Horton Conference Schedule 2002: April 5 and 6, 2002

Friday, April 5, 2002: 5:00 – 8:00 p.m.

Poetry Reading featuring:

Location: Student Union Auditorium on the UNC campus

Christian Campbell, Hermine Pinson, R. Flowers Rivera, and Evie Shockley.

Featured Poet: Dr. Houston Baker, Jr.

Saturday, April 6, 2002: Conference Panels

Panel 1: 8:30 – 10:00 a.m.

Location: Student Union, Room 224 on the UNC Campus

Dr. Hilary Holladay Associate Professor of American Literature

University of Massachusetts Lowell

“‘Blessed be even this?’ Lucille Clifton’s Poems about Illness and Recovery”

Dr. Lorenzo Thomas University of Houston – Downtown

“Some Letters Love: Harryette Mullen’s Poetics”

Dr. Marcy Tanter Assistant Professor of English

Tarleton State University

“’The True Magic’: A Consideration of Marilyn Nelson”

Moderator: Dr. Joyce Pettis

Respondent: Dr. Keith Leonard

Panel 2A: 10:15 – 11:30 a.m.

Location: Student Union, Room 224 on the UNC Campus

Dr. Jon Woodson Howard University

“The Song and the Book: The Struggle for Authenticity in the African-American Poetry of the 1930s”

Michael L. Manson Anna Maria College

“Sterling Brown’s Literary History: Verse Form, the Body, and the New Sciences”

Moderator: Dr. William Andrews

Respondent: Dr. Adam McKible

Panel 2B: 10:15 – 11:30 a.m.

Location: Student Union, Room 224 on the UNC Campus

Kristin C. Brunnemer University of California at Riverside

“Betwixt & Between: (Re)reading Mary Weston Fordham”

Dr. Eliza Richards Boston University

“Intelligibility in George Moses Horton’s Animal Poems”

Moderator: Dr. Elizabeth Beaulieu

Respondent: Dr. Lovalerie King

Lunch 11:45 a.m. – 12:45 p.m. The Carolina Inn

Lucille Clifton Reads 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. Hanes Art Center Auditorium

Panel 3 2:15 – 3:45 p.m.

Location: Student Union, Room 224 on the UNC Campus

Dr. Joanne Gabbin James Madison University

“Coming Correct: the Hip-ness of Sonia Sanchez’ Poetry”

Dr. Annette Debo Western Carolina University

“Reflecting Violence in the Warpland: From Lynching to Riots in Gwendolyn Brooks’s Poetry”

Dr. Navneet Sethi Jawaharlal Nehru University

“Mapping the Contours of Sisterhood: Towards a Poetics of Equality”

Moderator: Dr. James Coleman

Respondent: Dr. A. Tim Spaulding

Panel 4 4:00 – 5:30 p.m.

Location: Student Union, Room 224 on the UNC Campus

Dr. Keith D. Leonard American University

“‘To Reach the Rest of Me’: Unifying Self Through Sight and Sound in the Poetry of Saul Williams”

Dr. Meta Jones George Washington University

“To Not Tune In: Musings on Erica Hunt and Harryette Mullen’s Poetic Music”

Duriel Harris University of Illinois – Chicago

Performance

Moderator: Dr. Ian Finseth

Respondent: Dr. Evie Shockley

Saturday, April 6, 2002, 7:30 – 10:00 p.m.:

Keynote Speaker: Sonia Sanchez

Location: Hanes Art Center Auditorium 121 on the UNC campus