Exhibit Hall A
Colorado Convention Center, Upper Level

R100. 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

R101. 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

R102. Writing the West: The Transplanted Writer as Literary Outsider. (Summer Wood, Pam Houston, Robert Wilder, Uma Krishnaswami) Writing the American West means coming to terms with a mythic landscape and a checkered history. If it's true that land plus history equals story, as N. Scott Momaday wrote, how does not being from here affect the way writers encounter that land and history to write their way into the present? Four literary transplants who set their work along the spine of the continent talk about the creative, technical, and ethical issues that arise when claiming a place that didn't raise them.

Rooms 103, 105
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

R103. Inside the Box: Prose Poets on Form and Influence. (Gary L. McDowell, John Bradley, David Shumate, Maurice Kilwein Guevara, Kathleen McGookey, Brigitte Byrd) Why do poets pursue prose poems? What about the form attracts and commands the attention of poet and reader alike? Through various influences and experiences, many poets from different schools of poetry have found their way to the prose poem. Five contributors to The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Prose Poetry: Contemporary Poets in Discussion and Practice (March 2010) will discuss how the prose poem has become a meaningful part of their poetic lives and read from their work.

Room 106
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

R104. CLMP Panel—Face Out: Maximizing the Visibility of Emerging Writers. (E. Tracy Grinnell, Rachel Levitsky, Matvei Yankelevich, Rebecca Wolff) A discussion about how small presses present and market experimental work by emerging writers—work too often misunderstood as possessing the least market potential.

Room 107
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

R105. The PhD in Creative Writing: How to Make the Most of It in the Job Market (Glen Retief, Jericho Brown, Erika T. Wurth, Kate Schmitt, Forrest Anderson, Oindrila Mukherjee) A doctoral program in creative writing is not a waste of time—it can actually help you get a tenure-track job or a fellowship. But how can you prepare for those from Day One of the PhD? What helps and what doesn't? We wish someone had given us this advice when we first started the PhD. Five writers who managed to get a tenure-track job/ fellowship before they graduated or signed a book deal discuss the valuable lessons they learned both as job candidates and search committee members.

Room 108
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

R106. Reading, Writing, and Teaching the Literary Fantastic. (Sarah Stone, Joan Silber, Melissa Pritchard, Doug Dorst, Sylvia Brownrigg) We'll explore how fabulous or numinous fiction can be meaningful and believable: from completely alternate worlds to literary ghost stories to essentially realist stories that depict characters' beliefs about the supernatural. We'll consider great examples and describe ways for writers and their students to unlock their own inventions and move beyond genre cliches. The panel will include handouts with reading lists and writing exercises.

Room 109
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

R107. The Literary Magazine at the Two-Year College: Standards, Submissions, and Student Success. (Denise Hill, Nicholle Cormier, Michael Darcher, John Dermot Woods, Bart Edelman, Lindsay Wilson) Faculty advisors and editors of five local and national two-year college journals—Eclipse, Luna, The MacGuffin, The Meadow, SLA.M.—discuss the unique nature of sustainability in a transient student population, how to maintain competitive content standards sought nationally and internationally by both readers and writers, and the opportunities these journals provide in preparing students to transfer their experience to university publications.

Room 110
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

R108. The Long and Short of it: The Evolving Shapes of Creative Nonfiction. (Jessica Pitchford, Susan Finch, Hattie Fletcher, Stephen David Grover, B.J. Hollars) Join the editors of Brevity, Creative Nonfiction, Black Warrior, and The Southeast Review as they consider the evolving shapes of nonfiction—from the personal essay to micro-memoir to more experimental forms. Editors discuss the recent trends in the genre with special emphasis on the merits of experimentation in form and the future of more traditional narrative nonfiction. They also provide an insider look at the selection process and offer recommendations for getting published.

Room 111
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

R109. Play Ball!: The Language of Sports. (Michael Garriga, William Giraldi, Michael Griffith, Cathy Day, Andrew Ervin) Our national pastimes have the unique ability to transcend lines that normally close off other avenues: race, class, gender, sexual orientation, etc. Jackie Robinson, Nadia Comaneci, Muhammed Ali, Tonya Harding, and Michael Vick have all been touchstones for greater discussions on our society, bringing together speakers and opinions from different demographics. This panel examines the use of sports in fiction, and how it can be utilized for a larger purpose while speaking a common language.

Room 112
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

R110. A Wish, A Prayer, A Reading Series. (John Hoppenthaler, Keith Flynn, Craig Challender, Harriet Levin) In the wake of shortfalls and frozen budgets, many schools are finding it impossible to provide students with opportunities to experience professional visiting writers as an integral part of their education. The panel members, all of whom have curated or currently curate reading series inside and/or outside of academia, will discuss strategies for outlasting the current situation while continuing to provide this valuable resource for students.

Room 113
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

R111. Teaching Working Adult Writers. (Michelle Hoover, Lisa Borders, Ethan Gilsdorf, Rebecca Morgan Frank, Tim Horvath, Allison Adair) This panel examines the challenges and advantages of teaching working adult writers the craft of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction writing. Instructors of Grub Street, Boston's Independent Writing Center, will address how to deal with various skill levels and interests; how to help these writers with time and energy constraints and use their unique backgrounds to forge a dynamic classroom environment; and how to support self-study and continued involvement with the local writing community.

Room 201
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

R112. The Poets Guide to the Birds: A Reading. (Peggy Shumaker, Keith Ratzlaff, Patricia Kirkpatrick, David Huddle, Rick Campbell, Holly Hughes) A raft of auks, a quarrel of sparrows, a scold of jays, a cast of falcons. Judith Kitchen and Ted Kooser have edited a soaring collection—contemporary poems that focus on birds. Six poets will read poems from west of the Continental Divide. You'll hear poems from Alaska, Hawaii, Arizona, California, Idaho, Oregon, Washington, and our AWP Conference host state, Colorado.

Room 203
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

R113. Grants, Proposals, and Queries: How to Write about your Writing. (H.M. Bouwman, Swati Avasthi, J.C. Hallman, Matt Rasmussen) Writers spend a lot of time on the craft of writing but sometimes not enough on the craft of presentation. Presenting what you write about in short forms is a special skill set that you can develop and hone. This panel (composed of writers of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry) will discuss how to summarize your work and make it stand out in this tight economy by incorporating a sense of voice and purpose into grant applications, book proposals, and queries

Room 205
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

R114. AWP Program Directors Plenary Assembly.All AWP program directors should attend and represent their programs. The Acting Executive Director of AWP will report on AWP's new projects and on important statistics and academic trends that pertain to creative writing programs and to writers who teach. A discussion with the AWP board's Regional Representative will follow. The plenary assembly will be followed by regional breakout sessions.

Room 207
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

R115. Prison Pedagogies: Teaching and Writing Behind Bars. (Kyes Stevens, Gretchen Primack, Kenneth Lamberton, Diane Raptosh, Dorothy Albertini, Reginald Dwayne Betts) This panel will discuss the often-asked question of how teachers of creative writing should best approach working with incarcerated students. Teachers currently working in correctional facilities and a creative writer who began writing in prison will offer helpful strategies for presenting challenging texts, innovative writing assignments, and supportive critiques, with an eye toward creating a strong learning community among inmate-students.

Rooms 210, 212
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

R116. About My Day Job: The Proliferation of Poetry by Any Available Means. (Collin Kelley, Lola Haskins, Karen Head, Megan Volpert) This panel will explore the variety of approaches poets take to meet their creative needs while saddled with the practical responsibilities of everyday living. Avenues of exploration will include the injection of poetry into unlikely workplace environments, the location of poetics in scholarly or other professional writing practices, and the investment of poets in systems or institutions that are hostile to their artistic energies.

Rooms 301, 302
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

R117. Decolonial Poetics: Womanist, Indigenous, and Queer Poets of Color on the Art of Decolonization. (Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán, ku'ualoha ho'omanawanui, Lorenzo Herrera y Lozano, Susan Deer Cloud, Ching-In Chen, Lisa Suhair Majaj) Many poets of color see art playing a vital role in the decolonization of our bodies, cultures, and landbases. In what ways do we use writing as an act of re-creation, alongside other forms of activism, organizing, and spirituality, by which to undo centuries of white supremacist, capitalist, and heteropatriarchal intrusions into the workings of our communities? How does poetry serve to decolonize our lives, and how must we decolonize our poetic traditions in order to live?

Room 303
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

R118. The In Sound from Way Out: Submission to Publication. (M. Bartley Seigel, Margaret Bashaar, Aaron Burch, James Grinwis, Jennifer Pieroni, Roxane Gay) Editors from five eclectic little magazines—Bateau, Hobart, PANK, Quick Fiction, and Weave—unpack their editorial projects and processes, quirks and anomalies, across genres, and invite questions to initiate dialogue among panel and audience members.

Room 304
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

R119. Not A Muse. (Kate Rogers, Viki Holmes, Luisa Igloria, Antoinette Brim, Haley Lasche, Andrena Zawinski) "The woman poet must invent her own metaphor for poetic inspiration; she must name a muse of her own," writes Mary K. DeShazer. The daily experiences which move us as women and our relationships to others as well as to our bodies are all celebrated in the Not A Muse anthology, which features poetry from the "post-feminist era" by 115 women poets from twenty-four different countries. Six of the Not A Muse writers will read their work.

Agate Room
Hyatt Regency Denver, 3rd Floor

R120. Hosting a Successful High School Creative Writing Festival at the College Level. (Mary Emery, Ron Smith, Dale Ritterbusch, Lynn Shoemaker) For twenty-five years, UW-Whitewater has hosted an annual High School Creative Writing Festival. This conference, one of the top three writing events in Wisconsin, features a nationally recognized keynote speaker and nearly 100 writing workshops, covering all literary genres. About 600 students, seventy high school teachers, and thirty workshop facilitators attend. Panelists will outline the procedures involved with the organizing, funding, and promoting of a successful writing festival, with all of its rewards.

Granite Room
Hyatt Regency Denver, 3rd Floor

R121. The Online MFA: An Innovative Alternative to the Resident and Low-Resident MFA. (Lex Williford, Daniel Chacón, Sasha Pimentel Chacón, José de Piérola) In "Going Borderless and Bilingual" (January 25, 2007) Higher Ed announced UTEP's new online MFA. Understandably, some have expressed skepticism about such a non-resident program, including AWP Executive Director David Fenza: "I'm not sure that it's a good idea, but we'll have to see how the experiment goes." Three years in, despite many obstacles, the experiment is going well. The thriving program provides a quality, innovative alternative MFA for writers living both in and outside the U.S.

Mineral Hall
Hyatt Regency Denver, 3rd Floor

R122. The Networked Poetry Classroom. (Chris Hosea, Eric Baus, Dorothea Lasky, Mathias Svalina, Michelle Taransky) This panel will examine key issues at the intersection of 21st century technologies and age-old poetic concerns. We will consider how Wikis, blogs, social networking, Moodle, Google Docs, and podcasts are changing the way high school and college students are studying and writing poetry. What happens to assumptions about originality and authority when students collaborate? Can Web 2.0 technologies help students hack unfamiliar texts and forms?

Room 101
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

R123. 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

R124. Bollywood, Bullets, and Beyond: The Poetry of South Asian America. (Summi Kaipa, Pireeni Sundaralingam, Ravi Shankar, Bhanu Kapil, Subhashini Kaligotla, Monica Ferrell) What do a sestina, 9/11, and Amitabh Bachchan have in common? Popular, political, and poetic themes all appear in Indivisible (University of Arkansas Press, 2010), the first anthology of contemporary South Asian American poetry. The collection features emerging and established poets who can trace their ethnic heritages to Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. Six extraordinary writers from this collection read from their work.

Rooms 103, 105
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

R125. The 25th Poem: Putting Together Your First Book. (Nicky Beer, Dan Albergotti, Robin Ekiss, James Allen Hall, Anna Journey) Robert Frost said that if a book of poems has twenty-four poems in it, the book itself should be the twenty-fifth poem. We will discuss how ordering, structuring, sectioning, titling, and using elements of narrative, character development, and epiphany can turn a group of poems into a manuscript with a clear identity. We hope to demystify the process of putting together the first book, and to share the choices (and mistakes!) we've made with our manuscripts on the road to publication.

Room 107
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

R126. Sick Humor: What's Not Funny about Serious Disease? (S. L. Wisenberg, Paula Kamen, William Bradley, Regina Barreca, Marya Hornbacher) In sum, the panelists, all nonfiction writers, have had a fifteen-year headache, a thyroid condition, fibroids, bipolar disorder, an eating disorder, various cancers, and a rare blood disease—so of course all they can do is laugh. They will discuss theories of humor, the effect of using humor to write about serious illness, and their own writing. They'll also hand out a "sick humor" reading list.

Room 108
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

R127. What Writers Intend; What Readers Read: Surprises, Gambles, and Caveats. (Mimi Schwartz, Ladette Randolph, Lee Martin, Hilda Raz) Write it first; don't worry what others think. What happens, though, when readers don't react as we intend? What if they surprise us with anger or insight—or just don't get it? Four writers and editors of poetry, fiction, and memoir discuss their experiences with readers before and after publication. Issues we consider: how subject matters affects our choice of genre; how family or friends shape what we say; and how politically-charged topics influence reader reactions.

Room 109
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

R128. New American Poets: A Swallow Anthology Reading. (David Yezzi, Erica Dawson, Bill Coyle, Joanie Mackowski, Geoffrey Brock, J. Allyn Rosser) A poetry reading by poets from the newly published Swallow Anthology of New American Poets. Here is a group of poets—not a school or a movement—who have, perhaps for the first time since the modernist revolution, returned to a happy détente between warring camps. This is a new kind of poet, who, dissatisfied with the climate of extremes, has found a balance between innovation and received form, the terror beneath the classical and the order underpinning the romantic.

Room 110
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

R129. Midwest Region: AWP Program Directors Breakout Session. If you are a program director of an AWP member creative writing program in the following states you should attend this session: Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, and Wisconsin. This regional breakout session will begin immediately upon the conclusion of the Program Directors Plenary Meeting, so we recommend that you attend the Plenary Meeting first. Your regional representative on the AWP Board of Directors, Richard Robbins, will conduct this meeting.

Room 111
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

R130. Northeast Region: AWP Program Directors Breakout Session. If you are a program director of an AWP member creative writing program in the following states you should attend this session: Connecticut, District of Columbia, Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont. This regional breakout session will begin immediately upon the conclusion of the Program Directors Plenary Meeting, so we recommend that you attend the Plenary Meeting first. Your newly elected regional representative on the AWP Board of Directors will conduct this meeting.

Room 112
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

R131. Pacific West Region: AWP Program Directors Breakout Session. If you are a program director of an AWP member creative writing program in the following states you should attend this session: Alaska, California, Hawaii, Oregon, and Washington. This regional breakout session will begin immediately upon the conclusion of the Program Directors Plenary Meeting, so we recommend that you attend the Plenary Meeting first. Your regional representative on the AWP Board of Directors, Steve Heller, will conduct this meeting.

Room 113
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

R132. Southeast Region: AWP Program Directors Breakout Session. If you are a program director of an AWP member creative writing program in the following states you should attend this session: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia. This regional breakout session will begin immediately upon the conclusion of the Program Directors Plenary Meeting, so we recommend that you attend the Plenary Meeting first. Your newly elected regional representative on the AWP Board of Directors will conduct this meeting.

Room 201
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

R133. Women Writing the West. (Alyson Hagy, Vicki Lindner, Marilyn Krysl, Lee Ann Roripaugh, Allison Hedge Coke) How do women write about a region where the dominant myths seem so unremittingly masculine? Do women see the American West through a more complex lens? Can the writing of women more directly address the not-so-bucolic issues of poverty, environmental degradation, health care, urban sprawl, and immigration? How might poetry, fiction, journalism, and mixed-genre writing address the contradictions of the region? Is regional identity important for working writers? For women? These questions, and more, will be addressed by a lively panel of women from a range of cultural, political, and artistic backgrounds. Some panel members are natives of the West and some are not. Please join us for an energetic, never simplistic, discussion.

Room 203
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

R134. Readers for Life: Building a Poetry Audience in the Schools. (Lynn Aarti Chandhok, Bill Zavatsky, Michael Morse, Emma Bolden, Loryn-Marie Croot, Matthew Lippman) Children love poetry, but by the end of high school, many students feel alienated by their experiences with poetry in the classroom. Poets who teach in high school can play a critical role in helping students remember why they love poetry, and in creating a larger audience for contemporary American poetry. Six secondary school teachers discuss strategies, techniques, and lesson plans that help bring every student, not just those planning to become writers, back into the fold of poetry lovers.

Room 205
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

R135. West Region: AWP Program Directors Breakout Session. If you are a program director of an AWP member creative writing program in the following states you should attend this session: Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, Nevada, New Mexico, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, and Wyoming. This regional breakout session will begin immediately upon the conclusion of the Program Directors Plenary Meeting, so we recommend that you attend the Plenary Meeting first. Your regional representative on the AWP Board of Directors, Luci Tapahonso, will conduct this meeting.

Room 207
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

R136. A Tribute to Reginald Shepherd. (Brad Richard, Robert Philen, Catherine Imbriglio, Timothy Liu, John Gallaher) Join us to celebrate the life and work of Reginald Shepherd (1963-2008), a major poet (Some Are Drowning, Wrong, Otherhood, Fata Morgana), anthologist (The Iowa Anthology of New American Poetries, Lyric Postmodernisms), and essayist/critic (Orpheus in the Bronx, A Martian Muse [forthcoming]). His brilliant lyricism, intelligence, wit, and generosity are sorely missed. Our panelists, including Shepherd's partner, Robert Philen, will discuss his legacy as writer, editor, and friend.

Rooms 210, 212
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

R137. Class and Conflict on the Other Side of the World. (Masha Hamilton, Thrity Umrigar, C.M. Mayo, Rishi Reddi) As we become more globally linked, the role of fiction in providing a human and humane glimpse of "the other" becomes more important. But it is a challenging task. How do writers develop confidence to tell stories of cultures and countries where they don't reside? Why are such stories critically important? Authors—who between them write about everywhere from Asia to the Middle East to Africa to Mexico—explore this issue.

Rooms 301, 302
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

R138. Ahsahta Press 35th Anniversary Reading. (Sandra Doller, Brigitte Byrd, Kate Greenstreet, Brenda Iijima, Susan Tichy, Lance Phillips, Rachel Loden) Celebrating thirty-five years of publishing, Ahsahta Press showcases poets from its current season. Once an enterprise that rescued and reprinted such classic Western poets as Genevieve Taggard and Haniel Long, Ahsahta is now known for publishing accessible innovative writing that possesses artistic vision. Come help honor both our tradition and our future at a reading from Ahsahta's latest books.

Room 303
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

R139. Stagecoaching for the Page: How to Perform Like a Cowboy. (Timothy Green, JV Brummels, Thea Gavin, David Romtvedt, Lisa Lewis, Al Doc Mehl) Ask a cowboy poet to give a reading and he'll look at you funny. Cowboy and western poetry isn't read, it's performed—at events that are entertaining enough to draw thousands of fans to the Nevada desert every year. Meanwhile, mainstream poetry languishes on the page. Learn how to put the buck in your bard, as five cowboy and western poets discuss the tricks of the trade—from roping recitation to commanding the stage. Moderated by the editor of Rattle's recent Cowboy and Western Poetry issue.

Room 304
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

R140. (WITS Alliance) Raising the Funds for Changing the World. (Amy Swauger, Michele Kotler, Robin Reagler, Amy Stolls, Elma Ruiz) This WITS Alliance-sponsored session focuses on strategies to fund creative writing programs for students in K-12 schools. This panel of funders and fundraisers will share their success stories in garnering support from individuals, foundations, corporations, government grant programs, and school budgets in order to place writers in the schools.

Rooms 401, 402
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

R141. Toward a New Criticism. (Malachi Black, Cate Marvin, Roger Reeves, Dean Young, Jerry Harp) How might received critical attitudes and ideas be adapted in order to engage contemporary poetry more productively and elucidate it more precisely? And what, after all, is the function of criticism? By interrogating the considerable intellectual legacy of T.S. Eliot and his New Critical descendants, this panel will endeavor to establish a program for criticism that is consistent with contemporary verse practice and consider how such a program might best be promoted by poets themselves.

Rooms 403, 404
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

R142. Writing History, Writing Race. (Eric Goodman, Michelle Boisseau, Lucy Ferriss, Brian Roley, Dolen Perkins-Valdez) Three novelists and a poet will discuss the special challenges and rewards of incorporating historical research in their work. Of special interest is the panelists' experience in writing both across racial boundaries and drawing on family history for representing centuries of a broader American past. Panelists will suggest research methods and confront head-on some of the most difficult issues facing writers today. Who owns whose past? How do you write about history and race in America?

Agate Room
Hyatt Regency Denver, 3rd Floor

R143. Shameless Book Promotion: Squad 365 Rides Again! (Marisha Chamberlain, Margaret Hasse, Jon Spayde, Todd Boss) Last year, we drew an overflow crowd for an AWP panel on creative book promotion. Participants called us "educational, generous, warm, and funny." Collaborating, blogging, and presenting as "Squad 365," we're two poets, a novelist, and a nonfiction writer with books out from Norton, Nodin, and Random House in 2008, and from Soho Press in 2009. In 2010 we're back again with another lively discussion about simple and innovative ways to win readers, promote a little on a regular basis, and enjoy marketing.

Capitol Ballroom
Hyatt Regency Denver, 4th Floor

R144. Confluence: Where Words and Music Meet. (J.D. Scrimgeour, Phil Swanson) A concert by Confluence, a performance group that blends poetry and music. Poet J.D. Scrimgeour and musician/composer Philip Swanson (piano and trombone) will perform poems by Scrimgeour, Alan Feldman, Yusef Komunyakaa, and Rainer Maria Rilke set to a variety of original music: jazz, blues, and classical.

Granite Room
Hyatt Regency Denver, 3rd Floor

R145. Ellipsis as Art: Crafting Omission of Information in a Text. (Yuriy Tarnawsky, Steve Tomasula, Debra Di Blasi, Davis Schneiderman) Typically, texts are made up of explicit information vital to the story. But texts can also be constructed with vital information left out that the reader must provide. Such information—negative text—must be crafted as carefully as explicit information. Works of this type rely on the reader's imagination to be effective. The panel will discuss various types of techniques for crafting negative texts and genres that employ them.

Mineral Hall
Hyatt Regency Denver, 3rd Floor

R146. CLMP Keynote Address—Small Press Heaven: Poetics from the Floating World. (Jeffrey Lependorf, Anne Waldman) Performer, professor, editor, cultural activist, and author of over forty books of poetry, Anne Waldman discusses her storied history with independent publishers (with a special-guest musical accompaniment on Japanese bamboo flute!).

Rooms 102, 104
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

R147. The Ten-Minute Play and the Opportunities That Follow. (Bonnie Culver, Gregory Fletcher, Juanita Rockwell) A presentation and exploration of writing in the ten-minute play format and the submission opportunities that will follow. Both the creative process and the business aspects that are specific to the ten-minute play world will be examined, which will be informative for new and non-playwrights, who may want to try their hand at playwriting, and for established playwrights who wish to explore the opportunities that pertain to the specific playwriting format of the ten-minute play.

Rooms 103, 105
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

R148. Kundiman: Love Songs and Leaps of Faith. (Vikas Menon, Jennifer Chang, Matthew Olzmann, Sarah Gambito, Rick Barot, R.A. Villanueva) Kundiman, an organization dedicated to emerging Asian-American poets, is celebrating the achievements of its fellows, alumni, and faculty. Each year, Kundiman holds its annual retreat on the campus of UVA. During this retreat, many Kundiman fellows take leaps of faith—breakthroughs in their poetic processes occur. During this panel, staff members, faculty, and fellows will share work written during the retreat as well as their own work that is strongly influenced by the Kundiman community.

Room 106
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

R149. Pedagogy Forum Session: Muti-Genre. This session is designed to give contributors to the 2010 Pedagogy Forum an opportunity to discuss their work, though all are welcome. The papers will provide a framework to begin in-depth discussion in creative writing, pedagogy, and theory. A pedagogy speaker will contextualize the discussion with some brief remarks before attendees break out into small discussion groups. These groups will be facilitated by trained pedagogy paper contributors.

Room 107
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

R150. Pedagogy Forum Session: Fiction & Drama. This session is designed to give contributors to the 2010 Pedagogy Forum an opportunity to discuss their works, though all are welcome. The papers will provide a framework to begin in depth discussion in creative writing, pedagogy, and theory. A pedagogy speaker will contextualize the discussion with some brief remarks before attendees break out into small discussion groups. These groups will be facilitated by trained pedagogy paper contributors.

Room 108
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

R151. University of Denver Ph.D. Program Alumni Reading. (Kristen Iversen, Sandra Meek, Joshua McKinney, Bruce Bond, Marck L. Beggs, Nicholas Samaras) This reading will feature several notable alumni from the University of Denver PhD Program in Creative Writing, the second-oldest doctoral creative writing program in the country, and will highlight the literature-based, cross-genre focus of this highly regarded program known for producing some of the most original and accomplished writers in the country.

Room 109
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

R152. Directing the Contemporary Thesis. (Geoff Schmidt, Wendy Rawlings, Allison Funk, Allison Joseph, Tim Parrish) What practices, from start to finish, does the good thesis director need to consider? What might the director and the student do to make it the richest learning experience possible? How collaborative is the process? What is the role of the director: editor, teacher, mentor? As students become more multi-modal, and as their notions of the "book" become more fluid, is the traditional thesis (a book-length, publishable manuscript) the best culminating experience for a graduate student?

Room 110
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

R153. Going Long: The Long Short Story. (Jill Meyers, Josh Weil, Suzanne Rivecca, Karen Brown, Christie Hodgen) The long short story is a literary form revered but not often published. It offers a generous scope and a larger world for readers; for writers, an opportunity to get messy. Four skillful practitioners of the form gather to read from their works and to discuss the form's challenges and rewards. What happens when you write beyond the ending?

Room 111
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

R154. The River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize: A Celebration. (Joe Mackall, Kurt Caswell, Brandon R. Schrand, Michael Downs) The annual River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize, founded in 2002 by Joe Mackall and Dan Lehman, is fast becoming one of the most competitive and honored nonfiction book prizes in the U.S. Come hear readings by recent winners of this prestigious award.

Room 201
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

R155. Women & Nature, Thirty Years Later: Our Evolving Otherness. (Rusty Morrison, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Sarah Gridley, M.L. Smoker, Melissa Kwasny, Alena Hairston) In 1977, Susan Griffin published Women & Nature: The Roaring Inside Her. By juxtaposing the male voice of science and historical record with the personal and female voice, she demonstrated how our culture has equated nature and woman with the dark, the dirty, the calamitous, the unholy. More than thirty years later, these poets will discuss how—in this time of ecological crisis—they see the poem as medium for gaining insight into the complex, evolving positioning of Other and Nature.

Room 203
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

R156. A Pen Behind Your Ear: Gathering, Editing, Publishing, Marketing, and Promoting an Anthology. (Andrea Hollander Budy, Laure-Anne Bosselaar, Kurt Brown, Camille Dungy, Michael Martone) Five editors of recent anthologies will discuss all aspects of creating an anthology, including making selections, locating and working with a publisher, obtaining permissions to reprint previously published material, working with designers, and attracting readers. As the panelists are also writers themselves, they will also discuss the pleasures and challenges of editing an anthology while trying to maintain their writing lives.

Room 205
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

R157. The New Domestic Fiction. (Lynn Kilpatrick, Cheryl Strayed, Matt Roberson, Lidia Yuknavitch) Historically, domestic fiction has meant stories of women, marriage, children, and houses. But home and family have changed radically, and contemporary fiction reflects this shift. The new domestic fiction includes not only women and kitchens, but men, laundry, and even knives. Panelists will investigate this strange environment through the lenses of masculine domesticity, embodiments of the maternal, class, and narrative structure. This panel will feature readings, discussion, and time for questions.

Room 207
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

R158. Creating a Thriving Literary Community. (Michael Henry, Jocelyn Hale, Charles Jensen, Andrea Dupree, Christopher Castellani) Literary community exists inside academic settings, fellowship programs, and retreat centers, but how can geographic regions create long-term communities to support and connect writers to one another, as well as nurture readers? Directors from four prominent literary nonprofits—the Loft in Minneapolis; Grub Street Writers in Boston; the Writer's Center in D.C.; and the Lighthouse Writers Workshop in Denver—talk about the challenges and opportunities that abound in their thriving communities.

Rooms 210, 212
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

R159. Best of the West: New Stories from the Wide Side of the Missouri. (D. Seth Horton, Don Waters, Lee K. Abbott, Justin St. Germain) Best of the West: New Stories from the Wide Side of the Missouri is an annual anthology of exceptional short fiction rooted in the western United States. Three award-winning contributors gather to read from their anthologized work. They will be introduced by the series co-editor, D. Seth Horton.

Rooms 301, 302
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

R160. Poetry & Memorability. (Joshua Kryah, Jill Bialosky, Mark Irwin, Claudia Keelan, Paul Hoover, Laura Kasischke) A majority of the art that survives is memorable in one way or another. Heidegger has argued that art, to a certain extent, "forces being out of forgetfulness" and thus creates truth. What makes a poem memorable? We will examine metaphor, form, imagination, concept, image language, mystery, and radical gesture as it leads toward producing works of art that are finished to the eye, but unfinished to the heart.

Room 303
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

R161. Jack Kerouac School Faculty Reading. (Lisa Birman, Anselm Hollo, Junior Burke, Keith Kumasen Abbott, Danielle Dutton, Amy Catanzano) Naropa University is home to one of the most prestigious and diverse writing programs in the West: the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics. Six faculty members will celebrate the school's 35th anniversary with a reading of recent works, including short prose, poetry, and more poetry.

Room 304
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

R162. A For Effort? Methodologies Towards Grading in the Creative Writing Classroom. (Catherine Cortese, Mark Winegardner, Sally Ball, Tom Hunley, Caitlin Horrocks) Creative writing has been taught in academia for half a century, but teachers of poetry and prose face challenges in evaluating and grading material produced in workshops. Some reject the notion that creative work can be assessed, while others establish strict rubrics. All may encounter institutional pressure to grade in certain ways. This panel explores the role of subjectivity and the relationship between process and product. It also offers practical tools for grading creative work.

Rooms 401, 402
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

R163. What's Your Platform? What Agents & Editors Are Looking For in Writers. (Christina Katz, Jane Friedman, Robin Mizell, David W. Sanders, Sage Cohen) Yes, the quality of your writing still matters. But becoming visible and influential is more crucial to landing a book deal than ever, according to agents and editors in every facet of the publishing industry. Aspiring authors need to develop a platform in order to get noticed. Fortunately for emerging writers in all genres, there are more affordable, accessible tools available for platform-development and building, which make this important responsibility a pleasure and not a chore.

Rooms 403, 404
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

R164. The Person Within Myself: Constructing the Narrative Persona in Creative Nonfiction. (Elizabeth Kadetsky, Hattie Fletcher, Valerie Miner, Jane Bernstein, Lise Funderburg, S. L. Wisenberg) Taking from Phillip Lopate's notion of the subtractive "I" and Vivian Gornick's of the person within myself, an editor and CNF authors discuss how nonfiction narrators construct the "I" by becoming personae, or "characters"—not inaccurate representations of self, as no elements are added or embellished, but stripped-down doubles who in the end may seem quite different from the author. "I have to find a person within myself who can tell the particular story I want," writes Gornick.

Agate Room
Hyatt Regency Denver, 3rd Floor

R165. Shifting Grounds of Copyright: A How-to. (Snezana Zabic, Tasha Fouts-Marren, Davis Schneiderman, J. Alex Schwartz) At some point in their careers, most writers are asked to surrender their copyrights. This panel investigates both the long and short-term implications of the current copyright regime on contemporary literary arts and authorship. The panel offers the perspective of writers who also serve as editors of journals and/or university presses. In addition, the panel looks at how copyright pertains to various genres, including print and electronic media, as well as to authors working with found and/or appropriated text.

Capitol Ballroom
Hyatt Regency Denver, 4th Floor

R166. Sacred Art: Writing to Change the World. (Norma Cantú, Sandra Cisneros, Ruth Behar, Michelle Otero, Carolina Monsivais, Liz Gonzalez) In Peace Is Every Step, Thich Nhat Hanh writes, "Each thought, each action in the sunlight of awareness becomes sacred." Panelists will discuss their commitment to provoke and encourage awareness of the world and self through writing. These panelists believe writing is not solitary but an act that is shared in community and service. These writers discuss how they weave spirituality into their work, both in the preparation and the process of writing, sharing strategies anyone can use in daily practice.

Centennial Ballroom
Hyatt Regency Denver, 3rd Floor

R167. Tribute to Mahmoud Darwish. (Fady Joudah, Yusef Komunyakaa, Marilyn Hacker, Michael Collier, Khaled Mattawa) Five writers will celebrate the life and work of the late Palestinian master poet, Mahmoud Darwish, by reading from his work.

Granite Room
Hyatt Regency Denver, 3rd Floor

R168. The Soul and The Machine: Teaching Creative Writing through Technology. (Laura Valeri, David Rothman, Kathryn Winograd, Steven Wingate) This panel explores the complexities of teaching prose and poetry with online technologies and social media. New medias offer us practical advantages, but also present technical and pedagogical challenges involving privacy, censorship, copyright, and other issues we are only beginning to understand. Creative writing professors share their lessons adapting Podcasts, Wikis, Videos, Facebook, online course platforms, and other sundry tools to graduate and undergraduate creative writing classes.

Mineral Hall
Hyatt Regency Denver, 3rd Floor

R169. (WITS Alliance) Geek to Write: True Tales from the Literary Internet. (Robin Reagler, Nandi Comer, Brent Goodman, Amy King, Paul Munden, Jim Walker) The buzz words of technology—twitter, facebook, blurb, flickr, and YouTube—may sound bizarre to the uninitiated, but web applications offer writers options that were unthinkable even three years ago. On this panel, writers who are also educators will share their experiences in which they have used the new media technology to teach, learn, publish, and create stronger communities.

Rooms 102, 104
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

R170. Wesleyan University Press Poetry Reading. (Stephanie Elliott, Roberto Tejada, Adrian Blevins, Musharraf Ali Farooqi, Tan Lin, Kazim Ali) Five poets recently published by Wesleyan will read from their new books, individually described as: an eloquent intercultural coming of age story; molten and musical poetry from an acclaimed Southern writer; a modular, easy-to-read relaxation device; the first English language publication of Urdu's greatest modern poet; and a discursive midway of curiosities. This reading highlights the rich intermingling of traditions and modes in contemporary poetry.

Rooms 103, 105
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

R171. Writing Biographies: Making Someone Else's Story Your Own. (Diana Raab, Honor Moore, Joy Castro, Phillip Lopate, Robert Root, Kim Stafford) Many literary writers and poets are simply getting tired of digging deeper into their own lives, pasts and psyches. Many have begun to crave something more in their creative work. This panel of fiction writers, nonfiction writers, and poets will discuss how they have moved away from the self to write about someone else. How did they decide who to write about? How do they make the leap away from self, and what are the challenges, rewards, and joys of making this decision?

Room 106
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

R172. CLMP Panel—Lit Mags in the Classroom: Literary Journals in Creative Writing Curricula. (Jay Baron Nicorvo, Carolyn Kuebler, Thisbe Nissen, David Lynn, Kimiko Hahn) Notable literature first appears every month on newsstands, but in this form it is rarely incorporated into classroom syllabi. These panelists will recommend strategies for making the most of the work published in today's literary magazines that determines tomorrow's literary canon.

Room 107
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

R173. Re-Writing Rilke: Letters to a Young Writer. (Fleda Brown, David Huddle, Lia Purpura, Kevin Clark, Anne-Marie Oomen, Rebecca McClanahan) Modeling after Rilke, six seasoned and successful writers—essayists, poets/critics, memoirists, a playwright, and a novelist—each write a letter to a younger writer, offering thoughts on writing over the long haul: how one leads a writer's life, what's worked and what hasn't, what's mattered and what hasn't. Panelists come from a wide variety of perspectives and experiences: research university, low-residency, tech school, and secondary arts academy teaching, as well as free-lance writing.

Room 108
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

R174. Aroused, Parched, and Fevered: The Translation of Sex. (Tony Barnstone, John Balaban, Willis Barnstone, Sholeh Wolpe) Four distinguished translators of poetry, working from Vietnamese, Persian, Ancient Greek, Urdu, and Chinese, will explore the effect of the erotic as a mystical communion, as a joke, as secular transgression, and as a form of intimacy with the reader, and talk about strategies for translating erotic poetry with all its visceral force and humor.

Room 110
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

R175. Playwriting: Rapture, Mystery and Practicalities. (Todd Ristau, Art Borreca, Bonnie Metzgar, Rebecca Rugg, Lisa Schlesinger, Rob Handel) This panel addresses questions on the craft of playwriting such as: Are plays a form of literature or are they merely blueprints for production? How is playwriting different from other forms of creative writing? How does the playwright's first goal of production, rather than publication, change the writing practice and product? How do we address these differences of craft for people who have seen and read little drama? Finally, how does a play move successfully from the page to the stage?

Room 111
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

R176. (WITS Alliance) Journey to Identity: Teaching Creative Writing to Immigrant Students. (Long Chu, Jose Luis Benavides, Margot Fortunato Galt, Ellen Hagen, Merna Ann Hecht, Sehba Sarwar) Beyond the debate on immigration, teaching writers have to deal with the very real issues of how to teach first and second-generation immigrant students. How do we encourage students to tell these often secret and untold stories? How do we create and manage trust? How do we navigate language barriers? This panel will explore these questions and other issues surrounding the topic. Panelists will share practical teaching ideas that writers can utilize in their classrooms.

Room 112
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

R177. Following the Paths to Publication: First Books and What Happens Next. (Dan Wickett, Seth Harwood, Anis Shivani, Shawna Yang Ryan, Lowell Mick White) The first book is an important, joyous event in the life of any writer. Yet the process of achieving the first book is rapidly changing, largely through accelerated technologies and increasingly fractured demographics. How can writers successfully react to these changes? What constitutes ultimate success? On this panel, five debut authors will discuss their varied paths to publication, the impact the book has had on their lives, and the larger implications of change in publishing practices.

Room 201
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

R178. Carrying Custer to Wall Street... in High Heels: Vine Deloria Jr.'s influence on Native Writers. (Heid E. Erdrich, LeAnne Howe, Robert Warrior, Diane Wilson, Craig Howe) A tribute to Standing Rock Dakota author Vine Deloria Jr, who published more than twenty books between 1969 and his death in 2005. Authors, scholars, and editors read work influenced by Vine Deloria Jr.

Room 203
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

R179. Outposts and Exiles—A Reading by Award-Winning Latina Writers. (Chantel Acevedo, Jennine Capo Crucet, Patricia Engel, Lisa Wixon) Come hear award-winning Latinas read from their fiction and poetry. Varying widely in tone, scope, style, and geography, these five writers center their work on the cultural and political dance between Latin American and its North American outposts and of being American but at times not being fully American.

Room 205
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

R180. Birth and the Politics of Motherhood in Poetry. (Melisa "Misha" Cahnmann-Taylor, Alicia Ostriker, Beth Ann Fennelly, Paula McLain, Diana Garcia) Motherhood has often been seen as an inferior, overly sentimental subject for great poetry, but what of motherhood poems that move from the internal to the external, between mothering and the politics of war, race, class, and sex? What are the challenges, pitfalls and rewards of writing as a political mama? Poets from different regions, generations, origins, and aesthetics, will take us to the pregnant belly of the issue, sharing their poems and perspectives on the politics of motherhood.

Room 207
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

R181. A Tribute to Craig Arnold. (Jake Adam York) Invited poets and writers from around the nation will be reading poetry by Craig Arnold in tribute to his life and work. Moderated by Jake Adam York.

Rooms 210, 212
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

R182. Narrative Cross-Dressing: Men Writing As Women, Women Writing As Men. (Jonathan Liebson, Leni Zumas, Christopher Castellani, Deirdre Shaw) Write what you know. Young fiction writers often hear this, but most personal experience doesn't prepare us for that unlived-in territory of the opposite sex. Even greater is the challenge of using an opposite-gender narrator. In this panel we'll explore what kind of method-acting, so to speak, writers perform to put themselves in character. We'll look at what pitfalls they've faced, what opportunities, and how these characters have ended up not only credible, but unique and rewarding.

Rooms 301, 302
Colorado Convention Center, Street Leve

R183. Poet in the Desert / Desert in the Poet. (William Stobb, Claudia Keelan, Donald Revell, Christopher Arigo) From a cognitive/aesthetic point-of-view, deserts are landscapes with the middle ground removed. Present are the near-at-hand and the distant. The poem becomes the middle ground, while the poet in the desert internalizes vastness. Enacting a time-honored tradition, four poets return from the desert to offer their vision to the tribe.

Room 303
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

R184. How to Start Your Own Online Literary Magazine: Five Editors Tell All. (Rebecca Morgan Frank, Michael Archer, Thom Didato, Gregory Donovan, Ravi Shankar) Have you dreamed of starting your own online literary magazine? Join the editors of Blackbird, Drunken Boat, failbetter, Guernica, and Memorious, five longstanding and respected online journals, as they share the ins and outs of developing and sustaining a literary journal on the web. Come hear about the unique advantages and challenges of editing in this expansive medium, and learn pointers for financing, marketing, and managing the technical challenges of a web-based journal.

Room 304
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

R185. Best New American Voices 10 Year Anniversary Reading. (David James Poissant, Dani Shapiro, Christian Moody, Ted Thompson, Laura van den Berg) Best New American Voices, Harcourt's annual anthology series, features short stories from emerging writers enrolled in writing programs across North America. After ten volumes, the series is drawing to a close, but not before celebrating its 10th anniversary! Series coeditor Natalie Danford will discuss the impact of the book on American fiction in the 21st century, while Dani Shapiro will discuss the stories she chose for the 2010 edition. Four contributors will read from their works.

Rooms 401, 402
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

R186. Ecotone 5th Anniversary Reading. (Ben George, Robert Wrigley, Benjamin Percy, Kathryn Miles, Cary Holladay, Reg Saner) Ecotone, the award-winning semiannual magazine published at UNC Wilmington, celebrates its 5th anniversary in 2010. In its short life, the magazine has already had its work reprinted in several annuals of the Best American series and in the Pushcart Press anthology, among others. Ecotone seeks to bring together the literary and the scientific, the personal and the biological, the urban and the rural. Please join us for a reading by six of our outstanding and widely acclaimed contributors.

Rooms 403, 404
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

R187. Byronic Vampires and Melancholy Green Men: Harnessing Genre for Literary Use. (J.W. Wang, Mark Winegardner, Stephen Graham Jones, Tom Franklin, Leah Stewart, Julianna Baggott) Perhaps no word can be more anathema to literature than genre. Yet, in the postmodern world the dividing line is often blurry, or even nonexistent, and we see more and more authors making use of familiar genre elements for their literary pursuits: vampires, the mafia, romance, etc. This panel explores the notion of genre versus literature: what the dividing lines are, how one informs the other, how one goes about bringing the two together, successes and failures.

Agate Room
Hyatt Regency Denver, 3rd Floor

R188. And the Beat Goes On.... (Elizabeth Robinson, Reed Bye, Anselm Hollo, Maureen Owen) Since its inception, Naropa University's Writing & Poetics program has been a living model of "outrider" traditions. This roundtable includes poets who have lived through and shaped poetic movements central to the 20th & 21st centuries: from Beat and Black Mountain experiments through New York School and Language poetries, this roundtable offers conversation with Naropa poets who have been at the center of American poetic history.

Capitol Ballroom
Hyatt Regency Denver, 4th Floor

R189. Poetry, Race, Ethnicity: A Conversation. (Lynne Thompson, Martha Collins, Susan Deer Cloud, Rigoberto Gonzalez, Fady Joudah, Frank X Walker) This multi-ethnic panel of poets discusses the impact race, ethnicity, and inter-ethnic dialogue have on their own work and the works of others. The panelists consider ongoing literary biases against those perceived as "other" and comment on how their own perceptions and representations of race or ethnicity may have changed in recent years. Throughout, they consider how, even as they honor each other's identities, they can transcend the limitations that such categorization may seem to impose.

Centennial Ballroom
Hyatt Regency Denver, 3rd Floor

R190. A Connoisseur of Waves—Dave Hickey, MacArthur Fellow in Art and Cultural Criticism, Sponsored by University of Nevada Las Vegas. (Douglas Unger, Dave Hickey) A world-class writer about art and culture reads from his cutting-edge Connoisseur of Waves, essays on art and democracy. Author of seven books,  and recently featured in Newsweek as an iconoclastic voice in contemporary art, Hickey is always engaging, provocative, and highly acclaimed for his mastery of the language.

Granite Room
Hyatt Regency Denver, 3rd Floor

R191. The Soundtrack of the Poem. (Tim Kahl, Forrest Gander, Kristin Prevallet, Brandon Cesmat, Rodrigo Toscano) This panel will discuss the juxtaposition of music with text to elucidate the sonic qualities of work on the page. Exploring how music is foregrounded in a text, we will investigate emphasizing melody, pitch, pacing, rhythm, and counterpoint to instrumentation, and connect those qualities to the creation of meaning and emotion. Does music and language produce modes of consciousness that are therapeutic? Has multimedia's emphasis on musical qualities reasserted the primacy of music in literature?

Mineral Hall
Hyatt Regency Denver, 3rd Floor

R192. Become Involved in The Big Read. (Molly Thomas-Hicks, David Kipen) Since 2006, hundreds of communities across the country have participated in The Big Read, an initiative sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts that provides grant money and education materials for month-long reading programs. Join us for a discussion about ways for writers to participate at the local level or how to apply for a grant to bring The Big Read to your community.

Rooms 102, 104
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

R193. Performing Poetry: Good on the Stage, Good on the Page. (Jeffrey Skinner, Karyna McGlynn, Simone Muench, Kiki Petrosino, Brett Eugene Ralph) Sarabande presents four writers whose works and reading styles bridge the gap between "performance poetry" and poems that satisfy the solitary reader on the page. Two of the poets have participated in slams, and their reading personas reflect the comfort and confidence that issues from that culture. Another is also a musician who has played extensive club gigs with his band, and yet is vehemently opposed to slams. Each will talk and read, with time allowed for discussion and questions.

Rooms 103, 105
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

R194. Getting Students to Meaningful Memoir. (Eric May, Laurie Lindeen, Sam Weller, Anne-Marie Oomen) Getting to Meaningful Memoir: Students in their late teens and early twenties have all sorts of experiences—jobs, family life, sexual orientation, cultural background—that they can draw upon for memoir that goes beyond immature navel-gazing. Panelists will present in-class exercises and writing assignments aimed at getting students of all ages to the widest possibilities for strong memoir story and voice.

Room 106
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

R195. A One Way Mirror: Writing Children, Writing Ourselves. (Tom Montgomery-Fate, Dan Roche, Sonya Huber, Michele Morano, John Price) Writers who are also parents understand two words well: patience and passion. They also appreciate the Latin stem that the two words share—pati: to suffer. Writing and parenthood might both be described as joyful suffering. Drawing on their own and others work, this panel of writers will explore the continuity and convergence of childhood and parenthood in creative nonfiction—how we often see our children through a kind of one way mirror, just beyond the dim reflection of ourselves.

Room 107
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

R196. CLMP Panel—Managing Submissions: How Best to Stay on Top of the Slush. (Jamie Schwartz, Karen Craigo, Chris Fischbach, Jeanne Leiby, Hannah Tinti) Staff members from One Story, Mid-American Review, Coffee House Press, The Southern Review, and Fence discuss the strategies they use to read, process, and publish unsolicited manuscript submissions.

Room 108
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

R197. Sudden Fiction Latino: Short-Short Stories from the United States and Latin America. (Daniel Olivas, Lisa Alvarez, Stephen D. Gutierrez, Pedro Ponce, Alicita Rodríguez, Edmundo Paz Soldán) Where is the best short-short fiction in the world being written? Authors whose work appears in a new anthology from W.W. Norton, Sudden Fiction Latino: Short-Short Stories from the United States and Latin America, read their works and debate questions about short-short fiction and the influences between Latin American and U.S. writing.

Room 109
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

R198. New Directions in Texas Fiction. (David McGlynn, Scott Blackwood, Ben Fountain, Mary Helen Specht, Oscar Casares) Texas fiction has long been dominated by elegiac visions tied to its vast landscapes. Recently, however, writers have staked out different geographies—which account for Texas' radical urban sprawl, its changing ethnic demographics, and its role in a larger social and political landscape—while acknowledging Texas' relationship to the idea of the West and its ongoing dream of tearing down and remaking itself. This panel gathers six authors to explore new directions in fiction from and about Texas.

Room 110
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

R199. Etruscan Press Readings Across the Genres. (Jennifer Atkinson, Bruce Bond, Michael Lind, Carol Moldaw, J.D. Schraffenberger, Philip Brady) Etruscan Press, a nonprofit cooperative of poets and writers, celebrates the distinct voices of its authors with short readings in the genres of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. Etruscan is proud of its partnership with Wilkes University.

Room 111
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

R200. Just Passing Through: The Pros and Cons of the Visiting Professor Position. (David Ebenbach, Jerry Harp, Kevin Haworth, Stephanie Reents, Brandi Reissenweber, David Wright) Tenure-track jobs in Creative Writing are always in short supply. In our current climate many of us are turning instead to visiting professorships, sometimes moving from one visiting position to the next. What are the advantages of such positions? How can you use them to help your writing and your employment prospects? What are the downsides? The panelists, current or former visiting professors, offer their experiences and advice on how to navigate the world of the visiting professorship.

Room 201
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

R201. Goodbye to All That: Coming of Age in the Personal Essay. (Kelley Evans, Nicole Walker, Alison Stine, Shannon Lakanen, Desirae Matherly) In Joan Didion's essay about leaving New York, she leaves a younger self, but finds a more seasoned version of herself in the form of the personal essay. This panel explores how we leave the places, ideas, and selves of young adulthood, how we change as writers in our thirties, and how we find a home in this literary form that requires distance from one's subject and the capacity to reflect.

Room 203
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

R202. The Willa Literary Awards and a Woman's West. (Jane Kirkpatrick, Kenneth Cook, Susan Lang, Sheila Foard) Named for Willa Cather, The Willa Literary Award honors contemporary writers narrating a woman's voice in the American West. Award winners will read from and discuss their award-winning works.

Room 205
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

R203. That's Private!—Using Personal Details About Others' Lives in Fiction. (Steven Schwartz, Antonya Nelson, Ann Cummins, Sylvia Brownrigg) The measure of nonfiction is how closely one adheres to the truth; the measure of fiction is how much one changes it. But what happens when a writer finds it necessary to include the exact details of someone else's life? The panel's four writers will chart their relationships to the private and public. In a genre that assumes transformation, when, why, and how do writers disguise the truth, and when does the unaltered truth make good fiction?

Room 207
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

R204. Poetry After the '00s: What Comes Next? (Tony Hoagland, Laura Kasischke, Donald Revell) Poets and critics advance, retract, and debate the multiple and overlapping states of American poetry after the '00s—after the end of the old schools (New Narrative, post-avant, flarf, Ellipticism, neo-Objectivism), what poets, poetry, poems look now like useful examples, and why? The arguments in Stephen Burt's Close Calls with Nonsense may serve as starting points; present with him are poets discussed in the book, and critics—some of them poets themselves—likely to give his positions a vigorous dispute.

Rooms 210, 212
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

R205. Texas Tech CW Faculty Reading. (Curtis Bauer, Dennis Covington, Jill Patterson, Jacqueline Kolosov, John Poch, William Wenthe) Texas Tech's Creative Writing program is home to nationally recognized writers, students, and teachers alike. For close to forty years, Texas Tech has offered MA & PhD degrees and, presently, new coursework in translation and publishing; it is intimate, lively, and diverse. The program grants four $25k fellowships for PhD-writing students each year. Join our award-winning faculty as they read from their works.

Rooms 301, 302
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

R206. The Cultural Politics of Slam Poetry. (Susan Somers-Willett, Roger Bonair-Agard, Patrick Rosal, Patricia Smith, Danny Solis, Leslie Wheeler) We've heard a lot about slam and the academy in conferences past. Still, serious treatment of the performances of identity, political engagement, and cultural exchange that happens at slams is missing from much of slam poetry's discussion. This year, poets and performers convene to guide the discussion in a new direction, exploring the complex social reasons why audiences find slams compelling and weighing the problems and possibilities of poetry's competitive evaluation in the public sphere.

Room 303
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

R207. The Daemon and the Craftsman: Teaching Writers to be Wild. (Fred Arroyo, Pablo Medina, Xochiqueztal Candelaria, Rob Davidson, Jennifer Perrine) Creative writing programs have shaped a generation of writers all too aware of craft; yet, more often than not, these programs ignore the daemonic obsessiveness that underlies great writing. This panel will focus on the daemonic, explore the synergy of passion and intelligence in the literary arts, and discuss how to incorporate the daemonic impulse into the teaching and nurturing of student writers via the academic workshop.

Room 304
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

R208. The Road from Journal to Book. (James Cihlar, Timothy Schaffert, J.C. Hallman, Hilda Raz, Heather Lundine, Wayne Miller) Inspired by Timothy Schaffert's "Rank and Slush Pile: Is There a Literary Magazine Hierarchy?" in the May/June 2009 issue of Poets and Writers, this panel features professionals who have found new ways of addressing the old bromide that one must publish in journals before landing a book. Featuring authors who are also book and journal editors, and encouraging audience participation, this panel will show that the road from journal to book is not always a one-way trip.

Rooms 401, 402
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

R209. Goodbye Blue Monday: Remembering the Life and Work of Kurt Vonnegut. (Todd Davis, Michael Martone, Dan Wakefield, Susan Neville) With Kurt Vonnegut's death on April 11, 2007, the world of arts and letters lost a literary raconteur who stressed the moral nature of fiction, as well as a man who mentored and inspired many aspiring writers. Author of more than twenty volumes of fiction and nonfiction, Vonnegut pushed and often subverted the boundaries within the literary establishment, as well as within the broader culture. The panel will consider the ongoing importance of Vonnegut's writing and celebrate his life and legacy.

Rooms 403, 404
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

R210. Smart Girls II: The Ambition Game. (Patricia Foster, Sue Silverman, Dorothy Allison, Karen McElmurray, Xu Xi) This panel of women will examine the hard choices they have made in their writing careers: risk over safety, individual choices over the approval of others, discipline over despair, and an active resistance over the status-quo. They will discuss how self-questioning—as well as community—can have an impact on a writing life, and how ambition requires relentless faith and tenacity.

Agate Room
Hyatt Regency Denver, 3rd Floor

R211. Beauty is a Verb—the New Poetics of Disability. (Michael Northern, Sheila Black, Jennifer Bartlett, Ellen Smith, Ann Bogle, Barbara Crooker) This panel will discuss how the poetry of disability seeks to tackle and refigure traditional discourses of people with disabilities around an interrogation of "normalcy" and of the notions of beauty and function that have been so foundational to Western culture and aesthetics. This panel will focus on poetic strategies, including the subversion of historical discourses and the decentering of the subject through which a range of disabled poets have sought to address these issues.

Capitol Ballroom
Hyatt Regency Denver, 4th Floor

R212. PEN American Center Presents: Revisions of Truth. (Jackson Taylor, Marie Ponsot, Phillip Lopate, Sapphire) Often, a work of revision surprises us with discovery and leads us to a deeper, more original vision of a truth than we had originally intended. So, while it is rarely possible to capture absolute truths, the revision process often allows us to home in on important aspects of a truth or, at least, to present a truth as fully and faithfully as we perceive it. This panel considers why truth, elusive and evolving as it is, continues to be worthwhile as a writer's motive, aim, and endeavor.

Centennial Ballroom
Hyatt Regency Denver, 3rd Floor

R213. The Real and the Imagined: Easing the Boundaries Between Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry. (Ofer Ziv, Cornelius Eady, Danzy Senna, Michael Thomas, David Shields) The task of writing one's life into a narrative, fictional and nonfictional, helps with our exploration of personal identity, the search for self, and our understanding of the world. These sharp and humane authors traverse freely from memoir to fiction and poetry. Through their cross-genre investigation we see what is gained and what is lost in writing the narrative from the perspective of each form—and that what ultimately drives the search is imagination itself. Come listen as panelists ease the boundaries of genre, delving into issues of race, poverty, the urban community, marriage, and divorce, while incorporating the past—both theirs and not theirs, both real and imaginary—into their writings.

Granite Room
Hyatt Regency Denver, 3rd Floor

R214. Across the Pond: Comparative Approaches to Teaching Creative Writing in U.S., U.K., & Ireland, a Transatlantic Panel. (Kate Daniels, Glenn Patterson, Shauna Busto Gilligan, Rick Hilles, Stephanie Pruitt) Creative writing programs in British and Irish universities are fledgling enterprises compared to the ancient heritage of English literature. In this panel, British, Irish, and American writers discuss different pedagogies, discuss differences between American MFAs and British MA/MPhils in Creative Writing and delineate differences in their respective academic structures that have an impact on creative writing resource allocation.

Mineral Hall
Hyatt Regency Denver, 3rd Floor

R215. Writing on the Margins: Community Outreach in Shelters and Correcitonal Facilities. (Christopher Arnold, Nicole Piasecki, Sami Schalk, Ryan Downey, Ross Carper) This panel offers strategies for expanding outreach programs to shelters and correctional facilities. Coordinators from University of Notre Dame, The Denver Writing Project, and Eastern Washington University will speak to the rewards and challenges of working with these traditionally under-served populations, and share procedures for launching similar programs. We share the philosophy that creative writers can affect social change by bringing literature to the margins of our communities.

Rooms 102, 104
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

R216. Redefining the Role of the Creative Writer: A Discussion on Service Learning, Research, and the Writer as a Humanitarian. (Jesse Jay Ross, Terry Ann Thaxton, Christopher (Kit) McIlroy, Russell Carpenter) This panel will expose service learning as a vehicle for creative writing, enabling its teachers to implement community service into their coursework. While the panel will discuss teaching, much of the focus will be on what the role of the creative writer in the community is now, what it can be, and what it should be. Research conducted by panel members will provide a jumping-off point.

Rooms 103, 105
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

R217. Red Hen Press: Women of the West. (Peggy Shumaker, Camille Dungy, Cynthia Hogue, Jane Hilberry, Eloise Klein Healy) Women writers West of the Mississippi claim frontier territory in language, in subject matter, and in the dangerous spaces we inhabit. These women writers of Red Hen Press have broken down barriers and created a new common language: the language of place.

Room 106
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

R218. Young Adult Fiction: The New Literary Voice. (Zu Vincent, Monica Roe, Mark Hardy) Young Adult literature is growing up, using sophisticated themes and narrative voices to speak honestly to readers about the issues they wrestle with in today's world. And many writers of literary fiction are finding a home on the young adult shelves. What prompts authors to write for this exceptional age? Three novelists read from their work in a celebration of the new in this rich tradition.

Room 107
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

R219. Literary Laughter: Humor in Fiction Writing. (Teresa Milbrodt, Stephen Powers, E. C. Jarvis, Michael Czyzniejewski) This panel examines humor in our fiction writing and the work of other writers we admire: how we elicit laughter by delving into surreal or bizarre worlds, creating intelligent disjunctures in conversation, or finding moments for literary slapstick. While we explore the function of the comic in these writings, we also ask if humor writing can be taught, or if it is inherent in one's style or particular way of looking at the world.

Room 108
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

R220. Writing Is Not a Luxury: Establishing a Mentor/Partner Plan to Guarantee Writing Space for Teachers and Students. (Cass Dalglish, Cary Waterman, Andrea Sanow, Kayla Skarbakka) Two writing professors (a novelist and a poet) and their students (also a novelist and a poet) describe the mentorship/writing partnership they devised to ensure that each of the four, teachers included, would produce a book in one semester. The four will talk about deadline survival and how requiring the teachers to write gave authority to the mentor/partner plan.

Room 109
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

R221. The Pleasures and Peculiarities of Literary Editing. (Emily Stone, Michelle Wildgen, William Pierce, Marcia Aldrich, Geeta Kothari) Discussion focuses on how editors at literary magazines work with writers and actually edit, after they've selected pieces for publication. Editors of fiction, poetry, essays, and reviews at AGNI, the Kenyon Review, Tin House, Fourth Genre, and Hot Metal Bridge touch on the defining features of the editor-writer relationship. We not only outline the editorial process in general but also offer examples from our own experience working together on various projects.

Room 110
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

R222. Queering Desire: Queer Poets' Aesthetic Libidos. (Jim Elledge, Jericho Brown, David Groff, Ely Shipley, Maureen Seaton, Stacey Waite) Radical, transgressive desire energizes queer poetry as often as it ghettoizes it. Yet, as queer voices grow more complex and contradictory, sweaty questions arise. If queer desire is central to earlier LBGT lit, how does it work now for an ever more diverse queer poetry? Now that queers swim in the mainstream, is it avant-garde or passe? Is queer poetry's desire over, over the top, or just right? In this panel, LBGT poets of different ages and aesthetics wrestle with the queer poetic libido.

Room 111
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

R223. Orbiting Salt: A Quarterly West / Western Humanities Review / Barrelhouse / Versal Reading. (Dawn Lonsinger, Cris Mazza, Alan Michael Parker, Sawako Nakayasu, Blake Butler) This reading features writers recently published in Quarterly West, Western Humanities Review, Barrelhouse, and Versal. Spanning the traditional and the experimental, the regional and the global, it celebrates the diverse and powerful work of four journals with editors currently studying creative writing at the University of Utah.

Room 201
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

R224. Rare Breed: A Reading with the Black Goat Poets. (Chris Abani, Amatoritsero Ede, Gabriela Jauregui, Kate Durbin, Rick Reid, Karen Harryman) Black Goat Press is an independent poetry imprint of Akashic Books, created and curated by award-winning Nigerian author Chris Abani. Black Goat is committed to publishing well-crafted poetry, focusing on experimental or thematically challenging work. The series aims to create a proportional representation of female, African, and other non-American poets. Come hear the extraordinary array of Black Goat poets read from their works.

Room 203
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

R225. How to Continue Making Money as a Writer in an Economic Downturn. (Lisa Lieberman, Katy Lev Rank, Patsy Eagan, Laurel Saville) This panel, which is a continuum of last year's panel—"How to Make Money Writing Write Now," will examine in greater depth the nuts and bolts of freelance writing for newspapers and magazines. We will discuss how to develop unique story angles, how to pitch these ideas to editors, how to research and write these stories, and most important—how to forge longlasting relationship with editors. We will also discuss some of the hidden opportunities for freelance writers in an economic downturn, where to look for these jobs, and how to set hourly and per-word rates.

Room 205
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

R226. La Otra Latina: A Creative Nonfiction Reading by Latina Writers. (Lorraine Lopez, Joy Castro, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Carla Trujillo, Teresa Dovalpage) Latino/a literature is often associated with immigration, magical realism, and a proliferation of rice, beans, pinatas, and abuelas endlessly rolling out tortillas. This association imposes constraints on artistic production and raises false expectations in readers. In honoring the complexity of cultural experience, these writers, as Gloria Anzaldua states, claim "the freedom to carve and chisel" their own particular faces and "claim a new space" for developing distinctive aesthetics.

Room 207
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

R227. Writing in More than one Language: Significance, Opportunities, Challenges, and Audiences. (Katerina Stoykova-Klemer, Ewa Chrusciel, Jennifer Dick, Pablo Medina, Simon Ortiz, Luisa Villani) Six bilingual authors of poetry discuss the creative process they employ in writing bilingual works, the challenges of translating between languages, the role of multilingualism in communicating to specific audiences, and how readers with different linguistic backgrounds react to the works. Each author on the panel will read poems in his or her working languages. Audience members will hear readings in Acoma, Bulgarian, English, French, Italian, Polish, and Spanish.

Rooms 210, 212
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

R228. Baby on Board Abroad: Travel Writing and Family. (Philip Graham, Michele Morano, Robin Hemley, Rachel Louise Snyder, Jennifer S. Cheng) This panel seeks to challenge the common assumption that travel—and travel writing—is the sole domain of the "rugged individual." Travel is perhaps most enriching when in the company of loved ones. Our panelists have written about the complexities and complications of travel when accompanied by an infant, young children, an adolescent daughter, a spouse or a mother, in countries ranging from Spain, Portugal, China and the Philippines, Thailand, and Tasmania.

Rooms 301, 302
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

R229. Until We Get It Right: 39 Years of Experiments in Fiction at CU Boulder. (Jeffrey DeShell, Marcia Douglas, Steve Katz, Elisabeth Sheffield) This panel will give short readings of fiction writers who have taught or are currently teaching fiction writing at the MA/MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of Colorado.

Room 303
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

R230. Cutthroat, A Journal of the Arts 5th Anniversary Poetry and Short Fiction Reading. (Pamela Uschuk, Rebecca Seiferle, Richard Jackson, B.J. Buckley, Emilia Phillips, Timothy Rien) Colorado-based, Cutthroat is published twice a year, online & in print, offering The Joy Harjo Poetry Prize & The Rick DeMarinis Short Story Prize, each with $1,250 1st and $250 2nd prizes.

Rooms 401, 402
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

R231. The Limit—or Light—of Spiritual Belief: Across Genres. (Emily Louise Zimbrick, Scott Cairns, Janet Peery, Nicole Mazzarella, Farideh Goldin, Josh Allen) In Mystery and Manners, Flannery O'Connor posits that spiritual beliefs "will be the light" by which religious authors see, but these beliefs will not be the substance of the work, nor will they be "a substitute for seeing." Are religious writers the ones most suited to write about religion—or are they limited by their beliefs? From Christian, Mormon, and Jewish traditions, these cross-genre authors will discuss tension between their beliefs and their writing and how faith can illuminate art.

Agate Room
Hyatt Regency Denver, 3rd Floor

R232. Sound and Silence: Picturing Landscapes of Creative Nonfiction through Anthologies. (Daisy Levy, Caroline Chapman, Natalie Graham, Jill Kolongowski, Katie Livingston, Suzanne Webb) Since 1986, The Best American Essays has represented nonfiction writing, but with the emergence of The Best of Creative Nonfiction, the field is monolithic. The breadth of creative nonfiction has undergone marked changes since the advent of journals publishing exclusively in this genre. This panel investigates the sound and silence in the pages of the anthologies: the balance between storytelling and preoccupation with form, metaphors, and social issues of identification.

Capitol Ballroom
Hyatt Regency Denver, 4th Floor

R233. A Reading by Leslie Marmon Silko, Sponsored by Colorado State University. Novelist, essayist, and poet Leslie Marmon Silko reads from her work. Regarded as the first Native American woman novelist, her writing draws upon her origins and the oral stories from the Laguna Pueblo Indian reservation.

Centennial Ballroom
Hyatt Regency Denver, 3rd Floor

R234. The Poetry Society of America Centennial Celebration: 100 Years of American Poetry. (Alice Quinn, Matthew Zapruder, Jean Valentine, B.H. Fairchild, Joy Harjo, Kimiko Hahn, Cyrus Cassells, Diane Wakoski, Gary Young) A reading celebrating the 100th anniversary of the nation's oldest poetry organization, featuring recent PSA Award winners reading their own works as well as important American poems of the past century. Hosted by Alice Quinn, PSA Executive Director.

Granite Room
Hyatt Regency Denver, 3rd Floor

R235. Digg Me on Twitter: Academic Social Networking in the Creative Writing Classroom. (Kimberly K. Williams, Traci HalesVass, Virgil Mathes, Denise Hinson) Electronic media such as Facebook, Twitter, Wikis, blogs, and other on-line Academic Social Networking (ASN) sites provide writing instructors with unique opportunities to enhance the collaborative nature of today's and tomorrow's creative writing classroom. We will present findings from our diverse forays into electronically mediated instructional environments. We will also invite the audience to experience the dynamics of Academic Social Networking in a spontaneous, interactive demonstration. The audience is encouraged to bring laptops and SmartPhones.

Mineral Hall
Hyatt Regency Denver, 3rd Floor

R236. The War Is Not Over: Writing about Iraq and the Case of the Mutanabbi Street Coalition. (Persis Karim, Beau Beausoleil, Sinan Antoon, Evelyn So, Sarah Browning) On March 5, 2007, a car bomb was detonated on the centuries-old center of bookselling in Mutanabbi Street, Baghdad. The Mutanabbi Street Coalition, started by San Francisco poet and bookseller, Beau Beausoleil, was formed soon afterwards to commemorate not just the tragic loss of life, but also to recognize the significance of the attack. This panel will explore the way that writers in both the U.S. and Iraq have collaborated to keep the spirit of Mutannabi Street alive. It will discuss the issues of how to represent not just war, but the specific and persistent struggle of how to make sure that the war and its impact on the arts are not overlooked and forgotten, particularly by writers. The panel will also explore the work of having put together Al Mutanabbi Street Starts Here Anthology.

Receptions to be announced later

Centennial Ballroom
Hyatt Regency Denver, 3rd Floor

R237. Keynote Address by Michael Chabon, Sponsored by the University of Colorado, Denver. . AWP's 2010 Keynote Address by Michael Chabon.

Rooms 301, 302
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

R238. 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

R239. 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.