New Writers/New Writing
April 13 & 14, 2012
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Omnidawn Publishing’s Paul Legault, author of The Madeleine Poems, will be a featured author at this April’s Juniper Literary Festival: New Writers/New Writing in Amherst, Massachusetts. He will join a dozen acclaimed emerging authors, including Macgregor Card, Julia Cohen, Christopher DeWeese, Robert Fernandez, and Anna Moschovakis, for two days of events. Paul will give a reading on Saturday, April 14 and participate in a roundtable discussion on the impact of new forms and technologies on writing, publishing, and community. The Festival will include many other readings and roundtables, as well as a keynote reading with James Tate, celebrating the publication of Eternal Ones of the Dream: Later Selected Poems, and a journal & book fair featuring dozens of the nation’s most exciting literary magazines and presses. A unique national event, the Juniper Literary Festival will introduce audiences to vital contemporary writing and explore issues essential to the future of American literature. We’re thrilled that Paul will be a part of it.
For additional information about the Festival, please visit http://umass.edu/english/MFA_JuniperFestival.htm, or contact Assistant Directors Kristen Evans, kaevans@english.umass.edu, (570) 404-2404, or Sarah Malone, smalone@english.umass.edu, (646) 263-7908.
Juniper Literary Festival: New Writers/New Writing
Friday, April 13
6:30 pm: JOURNAL & BOOK FAIR opening reception
7:30 pm: READING with Robert Fernandez, Amelia Gray, Anna Moschovakis, & Vincent Standley
Saturday, April 14
11:30 am: JOURNAL & BOOK FAIR continues
12:00 pm: READING with Christopher DeWeese, Corwin Ericson, Julia Holmes, & Paul Legault
1:15 pm: ROUNDTABLES
Nuts & Bolts: From Manuscript to Book
moderated by Zach Savich
Digital Hybrids: How New Media Shape New Writing
moderated by Blake Butler
2:30 pm: ROUNDTABLES
Editors’ Reading featuring bateau, Conjunctions, jubilat, & Noö Journal
Book/Art: The Book As Collaborative Form
moderated by Guy Pettit
3:45 pm: READING with Blake Butler, Macgregor Card, Julia Cohen, & Anna Joy Springer
7:00 pm: JOURNAL & BOOK FAIR reopens
7:30 pm: KEYNOTE READING with James Tate celebrating the publication of Eternal Ones of the Dream: Later Selected Poems