New Sonic Poetries

New Sonic Poetries

Organized by Lillian Allen and Gregory Betts, this conference will serve to address a cross-cultural, interdisciplinary literary, musical, and sound poetry heritage across a variety of cultures. We intend to assemble a diverse collection of leading poets, sound artists, and musicians in a collaboration of diverse experimental energies. By foregrounding the work of authors who have broken through the binding silence of the page to produce astonishing and essential contributions, and engaging emerging voices in the field, we will reimagine the role of literary sound poetics in a society where silence is a luxury item, where culture is truncated by ideologies and the legacies of overlapping colonialism, and the cadence of our environment is overwhelmingly shaped by culture and capital. In a spirit of contestation to address climate change and colonialisms, we want to make noise together to expand the possibilities of contemporary performance experimentation and literary-sound scholarship. We will draw together sound poets, dub poets, digital and sound artists, Inuit throat singers, and scholars of various sonic poetries in a focused exploration of the possibilities of our auditory imagination.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts, 15 Artists' Common, St. Catharines, Canada