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Conference Schedule 2019

Conference Schedule 2019

Friday, February 22, 2019, 10:15 a.m. - 11:15 a.m.

Poet as Bandleader with Hanif Abdurraqib

Date(s): Friday, February 22, 2019, 10:15 a.m. - 11:15 a.m.
Location: Carson Ballroom, Old Main (view map)
Type(s): Presentation
Genre and Form(s): Poetry
Tags: Language, Sampling, Sound

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About the Session

Using sound and explorations of sound to better define the shapes of our poems. For example, what can the use of sampling tell a writer about the different modes their familiar language can be in? Or, what can percussive sounds tell a writer about their word selections, and how the language they select fills out the poem, and gives it a wave of sonic delights. 

Meet the Presenter(s)

Desert Nights Rising Stars Writers Conference Faculty 2019 Hanif Abdurraqib


Hanif Abdurraqib

Hanif Abdurraqib is a poet, essayist, and cultural critic from Columbus, Ohio. His first collection of poems The Crown Ain't Worth Much was released by Button Poetry in 2016, and was nominated for a Hurston-Wright Legacy Award. His first collection of essays, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us was released to critical acclaim in November 2017 by Two Dollar Radio. His next projects are Go Ahead In The Rain, a book on A Tribe Called Quest due out in 2019 by University of Texas Press, and They Don't Dance No Mo', due out from Random House in 2020.


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