Some more AWP mop-up:

I have hopes that A Tonalist will provide a fullish report on the AWP Poetry & Politics Panel. The JClo’s paper at sugar high made me even more curious about what other panelists said (esp. Heriberto..) and what the audience said. That panel was:

F187. Writers and Politics. (Lucina Kathmann, Kelley Alexander, Heriberto Yépez, Joshua Clover, Brent Cunningham) This panel will briefly set aside the vital discussion about whether (and how) the act of writing can itself be political, to look instead at some ways in which writers are already engaging in successful political interventions. How and why do writers act politically outside of, or in tandem with, their actual writing? The five panelists will discuss the many ways they have been specifically and productively political: via institutions, via organizations, via activism, or via publishing.

AND

Count me in! For a smaller, regional, less professionalized, alternative, free-to-cheap or whatever it takes to put an academic sheen on things, so that those who can get funding from their institution to attend, get funding from their institution, and those who don’t have an institution can still afford it. Hey! While we’re at it, why don’t we figure out a system whereby the institutional funding gets spread across all attendees? A two-tier reg. fee? If you get funding you pay a little more, if you don’t get funding, you pay a little less?

March 7, 2007 * 9:55 am

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1. ab Says:
   March 7th, 2007 at 10:26 am

   “A two-tier reg. fee? If you get funding you pay a little more, if you don’t get funding, you pay a little less?”

   Yes!

   I actually thoguht of a three tier system:

   1. Institutional Rate
   2. Individual Rate
   3. A free for unemployed/those on public assistance/ the very broke Rate (or no one who can make it will be turned away for lack of funds).

   But we need someone who knows grants so we can bring in a keynote speaker & maybe pay for some rental fees/ coffee. Low low overhead, ideally.

   &

   The conversation at the panel was WILD. I think someone else will have to make a report, my head was a little bit exploding.

   xo
   anne

2. Stephanie Says:
   March 7th, 2007 at 10:47 am

   YES, and MORE YES.

   Love the three-tier system. I know there’s been some talk of getting an institution to host this thing {hmm, what’s our shorthand name for this conference? we need some initials, stat} and I still think that’s the best plan.

   Although, although – an institutional host (an inst. w. some cash-ola, ideally) PLUS some grant support seems like the best, most ideal plan. Juliana has taught me a lot about grants but I am still woefully undereducated and have yet to put together a successful app, hey, while we’re at it, how great is the stamp on the NEA envelope that my rejection letter came in? (”A GREAT NATION DESERVES GREAT ART” — you got it, buddy)

   OK so also need to factor in those who are affiliated w. institutions but don’t get funding for ‘faculty development’ (meow, meow, meow)

   Also wonder if the three-tier setup would require some kind of documentation. Or honor system.

   Is that last question CRAZY….

   xoxo

3. Nicoloff Says:
   March 7th, 2007 at 4:45 pm

   Do it at Bard. (Let’s ignore the fact that I’m an alum for a second.) Poetry is established there, it has some money despite being not outlandishly wealthy, there’s enough institutional space/artistic pretensions (see Center for Curatorial Studies), and it’s out in the middle of nowhere, thereby ensuring inbred drunken madness. Also, Conjunctions.

   Yes, documentation: I think it would be totally great if you got a pay stub or a bank account statement from people to determine registration fees. And let me collect them; I have some questions I’d like answered.

4. Stephanie Says:
   March 7th, 2007 at 5:15 pm

   Ok, ok, I get it! The docu. idea was insane.

5. Nicoloff Says:
   March 7th, 2007 at 11:16 pm

   No, no, I love it! No one would agree to it, but it’d be one of the best things ever to happen. We could finally do the experimental poetry/money analysis we’ve all been waiting for.

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