Archive: Symposia

• The World Republic of Literature

  The 2006 Lannan Symposium brought together an outstanding group of world-renowned and emergent writers from across the globe to discuss the changing function of the public writer in the early 21st ce

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• Black Archipelago: Writing and Performance from the African Diaspora

  Media April 13, 2005 | "Darkness at the Break of Dawn": The Color of Modernity by Aldon Nielson Listen to the Speech April 13, 2005 | Englan' Emergency Watch the Reading Listen to the Reading April 1

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• Native Lands

  Media April 15, 2004 | Native America in the 21st Century: Out of the Mists and Beyond Myth April 16, 2004 | Lives, Poems, Stories Watch the Seminar Watch the Reading April 16, 2004 | Walking the F

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• Societies of American Poetry: Dissenting Practices

  New North 311

  Whatever it is that motivates writing, it’s safe to say that poetry has some definite relation–of critique, indifference, support, reflection, determination–to the society in which the writer lives. Over time this relation will be thought in any number of ways,

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