Evans, Moxley to speak at bilingual poetry conference in Paris
Steve Evans, associate professor of English at the University of Maine, will be the closing speaker, and Jennifer Moxley, professor of English at UMaine, will be a featured poet at the bilingual conference, “Les archives sonores de la poésie: Production, conservation, utilisation (Recording in Progress: Producing, Preserving, and Using Recorded Poetry),” Nov. 24–25 in Paris.
Moxley will read poems (in the original, and in French translation) from her award-winning book “The Open Secret” along with a selection of new work. Evans will speak on “The Poetics of Phonotextuality: Timbre, Text, and Technology in Recorded Poetry.”
From 2007–09, Evans taught a series of courses on poetry in the age of the MP3, and subsequently has given invited talks on phonotextuality at Pomona, Yale, the St. Mark’s Poetry Project, Naropa and, his alma mater, University of California, San Diego. He is now working on a book-length project on the topic. Last month, Evans gave a preview of his Paris remarks for colleagues and students in the English Department.
A program for the upcoming conference is online.