Agorapoetics @ Stony Brook U

Complete Program (Wednesday, 18 March 2009):

AGORAPOETICS

(Poetics After Postmodernism, II)

2:oo pm.

Welcome

James Staros, Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences

Introductory Remarks

Mario Mignone, Director of the Center for Italian Studies

Preface to Agorapoetics

Peter Carravetta, Alfonse M. D’Amato Chair

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Panel One. Moderator: Peter Carravetta

2:20

Ammiel Alcalay

Republics of Poetry

2:50

Pierre Joris

On the Nomadic Circulation of Poetry & Poetics

From the Maghreb to North America

Panel Two. Moderator: Rowan Phillips

3:30

Richard Milazzo

A Poem is Political, How?

4:00

Mario Moroni

Towards a PoEthics

4:30

Q & A, short break

5:00

A Poetry Reading

Each of the Speakers will read from their works for about 15 minutes.

6:00 pm

Conclusion

Light refreshments served.