Well ladies and gentlemen, Tongue and Ink 2010 is finally here. This is the schedule of everything for the conference. It is copied from the pamphlet directly, and we apologize if there are any formatting issues that make it hard to read. See you all there!
Tongue and Ink Detailed Schedule
Friday, March 26th
- 3pm-4pm- Registration and set up for events
Location: Center for Natural Sciences Atrium
- 4pm-5pm- Mary Jo Bang Keynote Reading
Location: CNS- Room C102
- 5pm- 6pm- Mary Jo Bang Technical Workshop
Location: CNS– Room E103 or C102, depending on crowd size
Description: Mary Jo Bang will teach a session specifically targeted at the “young-er” writers in the audience. This session aims to talk to writers about how to find and explore ideas for creation in the face of classroom requirements, project guidelines, and contest
submissions. In other words, Mary Jo Bang will give writers a new perspective on how to engage material to continue creating for themselves and how to continue pushing their work to the next level.
- 6pm- 8pm- Dinner
Note: Dinner will NOT be provided by the Tongue and Ink staff.
Suggested locations and basic directions are available in the back of this pamphlet.
- 8pm-10pm- Slam, Featuring Robbie Q. Telfer
Location: CNS– Room C101
Description: Open mic, Robbie Q., Slam with death-match Haiku final round. What more could you want?
- 10pm- Late o’clock- Party at Theune’s
Location: Dr. Mike Theune’s Place,
109 W Front St
Bloomington, IL 61701-5004
Arpt. D
Parking: There is a free (on the weekends) parking garage available on the opposite side of the street and a bit east of Dr. Theune’s apartment.
Saturday, March 27th
- 9:30am- 10:30am- Session Block 1
1. Creative Writing in the HS Classroom: From "Extra" to "Essential"
Leaders: Amanda Cordes and Tara Deleon
Room: E101
During this workshop especially designed for future teachers, two current high school English teachers will share their solutions, ideas, and works-in-progress with the group. As a group, we will discuss major issues that come up in the classroom when combated with serious curriculum restraints, work through some lesson plans and exercises together, and leave the session with real, applicable ideas for you to bring back to your own classroom. We will shout nonsensical profanity at a moment's notice and most likely leave you dumbfounded with the genius of our craft. But seriously. Be there if you believe in fighting for the essential skills that creative writing teaches!
2. What is Language / Ready To Wear?: Poetry and/as Fashion
Leader: Steve Halle
Room: E103
Description: From the runways of reality TV fashion shows to the faux-kitchens of cooking competitions, from the spectacle of douchebags and tools to the electracy of social networking sites, the zeitgeist is obsessed with whatever is fashionable and how engaging fashion reflects subjectivity. A glance at contemporary poetry, including visual poetry (VisPo), the Gurlesque, and Flarf/Conceptual poetics proves that fashion and style matter just as much to poets. These practices, of course, offend, scandalize, and provoke readers, poets, and critics who believe poetry is one of the last bastions of all that is sacred, good, beautiful, and lasting. In this workshop, we will perform writing exercises and learn various techniques that cultivate a lowbrow poetry of the moment and help us break free from our writing patterns and routines.
- 10:30am- 11:30pm- Session Block 2
1. Electronic Literature
Leader: Cheryl Ball
Room: E101
This session will briefly discuss a history of electronic literature, including examples from a variety of online sources, and talk about how and why to write e-literary pieces. Q&A will be generous, and question-specific examples and responses will be provided.
2. 1000 Journals Project: The IWU Edition
Leader: Natalie Lalagos
Room: E103
Modeling the "1000 Journals Project", 15 blank Journals were released on Wesleyan's campus as a creative project. Students and community members wrote and drew in the journals whatever they thought fit the various themes (lost love, inner child, humor, etc.). In this session we will examine the project that inspired the Wesleyan guerilla art effort, and work within the very journals themselves.
3. Writing What You Don't Know
Leader: Joanne Diaz
Room: E104
Too often, poets and writers rely on what they already know to craft new poems, but sometimes the most exciting work comes from investigating what's mysterious, new, and strange. In this workshop, we will discuss how some published poets have integrated research into their creative work, then write our own poems inspired by research. Writers at all levels are welcome to attend this session.
- 11:30pm- 1pm- Lunch
Location: Free lunch will be provided by the Tongue and Ink staff, thanks to funding from Euphemism! Lunch tickets will be distributed during session block 2, and the meal itself will be in the Bertholf Commons. Directions are on the map in the back.
- 1pm- 2pm– Session Block 3
1. Sound in Bilingual Poetry
Leader: Holms Troelstrup
Room: E104
In this workshop we will discuss the value and importance of sound in poetry through an examination of bilingual texts and performances. We will then complete an exercise in homophonic translation a few different times with a single poem. This exercise will force us to work within the sound of the poem's language to create meaning and new fragments of sense. Further we will explore the impact of utilizing more than one language in our writing and begin to understand how the very basic element of sound is framing our writing.
2. Spitting the Hotfire: Performance Poetry and Performative Poetry.
Leader: Robbie Q. Telfer
Room: E103
Despite accusations of not being "real" poetry coming from more conservative poetic camps, and despite many performance poets feeling they're TOO REAL, the nascent spoken word poetry movement seems to be here to stay. Experiencing steady growth since the slam competition concept started in 1980s Chicago, the primary impetus for rating poems against each other was to force poets to care about the live audiences that came to see them, or lose. However, effective poetry does not need a live audience to exist, and a successful performance poet does not need to know how to read, but page and stage poetics have much to gain from each other. This session will hope to sift out some useful lessons from the posturing BS.
- 2pm-3pm- Pinckney Benedict Technical Workshop
Location: CNS C101 or E103 depending on crowd size
Description: Pinckney Benedict will conduct a workshop on literary adaptation to film, a topic with which Pinckney is fascinated and has experience. The session will also spend time on dialogue, monologues, and extra-long speeches, which he loves, both in fiction and in film. It will be some lecture but mostly discussion, with an in-class exercise or two.
- 3pm- 4pm- Pinckney Benedict Keynote Reading
Location: CNS– Room C101
- 4pm- 6pm- Dinner
Note: Dinner will NOT be provided by the Tongue and Ink staff.
Suggested locations and basic directions are available in the back of this pamphlet.
- 6pm- 8pm – Release Party
Location: Davidson Room, Memorial Center. Directions are on the map in the back of this pamphlet.
- 8pm- 10pm - The After Parties!
Option 1: Student Choreographed Dance Concert
Location: Hansen Student Center, on the map
Description: A dance concert with pieces entirely
choreographed by students, with many varieties of dances. And yes, So You Think You Can Dance star Evan Kazprzak will be there… He does go here, after all. It will be fun, beautiful, and interesting.
Option 2: Blue Moon Coffeehouse, featuring John Gorka
Location: Young Main Lounge
Note: Unless you are an IWU student, this costs money.
Description: A singer-songwriter famed for his rich, expressive baritone, New Jersey native John Gorka was one of the leading lights of the New Folk movement. John is an intelligent songwriter with a rich palate of styles. He tends to keep his songs simple and to make observations that are characterized by subtlety rather than polemic outrage. He sings about clever, slice of life situations and creates snapshot stories grounded in both poetry and reality. John's solid reputation rests on the great warmth of his mellow voice and live performances. There's an attractive intimacy not only in the small moments of which he sings, but also in the sincere way in which he presents them. His music is 'hummable' acoustic pop, but his favorite themes reflect the troubadour's heart--freedom, faith, the environment and social justice. John is touring in support of his latest Red House Records recording, Old Futures Gone.