Session Details

Wednesday, 29 December

351. Not Black Enough? Experimental Black Writing since 1965

8:30–9:45 a.m., 413, Philadelphia Marriott

A special session

Session leader: Grant Matthew Jenkins, Univ. of Tulsa

1. “‘It Is a Difficult Song They Are Singing’: Gayl Jones’s Song for Anninho and Harryette Mullen’s Muse and Drudge,” Keisha Bowman, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison

2. “Feeling Around in the Dark: Black Queer Experimental Poetry,” Rosamond S. King, Rutgers Univ., Newark

3. “‘Rhythm-a-ning’ the Break: Time and Politics in Nathaniel Mackey’s From a Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate,” Mitchum A. Huehls, Coll. of Misericordia

4. “Who Is the ‘American’ in ‘African American’? The Poetry of Mark McMorris,” Grant Matthew Jenkins

Program Archive