Poets explore possibilities of visual and aural (poetic) sampling.

7:00–7:15 p.m. Welcome
by Gail Browne, Executive Director, Poetry Center, and Introduction by Annie Guthrie, Curator, Poetry Off the Page symposium.

7:15–7:45 p.m. “Speech Talks Back”: Audio Show by Christine Hume
An audio show that plays the revoicings, manipulations, arrangements, and displacements of recorded nonpoetic, nonliterary speech, in a performance of audio documentary poetics that refigures poetry's classic oral qualities. As the pieces play, Hume will offer a voiceover of playful theoretical riffs and expanded contexts for understanding.

7:45–8:15 p.m. Improvisatory Oral Performance by Cecilia Vicuña
Cecilia Vicuña presents an improvisatory oral performance in response to place and time

8:15–8:30 p.m. Intermission

8:30–9:00 p.m. "Undocumented and Here": Film by Claudia Rankine and John Lucas
This film by Claudia Rankine and John Lucas is a Situation in process that enters the continuing dialogue regarding what it means to be unauthorized and here.

9:00–9:30 p.m. Q & A with Christine Hume, Claudia Rankine, and Cecilia Vicuña