M+K @ the Cave Canem Anniversary Celebration

1:00 - 4:30 pm — Panels
Friday, October 13
1:00 - 4:30 pm — Panels
1:00 - 2:30 The Master's Tools: Aesthetics and Poetry of the African Diaspora — Moderated by Farah Griffin, with Elizabeth Alexander, James DeJongh, Yusef Komunyakaa, Greg Tate
1:00 - 2:30 S/HE/IT: The Poetics of Gender — Moderated by Nagueyalti Warren, with Jan Clausen, Nikky Finney, Tyehimba Jess
3:00 - 4:30 Blackness and the Sounds of Other Colors: New Media and African American Poetics — Moderated by Evie Shockley, with Tonya Foster, Duriel Harris, Mendi + Keith Obadike
3:00 - 4:30 The Politics of Poetry — Moderated by Tracie Morris, with Miguel Algarin, Nuar Alsadir, Elena Georgiou, and Erica Hunt
5:00 pm — Founders Day Gala Reception & Silent Auction6:45 pm — Keynote Address by Walter Mosley
7:00 pm — Cave Canem Faculty Reading
5 Comments:
mendi!!! i can't believe we didn't get to chat more...strange and sad, but just seeing your lovliness and hearing and experiencing your spirit and mind this weekend was a blessing...a real blessing....at least we have this blogalong way to intersect...
mendi...good to see you. i wish we had had more face and talk time..but there are so many of us now, aren't there...talk soon...
ugh! i know! i was thinking, that last day, as i was standing near you, that i was so glad that i was about to talk to you. and then something happened and we were both somewhere else. but it was good to lay eyes on you, hug you, and say hello that one moment. you looked beautiful, by the way, and happy.
Mendi,
life is a stunning spectacle. After the CC reunion, I went to some readings by Linton Kwesi Johnson, Russell Banks & Patricia Smith, Martin Espada and the Alice Coltrane concert. Rich spotted you, but I missed you & Keith. The Audre Lorde Symposium sounds amazing and the immersion of words in sound, sight and color, digitized & funkdafied, move me. Sometimes, it seems like there's this merry-go-round euphoria of all the art we're saturated in and there's so much to keep saying & documenting. In any case, I hope to write more soon. Take care.
I'm so upset that I missed Linton Kwesi Johnson. I'd forgotten he was reading that Sunday. I hope you'll blog on it, Tara. I didn't know you were at the Alice Coltrane concert with Rich! I ran into so many people! I don't have the words yet to say what I think about it, but will try to find them.
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