Concrete Poetry Symposium

PAST - February 10, 2012

In conjunction with Letters: Michael Morris and Concrete Poetry

At the Belkin Art Gallery.
All welcome. Free admission. General seating.

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February 10, 2012

SCHEDULE
1pm Introductions

Shelly Rosenblum Curator of Academic Programs Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery

Michael Turner Author and Curator Vancouver, BC

1:30 “Summer Elephants: Ian Hamilton Finlay and Concrete Poetry” Stephen Scobie Poet and Scholar Victoria, BC

2:30 “A Typewriter is a Poem. A Poem is Not a Typewriter.” Lori Emerson Department of English University of Colorado, Boulder

3:30 Coffee break

4 “the kind of grid a typewriter produces in a very machine-like way” Liz Kotz Department of the History of Art University of California, Riverside

5 Postscript

Donato Mancini Department of English University of British Columbia

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