JMU - Collegiate Summit Schedule of Events
Collegiate Summit Schedule of Events
Schedule of Events
Thursday, March 18, 2010
4:00-6:00 p.m.
Hotel check-in, Summit registration and Dinner
6:15 p.m. CS/ISAT Room 259
Poetry Summit Welcome
By Dr. Joanne Gabbin, Executive Director of Furious Flower Poetry Center
6:30-7:45 p.m. CS/ISAT Room 259
Crafting a Poetic Future: A Panel Discussion
Learn about M.F.A. programs, poetry fellowships, and publishing from the people who’ve been there.
8:00 p.m. CS/ISAT Room 259
Evening Poetry Reading
by Claudia Emerson
9:30-11:30 p.m. Taylor Down Under
Late-Night Open Mic
Bring some original poetry to read or slam!
Co-sponsored with JMU’s Word Is Born Poets’ Society.
Friday, March 19, 2010
9:15-10:30 a.m. CS/ISAT Room 259
The Rose That Grew From Concrete: The Urban Landscape and the Black Experience
“Long live the rose that grew from concrete when no one else ever cared.”
Tupac Shakur
Instructor: Major Jackson
A familiar theme in African American poetry from the Harlem Renaissance to the present, the urban world has been seen as both a source of confinement and liberation. It has been a setting where writers have explored their sense of identity. Students will learn to do the same in their poetry, using their own familiar landscape.
10:45-11:30a.m. CS/ISAT Room 259
Love Me True: Passion and Poetry
“Love me honey, love me true?” Paul Laurence Dunbar
Instructor: Lyrae Van-Clief Stefanon
Sexuality, desire, and wanting to be loved are organic parts of the human experience, and have been a continual theme in the spectrum of African American poetry. In this session, students will explore the language necessary to express feelings that are perceptible to the senses, and rich in ideas and meaning.
1:15-2:30 p.m. CS/ISAT Room 259
Q&A with Poets
with Lyrae Van-Clief Stefanon and Major Jackson
6:00 p.m.
Virginia Festival of the Book
Reading and Reception
In Charlottesville, Virginia—readings by Nikki Giovanni, Major Jackson, Lyrae Van-Clief Stefanon, Haki Madhubuti, and Kevin Young.
Saturday, March 20, 2010
8:45 a.m.-9:45 a.m.
The Word on Campus: The College Literary Magazine
Whether your college already has a well-established literary magazine, or whether it’s trying to start one, hear advice and ideas in this panel discussion.
10:00-11:15 a.m.
Morning Poetry Readings
by Jon Pineda and Quraysh Ali Lansana
11:45 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
Lunch and Poetry Discussions
Enjoy a conversation about poetry with other summit participants in this “book-club style”
discussion.
1:00 p.m.
Poetry Summit Conclusion and
Announcement of Poetry Contest Winner
