Saturday got off to a fresh start with papers on Frederick Douglass, Thomas Dixon and Oscar Micheaux. I left that one and walked into a panel on the New York School poets. Then it was time for my own panel, the third in the Gil Scott-Heron series, this time with Tyrone Williams and Tony Bolden, chaired by my colleague Shirley Moody-Turner. Afraid I forgot to take any photos or record that one. Ah well,,,,, The evening was capped with a reading by Lorna Dee Cervantes, who has just published Ciento, a volume of 100 100 word love poems. (When my ear hears that title, my skeptic's brain hears "lo siento.") -- Dinner that night with Tyrone Williams and Evie Shockley.
Despite which I managed to attend all three sessions on the final morning. Good to see Joe Weixlmann, newly escaped from administrative duties. I ended my conference by attending a quite good panel titled "Reading Race in Contemporary Culture." Interesting title; hmmmmmm . . .
That last session title seems to have emerged from the San Francisco recomposition room . . .
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