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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.

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Readings from Letters to the Future: Black Women, Radical Writing

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Introduction to Thinking Its Presence: Prageeta Sharma, Dorothy Wang, TIP Board Members, and the UA Poetry Center staff

#3

Roberto Tejada: Diagonal and Self-Possessed: Group Portrait with Liminal Figures

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Thinking Its Presence Board Presents

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TIP BOARD READING & RASA REFLECTION

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Fodder

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Ofelia Zepeda: Introductory Remarks

#8

Radical Poetics of Love, Pleasure, and Possibility

#9

Activating the Afterlife

#10

The Fetishization of "The People" and Writing and Working with Undocumented, Incarcerated, Institutionalized, and/or Indigenous Poeples

#11

Presences and Readings

#12

Urayoan Noel: "Is Queer Afro-Latin@ Poetics a Thing?"

#13

Addressing Structural Racism

#14

Patricia Spears Jones: Reading

#15

James Thomas Stevens and Trish Salah

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Everywhere It is Other: Love in Landscapes of Surveillance

#17

To Release:/A Response/-In The Body

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Culpable Ignorance: Surrendering White Innocence

#19

Pressure Points in the Language Contract: Interdisciplinary Text-based Performance

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Grief-Work: The Poetics of Melancholia and Mourning

#21

Two Performances: Samiya Bashir & Randa Jarrar; Sophia Terazawa

#22

Writing/Talking/Teaching The Racial Ephemera

#23

After the End of the World: Unmapping Superstructure Simulacra through Mythology, The Technology of Ritual, and The Collapse of Narrative

#24

Two Roundtables: Writing With Humor In The Face of Sorrow & Lyric Writing and White Supremacy

#25

Against the Diversity Machine: Moving Beyond the Literary Complex

#26

In The Movie Version: Five Writers Remix History, City, and Image--A Kaya Press Reading/Peformance

#27

Troubled Lineage & Genrequeer Form

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Unmaking the Great Man: Re-theorizing Ambition

#29

Deconstructing Race, Deconstructing Identity

#30

Minor Key: Sound, Territory, Sign

#31

Haunted Text, Erasured Body: The Lyric Essay's Ghosts and Shadows

#32

The Border Simulator

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Alternative Archives: The Process of Knowing

#34

Intersecting Lineages: A Kundiman Reading

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How Do I Sound?

#36

Living Archives–Decolonizing Institutions, Cultivating Communities. Feat. Smithsonian APAC, KSMoCA, and The Unburden Project

#37

Composition of a Tear: Writing Grief and Violence through the Latinx Body/Imagination

#38

The Raced Pronoun

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Refuse to Forget: Bi And Queer Women's Autobiographies

#40

Writing Towards Radical Love: A Self-Care & Community Care Workshop

#41

The Buffalo

#42

Decolonizing the Archive: Examining the Liminal Space between Experience and Reality

#43

Hope, Urgency, and Conversation: Parents Reading and Writing the Racially-Conscious Ecopoetic

#44

The Anxiety of Influence: A Conversation About Documentation Across Generations

#45

Recounting Its Presence on the Syllabus: White Imaginaries and Creative Writing Professionalization

#46

Stop Mispronouncing My Name: A Radical Poetics of Brown Bodies in White Spaces

#47

Post Traumatic Lit Disorder: Writing as Performance Against Silence

#48

The Translator's Responsibility: A Reading and Discussion by Korean Women Poets

#49

What If? The Power of Speculation

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6:00PM: Othering (collected + projected) by Beth Weinstein and Ana Martínez