TILTS!

This year's Texas Institute for Literary and Textual Studies, co-directed by Professors Lisa Moore and Meta DuEwa Jones, is bringing some incredible poets and scholars to campus.  This week is the fall symposium, with two packed, wonderful days:

Wednesday September 14th:

At noon, Poetry on the Plaza in front of the Harry Ransom Center: The Emperors of Ice Cream, featuring poetry and also actual ice cream.

At 3PM, in the Denius Room at the HRC, a Poets' Roundtable on African-American writing, feminism, and queer diasporas with Evie Shockley, Dante Micheaux, Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon, Dawn Lundy-Martin, and Chanel Clarke.

At 5:30PM, a reception and book signing in the lobby of the HRC before

At 7PM, a reading in honor of David Wevill by poet and scholar Harryette Mullen, winner of the Wallace Stevens Award from the American Academy of Poets.

Haryette Mullen's biography at the Poetry Foundation.

Harryette Mullen reading "Wipe that Simile off Your Aphasia."

A review of Sleeping with the Dictionary at The New York Times.

On Thursday:

At 3PM in the Denius Room at the HRC, a Scholars' Roundtable with Yolanda Pierce, Aldon Nielsen, Keith Leonard, Gershon Avilez, and Roger Reeves.

At 5PM, a reception and booksigning before,

At 7PM, the TILTS Poetics Lecture in Honor of Thomas Cable, by Arnold Rampersad, winner of the National Humanities Medal.

Arnold Rampersad’s biography at Stanford.

An interview with Arnold Rampersad at Bookslut.

Arnold Rampersad speaks about Langston Hughes.