The visual poem in the Americas, 20th-21st centuries
University of Lille, April 6-7, 2023
Thursday April 6
Opening of the symposium and plenary conference
1:45 p.m.: Welcome coffee
2 p.m.: Opening of the colloquium
Fiona McCann, Director of CECILLE
Paul-Henri Giraud, University of Lille
Hélène Aji, ENS PSL – Institute of the Americas
2:15 p.m.: Plenary conference:
Rae Armantrout, “Edges of the Legible”
Phey, Professor of Poetry and Poetics, University of California, San Diego
presented by Hélène Aji, ENS PSL – Institute of the Americas
3:15-3:30 p.m.: Coffee break
Session 1
15h30-17h : Session 1
moderated by Modesta Suárez, Toulouse Jean Jaures University
Sergio Fregoso Sanchez, University Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3
EXITO: The visual poetry of the Estridentista movement
Samantha Lemeunier, ENS PSL
From visual to visionary poetics: William Carlos Williams’s scopic revolution
Leonello Bazzuro, Institute of Advanced Study, University of Warwick
Artistic appropriation in the visual-experimental poetry of Juan Luis Martínez
17h-17h15 Pause café
Session 2
17h15-18h45 : Session 2
moderated by Laura of Nervaux-Gavoty, University of Paris Est Créteil
Anne Reynes-Delobel, Aix-Marseille University
Visual poems by Robert Carlon Brown in the light of American visual poetry
Andrea Pitozzi, University of Bergamo
Forms of erasure as visual poetics
Xavier Kalck, University of Lille
“All that’s left is pattern”: the iconoclastic pictograms of Armand Schwerner
Friday April 7
Plenary conference
8:45 a.m.: Welcome
9h00-10h00: Plenary conference:
Mica Gherghescu, “Exhibiting visual poetry – practical kits”
Kandinsky Library, Center Georges Pompidou
presented by Antonia Rigaud, Sorbonne New University
10h00-10h15 : Pause café
Session 3
10h15-11h15 : Session 3
moderated by Xavier Kalck, University of Lille
Juliette Bouanani, Paris Nanterre University
“Print misfortune” : Susan Howe and the erasure of visual experimentation by Emily Dickinson
Fiona McMahon, University Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3
The Neo-Avant-Gardism of Found Poetry in Contemporary North American Visual Poetics
11:15-11:30 a.m.: Coffee break
Session 4
11h30-12h30 : Session 4
moderated by Anne Reynes-Delobel, Aix-Marseille University
Emilien Sermier, University of Lausanne
“My lyre of seven colors”. The francographic poems of Huidobro.
Pierre Thévenin, ENS Paris-Saclay
The dactylopoems and audiopoems of Henri Chopin, a supernational poetics of space
12:30-1:45 p.m.: Lunch break
Session 5
1:45 p.m.-2 p.m.: Welcome
14h-15h: session 5
moderated by Mica Gherghescu, Kandinsky Library, Center Georges Pompidou
Gissela Mate, University of Montreal
Concrete Poetry, a hymn to vision?
Vinicius Carneiro, University of Lille
The role of translation in Brazilian concrete poetry: the case of intraductions d’Augusto de Campos
15h-15h15 : pause
Session 6
15h15-16h45: session 6
moderated by Nathalie Galland-BoudonUniversity of Burgundy
Yasna Bozhkova, New Sorbonne University
Weaving the Poem: Text and Textile in the Work of Jen Bervin
Mario Alfonso Álvarez Domínguez, University of Lille
Representing violence: some visual issues in 21st century Mexican poetrye century
Aurore Clavier, University of Lille
“this land”: Layli Long Soldier, or the national space put to the test of the visual poem
16h45-17h : Pause café
Plenary conference and closing of the colloquium
5-6 p.m.: Plenary conference
Alberto Blanco, “Alberto Blanco: visual poet”
Poet and visual artist, Mexico City
presented by Paul-Henri Giraud, University of Lille
6-6.15 p.m.: Closing of the symposium
