INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CONTEMPORARY LITERARY IDEAS AND PRACTICES IN THE USA AND THE UK - HUNAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY

It was a mad dash from Montpellier to Changsha, where I joined the contemporary literature conference already in progress to present part 27 of the Gil Scott-Heron work. I was delighted to meet up with old friends, including Yunte Huang, Yi Feng, Laurie Scheyer, Brian Reed, and to meet UK poet Karen Woolf for the first time. I was sorry to have missed the first day's proceedings, but there were reports in the closing ceremony from the previous day's break-out sessions so I was able to get an idea of the conference contours.