mary Crow, John Calderazzo, Steven Church, George Kalamaras, Wendy Rawlings, Bill Tremblay) The first of its kind to be offered in Colorado, CSU's distinguished MFA Program celebrates its 25th anniversary with a reading by Colorado Poet Laureate, Mary Crow, and other faculty and alumni.

Room 304
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

S159. Never Enough Naptime: Writers With Small Children. (Laura Snider, Ned Stuckey-French, Mary Akers, Dave Griffith, DiAnne L. Malone, Wendy Sumner Winter) Children demand their parents' full attention. So how do writers with little ones balance diaper-changing, peanut butter sandwich requests, and trips to the playground with getting words on the page? Is it possible to produce quality work during your child's early years, and how does that time change your perspective as a writer? In this panel, writers with children discuss how they stay motivated and make time to write, as well as how parenthood affects their writing subjects and style.

Rooms 401, 402
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

S160. Conflict vs. Chaos: Workshopping the Violent Story. (Robin Romm, Daniel Stolar, Eric Puchner, Andrew Altschul, Darrin Doyle) Narrative fiction requires conflict in order to function, but student writers often equate conflict with violence. Writers like Paul Bowles, Junot Diaz, and Flannery O'Connor have used brutality to great effect. But simply parroting the action won't produce literary fiction. How do we teach our students to turn violence into complex, literary conflict? How can a student learn to avoid gratuitous gore? This panel will focus on practical methods and strategies for critiquing the violent story.

Agate Room
Hyatt Regency Denver, 3rd Floor

S161. The Evolution of the MFA: The 21st Century Student. (Erika Meitner, Julie Carr, Mary Biddinger, Eric Morris, Raina Fields, Serena Chopra) Today's MFA students are a slightly different (and seemingly more professionalized) species of writer. Three younger-generation MFA faculty members and three of their MFA students discuss the changing nature of MFA students and the MFA degree itself. Topics include: networking (on-line and off), publishing, book-projects-as-theses, and the national ethos of the MFA. How might we recognize and address the fast-changing shape of the field on a wider national and pedagogical level, across programs?

Centennial Ballroom
Hyatt Regency Denver, 3rd Floor

S162. A Tribute to William Kittredge. (M.M.M. Hayes, Rick Bass, Terry Tempest Williams, Robert Hass, Robert Wrigley, Kevin Canty) A Tribute to William Kittredge gathers fellow writers to honor their friend and teacher, a major voice in the West since his 1987 collection of essays, Owning It All. Memoir Hole in the Sky recalls a buckaroo West, and The Nature of Generosity offers insights on the land's relationship to culture. Epic The Willow Field describes a life persisting after the rest of the country slipped into the modern age.

Granite Room
Hyatt Regency Denver, 3rd Floor

S163. Evolution of the New Media: Online Literary Journals and Websites in 2010. (Dan Albergotti, Dan Wickett, Jeremiah Chamberlin, Terry Kennedy) This panel examines the evolution of online publishing and literary promotion via digital media in the 21st century. Dan Wickett and Jeremiah Chamberlin will discuss ways their sites have developed an extended literary community for emerging writers, while Dan Albergotti and Terry Kennedy will address how aesthetics of online journal design and presentation have evolved in recent years.

Mineral Hall
Hyatt Regency Denver, 3rd Floor

S164. Nation of Immigrants?: Spoken Word Artists Question the World. (Thien-bao Phi, Tish Jones, Diego Vazquez, Marcie Rendon, Robert Farid Karimi) In 2008, The Loft Literary Center's groundbreaking Equilibrium spoken word series released its first compilation CD, ¿Nation of Immigrants? The work featured on the CD seeks to question, challenge, and explode the notion that we are a "nation of immigrants"– a political buzz phrase that often buries the histories of those it pretends to represent. This reading features several poets from the CD.

Rooms 102, 104
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

S165. Writing Beyond Race. (Veronica Gonzalez, Lara Stapleton, Gina Apsotol, Carl Hancock Rux) What does it mean to be an ethnic writer in our present time? Four writers of various racial backgrounds explore the clichés and stereotypes imposed on black, asian, and latino authors and their artistic production and the expectations with which their work is met. Is it time to move beyond a "racial" stance in the hopes for an art of subtlety and varied human nuance, regardless of the background of its author? Can we, through our work, take on the underlying constraints and shift toward a more subtle intellectual investigation of what it means to be human in the increasingly mobile and fluid 21st century?.

Rooms 103, 105
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

S166. Madeline DeFrees: The Poet at Ninety. (Anne McDuffie, Candace Black, Jennifer Maier, Dorothy Barresi, Lois Welch) Madeline DeFrees has been called a living poetic treasure. At ninety, she has published an award-winning body of work that spans nearly sixty years, and she continues to write, read, and teach. This panel of writers and editors will explore the questing, questioning, contemplative sensibility that has fueled her writing through thirty-eight years in a Catholic order, an academic career, and a secular life. DeFrees will read.

Room 107
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

S167. Both Sides of the Mouth: Teaching Bilingual Workshops. (Cheryl Klein, Daniel Chacón, Tim Hernandez, Naomi Hirahara) Writers on this panel will talk about the challenges and the literary and cultural opportunities that arise when teaching workshops for audiences with mixed linguistic backgrounds in both community and academic settings.

Room 108
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

S168. No More Lip Service: Three Successful Community Literary Programs. (Ross Talarico, Thien-bao Phi, Douglas Unger) This panel will document three very successful community enrichment programs that can be replicated in other communities: Equilibrium: Spoken Word at The Loft, one of the nation's most successful and dynamic series dedicated to serving artists of color and building audiences of color; the Just Voices visiting writers program, stressing literary and human rights designed for at-risk students in the Clark County School District (Las Vegas), over five years reaching some 3,000 high school students and 80 teachers with quality arts learning programs; and Ross Talarico will describe his unprecedented broad and diverse programs as the country's only full-time, city-government sponsored (no grants) writer-in-residence position for youth, seniors, teachers, at-risk students, community activists, and the general public in upstate New York—affirming his "radical" belief that writers indeed have a social role in our culture.

Room 109
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

S169. A Fiction Reading by Professors of Metropolitan State College of Denver. (Anne Evans, J Eric Miller, Leslee Wright) A fiction reading by professors of Creative Writing and English at Metropolitan State College of Denver, an urban communter college located in downtown Denver. These writers of novels and short stories hail from a variety of backgrounds and regions to serve the city of Denver's diverse students. Their writing reflects diversity of craft, interests, and the influence of living in the West.

Room 110
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

S170. Writing Intimacy, Writing Sex. (Mary Cappello, Alexander Chee, Barrie Jean Borich, Peter Covino, James Morrison) What's at stake for the contemporary queer writer in the mainstream culture's equation of sex with gay identity? What is the difference between crafting a literal sex scene and cultivating a queer aesthetic? What is meant by an erotics of writing or of reading for writers of any sexuality? Five accomplished queer writers of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry discuss and offer examples from their work.

Room 111
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

S171. The Prosperous Writer: Career Strategies for Staying Flush. (Christina Katz, Jane Friedman, Sage Cohen, Ericka Lutz, Wendy Burt-Thomas) When you fuel your writing career with prosperous thinking, partner with like-minded others, and keep long-term success in mind, navigating a professional path becomes a pleasurable, expansive process. Five traditionally published writers/editors share strategies that pay the bills and make publication more likely. Learn how to balance enough inspiration and perspiration to get the writing done with enough career planning to create ever-expanding opportunities and achieve writing goals.

Room 113
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

S172. Weirding It Up: How and Why to Deploy Unusual Points of View. (Kyle Minor, Benjamin Percy, Christopher Coake, Lauren Groff, Holly Goddard Jones) Most craft discussions of point of view are heavy on the basics: single and double voiced first person narration, the central consciousness and the close third, omniscience and the free indirect style. But what happens to point of view when, say, a story demands the writer tell it backwards from end to beginning, or shift the point of view at a story's beginning or end, or enter into the mind of a monster?

Room 201
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

S173. CHAX Press Reading. (Charles Alexander, Hank Lazer, Leslie Scalapino, Kyle Schlesinger, Jane Sprague, Elizabeth Treadwell) Poetry Reading by Chax Press (Tucson, Arizona) published poets, in celebration of twenty-five years of Chax Press.

Room 203
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

S174. Into the Fire: A Reading by Authors from The Sun Magazine. (Sy Safransky, Steve Almond, Akhim Yuseff Cabey, Alison Luterman, Ellen Bass, Frances Lefkowitz) For thirty-six years The Sun has published the kind of brave, revealing writing that lives up to the magazine's motto, a line from concentration-camp survivor Viktor Frankl: What is to give light must endure burning. This reading features six authors whose essays, fiction, and poetry have been published in The Sun. Introduced by editor and publisher Sy Safransky.

Room 205
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

S175. Careers in the Literary Arts. (Jocelyn Hale, Joyce Meskis, Andrew Proctor, Jeffrey Shotts, Amy Stolls) You love the literary arts but can't (or don't want to) teach full-time. How else might you devote your life to building an audience for literature and supporting writers and readers? Hear from professionals in the literary field including the owner of a renowned independent bookstore, a literary funder, a senior book editor, and executive directors of independent literary centers. Learn about their career paths, what skills they need for their jobs, and if they have time to write.

Room 207
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

S176. Writing the War: Teaching Creative Writing to War Veterans. (Laren McClung, Bruce Weigl, Roy Scranton, Lovella Calica) With the new Yellow Ribbon GI Education Enhancement Program, this is an extraordinary time when more and more veterans are enrolling in colleges and universities. This session will focus on teaching creative writing to veterans and will offer conversation on fostering a safe and open workshop setting; suggestions for pedagogy; and relevant issues such as PTSD, otherness, catharsis, and witness.

Rooms 210, 212
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

S177. From Awareness to Advocacy: New Directions in Environmental Writing. (Janine DeBaise, Laura Gray- Street, Paul Bogard, Sheryl St. Germain, Kathryn Miles, Joni Tevis) What is the role of literature in raising ecological awareness? How can writers change public consciousness about environmental issues? Six writers and editors from the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE) will discuss environmental advocacy in both traditional genres and new media. They will talk about the ways in which ecological awareness enhances any piece of writing, even when the writer is not a scientist or environmental activist.

Rooms 301, 302
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

S178. The Contemporary American Indian Prose Poem: When Form Invents Function. (Dean Rader, LeAnne Howe, Sherman Alexie, Janet McAdams, Janice Gould, Eric Gansworth) American Indian Prose Poetry is featured in the most recent issue of Sentence: A Journal of Prose Poetry and Poetics, marking the first time a literary journal has highlighted this important but overlooked genre. Contributors to this issue of Sentence and the feature's editor will discuss issues of both craft and culture as well as how Native prose poetry fits in and fights with larger aspects of American literature.

Room 303
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

S179. The Future of the Literary Magazine. (Travis Kurowski, Robert Fogarty, Alexander Provan, Speer Morgan, Jodee Stanley, Todd Zuniga) This panel was born out of a recent issue of Mississippi Review, for which editors were asked to elucidate the nature and function of the literary magazine and speculate about its future. These editors will continue that discussion, focusing on obstacles and opportunities that lay ahead for literary magazines, editors, and writers. Topics covered will include digital publishing, the graphic literary magazine, the place of literary journalism, new financial obstacles, and environmental concerns.

Room 304
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

S180. Shift the Ground Under Your Feet: Studying Writing Abroad. (Kelly Lenox, Katherine Durham Oldmixon, Rebecca Hoogs, Soham Patel, Cody Walker, Tim Kercher) Programs to study writing abroad offer opportunities to meet with local writers, explore other literary traditions, and experience previously unfamiliar cultures. Taken out of the familiar linguistics of our home territory, all our senses are sharpened. From learning literary translation, to finding a new voice as a writer, new job opportunities, and new depths in their own lives to plumb, these writers will share how their study abroad, in programs from Thailand to Ireland, Slovenia to Spain, have left them profoundly changed.

Rooms 401, 402
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

S181. Persistent Voices: A Reading of Poets Lost to AIDS. (David Groff, Saeed Jones, Joan Larkin, Richard McCann, David Trinidad, Elaine Sexton) From Joe Brainard and Tory Dent to William Dickey, Essex Hemphill, Paul Monette, and Assoto Saint, some of our most promising and vital poets have died of AIDS. Reading from the new anthology Persistent Voices: Writing by Poets Lost to AIDS, six living poets give renewed voice to writers whose invention, eloquence, and achievement summon us today.

Agate Room
Hyatt Regency Denver, 3rd Floor

S182. Students who Build Things: The Literary Magazine as Teaching Tool for Undergraduate Students. (KC Culver, Collette Morris, Karen Craigo, Zach Tarvin, Patricia Murphy, Haley Larson) We represent three undergraduate programs that have succeeded in establishing undergraduate-run journals. Prairie Margins publishes undergraduate students nationally in print; Superstition Review publishes both new and established writers nationally online; and Mangrove publishes the work of undergraduates at its university both in print and online. The panel will give practical advice on establishing effective leadership, facing budget constraints, submission management, and publishing options.

Centennial Ballroom
Hyatt Regency Denver, 3rd Floor

S183. A Tribute to Charles Johnson. (Zachary Watterson, E. Ethelbert Miller, Yusef Komunyakaa, Lowell Brower, Christina Harding Thornton, Marc Conner) This reading of acclaimed novelist and MacArthur Fellowship winner Charles Johnson's work by his contemporaries and former students will be followed by a panel discussion, after which he will speak.

Granite Room
Hyatt Regency Denver, 3rd Floor

S184. Fulbright Fellowship Awards for Creative Writing Students and Graduates. (Katherine Arnoldi, Jillian Weise, Gail Dottin, Erika Martinez, M. Thomas Gammarino, Katrina Vandenberg) The Fulbright Program funds undergraduate and graduate students to study, conduct research, or pursue creative activities abroad for a year. The Fulbright Fellowship Information panel is composed of past Creative Writing Fulbright Fellows who will tell of the application process, the experience and the professional, creative and personal benefits of having received this prestigious award. They spent their Fulbright year in places such as Japan, Panama, the Netherlands, Paraguay, the Dominican Republic, and Argentina writing poetry, plays, memoirs, nonfiction, and novels.

Mineral Hall
Hyatt Regency Denver, 3rd Floor

S185. Poets Past and Present at the University of Denver. (Eleni Sikelianos, Bin Ramke, Cole Swensen) This reading by three poets who either teach now at the University of Denver, or have taught there in the past—Bin Ramke (at DU since 1984), Cole Swensen (at DU 1996-2002), and Eleni Sikelianos (at DU since 2003)—will showcase the history of engaged, innovative poetry that has been present at DU for the past twenty-five years. In addition, the deep, long-lasting, creative relationships between these poets will be brought to light.

Rooms 102, 104
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

S186. What to Say and When to Say It: Disclosure of Information for Optimal Effect in Fiction. (C.J. Hribal, Robert Boswell, Lan Samantha Chang, Peter Turchi) In every narrative we have to decide what to include, what to omit, and why. Decisions about when to reveal information sometimes get less attention, but can make the difference not only between clarity and obscurity but between a predictable progression and a narrative that makes the most effective use of tension, suspense, and mystery—the difference between a story that's semi-interesting versus one that is authoritative or captivating. Four fiction writers will offer a variety of examples.

Rooms 103, 105
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

S187. Fiction in 4-D. (Ellen Lesser, Philip Graham, Clint McCown, Xu Xi) "Time is not a line but a dimension, like the dimensions of space." So opens Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood. Traveling through the dimension of time—bending time to exist in two places at once—is not just the stuff of sci-fi but a key to much of our most powerful literature. Vermont College of Fine Arts faculty explore strategies for shaping, layering and moving within this narrative fourth dimension, probing the frontiers of craft and the nature of time in fiction and human experience.

Room 107
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

S188. And Gladly Would (S)he Teach: Are Visiting Writers Valuable? (Randall Albers, Dorothy Allison, Cristina Garcia, Steve May, Patricia McNair) In a time of dwindling resources, the value of visiting writers is sometimes difficult to determine, let alone articulate for skeptical administrators. How do we fund such positions? Who should be invited—stars who raise the program's profile or writers who are also excellent teachers? Or are we looking for input and inspiration other than normal teaching? And what is the value for the visiting writer herself, as well as for faculty and students? Mindful of Chaucer's Clerk, who gladly would learn and gladly teach, writers and program heads will share stories and invite discussion about successful experiences with visiting writers and faculty exchanges at Bath Spa University, the Fiction Writing Department of Columbia College Chicago, and elsewhere.

Room 108
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

S189. The Before and After of Marketing Your Manuscript. (M. Scott Douglass, Cathryn Essinger, Richard Peabody, Leslie McGrath, Dana Sonnenschein) With this panel we will discuss some of the finer points of identifying the best options for authors to publish their manuscripts, how to market the author as well as the manuscript to a potential publisher, and how to market the published book before and after publication in today's multi-media environment to ensure the optimal results.

Room 109
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

S190. The State of the Fifth Genre: Assessing Review Writing in the Computer Age. (Garnett Kilberg Cohen, Donna Seaman, Tricia Currans-Sheehan, Daniel Casey, Martin Riker, Tony Trigilio) This panel consists of magazine editors and review writers, as well as creative writers who have investigated ways to get their own books reviewed in journals. The panelists will discuss what editors look for in reviews, the value of writing and publishing reviews, the importance of traditional reviews to authors, and the relevancy of "professional" print reviews in the age of facebook and blogs.

Room 110
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

S191. The Journey is (Not) the Destination: Travel Writing in the Memoir Age. (Alden Jones, Ethan Gilsdorf, Oona Patrick, Tim Weed) Traditionally, travel writing has primarily concerned itself with educating a reader on a specific place, not on the writer him- or herself. But in the age of the memoir, has travel itself become secondary to a larger personal journey? What are the best outlets for writing on travel for travel's sake vs. memoirs that involve travel? As travel writers, memoirists, and editors, we will discuss how recent trends affect us in our writing process and in the publishing industry.

Room 111
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

S192. Re-Mapping Aztlán: Celebrating las Historias and the Landscape of Chicano Literature. (Michelle Otero, Stella Pope Duarte, Alex Espinoza, Manuel Ramos, Richard Yañez) The meaning of Aztlán has thrived since the historic Chicano Youth Liberation Conference in Denver forty years ago. From the declaration of an ancestral homeland to an emergence in artistic images to sacred space status, Aztlán remains a vibrant presence in Chicano Literature. The panelists will affirm their social history and cultural spirituality as part of their creative process. As writer-activists, their work cultivates and re-imagines the literary landscape of a political movement.

Room 201
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

S193. The First Next Place: Montana Writers Take On Regionalism. (Judy Blunt, Deirdre McNamer, William Kittredge, Greg Pape, Alan Weltzien) This panel explores the development of a Montana regional writing identity, addresses questions regarding who gets to be a Montana writer, and discusses how Montana regionalism has been both commercialized and trivialized. Finally, the panel examines Montana regionalism as the energizing aspect that has launched many writers' careers and the cage that can limit audiences.

Room 203
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

S194. Demystifying the Hiring Process: Inside the Search Committee. (Laura Lee Washburn, Jeffrey Thomson, Amy Sage Webb, Amy Fleury) Panelists will share extensive experiences with searches, explaining what committees look for and the constraints they're under. We'll offer practical advice from how to do a presentation to the "Don'ts" of the interview process. We'll focus on the committee's perspective at universities of a variety of sizes to help candidates see how minor details make major differences. This panel continues the conversation from AWP in Chicago with more time for audience participation and questions.

Room 205
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

S195. The Fruit of the Peepal: A Conversation with African and Caribbean Poets from the UK & North American Diasporas. (Matthew Shenoda, Kwame Dawes, Chris Abani, Christian Campbell, Roger Bonair-Agard, Ishion Hutchinson) The rising tide of international literature and an increasing climate of global fluidity warrants us to dig deeper into the works of English language writers from across the Atlantic and beyond. Bringing together a group of writers who share ancestral roots across the African continent, but live and write in various diasporas, this panel seeks to explore the aesthetics of poetry by delving into conversations on ethnicity, immigration, masculinity, citizenship, separation, and place.

Room 207
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

S196. Tupelo Press 10th Anniversary Poetry Reading. (Jeffrey Levine, Ilya Kaminsky, Elena Byrne, Karen Lee, Joshua Wilkinson, Joan Houlihan) Tupelo Press celebrates ten years of publishing with a reading that, in turn, celebrates several astonishing new and emerging voices. Come and hear award-winning, provocative, and innovative Tupelo Press writers read from their work.

Rooms 210, 212
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

S197. BOA Editons: American Reader Fiction Series. (Jessica Treat, Martha Ronk, Joanna Howard, Daniel Grandbois, Anthony Tognazzini) BOA Editions, a long-standing preeminent publisher of poetry, recently introduced a new series: the American Reader Series in Short Fiction. Four of the first writers from the series, whose works straddles the line between poetry and prose in unexpected ways, read from their new collections and discuss the nature of their work as well as the making of their books.

Rooms 301, 302
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

S198. A Chorus of Hauntings: Giving Breath to Ghosts. (Deborah Poe, Cole Swensen, Jake Adam York, Brandon Shimoda, Selah Saterstrom, Claudia Smith) This panel consists of fiction, poetry, and hybrid-genre writers whose literary work is deeply invested in meditations on ghosts and hauntings. The panel considers how writers negotiate history and human experience, illuminating what traces of violence, fragmented identity, collective guilt, memory, grief, and memorial mean for writing. This chorus of hauntings embodies the persistent presence of history as it asks difficult questions about lessons the "spirit world" might attempt to pass on.

Room 303
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

S199. What We Teach and Why—Using the Assessment Mandate to Improve Creative Writing Programs. (Mary Rockcastle, Sheila O'Connor, David Haynes, Kris Bigalk, Shannon Olson) Working from the premise that writing can (and should) be taught, we will look at how sound assessment practices drive good teaching. What should our students know and be able to do? What can be effectively measured and what probably shouldn't be? What tools best evaluate creative work? How do we communicate progress to students and to other interested parties? What kinds of programs best support the learning process? From curriculum mapping through program evaluation, four creative writing faculty will share positive pedagogical changes made in response to various assessment mandates.

Room 304
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

S200. Write the Relationship. (Sawnie Morris, Paul Guest, Valerie Martinez, Eliot Khalil Wilson, Amy Pence) How do poetic friendships help us to enhance and to grow our work? A friend's viewpoint can be vital for our artistic development, may keep us from devastating mistakes, and yet may also imperil the relationship. Two sets of friends and our moderator will examine their own relationships and those of other literary pairs to reveal the impact, dynamics, and consequences of writerly entanglements.

Rooms 401, 402
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

S201. Thirty Years of Mid-American Review: An Anniversary Reading. (Matt Bell, Matthew Eck, Karin Gottshall, Jeffrey McDaniel, Michelle Richmond, Alison Stine) This reading celebrates the 30th Anniversary of Mid-American Review, the literary journal edited and published by students and alumni of Bowling Green State University's program in creative writing. MAR is proud of its tradition of featuring work by contemporary writers of eclectic voices and styles, and the five presenters have all contributed to the magazine's pages over the years.

Agate Room
Hyatt Regency Denver, 3rd Floor

S202. Shhh!: Librarians, Archivists, and Writers Discover Research. (Douglas Dechow, Elizabeth Kadetsky, Leslie Pietrzyk, Cathy Day, Leslie Adrienne Miller, Rachel Hall) How can fiction writers and poets make the best use of research time? Is your novel set in a historical period? Could your poem use a scientific metaphor? Do you need that detail that can be the hook for your memoir? How can research invite writerly serendipity? Information research professionals and writers are natural allies. This panel will bring these perspectives together to present ways of working with physical materials in archives, electronic resources beyond Google, and other resources.

Centennial Ballroom
Hyatt Regency Denver, 3rd Floor

S203. A Performance by Joy Harjo & Larry Mitchell.Poet and musician Joy Harjo performs with guitarist Larry Mitchell from her four award-winning CDs of original music.

Granite Room
Hyatt Regency Denver, 3rd Floor

S204. Poets in the World: Building Diverse Communities through Independent Poetry Centers, Blogs, and Radio. (Norton Camille, Barbara Jane Reyes, Oscar Bermeo, Jan Beatty, Tim Kahl, Susan Kelly-DeWitt) Independent poetry centers nourish the common ground between university writing programs and community voices. In this panel, poets share successful strategies for building communities of readers and writers through independent poetry centers supported by blogs, public radio programs, youth programs, prison workshops and community poetry conferences and festivals.

Mineral Hall
Hyatt Regency Denver, 3rd Floor

S205. University of Arizona Poetry Center's 50th Anniversary Reading. (Gail Browne, Carolyn Forché, Mónica de la Torre, Alison Hawthorne Deming, Peter Gizzi, Akilah Oliver) The University of Arizona Poetry Center celebrates fifty years as a vital resource for poetry and a wellspring of creative activity in the West. This reading features writers who have a longstanding relationship with the Poetry Center and have seen it grow from a humble bungalow into a landmark destination for readers and writers as well as new friends of the Center who will witness its next generation of growth and service to Poetry.

Rooms 102, 104
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

S206. Reading from the Anthology, Primera Pagina: Poetry From the Latino Heartland, by the Latino Writers Collective. (Natalie Castro Olmsted, Linda Rodriguez, Gloria Vando, José Faus, Xánath Caraza, Gabriela N. Lemmons) Members of the Latino Writers Collective will read poetry from their 2008 anthology. The Collective provides creative support for members, organizes a series to showcase national and local Latino writers, and provides role models and instruction to Latino youth. A recent finalist for the USA Book News 2009 Award, ForeWord Magazine 2009 Award, and the Eric Hoffer 2009 Award, Primera Pagina: Poetry from the Latino Heartland is the voice of an often unheard community, Midwestern Latinos.

Rooms 103, 105
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

S207. Poetry and New Media: A Users Guide. (Katharine Coles, Wyn Cooper, Kate Gale, Alberto Ríos, Monica Youn) Poets face increasingly complex questions about how to balance the value of access and opportunities presented by new media with the desire to control their work. In 2009, the Harriet Monroe Poetry Institute convened poets and community members to consider these questions and identify ways to unblock bottlenecks keeping poetry from coming fully into new media. Group members will discuss tools for helping poets and other copyright holders think through and manage these difficult questions.

Room 107
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

S208. Novel Ideas: Novelists Teaching the Craft of Novel-Writing. (Barbara Shoup, Margaret-Love Denman, Elise Juska) These novelists, who have also taught novel-writing, will discuss the unique challenges of teaching the process of writing a novel, whether in the university classroom, a community workshop, or by way of individual coaching. They will share insights and strategies for constructing novel-writing courses that reflect the long, ambiguous process.

Room 108
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

S209. Western Myth Busters Reading. (Julene Bair, Lisa Jones, Teresa Jordan, Laura Pritchett) All good writing deconstructs myths. But western writers are uniquely challenged by publishers and readers who want the myths to hold. These fiction and nonfiction writers ask what the myths, old and new, actually are. They challenge images of fish-gutting, teva-wearing outdoorswomen; explore the tensions between being a farmer's daughter and an environmentalist; and bridge the gap separating Native Americans and Whites.

Room 201
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

S210. Can Poetry Save the Earth? (Sandra Alcosser, John Felstiner, Brenda Iijima, Leonard Schwartz, Jonathan Skinner) This panel will investigate the relationship between poetry and ecology, ranging from historical imperatives to contemporary ecopoetics. These panelists—representing activist poets working in zoos and parks, scholars illuminating the vital role of Western nature poetry, and writers redefining our relationship to language and ecology—are at the leading edge of the conversation where poetic language meets environmental education and global sustainability.

Room 203
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

S211. The Iowa Review at Forty. (Christopher Merrill, Marianne Boruch, Nami Mun, Lee Montgomery, Matthew Rohrer, David Hamilton) Founded in 1970, the Iowa Review enters its fifth decade ready to reinvent itself while keeping its traditions in mind. To celebrate the acclaimed literary magazine's 40th birthday, and as a tribute to retiring editor David Hamilton's thirty-two years of tireless dedication to writers and writing, advisory board member Christopher Merrill hosts a lineup of outstanding contributors reading work that has been published in the Iowa Review over the years.

Room 205
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

S212. Memoir Form and Ethics in the Age of the Oprah Book Club. (Glen Retief, Carolyn Forché, Jocelyn Bartkevicius, Thomas Larson, Gary Fincke) A range of strategies are available to contemporary memoirists, among them the novelistic memoir, which "redreams" or reconstructs the past, and the essayistic memoir, which analyzes fragmentary and unreliable memories. In the contemporary world, though, where readers increasingly seem to expect memoirs to be as "true" as journalism, is any one formal approach more ethical than another? More useful? Is factual accuracy the memoirist's most important ethical obligation?

Room 207
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

S213. A Reading by David Wroblewski, Presented in Association with the Lighthouse Writers Workshop. A Reading by David Wroblewski.

Rooms 210, 212
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

S214. Writing Plays About Real People. (Yvonne Farrow, Yvette Heyliger, Heidi J. Dallin, Jacqueline Kristel, Dave Faux) Can I write a play about a real person? Do I need that person's permission? Will writing about a real person infringe on his or her right of privacy? Who owns the copyright to someone's life? Playwright Yvette Heyliger shares her process writing about real people, as well as giving examples of other playwright's work. An entertainment attorney will provide legal perspective and insights. Excerpts of Heyliger's plays featuring Laura Bush, Hillary Clinton, and Monica Lewinsky will be presented.

Rooms 301, 302
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

S215. Fire and Ink: A Social Action Writing Anthology Reading. (Diana Garcia, Martín Espada, Toi Derricotte, Frances Payne Adler, Ray Gonzalez, Debra Busman) "(A)dvance the cause of justice, and therefore, peace..." activist poet June Jordan said. Come hear award-winning social action writers read in celebration of Fire and Ink: An Anthology of Social Action Writing, a pathbreaking new collection of 100 writers, edited by faculty at California State University Monterey Bay, and drawn from fourteen years of social action writing curriculum.

Room 303
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

S216. The Future of Feminist Publishing. (Amy Scholder, Brooke Warner, Kate Khatib, Jocelyn Burrell, Rachel Levitsky) This panel brings together five feminist publishing professionals to discuss these issues: how is the scope of feminist publishing changing with the times? What is a feminist book? Do readers respond differently to self-defined feminist books? Why should authors seek out feminist presses to publish their work?

Agate Room
Hyatt Regency Denver, 3rd Floor

S217. Through the Years: Teaching Writing to Age Groups. (Rose Solari, Kelly A. Ceynowa, Christopher Castellani, Michael J. Henry) Writing centers are in the unique position to serve a wide cross-section of our communities, teaching writers from age 6 to 96. Do different age groups have specific needs when it comes to the study of writing? What impact do various life stages have on the effectiveness of writing instruction? Representatives from some of the nation's top centers will discuss their programs, initiatives, and teaching considerations that help them best reach and support writers at every stage of life.

Centennial Ballroom
Hyatt Regency Denver, 3rd Floor

S218. The Art of Losing: Poems of Grief and Healing. (Kevin Young, Natasha Trethewey, Nick Flynn, Campbell McGrath, Elizabeth Alexander) Whether funny or sorrowful, formally metrical or a lowercase outpouring, the elegy represents one of the heights of contemporary poetry. Four vibrant poets explore our elegiac age through a reading from The Art of Losing, an anthology of contemporary poems exploring grief and healing, from Auden to the present. By reading their own poems and other classics of the form, we explore how the elegy affirms life—if only in the afterlife of memory, and art.

Granite Room
Hyatt Regency Denver, 3rd Floor

S219. How to Sustain a National Literary Journal of Diverse Voices and Small Press, Many Mountains Moving, Inc., a 501(c)(3). (Jeffrey Lee, Erik Nilsen, Thaddeus Rutkowski, Patrick Lawler, Debra Bokur) Editors from Colorado, Pennsylvania, upstate New York, and New York City candidly discuss diversity in the age of transversality (the post-universality paradigm), contest ethics, and sustainable aesthetics and publishing. Sample readings from the journal, press, and web site. With writers included in the Pushcart Prize and Best American Poetry anthologies, MMM has been publishing since its founding in Boulder in 1994. Visionary, practical, relevant discussions with the poetry, ecopoetry, fiction, and drama editors. Q & A.

Mineral Hall
Hyatt Regency Denver, 3rd Floor

S220. The Past Is Another Country: Writing Historical Fiction. (Cynthia Mahamdi, Philip Gerard, Ron Hansen) The appeal of combining history and storytelling is evident in the popularity of historical fiction and films. But this is an uneasy union, much debated by historians. Three historical novelists share their ideas on the processes, ethics, and challenges of this genre, including doing research and transforming data intro drama, the ethics of key decision-making processes, and the special challenges of writing historicals set in Non-Western cultures.

Granite Room
Hyatt Regency Denver, 3rd Floor

IMAGE / Seattle Pacific University MFA Anniversary Celebrations
Join students and faculty from IMAGE Journal and Seattle Pacific University for an anniversary reception.

Agate Room
Hyatt Regency Denver, 3rd Floor

A Book Launch Reception Celebrating Brian Turneris Phantom Noise
Co-sponsored by Alice James Books and Blue Flower Arts.

Centennial Ballroom
Hyatt Regency Denver, 3rd Floor

S221. A Reading by Rick Bass & Terry Tempest Williams, Sponsored by University of North Carolina Wilmington MFA Program. A Reading by Rick Bass & Terry Tempest Williams.

Four Seasons Ballroom
Colorado Convention Center, Lower Level

S222. The Academy of American Poets Presents Robert Hass and Barbara Ras. (Tree Swenson) Readings by Robert Hass and Barbara Ras. Introductions by Tree Swenson.

Rooms 301, 302
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

S223. The All Collegiate Afterhours Slam. (James Warner, Philip Brady, Christine Gelineau) The All Collegiate event is open to all undergrad and grad students attending the slam. Participation is capped at ten slammers a night. Slam pieces must be no longer than three minutes in length. Prizes, judges, and organization of event will be handled by Wilkes University Creative Writing Program.

Mineral Hall
Hyatt Regency Denver, 3rd Floor

S224. AWP Public Reception & Dance Party. Music by DJ Neza. Free beer and wine from 10:00-11:00 p.m. Cash bar from 11:00 p.m.-Midnight.