WWC/MFA @ AWP 2020 in San Antonio
@ AWP SAN ANTONIO 2020
Join faculty, alums, and current students for readings, panels and other fun at AWP 2020 in San Antonio. Apologies to anyone whose events we failed to list. Email us at [email protected] and we will add it to an update.
Visit the MFA Progam for Writers table in the convention center, T930.
NB: Due to formatting issues with the previous version, we are publishing the entire list again.
| Thursday, March 5 |
9 a.m. to 10:15 a.m.
R130. What’s Poetry Got to Do with It?: Creative Writing in the Wider World.
Samantha Fain, Chloe Martinez (poetry, 2009), Helena Mesa, Annie Finch)
Room 213, Henry B. González Convention Center, Meeting Room Level
R132. Writing Beyond the Gate: Reaching Voices from Outside the Academy.
Julia Bouwsma, Michelle Peñaloza, Nikki Zielinski, Tessa Hulls, Cynthia Dewi Oka (poetry, 2019)
Room 214B, Henry B. González Convention Center, Meeting Room Level
10:35 to 11:50 a.m.
R150. A Tribute to David Baker in his 25th Year as Poetry Editor for Kenyon Review.
T.R. Hummer, Linda Gregerson, Cintia Santana, Meghan O’Rourke (poetry, 2004), Reginald Dwayne Betts (poetry, 2010)
Room 007C, Henry B. González Convention Center, Riverlevel
R159. High Style and Misdemeanors: The Virtues and Vices of Elevated Prose.
Lauren Alwan (fiction, 2008), Anita Felicelli, Olga Zilberbourg, Lillian Howan, Aatif Rashid
Room 211, Henry B. González Convention Center, Meeting Room Level
R168. The Futures of Documentary and Investigative Poetries.
Solmaz Sharif, Erika Meitner, Craig Santos Perez, Tyehimba Jess, Philip Metres
Room 217B, Henry B. González Convention Center, Meeting Room Level
12:10 to 1:25 p.m.
R184. Fierce Lineage, Poetic Agency: Women of Copper Canyon Press.
Leila Chatti, Ellen Bass, Traci Brimhall, Victoria Chang (poetry, 2004)
Room 008, Henry B. González Convention Center, Riverlevel
R198. Special Problems in Vocabulary: A Tribute to Tony Hoagland.
Adrian Blevins (poetry, 2002), Hayan Charara, Reginald Dwayne Betts (poetry, 2010), Kevin Prufer, Kay Cosgrove
Room 216A, Henry B. González Convention Center, Meeting Room Level
1:45 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
R213. Betrayed: Writing about Family, Friends, and Loved Ones.
Helen Fremont (fiction, 1991), Annie Kim (poetry, 2009), Lynette D’Amico (fiction, 2013] , Lenore Myka (fiction, 2009), Lisa Van Orman Hadley(fiction, 2009)
Room 006B, Henry B. González Convention Center, Riverlevel
R220. Make It New: Creative Empowerment in Independent Small Press Publishing.
Sarah Kruse, Carey Salerno, Martha Rhodes (poetry, 1991; faculty), Stephen Motika, Peter Covino
Room 205, Henry B. González Convention Center, Meeting Room Level
R230. Frustrated Pastorals: Burning Fields, Ruined Gardens, Desert Shores.
Joseph Campana, Katie Peterson, Jennifer Foerster, Cecily Parks, Sandra Lim
Room 214A, Henry B. González Convention Center, Meeting Room Level
R237. Innovative Partnerships: The Advantages of Publishing with Small Presses.
K. L. Cook, Nan Cuba (fiction, 1989), Tim Bascom, Katy Yocom, Andrew Gifford
Room 217C, Henry B. González Convention Center, Meeting Room Level
3:20 to 4:35 p.m.
R255. Time Passes: When Life Is Long and Art Is Short(er).
Joan Silber, Lisa Ko, Derek Palacio, Adrienne Celt, Caitlin Horrocks
Room 008, Henry B. González Convention Center, Riverlevel
R258. MFA to ELA: Teaching K-12 Students .
Kenyatta Rogers, William Archila, Molly Sutton Kiefer, Kerrin McCadden (poetry, 2014)
Room 206B, Henry B. González Convention Center, Meeting Room Level
R268. Radical Healing: What Does It Mean to Be Well?.
Jess Row, Lacy Johnson, Marcos Gonsalez, Meghan O’Rourke (poetry, 2005)
Room 214C, Henry B. González Convention Center, Meeting Room Level
| Friday, March 6 |
9 a.m. to 10:15 a.m.
F128. (R)Evolution: Cuban American Novelists on Writing Political Upheaval.
Alejandro Nodarse, Achy Obejas (fiction, 1993) , Chantel Acevedo, H.G. Carrillo
Room 211, Henry B. González Convention Center, Meeting Room Level
F134. Writing and Teaching Toward a New Radical Liberation.
Loyce Gayo, Monica Sok, Paul Tran, Adrienne Perry (fiction, 2013), Monica Prince
Room 214D, Henry B. González Convention Center, Meeting Room Level
F138. The Art of Literary Friendship.
Daniel Torday, Airea D. Matthews, Miciah Bay Gault, Adrian Matejka, Erin Belieu
Room 217C, Henry B. González Convention Center, Meeting Room Level
F140. Make Yourself at Home: Writing the Familiar from a Distance.
Jennine Capó Crucet, Helena María Viramontes, Laura van den Berg, Tiphanie Yanique, Manuel Muñoz
Room 301, Henry B. González Convention Center, Ballroom Level
F143. The Emotional Currency of International Writing Programs: Sozopol Seminar’s Case.
Kelly Luce, Ben Bush, Eireene Nealand, Christopher Castellani, Milena Deleva
Room 304, Henry B. González Convention Center, Ballroom Level
10:35 to 11:50 a.m.
F144. Science at the Source: Poetic Methods.
Rosalie Moffett, Nomi Stone (poetry, 2017) John James, Rushi Vyas, Kathryn Nuernberger
Room 006A, Henry B. González Convention Center, Riverlevel
F169. In Order to Be Totally Free: Teaching via the Writing Constraint.
Alexander Lumans, Kirstin Valdez Quade, Joanna Luloff, Khadijah Queen, Jane Wong
Room 217C, Henry B. González Convention Center, Meeting Room Level
F172A. Free Verse: Making a Life outside the Tenure Stream.
Paul Guest, Ada Limón, Victoria Chang (poetry, 2005), Maggie Smith, Jasmine V. Bailey
HemisFair Ballroom C3, Henry B. González Convention Center, Ballroom Level
F174. A Tribute to Alan Shapiro.
Jonathan Farmer, Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Angel Nafis (poetry, 2019), Michael Collier, David Tomas Martinez
Room 303, Henry B. González Convention Center, Ballroom Level
12:10 p.m. to 1: 25 p.m.
F183. Editing the Last Wild Places.
Laura-Gray Street (poetry, 1998), Juan Morales, Elizabeth Dodd, Anna Lena Bell, Tom Payton)
Room 007B, Henry B. González Convention Center, Riverlevel
1:45 to 3:00 p.m.
F235. Women Poets Sharing Their Success Stories and Immigrant Experiences through Poetry.
Kalpna Singh-Chitnis , Shadab Zeest Hashmi (poetry, 2009), Deema Shehabi , Pramila Venkateswaran, Usha Akella
Room 216A, Henry B. González Convention Center, Meeting Room Level
F239. Beyond How-To: The Art of the Craft Essay.
K. L. Cook, Joan Silber, Margot Livesey, Sven Birkerts, Chistopher Castellani
Room 217D, Henry B. González Convention Center, Meeting Room Level
240. The Poetry of Pandemic: Children, Death, and Fucking.
Robert Carr, C Russell Price, Madelyn Garner, Julene Tripp Weaver, Jason Schneiderman
Room 218, Henry B. González Convention Center, Meeting Room Level
F245. Meditations in an Emergency: The Lyric Interior in an Age of Crisis.
Dana Levin, Erin Belieu, Carmen Gimenez Smith, Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Ruth Ellen Kocher
Room 303, Henry B. González Convention Center, Ballroom Level
3:20 to 4:35 p.m.
F252. Creativity and Chronic Illness: Accessibility, Privacy, and Productivity.
P.D. Keenen, Whitney Rio-Ross, Rachel Kurasz, Elyse Durham (fiction, current), Bethel Swift
Room 007A, Henry B. González Convention Center, Riverlevel
F256. The Poetics of Addiction.
Gregory Pardlo, Airea D. Matthews, David Tomas Martinez , Katie Marya
Room 205, Henry B. González Convention Center, Meeting Room Level
268. Poetics across the Disciplines.
David Welch, Sumita Chakraborty, Emily Jungmin Yoon, Nomi Stone (poetry, 2017), Keith S Wilson
Room 214D, Henry B. González Convention Center, Meeting Room Level
F276. Edit Thyself: Poets Who Are Editors.
William Stobb, Kaveh Akbar, Caryl Pagel, Mark Yakich, Felicia Zamora
Room 301, Henry B. González Convention Center, Ballroom Level
| Saturday, March 7 |
| Join us for our annual MFA Program for Writers reception for alumni, faculty, and current students atThe Menger Hotel 204 Alamo Plaza San Antonio, TX 78205Friday, March 6 from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. in the Minuet Room Prospective students of color and prospective LGBTQIA students are invited to join us from 8 to 9 pm.! Light refreshments ~ Cash bar |
9:00 a.m. to 10:15 am
S117. Out of Their “Quarrel”: Poets Argue with Their History.
Andrea Carter Brown, Nick Carbó, Scott Hightower, Andy Young (poetry, 2011), Megan Sexton
Room 006D, Henry B. González Convention Center, Riverlevel
S122. Dismantling the White Imagination: On Intimacy in Creative Nonfiction.
Emily Arnason Casey , Rita Banerjee, Aisha Sabatini Sloan, Jericho Parms, David Shields
Room 205, Henry B. González Convention Center, Meeting Room Level
S123. Writing the Mother Wound, A Reading.
Jaquira Díaz, Elisabet Velasquez, Vanessa Martir, Leslie Contreras Schwartz (poetry, 2011), H’Rina DeTroy
Room 206A, Henry B. González Convention Center, Meeting Room Level
S134. Home in the Diaspora, Poetics of.
Owen Lewis, Nathan McClain (poetry, 2013), Aaron Coleman, Daniel Tobin (poetry, 1990; faculty), Danielle Legros Georges
Room 214C, Henry B. González Convention Center, Meeting Room Level
10:35 a.m. to 11:50 a.m.
S162. Many-Splendored Muslim Literature.
Samina Najmi, Shadab Zeest Hashmi (poetry, 2009), Alison Mandaville, Lena Mahmoud, Maryam A. Sullivan
Room 212, Henry B. González Convention Center, Meeting Room Level
S164. The Craft of the Literary Podcast Interview.
Mike Sakasegawa, David Naimon, Rachel Zucker, Dujie Tahat (poetry, current)
Room 214A, Henry B. González Convention Center, Meeting Room Level
S166. Heretic Poets Rewriting Sacred Texts.
Elizabeth Harlan-Ferlo, Rajiv Mohabir, Melissa Bennett, Alicia Jo Rabins (poetry, 2009)
Room 214C, Henry B. González Convention Center, Meeting Room Level
12:15 to 1:30 p.m.
S172. One Hundred Years of Poetry in The Sewanee Review: A Celebration.
Spencer Hupp, Ange Mlinko, Kaveh Akbar, Katy Didden
Room 217D, Henry B. González Convention Center, Meeting Room Level
S177. Uprooted/Unrooted: Adopted & Donor-Conceived Poets Re-Writing Family.
Stacey Balkun, Patricia Caspers, Jennifer Givhan (poetry, 2014), Lori Desrosiers, Lee Herrick
Room 304, Henry B. González Convention Center, Ballroom Level
S194. Invincibles: Women Writers Publishing After 50.
Naomi J. Williams, Val Brelinski, Peg Alford Pursell (fiction, 1996) , Jimin Han, Geeta Kothari
Room 211, Henry B. González Convention Center, Meeting Room Level
S195. Disabled Voices: Disfluent Writers Speak.
Adam Giannelli, Jennifer Bartlett, Denise Leto, David Shields
Room 212, Henry B. González Convention Center, Meeting Room Level
1:45 to 3:00
S239. An FC2 Reading.
Marream Krollos, Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi, Grant Maierhofer, Susan Neville, Darcie Dennigan
Room 218, Henry B. González Convention Center, Meeting Room Level
S242. Paul Celan at 100: Looking Back, Looking Forward.
Catherine Barnett (poetry, 2001), Tarfia Faizullah, francine j. harris, Ilya Kaminsky, Valzhyna Mort Room 301, Henry B. González Convention Center, Ballroom Level
BOOKFAIR SIGNINGS
| AUTHOR | PUBLISHER | DATE | TIME | TABLE/BOOTH |
| Laura-Gray Street (poetry, 1997) | Trinity UP | Thurs 3/5 | 10:00-10:30 | |
| David Baker | Stephen F Austin Univ | Thurs 3/5 | 2:00-2:30 | 1133 |
| Reginald Dwayne Betts (poetry, 2010) | WW Norton | Thurs 3/5 | 2:00-3:00 | 1630 |
| Tariq Luthun (poetry, 2018) | Bull City Press | Thurs 3/5 | 2:00-3:00 | T2038 |
| Victoria Chang (poetry, 2004) | Copper Canyon Press | Thurs 3/5 | 2:30-3:00 | 1451-1453 |
| Laura-Gray Street (poetry, 1997) | Randolph College MFA | Thurs 3/5 | 3:30-4:00 | 1065 |
| Sarah Stone | WTAW Press | Friday 3/6 | 11:00-12:00 | T2045 |
| Candace Walsh (fiction, 2019) | Literary Kitchen | Friday 3/6 | 11:30-12:00 | T2222 |
| Caitlin Horrocks | The Kenyon Review | Friday 3/6 | 1:30-2:00 | 1635 |
| Peter Turchi | Trinity UP | Friday 3/6 | 2:00-2:30 | |
| Hadley Moore (fiction, 2010) | Autumn House Press | Friday 3/6 | 3:00-3:30 | 1755 |
| Maya Phillips (poetry 2017) | Four Way Books | Friday 3/6 | 3:00-4:00 | 1741 |
| Peg Alford Pursell (fiction, 1996) | Dzanc Books | Sat 3/7 | 9:30-10:30 | 1125 |
| Gabrielle Calvocoressi | Fine Arts Work Center | Sat 3/7 | 11:30-12:30 | 1629 |
| Maya Phillips (poetry, 2017) | U of North Texas Press | Sat 3/7 | 1:00-2:00 | T1353 |
| Laura-Gray Street (poetry, 1997) | U of Georgia Press | Sat 3/7 | 2:00-3:00 | 1730 |
| Daniel Tobin | Orison Books | Sat 3/7 | 2:00-4:00 | T1317 |
