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

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