The 12th annual Juniper Literary Festival is this Friday and Saturday at UMass Amherst, and Clockroot will be at the book fair. Don’t come to see us, though, come for what promises to be an outstanding weekend (well—do say hi to us, too, though!). This is the second year that the festival has focused on “New Writers/New Writing,” and its featured guests are the poets and writers (and publishers and translators…) Anna Moschavakis, Amelia Gray, Blake Butler, Macgregor Card, Robert Fernandez, Julia Cohen, Corwin Ericson, Christopher DeWeese, Julia Holmes, Anna Joy Springer, Vincent Standley, and Paul Legault. There will be a keynote address by James Tate, celebrating the publication of Eternal Ones of the Dream. Schedule below—hope to see you there!
12th ANNUAL JUNIPER LITERARY FESTIVAL
NEW WRITERS/NEW WRITING
April 13 & 14, 2012
Fine Arts Center, University of Massachusetts Amherst
On April 13 & 14, 2012 the University of Massachusetts Amherst MFA Program for Poets and Writers will host the 12th annual Juniper Literary Festival: New Writers/New Writing. Focusing on the ever-changing landscape of new American poetry and fiction, the festival showcases emerging poets and fiction writers alongside dozens of independent journals and presses in a unique national event. Featuring readings by diverse and talented poets and writers, roundtables on crucial creative and professional issues, and a press fair, the festival introduces audiences to vital contemporary writing and explores issues essential to the future of American literature.
Schedule of Events
Friday, April 13
6:30 pm JOURNAL & BOOK FAIR opening reception
7:30 pm READING with Robert Fernandez, Amelia Gray, Anna Moschovakis, & Vincent Standley
Saturday, April 14
11:30 am JOURNAL & BOOK FAIR continues
12:00 pm READING with Christopher DeWeese, Corwin Ericson, Julia Holmes, & Paul Legault
1:15 pm ROUNDTABLES
Nuts & Bolts: From Manuscript to Book
moderated by Zach Savich
Digital Hybrids: How New Media Shape New Writing
moderated by Blake Butler
2:30 pm ROUNDTABLES
Editors’ Reading featuring bateau, Conjunctions, jubilat, & Noö Journal
Book/Art: The Book As Collaborative Form
moderated by Guy Pettit
3:45 pm READING with Blake Butler, Macgregor Card, Julia Cohen, & Anna Joy Springer
7:00 pm JOURNAL & BOOK FAIR reopens
7:30 pm KEYNOTE READING with James Tate, celebrating the publication of Eternal Ones of the Dream: Later Selected Poems
All events take place at the UMASS FINE ARTS CENTER. Free and open to the public.