2008 AIPF Schedule
The Austin International Poetry Festival (AIPF) is the world's largest non-juried poetry festival. Here's our list of events including Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
Come hear Texas Poet Laureate Steven Fromholz, Afaa Weaver, Cyrus Cassells and more. All events are free and open to the public unless noted. Come enjoy poetry's biggest party!
AIPF SCHEDULE 2008
12:00 Poetry with Music , Central Presbyterian Church
In honor of National Poetry Month, Central Presbyterian Church, 200 East 8th Street (across from the Omni Hotel) will present a program of poetry and music. Hosted by poet/pianist Barbara Youngblood Carr. Other poet/musicians include guitarist Herman M. Nelson and Bob Mud of Australia playing flutes and digeridoo.
All events at Ruta Maya - 3601 South Congress Avenue
(in Penn Field, under the water tower)
2-7:00 Registration
2:30 Wide Open Mike, Barbara Youngblood Carr
5:00 Buffet (free for registrants / $10 non-registrants)
7:00 Opening Ceremony:
Introduction of Featured poets , Susan Stockton
Anthology Awards, Anne McCrady & Larry Thomas
Anthology Launch, Anne McCrady & Susan Stockton
9:15 Late Wide Open Mike, Barbara Youngblood Carr
10-7:00 Registration
Ruta Maya - 3601 South Congress Avenue
10-12:00 Friday Morning Workshops (for registered participants only)
Non-linear reality = Non-linear poetry
With Stefanie Petrik
Ruta Maya Balcony, 3601 South Congress Avenue
Language disintegration and its effects on poetry. I'm going to show you two methods of writing poetry that are non-sequential in process, that help to extend and re-mix already existing texts of your own, and that of others.
The Passionate Pen
With Agnes Meadows
Ruta Maya (lower level), 3601 South Congress Avenue
The word ‘passion’ is given a wide range of definitions, from obsession and fanaticism to adoration and excitement. But writing without passion can often result in indifferent, safe, and sometimes cliché-ridden work. In this workshop Agnes Meadows helps writers take a closer look at releasing their creative constraints so that they can more readily embrace the passionate pen.
When Poetry Becomes Therapy (All Ages)
With Michael Guinn
The Hideout, 617 North Congress Avenue
An artist should ever strive for his/her art to invoke change. It does not matter if that change is social, political, cultural, spiritual or artistic. But it should provide a format for another soul’s creative self expression that does not inhibit their spirit. Two very powerful vehicles for that kind of self expression are the arts of creative writing and performance poetry. With Spoken Word we can address more than just grammar, reading, public speaking, entertainment or heartfelt messages from the soul. We can teach young and old the value of critical thinking and respect.
Writer's Block: Your Friend in Disguise
With Robert Wynne
Writer's League of Texas, 611 South Congress Avenue, Suite 130
We will discuss a few of the causes of writer's block and some methods for combating it, focusing on how writers can learn and benefit from NOT writing.
Giving Voice to Words: Reading Aloud with Unbridled Passion
With Olga Samples Davis
Twin Oaks Library Conference Room – 2301 South Congress, Suite 7
You have written the words…and now you want to breathe life into them as you speak them aloud! In this workshop you will learn simple techniques for managing stage fright and developing confidence and power in your oral presentations.
Friday Afternoon Readings
1:00-3:00
Ruta Maya , 3601 South Congress Avenue
HOST: Katherine Durham Oldmixon
Quiet Storm Poets from Huston-Tillotson
Writer's League of Texas , 611 South Congress Avenue, Suite 130
HOST: Robert Wynne
Afaa Weaver, Cyrus Cassells, Jericho Brown, Vievee Frances, Ken Fontenot, Robin Cravey
Austin Java North , 1206 Parkway (Lamar & Enfield, North of 12 th St.)
HOST: Susan Stockton
Agnes Meadows, Melissa Lumpkin, Shay Phillips, Valerie Peña, Kateryna Bochenkova, Rebecca Raphael
The Hideout , 617 North Congress Avenue
HOST: Michael Guinn
Stephanie Petrik, Michael Hood, Strange Fruit, Shamroclady, Inspirator International, Nicholas Dorosheff
12th Street Books , 827 West 12 th Street
Austin Poetry Pioneers
HOST: Barbara Youngblood Carr
Herman Nelson, John Berry, Patricia Fiske, Ric Williams, Peggy Zuleika Lynch
1:30-3:30
Austin Java South , 1608 Barton Springs Road
HOST: Del Cain
John Row, Cody Jemes, Anna Purdy, Jo Mazzu,
Laura Stevenson, Diane McGurren
El Sol Y La Luna , 1224 South Congress Avenue
HOST: Rod C. Stryker
Olga Samples Davis, Laura Peña, Mary L. King, Ann Schneider, Harry Schneider, Barbara Wiedemann, Jazz Jaeschke
Friday Evening Readings & Events
4:00-6:00
Happy Hour
Ruta Maya - 3601 South Congress Avenue
6:00-8:00
Dominican Joe - 515 S. Congress
HOSTS: Joyce & Michael Gullickson
Michele Traylor Burford, Paula Small, Wendi White, Neil Meili, Cynthia Gail Manor, Christine Billington
Follet's Intellectual Property, 2402 Guadalupe Street
HOST: Ric Williams
Afaa Weaver, Eran Tzelgov, Jericho Brown, Vievee Francis, Cyrus Cassells, Scott Wiggerman
7:00-9:00
La Tazza Fresca , 519 W. 37 th St.
HOST: Kathleen Romana
Stephanie Petrik, James Griswold, M. Connell, John Berry, Ken Hada, Zargotti, Ann Moore, Mary Beth Gradziel
Book People , 603 North Lamar
HOST: Anne McCrady
Olga Samples Davis, David Bart, Jill Wiggins, Marcelle Kasprowicz, Cindy Huyser, Debra Winegarten, Robert Elzy Cogswell, Katherine Durham Oldmixon
BookWoman , 5501 North Lamar Boulevard, Suite A-105
HOST: Agnes Meadows
Christine Gilbert, Patricia Fiske, Nancy Kenney Connolly, Mary Agnes-Taylor, Nancy Fierstien, Deb Akers, Judy Jensen
Ruta Maya , 3601 South Congress Avenue
HOST: Michael Guinn
Vince Quinlan, Michelle M. C. Hix, Renee Rossi, Donna Marie Miller, Jack C. Ritter, Sharla Shotwell, Joanne Uppendahl
Westminster Manor , 4100 Jackson Ave.
HOST: Barbara Youngblood Carr
John Row, Bob Mud, Earl Anderson, Elizabeth Kropf, Herman Nelson
9:30-12:00
Ruta Maya , 3601 South Congress Avenue
Poetry Slam
HOST: Mike Henry
Slammers: Stephan Baley, Maryke Cramerus, Michael Guinn, Joyce Gullickson, Michael Hood, T. Keyser, Ashley Kim, Stefanie Petrik, John Row, Susan Stockton, Thom the World Poet
12:00-7:00AM
Magnolia Café , 1920 South Congress Avenue
Open Mike, Up All Night - Midnight to Dawn Instant Anthology
HOSTS: Chip Ross, Thom the World Poet, T. Keyser
Special Guests: Dub Poets (Jamaica), Stefanie Petrik and Bob Mud (Australia)
Bring 50 copies of your poem to be collated into an Instant Anthology put together by T. Keyser of Metromania Press (San Antonio). Each contributing poet will take home a copy of the Instant Anthology.
10-4:00 Registration
Ruta Maya - 3601 South Congress Avenue
10-12:00 Saturday Morning Workshops (for registered participants only)
Text-collecting
With John Row
Ruta Maya Balcony, 3601 South Congress Avenue
A workshop on collecting the memories and aspirations of passers by in public places and presenting them as poems the 'suits' can understand and the participants can value.
Musical Improvisation and Poetry
With Bob Mud
Ruta Maya (lower level), 3601 South Congress Avenue
Bring instruments and/or poetry you would like illustrated with music and sounds. The session is open to poets without instruments too—we need you for the musicians to accompany your words and rhythm of speech. In fact, it should be regarded as a reading session with reruns so musicians can experiment. This is not a science exactly, it is improvisation with capital IMP including sound effects and, perhaps, home-made or improvised instruments.
Poetry as Trance: Interiority as the Source of Poetic Invention
With Ric Williams
Twin Oaks Library, 2301 South Congress Avenue, Suite 7
There are two premises at the root of this workshop: first, poetry is inherent in the human psyche, and second, in an infinite universe everyone is at the center of the garden. Taking ideas from T.S. Eliot’s objective correlatives, surrealism’s stream of consciousness, and situation cut-ups, Ric will lead a hands-on poetry workshop that will demonstrate how one can begin right where they are –whether first time poet or experienced craftsman– and follow that point as deeply as they dare. The intention is to find startling new connections that are both universal and personal, and where form and function develop organically and with a profound richness.
In Defense of Poetry
With Ken Fontenot
The Hideout, 617 North Congress Avenue
Proceeding from certain negative assumptions about poetry (by noteworthy poets as well as a few of my own), each participant will focus, while writing a brief one-or-two page theme, on the idea of a personal defense of poetry. Hopefully, thoughts from these short themes will stimulate a productive discussion.
Saturday Afternoon Readings
12:00-1:30
Ruta Maya , 3601 South Congress Avenue
HOST: Barbara Youngblood Carr
Round Robin Open Mike (for late registrants)
12:00-2:00
Cafe Mundi , 1704 East 5 th Street #100 (between Comal & Chicon)
HOST: Thom the World Poet
Wide Open Mike – Round One
12:30-2:30
Resistencia Bookstore , 1801-A South First Street
HOST: Steve Vera
Agnes Meadows, Priscilla Celina Suarez, Lady Mariposa, Brenda Nettles Riojas, Graham Buchan, Marjorie Kanter, Josue Gabriel de Montemayor
1:00-3:00
The Hideout , 617 N. Congress Ave.
HOST: Rod C. Stryker
Jericho Brown, Maria-Cristina Caputo, Lewis Garvin, Maria R. Palacios, Joel Ortiz, Kristiana Colegrove
Austin Java North , 1206 Parkway (Lamar & Enfield, North of 12 th St.)
HOST: Susan Bright
Stephanie Petrik, Tony Zurlo, Vivian Lu, Violet O'Valle, Mary Smith Pritchard, Joyce Gullickson, Michael Gullickson, Michael Guinn
Twin Oaks Library , 2301 South Congress Avenue, Suite 7
HOST: Robin Cravey
Vievee Francis, Lynn Williams, Mary Riley, Stephan Baley, Rosemarie Horvath Iwasa, Shirley Crossland, Mike Chaffin, Sandra Martinez
Huston-Tillotson University , 900 Chicon, Jackson-Moody Room 200
HOST: Brad Castro
Afaa Weaver, Cyrus Cassells, Frank Pool, Judith Austin-Mills, Christa Pandey, Joe Blanda, Barry Brummett
1:30-3:30
Austin Java South , 1608 Barton Springs Rd.
HOST: Del Cain
John Row, Maryke Cramerus, Dede Fox, Ada Marie Fuller, Carolyn Adams, Erica Lehrer, John Milkereit, Angela Patterson
Cafe Mundi, 1704 East 5 th Street #100 (between Comal & Chicon)
Music and Poetry
HOSTS: Patricia Fiske, Bob Mud and Thom the World Poet
Open to any poets & musicians who wish to work together
2:00-4:00
Youth Slam Presentation
Ruta Maya , 3601 South Congress Avenue
HOSTS: Ron Horne & Sheila Siobhan
Texas Youth Word Collective
Under 21 Youth Slam Team
$5.00 entrance fee
3:00-4:30
Trials & Tribulations of Independent Publishing
Follet's Intellectual Property , 2402 Guadalupe St.
HOST: Robert Wynne (Cider Press)
PANEL: Chuck Taylor (Slough Press), T. Keyser (Metromania Press), David Meischen & Scott Wiggerman (Dos Gatos Press), Dave Oliphant (Host Publishing) and Deltina Hay (Dalton Publishing)
3:00-5:00
Huston-Tillotson University , 900 Chicon, King–Seabrook Chapel
HOST: Ralph Hausser
Olga Samples Davis, Bernard Mann, Glynn Monroe Irby, Lori Hendricks Swick, Joe Barnes, Carolyn Luke Reding, Susan Bright
3:30-5:00
Cafe Mundi , 1704 East 5 th Street #100 (between Comal & Chicon)
HOST: Thom the World Poet
Wide Open Mike – Round Two
Saturday Evening Readings and Events
4:30-6:30
Follet's Intellectual Property , 2402 Guadalupe Street
HOST: Ken Jones
Robert Wynne, Chuck Taylor, T. Keyser, David Meischen, Anne McCrady, Dave Oliphant, Melissa Lumpkin
5:00-6:00
Open Mike
Ruta Maya - 3601 South Congress Avenue
6:00-7:00
Happy Hour
Ruta Maya - 3601 South Congress Avenue
5:30-7:30
Dominican Joe , 515 South Congress Avenue
HOST: Michael Guinn
John Row, Kenneth Yoder, Marcell Murphy, Laura Telford, Karla K. Morton, Ximena Leon
Book People , 603 North Lamar (corner of 6 th & Lamar)
HOST: Scott Wiggerman
Eran Tzelgov, Ken Fontenot, J. Todd Hawkins, Dr. Charles A. Stone, Barbara Youngblood Carr, Becky Liestman, Tommie Ortega
7:30-8:30
Live Music by Stephen Bright
Ruta Maya - 3601 South Congress Avenue
8:00-11:00
Ruta Maya , 3601 South Congress Avenue
The Big Read
HOSTS: Ric Williams, Robin Cravey and Susan Stockton
Special Guest: Steven Fromholz
Featured poets: Afaa Weaver, Eran Tzelgov, Agnes Meadows, Jericho Brown, Vievee Francis, Robert Wynne, John Row, Stephanie Petrik, Bob Mud, Melissa Lumpkin, Olga Samples Davis, Ken Fontenot
11:00
Adios, Open Mike and Muffins
Ruta Maya , 3601 South Congress Avenue
HOSTS: Lynn Brandstetter, Barbara Youngblood Carr, Ashley S. Kim, Cara Salling, Susan Stockton
12:00-2:00
Youth Showcase and Frank Pool Awards
Barnes & Noble Westlake , 701 South Capitol of Texas Highway
HOST: Deb Akers
ANNOUNCER: Joy Palmer