THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9th
Laurie Foos
9 A.M.: Magical Realism as an Agent for Social Change
Kate Bernheimer
10:30 A.M.: Leashing the Beast: Humanizing Fictional Monsters
Christopher Merkner
10:30 A.M.: Singular Opportunity: Teaching Creative Writing to One-Time Learners
Kelly Forsythe
1:30 P.M.: Criticism or Chronicle? Poetry Reviewing Today
Evelina Galang
1:30PM: Asian-American Generations at Coffee House Press
Vi Khi Nao
1:30 P.M.: Asian-American Generations at Coffee House Press
Bao Phi
1:30 P.M.: Asian-American Generations at Coffee House Press
Sun Yung Shin
1:30 P.M.: Asian-American Generations at Coffee House Press
Patricia Smith
1:30 P.M.: Kaylie Hones Books: A Reading
Karen Yamashita
1:30 P.M.: Asian-American Generations at Coffee House Press
Gabe Habash
4:30 P.M.: Going for Gold: Five Novelists Rewrite the Sports Narrative
David Mura
4:30 P.M.: United Artists: Creative Writers in the Trenches of the American Education System
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10th
Allison Adelle Hedge Coke
7 P.M. (Offsite): Plume Poetry Reading
Jennifer Kwon Dobbs (CHP Board Member)
9 A.M.: Dreaming the World through Translation: International Perspectives on Creative Process
3 P.M.: An Unfinished Conversation: Gender and Creative Writing
Sun Yung Shin
12 P.M.: From the Margins to the Mainstream: Mixed Writers on Representation
Valeria Luiselli
1:30 P.M.: A Reading and Conversation with Alexander Chee and Valeria Luiselli, Sponsored by Coffee House Press and Kundiman
Lincoln Michel
1:30 P.M.: MFA or Bust?
Ander Monson
1:30 P.M.: New Writers Award 45th Anniversary Reading
Karen Yamashita
1:30 P.M.: Strange Bedfellows: Politics & Art
Rikki Ducornet
3 P.M.: School of Exactly One: C.D. Wright Memorial, Sponsored by Copper Canyon Press
Dawn Lundy Martin
3 P.M.: Legacies of the Badass: Black Feminist Writing in the Millennium
Christopher Merkner
4:30 P.M.: Qualifying the Quantitative: Grading Methods and Alternatives
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11th
Edward McPherson
9 A.M.: I’ll Take You There: Place in Poetry, Fiction, and Nonfiction
Hieu Minh Nguyen
9 A.M.: Search and Recover: A Reading from Queer Children of Vietnamese Immigrants
Kate Bernheimer
1:30 P.M.: The Thin Place: A Tribute to Kathryn Davis
Allison Adelle Hedge Coke
1:30 P.M.: Coffee House Press Poetry Reading
Greg Hewett
1:30 P.M.: Coffee House Press Poetry Reading
ML Liebler
1:30 P.M.: Made in Michigan Writers Series: Ten Years in the Making
Anna Moschovakis
1:30 P.M.: Coffee House Press poetry Reading
Bao Phi
1:30 P.M.: Coffee House Press Poetry Reading
Valeria Luiselli
3 P.M.: Writing Across Cultures: Immigrant Writers in Search of Home
Patricia Smith
3 P.M.: A Reading and Conversation with Tina Change, Ross Gay, and Patricia Smith, Sponsored by Cave Canem