2005 Conference @ CalArts / Noulipo Focusing on a dialogue between current oulipos and the past, current practitioners (“English speaking”) and members, the conference aimed to “move beyond an oppositional idea of form and develop new modes of wordwork that challenge structures of domination by seriously playing with the wor(l)d.” Speakers included Caroline Bergvall, Christian Bök, Johanna Drucker, Paul Fournel, Tan Lin, Harry Mathews, Bernadette Mayer, Ian Monk, Harryette Mullen, Janet Sarbanes, Juliana Spahr, Rodrigo Toscano, Matias Viegener, Christine Wertheim, Rob Wittig.

AWP 2008 / Newlipo: Bringing Proceduralism and Chance-Poetics into the 21st Century (Sharon Dolin, Jena Osman, Christian Bök, Joan Retallack, Paul Hoover*, Patricia Carlin) Poets continue to be influenced by Surrealist automatic and collaborative practices and Oulipean proceduralisms, often combining them in new ways. From the mesostics of John Cage, to the French-born Oulipo movement, to computer-generated erasure texts, poets are continuing to explore ways to write with a wide-ranging sense of rule-governed / chance play. Six poets discuss the various procedures and chance practices they employ in their own work.

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