Fall Convergence Archive
2023: ASAP/14: Arts of Fugitivity
October 4-7, UW Seattle and UW Bothell
Co-hosted with Professor Jasmine Jamilla Mahmoud and UW Arts and the Association for the Arts of the Present (ASAP) Motherboard, including Amber Jamilla Musser and Julian Wong-Nelson.
With sponsorship from the Simpson Center for the Humanities, The Arts Division at the University of Washington, The Henry Art Gallery at the University of Washington, the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing and Poetics at UW Bothell, the Pigott Family Endowment for the Arts at Seattle University, and Wa Na Wari.
Featuring:
- Opening reception at Agua Verde Café
- Keynotes by: Fred Moten and Elisheba Johnson
- Talks and Conversations with: Dylan Robinson + Tania Willard and Billy-Ray Belcourt + Julietta Singh
- Commissioned Sound Art by Mary Edwards
- 112 Panels, 8 seminars, 5 workshops, and a book fair with exhibitors from Vanderbilt University Press, the University of Minnesota Press, Duke University Press, Johns Hopkins University Press, Amherst College Press, Dorothy, A Publishing Project, Left Bank Books, The Scholar’s Choice, University of Washington Press, and Zine Hug.
- Awards reception at the Henry Art Gallery
- Closing reception at Wa Na Wari
2022: 10 Years of Convergence—The MFA Celebrates [Zoom]
Featuring: Jen Hofer & Cecilia Vicuña; Essay Press Authors: Yanara Friedland & Valerie Hsiung; Andrea Abi-Karam & Philip Metres; Tracie Morris & Kazim Ali
2021: Memory and Memorial [Zoom]
Featuring:
- Opening Keynote by Prageeta Sharma
- Performances by: Anida Yoeu Ali, Naomi Macalalad Bragin, Malkia Devich Cyril, Khadijah Queen, Larissa Lai, Stephanie Segura, Jake Skeets, Aisha Sabatini Sloan, Divya Victor, L. Lamar Wilson
- Conversations and Presentations by: Tamiko Beyer + Purvi Shah; Jordan Abel + Philip Metres; Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore + Kai Cheng Thom; Krista Franklin + Deborah A. Miranda
- Closing Ritual by CAConrad
2020: Experimental Translation
Featuring:
- Pre-event Mixer with Seacrestcheadle
- Opening Night Performances by Antena Aire (Jen Hofer & & JD Pluecker), Wo Chan, Mónica de la Torre, Duriel Harris, Douglas Kearney, Danny Snelson, Jane Wong
- After-party Set by kiptok
- Antena Aire (Jen Hofer & JD Pluecker), Kazim Ali, Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, Duriel Harris, Casandra Lopez, Joe Milutis, Diana Khoi Nguyen, Margaret Noodin, Kristina Lee Podesva, Danny Snelson, Jennif(f)er “JT” Tamayo, Mónica de la Torre, and Afaa Michael Weaver
2019: &Now 2019: Points of Convergence
Featuring: Keynotes by Barbara Browning, LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs, and Nathaniel Mackey
Three days of panels, workshops, and performances by member of the &Now Festival of Innovative Writing community
2018: Alternating Facts
Featuring: Ava Avnisan, Colleen Barry, Katherine Behar, Steven Dunn, Danielle Dutton, Dylan Hogan, Kristina Podesva, Srikanth Reddy, Lytle Shaw, Dao Strom, Thea Quiray Tagle, and Terri Witek
2017: Speculation
Keynotes by Christian Bök and Arthur Kroker
Featuring: Rae Armantrout, Amaranth Borsuk, Rebecca Brown, micha cárdenas, Jo Cook, Sarah Dowling, Jeanne Heuving, Ted Hiebert, Anastasia Hill, Greg Lundgren, Donato Mancini, Joe Milutis, Adalaide Morris, Allison Morton, Charles Mudede, Lance Olsen, Nisi Shawl
2016: Form and Formation
Keynote performance by Tracie Morris
Featuring: Laynie Brown, Sarah Baker, Joshua Beckman, John Beer, Aeron Bergman, Anselm Berrigan, Richard Chiem, Allison Cobb, Brian Evenson, Lisa Fishman, Jeanne Heuving, Tyehimba Jess, Don Mee Choi, Joe Milutis, Robert Mittenthal, Aaron Shurin, Tree Swenson, Kaitlin Young, Matthew Zapruder
2015: Performance
Featuring: Nathaniel Mackey, Renee Gladman, and Eleni Stecopoulos
With Amaranth Borsuk, Rebecca Brown, micha cárdenas, Sarah Dowling, Jeanne Heuving, C. Davida Ingram, Alex Martin, Mike Katell, Gregory Laynor, Sarah Mangold, Doug Nufer, Jessica Obrist, Shanghai Pearl, Danielle Vogel
2014: Liveness
Featuring: Kathleen Fraser, Ann Hamilton, Cia Rinne, Gail Scott, Ronaldo Wilson
With Aeron Bergman, Carrie Bodle, Amaranth Borsuk, John Boucher, Rebecca Brown, Stephen Collis, Alejandro Crawford, Sarah Dowling, Bob Glück, Carla Harryman, Jeanne Heuving, Ted Hiebert, Tiare Mathison, Joe Milutis, Lisa Radon, Axel Roesler, Alejandra Salinas, John Sparrow, Fred Wah
2013: Creative Process And Creative Practice
Featuring: Amaranth Borsuk, Jules Boykoff, Rebecca Brown, Tisa Bryant, Sarah Dowling, Kathleen Fraser, Robert Glück, Carla Harryman, Jeanne Heuving, Larissa Lai, Hank Lazer, Miranda Mellis, Joe Milutis, Kaia Sand, Leonard Schwartz, Rita Wong, and Maged Zaher
2012: On Poetics
Featuring: Charles Altieri, Marie Annharte, Charles Bernstein, Amaranth Borsuk, Lee Ann Brown, Rebecca Brown, Tisa Bryant, Rebecca Cummins, Michael Davidson, Sarah Dowling, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Kathleen Fraser, Elisabeth Frost, Carla Harryman, Lyn Hejinian, Jeanne Heuving, Ted Hiebert, Cynthia Hogue, Clark Lunberry, Joe Milutis, Aldon Nielsen, Peter O’Leary, Candice Rai, Brian Reed, Leonard Schwartz, Evie Shockley, Ron Silliman, Barrett Watten, Tyrone Williams, Lissa Wolsak