Name: What the Dark Cave Took: MotherFellowships of the Black Avant-Garde
Start: 2013-09-26T09:00:00-0600
End: 2013-09-26T11:00:00-0600

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What the Dark Cave Took: MotherFellowships of the Black Avant-Garde

Spurred by simultaneous contending forces of aesthetic urgency, spiritual communion, sexual difference, intellectual attraction, and against racial isolation and cultural gatekeeping, Black literary collectives and fellowships occur as divergences from established routes of lineage and tradition. From within these collective-fellowships, some writers and artists move further ‘out’ as experimenters, innovators, avant-garde visionaries, and gather again in new spaces, all the while maintaining a complex network of relationships to larger matrices of Eurocentric and African diasporic cultural production. What the Dark Cave Took: MotherFellowships of the Black AvantGarde, assembles Tisa Bryant, Lillian Bertram, Douglas Kearney, John Keene, Ruth Ellen Kocher and Ronaldo Wilson, members of The Dark Room Collective, Cave Canem and Black Took respectively, into a multi-genre, hybrid capsule of presentations, performances and readings that orbits multiple lines of inquiry and modes of discovery—bridges and exile, embodiment and ghosts, fugitive presence, visible privacy, outposts and compounds, reach and risk, sonic, spiritual, conscious play and provocation, discrepant and engaged—all focused on each participant’s particularcosmologies and adventures ‘out’ as writers, poets, scholars and makers, as well as the complicated desire to join or connect with other artistic travelers of the African Diaspora. Who do we mean when we gather? Where do we be when we don’t? How the great (w)holes matter? What the dark cave took?

Moderators

Tisa Bryant

Director, MFA Creative Writing Program, Co-Director, Equity & Diversity, California Institute of the Arts

Tisa Bryant makes work that often traverses the boundaries of genre, culture and history, with an enduring fascination with fusing critical and creative writing through the other arts into distinctive registers and new forms. She is the author of Unexplained Presence, a collection... Read More →

Speakers

Lillian-Yvonne Bertram

Douglas Kearney

Faculty, MFA Creative Writing Program, CalArts

Poet/performer/librettist Douglas Kearney’s third poetry collection, Patter (Red Hen Press, 2014) examines miscarriage, infertility, and parenthood. His second, The Black Automaton (Fence Books, 2009), was a National Poetry Series selection. He has received residencies/fellowships... Read More →

John Keene

Distinguished Professor and Chair, Africana Studies, English, MFA in Creative Writing, Rutgers University

John Keene is the author, co-author, and translator of a handful of books, including the poetry collection Punks: New & Selected Poems, which received a 2022 National Book Award, a 2022 Thom Gunn Award from the Publishing Triangle, a 2022 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry, and... Read More →

Ruth Ellen Kocher

Associate Professor, Associate Chair, Director of Creative Writing, University of Colorado

Ruth Ellen Kocher is the author of the Ending in Planes (Noemi, 2014), Goodbye Lyric: The Gigans and Lovely Gun (Sheep Meadow Press 2014), domina Un/blued (Tupelo Press 2012), and also One Girl Babylon (New Issues Press 2003), When the Moon Knows You’re Wandering, Winner of the... Read More →

Ronaldo V. Wilson

Ronaldo Wilson is the author of the collections Poems of the Black Object (2009), which won the Publishing Triangle’s Thom Gunn Award, and Narrative of the Life of the Brown Boy and the White Man (2008). His poetry has received four Pushcart Prize nominations, and he has... Read More →

Thursday September 26, 2013 9:00am - 11:00am MDT
British Studies Norlin Library

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