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2:00pm EDT

Toxic Tango (An Off-Site Performance at LaSalle Park) LaSalle ParkJennifer Natalya Fink • Julie Laffin

5:45pm EDT

Opening Reception and Registration Snite Museum of Art

6:00pm EDT

Exhibition Opening: There’s No Place Like Time: retrospective of video artist Alana Olsen A Collaborative, Multimodal Installation by Lance & Andi Olsen Snite Museum of ArtAndi Olsen • Lance Olsen

7:00pm EDT

Featured Reading by Douglas Kearney Annenberg Auditorium of the Snite Museum of ArtDouglas Kearney

9:00am EDT

Counter-Desecration: Critical Making for Catastrophic Times 102 DeBartolo HallVidhu Aggarwal • Kimberly Alidio • cris cheek • Shanna Compton • Jill Darling • Aja Couchois Duncan • Suzi F. Garcia • Brenda Iijima • Dana Teen Lomax • Linda Russo Experimental Spaces: The Role of the Small Press in the Age of Distraction 118 DeBartolo HallJesi Buell • Jl Daniels • Dana Green • Patrick Parks • Elizeya Quate Innovating Visions of the End and After 129 DeBartolo HallGretchen Henderson • Noy Holland • Michael Mejia • Miranda Mellis Mixed Panel 14 117 DeBartolo HallIan Hatcher • Richard Holeton Mixed Panel 3 119 DeBartolo HallJoshua Corey • Clark Lunberry • Davis Schneiderman • Danielle Vogel Queer Enough: Radical Representations of Maternity and Desire 136 DeBartolo HallVirginia Konchan • Danielle Pafunda • Mg Roberts • Sarah Vap • Catherine Wagner Crypto-Poiesis: Reimagining the Real through the Non-Human 138 DeBartolo HallClaire Cronin • Paul Cunningham • Connor Fisher • Jake Syersak Poetic Resistance Lab 131 DeBartolo HallCandice Amich • Keegan Cook Finberg • Becca Klaver Meekling Talks: &NOW Edition 140 DeBartolo HallJessica Anne • Rebecca Nakaba • Dao Nguyen • Anne K. Yoder Braided Voices 126 DeBartolo HallRebecca Goodman • Larkin Higgins • Stacey Levine Book Sale 108 DeBartolo Hall

10:35am EDT

⟨strike⟩#NEWS⟨/strike⟩: A Pan-Locale Media Score (in Room 200 in Riley Hall) Riley HallPopahna Brandes • Nicholas Davis • Ryan ⊥ Dunn • Chelsea Fiddyment • Laurel Forest Foglia • Lindsey French • Heather McShane • Natasha Mijares • Dao Nguyen • Hui-min Tsen • John Wilmes • Anne K. Yoder Dark Sonics 136 DeBartolo HallDouglas Kearney • Madison McCartha • Joyelle McSweeney • Andra Rotaru Speculative Bodies: A Confluence of Imagetext 140 DeBartolo HallKelly Dulaney • Thaïs Miller • crystal am nelson • Cathy Thomas The Domestic and the Documentary: Writing the Familial in Literary & Anthropological Work 117 DeBartolo HallS. Brook Corfman • Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint • Sara E. Roth Mixed Panel 16: WORD IMAGE in the A / AH / D Gallery, 214 Riley Hall (Gallery Open All Day) Riley HallLawrence Coates • David Hall • Jason Lahr • Julia Pello (An) Alternate Notion(s) of Home 129 DeBartolo HallMary-Kim Arnold • Shira Dentz • Allison Grimaldi Donahoe • Johannes Göransson • Diana Khoi Nguyen Co-Dependencies: Affected Bodies & the Languages of Personhood 131 DeBartolo HallKimberly Alidio • Michelle Detorie • Brenda Iijima • Janice Lee • Soham Patel Game Narratives/Narrative Games 126 DeBartolo HallTrevor Dodge • Kelcey Parker Ervick • Matthew Roberson • Mika Yamamoto I Feel Both Ways 118 DeBartolo HallSara Jaffe • Lucy Corin • Sara Marcus • Aisha Sabatini Sloan • Jean Yoon An FC2 Reading 102 DeBartolo HallGeorge Choundas • Jennifer Natalya Fink • Evelyn Hampton • Marream Krollos • Michael Martone • Michael Mejia • Vi Khi Nao • Aimee Parkison • Aurelie Sheehan • Angela Woodward

1:00pm EDT

Containing Obsession: Experimental Forms, Invasion, and What Consumes Us 131 DeBartolo HallKrys Malcolm Belc • Natasha Mijares • Rebecca Nakaba • Sara Ryan • Valerie Wallace Form and (Dis)Content: Speculative and Experimental Approaches to Language by Authors of Color 120 DeBartolo HallLaurin DeChae • Kenning JP Garcia • Rone Shavers • Erika T. Wurth From Condensary to Essay: A Reading 119 DeBartolo HallChing-In Chen • Jennifer Firestone • Dana Teen Lomax • Sarah Rosenthal Interactive Wet Maps 138 DeBartolo HallVidhu Aggarwal • Julian C. Chambliss • Tonya M. Foster • Mg Roberts Mixed Panel 2 118 DeBartolo HallMichael Joyce • Nick Montfort • Barrett Watten Mixed Panel 6 136 DeBartolo HallOana Avasilichioaei • Daniel Uncapher Noemi Press Reading and Garland Weaving 117 DeBartolo HallCarolina Ebeid • Hannah Ensor • Vanessa Angélica Villarreal • Chaun Webster Spuyten Duyvil celebrates 25 years of Transgressive Writing 126 DeBartolo HallJorge Armenteros • Peter Grandbois • Brianna Johnson • Katie Jean Shinkle Panel on new book, "Experimental Literature: A Collection of Statements" edited by Jeffrey R. Di Leo and Warren Motte 140 DeBartolo HallJulie Carr • Jeffrey DeShell • Eckhard Gerdes • Jeffrey R. Di Leo • Christina Milletti • Lance Olsen • Steve Tomasula Multilingualisms, Sonic Opacities, Textured Ethics 129 DeBartolo HallMirene Arsanios • LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs • Christian Hawkey • Sade LaNay FROM OUR HEARTS TO YOURS: NEW NARRATIVE AS CONTEMPORARY PRACTICE 102 DeBartolo HallAmanda K. Davidson • Thom Donovan • Rob Halpern • Arnold J. Kemp • Miranda Mellis • Robin Tremblay-McGraw • Catherine Wagner

2:35pm EDT

Mixed Panel 12 118 DeBartolo HallJulie Carr • Brent Cox • Frank Rogaczewski Philosophy and experimental writing: a reading and conversation 136 DeBartolo HallOana Avasilichioaei • Lou Pam Dick • Anna Moschovakis • Steven Seidenberg Second Person Permeable: Queer Epistolary Poetry 102 DeBartolo HallBrent Armendinger • Oliver Baez Bendorf • Jessica Rae Bergamino • Angel Dominguez • Margaret Rhee #MeToo as Literary Form 126 DeBartolo HallAnna Maria Hong • Christina Milletti • Jonah Mixon-Webster • Timothy Liu (Liu Ti Mo) Making a Language We Can Learn: Poetics as Collaborative Praxis 129 DeBartolo HallHarold Abramowitz • Janice Lee • Andrea Quaid • Dennis James Sweeney The Book As Lyric Medium 131 DeBartolo HallEmily Carr • Shanna Compton • Jennifer Firestone • Catie Rosemurgy • Sandra Simonds Tracing Letters: Multimedia Poetics and the Visual Lyrical Epistolary 117 DeBartolo HallJulia Madsen • Adam Tedesco INSIDE MY GORGE 140 DeBartolo HallAbraham Avnisan • Mark Jeffery • Judd Morrissey Friends of JEF Reading 138 DeBartolo HallEckhard Gerdes • Jane L. Carman • Jim Meiros • Brion Poloncic • Yuriy Tarnawsky

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De-Re-Forming Pop Culture: Innovative Approaches to Post-Internet Writing 140 DeBartolo HallKate Durbin • Becca Klaver • Wiliam Lessard • Janet Sarbanes FC2 Board Reading 102 DeBartolo HallJeffrey DeShell • Joanna Ruocco • Sarah Blackman • Noy Holland • Michael Mejia • Lance Olsen • Matthew Roberson • Elisabeth Sheffield Mixed Panel 1 119 DeBartolo HallRoderick Coover • Judith Goldman • Scott Rettberg • Valerie Sayers Mixed Panel 4 120 DeBartolo HallLauren Russell • Travis Sharp • Harvey Thomlinson New Methods. Instagram. Play: Performing a Critical Avant-Garde 117 DeBartolo HallLance Norman • Kristina Quynn • Cori Wong Resistant Narratives / Resisting Narrative 136 DeBartolo HallJessica Anne • Sydni Chiles • Amanda Goldblatt • Suzanne Scanlon Anger, Grief, Empathy, and Hope: Remembering Marthe Reed as Activist and Social Justice Poet 126 DeBartolo HallC.S. Carrier • Jill Darling • Dana Teen Lomax • Linda Russo Poetic Weapons 138 DeBartolo HallWoogee Bae • Dana Middleton • Nathan Alexander Moore • Nabel Wallin LINE BY LINE: A Collaborative Performance 131 DeBartolo HallJennifer Karmin • Laura Goldstein • Harold Abramowitz • Melissa Castro Almandina • Toby Altman • cris cheek • Olivia Cronk • Aja Couchois Duncan • Sara Goodman • Ian Hatcher • Marcy Rae Henry • Jose-Luis Moctezuma • Laura Mullen • blake nemec • Soham Patel • Kenyatta Rogers • Melissa Severin • Philip Sorenson • Connie Voisine • Terri Witek How Now We Need This Global Avant-Garde 129 DeBartolo HallRafal Betlejewski • Martin Nakell • Tyler Nesbitt

7:00pm EDT

Featured Reading McKenna HallJohanna Drucker • Renee Gladman

8:15pm EDT

Reception Immediately following Featured Reading McKenna HallJohanna Drucker • Renee Gladman

9:00am EDT

Experimental Thrillers: What Dunnit?! 138 DeBartolo HallJessica Alexander • Afsheen Farhadi • Rachel Levy • Michael Shou-Yung Shum • Jaclyn Watterson Facing the Other: Fiction, Theology, Ethics 117 DeBartolo HallJeffrey DeShell • Joseph Cardinale • Noy Holland • Hilary Plum Heroes and Collective Resistance 102 DeBartolo HallCynthia Arrieu-King • Ching-In Chen • Soham Patel • Mg Roberts • Addie Tsai Me, Myself, and Eye: A Reading and Discussion of Messy Memoir Boundaries 125 DeBartolo HallWhitney DeVos • Cathy Thomas • Jose Antonio Villarán • Kirstin Wagner Mixed Panel 5 140 DeBartolo HallMichael Barrett • Mark Tardi • Michael Workman Mixed Panel 7 129 DeBartolo HallZack Brown • Kathleen Naughton • Yuriy Tarnawsky Open Wounds: Eros in Contemporary Feminist Poetics 131 DeBartolo HallAlexis Almeida • Mary-Kim Arnold • Julie Carr • Carolina Ebeid • Aditi Machado Performative: Between poetry, performance, and critique 136 DeBartolo HallMel Elberg • Carla Harryman • Rachel Levitsky • Deborah Meadows • Megan Stockton Undergraduates Under Experimentation 116 DeBartolo HallCaitlyn Cook • Matt Garcia • Kenna Maedel • Meriel O'Connell • Kyle Rosin • Hailey Shannon Book Sale 108 DeBartolo Hall

10:35am EDT

Fictional Hybridity: Intersections with Theory, Genre, and Technology 131 DeBartolo HallJessica Berger • Dan Magers • Brooks Sterritt • Brooke Wonders Mixed Panel 13 129 DeBartolo HallM.D. Coverley • Martin Nakell • Yuriy Tarnawsky Mixed Panel 8 140 DeBartolo HallKanika Agrawal • Wojciech Drąg • Scott Rettberg Topside/Underworld: an open conversation on making art at the edge of the abyss through which crisis has asked you walk 113 DeBartoloMatthew Cooperman • Aby Kaupang • Danielle Pafunda • Katie Jean Shinkle Transgressive Circulation 136 DeBartolo HallJohannes Göransson • Christian Hawkey • Sade Murphy Working Abundancies: Writing in the Margins of the Neoliberal University 138 DeBartolo HallJohnny Damm • Lynne DeSilva-Johnson • Margaret Rhee • Magdalena Zurawski Mixed Panel 9: "Off the Page: Collaborations in Visual and Sonic Poetry” and "Marginal Transmissions.” 116 DeBartolo HallWarren Lehrer • Analeah Loschiavo Rosen • Judith Sloan • S. Yarberry "Wars I Have Seen: (Re)Writing American Militarism" 117 DeBartolo HallRoy Scranton • Omar El Akkad • Andrea Brady • Rob Halpern • Hilary Plum “Writing Across and Beyond: A Conversation on Innovating Narrative Forms” 125 DeBartolo HallMildred K Barya • Teresa Carmody • Lindsey Drager • Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint Other-animal Time 102 DeBartolo HallAja Couchois Duncan • Brenda Iijima • Jose-Luis Moctezuma • Connie Voisine

12:00pm EDT

Alternate Facts, Fictional Awareness & the Information Wars 136 DeBartolo HallDimitri Anastasopoulos • Christine Hume • Christina Milletti Mediated Narratives 113 DeBartoloCarla Harryman • Ian Hatcher • Cat Tyc Migrating Texts, Migrating Tongues, a Panel 131 DeBartolo HallKanika Agrawal • Mildred K Barya • Yanara Friedland • Aditi Machado • Poupeh Missaghi Mixed Panel 10 116 DeBartolo Hallcris cheek • Matthew Cooperman • Erin E. Edwards • Aby Kaupang Mixed Panel 11 129 DeBartolo HallAbby Burns • Olivia Cronk • Erik Fuhrer • Philip Sorenson Noemi Press' Akrilica Series: How Latinx Paint Ourselves. A Collaborative 138 DeBartolo HallLauren Espinoza • Suzi F. Garcia • Carmen Giménez Smith • Vanessa Angélica Villarreal Revolutions: Poetic/Visual/Critical Collaboration in Performance 140 DeBartolo HallRobert Archambeau • Jean Dibble • John Matthias Chance & Violence 117 DeBartolo HallCyriaco Lopes • Laura Mullen • Ronaldo V. Wilson • Terri Witek “We, Too:” Fiction Writers Reclaiming Violence Under a Hostile Political Regime 102 DeBartolo HallSarah Blackman • Jennifer Natalya Fink • Courtney E. Morgan • Aimee Parkison