Later today I’ll be flying to Denver’s AWP conference. This will be my first time going, although I don’t quite know how I’ve missed going previous years (okay, okay, I know: I was poor).
Michael Chabon will be headlining, and I’ve already picked out a slate of seminars to attend, including “Ellipsis as Art: Crafting Omission in a Text” (love the sound of that) “Managing Submissions: How Best to Stay on Top of the Slush,” and “Sacred Art: Writing to Change the World.”
Sidenote: why are all titles coloned? Would it be possible to submit a proposal that was not, in fact, split by a colon? Does it make the presentees sound smarter? Is it an academic thing? Does it cover as much ground as possible hoping more people will come because of the title? I’ll report on this pressing issue from the conference floor itself.
For those still immersed in the vocabulary of literary theory, there’s seminars like “Decolonial Poetics: Womanist, Indigenous, and Queer Poets of Color on the Art of Decolonization.” Nothing against literary theory (actually, stay away kiddies, it’s a nasty drug), but you stopped me at “Decolonial.” Ugh.
Updates here on BookFox as time and technology will allow. Tweets too, but not one every 30 seconds, which I find annoying. If you really needed every bit of information, you would have come, not monitored twenty twitter feeds.
