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Thinking Its Presence 2017

Events from 9:00am to 5:00pm are open only to registered attendees. Please register before October 9, 2017 at https://universityofarizonapoetrycenter.submittable.com/submit/81274/pre-registration-thinking-its-presence-2017-conference-university-of-arizon. For more information, please visit https://poetry.arizona.edu/TIP2017.

Maryam Ivette Parhizkar

Yale University
Graduate Student

Maryam Ivette Parhizkar is a poet, scholar, occasional musician and author of the chapbooks Pull: a ballad (The Operating System, 2014) and As For the Future (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, 2016). Her recent work has appeared in Amerarcana/Shuffle Boil, The Daily Gramma, The Recluse, Social Text Online, and Poem-a-Day. She is a Ph.D. candidate in American Studies and African American Studies at Yale University, where studies institutional histories of empire, Black and brown performance and poetic practices of redress within them, and their reimaginings of social collectivity. Born and raised in Houston, Texas by Iranian and Salvadoran immigrants, she lives in Jersey City, New Jersey. She is on the editorial board of Litmus Press.

2:00pm PDT

Against the Diversity Machine: Moving Beyond the Literary Complex Poetry Center Classroom 205 (Alumni Room) Deconstructing Race, Deconstructing Identity Poetry Center Library Giving Up the Ghost: An Exploration of Diasporic Counter-Memory and a Pedagogy of Sibilant Citizenship in the Age of Climate Crisis Vine Annex Pressure Points in the Language Contract: Interdisciplinary Text-based Performance Poetry Center Conference Room 207

4:00pm PDT

What If? The Power of Speculation Poetry Center Conference Room 207 Disrupting and Dismantling Dis-Content Poetry Center Library The Translator's Responsibility: A Reading and Discussion by Korean Women Poets Education North

7:00pm PDT

Introduction to Thinking Its Presence: Prageeta Sharma, Dorothy Wang, TIP Board Members, and the UA Poetry Center staff Theater at Poetry Center (Rubel Room)

7:30pm PDT

Ofelia Zepeda: Introductory Remarks Theater at Poetry Center (Rubel Room)

8:00pm PDT

Roberto Tejada: Diagonal and Self-Possessed: Group Portrait with Liminal Figures Theater at Poetry Center (Rubel Room)

9:00pm PDT

James Thomas Stevens and Trish Salah Theater at Poetry Center (Rubel Room)

9:00am PDT

How Do I Sound? Education North

11:00am PDT

Activating the Afterlife Poetry Center Conference Room 207 No. 1 Gold: An Ephemeral Archive Education North The Fetishization of "The People" and Writing and Working with Undocumented, Incarcerated, Institutionalized, and/or Indigenous Poeples Vine Annex In The Movie Version: Five Writers Remix History, City, and Image--A Kaya Press Reading/Peformance Theater at Poetry Center (Rubel Room)

2:00pm PDT

Living Archives–Decolonizing Institutions, Cultivating Communities. Feat. Smithsonian APAC, KSMoCA, and The Unburden Project Poetry Center Conference Room 207 Modes of Alteration: Aesthetics of Discomfort and Softening as Brown Heavenly Bodies Poetry Center Classroom 205 (Alumni Room) Minor Key: Sound, Territory, Sign Vine Annex Readings from Letters to the Future: Black Women, Radical Writing Theater at Poetry Center (Rubel Room)

4:00pm PDT

Haunted Text, Erasured Body: The Lyric Essay's Ghosts and Shadows Vine Annex Stop Mispronouncing My Name: A Radical Poetics of Brown Bodies in White Spaces Theater at Poetry Center (Rubel Room) To Release:/A Response/-In The Body Poetry Center Library

7:00pm PDT

Thinking Its Presence Board Presents Theater at Poetry Center (Rubel Room)

8:00pm PDT

Urayoan Noel: "Is Queer Afro-Latin@ Poetics a Thing?" Theater at Poetry Center (Rubel Room)

9:30pm PDT

Fodder Theater at Poetry Center (Rubel Room)

9:00am PDT

Everywhere It is Other: Love in Landscapes of Surveillance Poetry Center Library

11:00am PDT

Writing/Talking/Teaching The Racial Ephemera Vine Annex Unmaking the Great Man: Re-theorizing Ambition Poetry Center Library Presences and Readings Poetry Center Conference Room 207

2:00pm PDT

Intersecting Lineages: A Kundiman Reading Theater at Poetry Center (Rubel Room) Addressing Structural Racism Poetry Center Conference Room 207 Composition of a Tear: Writing Grief and Violence through the Latinx Body/Imagination Vine Annex The Border Simulator Education North

4:00pm PDT

After the End of the World: Unmapping Superstructure Simulacra through Mythology, The Technology of Ritual, and The Collapse of Narrative Poetry Center Conference Room 207

7:00pm PDT

TIP BOARD READING & RASA REFLECTION Theater at Poetry Center (Rubel Room)

8:00pm PDT

Patricia Spears Jones: Reading Theater at Poetry Center (Rubel Room)