An exciting slate of writers and performing artists will be part of the 2015 Whittier College Writers Festival. The festival runs from April 14 through April 16. The Writers Festival is sponsored in part by the Ruth B. Shannon Center for the Performing Arts, the Center for Collaborations with the Arts, and the Department of English Language and Literature.
1:30 - 3:00 p.m. Whittier Faculty Readings Location: Wardman Library Participants: Tony Barnstone, Jennifer Holmes, Tess Taylor, Kate Durbin, Scott Creley
3:00 - 4:30 p.m. Working from Source Texts: Digital Poetics and Uncreative Writing Location: Wardman Library Panelists: Marjorie Perloff, Kate Durbin, and Tony Barnstone Moderator: Andrea Rehn How creative writers manipulate the historical text in the digital age (cento, whiteout, cut-up, "writing through," found and readymade texts, patchwork, experimental translation, etc.) Is such writing "uncreative" or creative in a different way? How?
7:00 - 7:30 p.m. Cynthia Hogue Reading Location: Robinson Theater, Ruth B. Shannon Center for the Performing Arts
7:30 - 8:30 p.m. Marjorie Perloff Lecture: “Conceptual Poetry and the Question of Emotion” Location: Robinson Theater, Ruth B. Shannon Center for the Performing Arts
8:30 - 8:45 p.m. Hogue and Perloff Q&A Location: Robinson Theater, Ruth B. Shannon Center for the Performing Arts
5:00 - 6:00 p.m. Craft Talk with Louie Pérez of Los Lobos Location: Ruth B. Shannon Center for the Performing Arts
7:30 p.m. Music of the Wolves: An Evening with Louie Pérez and David Hidalgo Location: Ruth B. Shannon Center for the Performing Arts Purchase Tickets
1:30 - 3:00 p.m. Panel: The Ethics of Documentary Poetics Location: Wardman Library Panelists: Cynthia Hogue, Geoffrey Brock, Tony Barnstone, Tess Taylor Moderator: Natale Zappia What responsibilities do you take on when you wear someone else's skin, let their voice ventriloquize through you? Do we have the right to tell someone else's story for them?
3:00 - 4:30 p.m. Panel: Acts of God: Writing about Catastrophe Location: Wardman Library Panelists: Brian Turner, Tony Barnstone Moderator: Laura McEnaney How do you write about the big subjects: war, holocaust, environmental disaster, the atom bomb, and disastrous weather events? What responsibilities does the writer take on when acting as historian, or the historian take on when writing for others?
7:00 - 7:30 p.m. Brian Turner Reading Location: Robinson Theater, Ruth B. Shannon Center for the Performing Arts
7:30 - 8:00 p.m. Geoffrey Brock Reading Location: Robinson Theater, Ruth B. Shannon Center for the Performing Arts
8:00 - 8:15 p.m. Turner and Brock Q&A Location: Robinson Theater, Ruth B. Shannon Center for the Performing Arts
