Poetry by the Camful: a weekend of women's experimental poetry in Cambridge

CONTEMPORARY WOMEN'S EXPERIMENTAL POETRY FESTIVAL

Friday 6th - Sunday 8th October 2006 in the University English Faculty on
West Road. Workshops on Thursday 5th and Monday 9th in Gonville and Caius College. Everyone is warmly invited - men and women equally.

Tickets available on the door:
£5 per session (£3 concessions / students), £25 or £20 weekend.

The book stall will be selling works by all those featured and associated
publishers including Barque, rem, Arehouse, Bad, Salt, Equipage, and many
more. We would still welcome more helpers. If anyone would be willing to
volunteer as a helper (staffing the door or selling drinks or books), then
they attend the corresponding session for free. Please contact Emily
(ec308) or Catherine (cb214) with offers of help. (See below.) Thanks.

THE FESTIVAL
This year's festival is dedicated to showcasing and developing the
experimental poetry of contemporary women from across the English-speaking
world. It features past and present local talent, as well as poets from
across Great Britain, Europe, New Zealand, and the United States. It
includes readings, performances, visual pieces /installations, films, and
responses to their work.

This year is the tenth anniversary of the groundbreaking book, Out of
Everywhere, produced by Wendy Mulford, Ken Edwards and Maggie O' Sullivan.
It was the first anthology, and one of the last, to recognise the
achievements of the female avant-garde.


THE POETS
Poets who have agreed to read their poetry include: Maggie O'Sullivan
(Yorkshire), Wendy Mulford (Suffolk), Ken Edwards (Sussex), Dell Olsen
(London), Tom Raworth (Cambridge), Kathleen Fraser (San Francisco),
Marianne Morris (Canada /London), Andrea Brady (US / London), Africa Wayne
(New York), Jennifer Moxley (US), Geraldine Monk (Sheffield), Carol
Mirakove (US), Susana Gardner (US), Susan Schultz (Hawaii), Cathy Wagner
(Ohio), Leslie Scalapino (San Francisco), Kai Fierle-Hedrick (Canada
/London), Lisa Samuels (US /NZ), Kaia Sand (Oregon), Marjorie Welish (New
York), Caroline Bergvall (London), Tim Atkins (London) and Bernadette Mayer
(New York).

The following will give talks about women's poetry: Ken Edwards, Carol
Mirakove (US), Peter Middleton (Southampton), Rod Mengham (Cambridge),
Susan Schultz (Hawaii), Peter Manson (Glasgow), Kristin Kreider (London)
and Lucy Sheerman (Cambridge).


THE PROGRAM:

Thursday 5th 2 - 4.30pm
Open workshop by Leslie Scalapino
(Gonville & Caius College)

Friday 6th
7.30-10.30
Andrea Brady - poetry
Lisa Samuels - paper
Kathleen Fraser - poetry + visual projections

Saturday 7th
11.00-1.30
Africa Wayne - poetry
Susan Schultz - poetry + paper
Rod Mengham - paper
Susana Gardner - poetry

3.00-5.30
Geraldine Monk - poetry
Peter Middleton - paper
Redell Olsen - poetry
Carol Mirakove - poetry + paper

7.30-10.30
Keith Tuma / Justin Katko - film
Marianne Morris - poetry + art installations
Tom Raworth - poetry
Catherine Wagner - poetry

Sunday 8th
11.00-1.30
Justin Katko & Camille PB - poetry
Kai Fierle-Hedrick - poetry + art installations
Kristen Kreider - paper + art installations
Tim Atkins - poetry

3.00-5.30
Ken Edwards - talk on Out of Everywhere
Wendy Mulford - poetry
Peter Manson - paper
Maggie O'Sullivan - poetry

6.30-9.15
Lucy Sheerman - paper
Caroline Bergvall - poetry
Kaia Sand - poetry
Leslie Scalapino - poetry

Concluding remarks. Dinner & good times..

Monday 9th 2-5pm
Open workshop by Kathleen Fraser
(Gonville & Caius College)


Contact Emily: ec308@cam.ac.uk or Catherine cb214@cam.ac.uk for further details.