19.00-19.30

Registration

19.30-21:00

Unofficial colloquium opening: "Trámová místnost", Philosophical Faculty, Křížkovského 12

Introduction by Josef Jařab (Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech rep.)

Poetry reading by Dorotka Bachratá & Michal Kluka

Music by Tape Connection (Olomouc)

08.30-9.00

Registration

09.00-10.30

Josef Jařab (Palacký University, Olomouc): (Un)Published Czech Anthologies of American Poetry

Justin Quinn (University of Western Bohemia, Czech Rep.): On Audenstrasse

10.30-11.00

coffee break and registration

Chair: Michal Peprník

 11.00-12.30

Jan Nordby Gretlund (University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark): Still Dancing with Strom: Nikky Finney's Poetry

Brad Vice (University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, Czech Rep.): Natasha Tretheway’s - Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast (2010)

Marcel Arbeit (Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Rep.): Parallel Stories: Poetic and Prosaic Cycles of Fred Chappell

Lunch break

Chair: Justin Quinn

14.00-16.00

Hana Waisserová (Anglo-American University, Prague, Czech Rep.): Obamiana and Breaking Through the Color Line: Emotions and Barack Obama's Blackness

Alena Smiesková (University of Constantine the Philosopher, Nitra, Slovakia): Space for Poetry

Jiří Flajšar (Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Rep.): Humor in Postwar American Poetry

Mel Kenne (Istanbul University, Turkey): Translation as the Sine Qua Non in Modernist and Post-Modernist American Poetics

16.00-16.15

coffee break

16.15-17.45 

Michal Peprník (Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Rep.): Poetic Mottos in J. F. Cooper's Novels as Intertexts

Michaela Weiβ (Silesian University in Opava, Czech Rep.): Female Rainbow Poetics

Jaroslav Kušnír (University of Prešov): Identity, Aggression and Pop Culture in Terrance Hayes?s Poetry (Hip Logic, 2002; Wind in a Box, 2006)

19.30-21.00

Venue: "Bíla nora", Konvikt / Umělecké centrum UP Olomouc, Univerzitní 3

Poetry Reading: Maureen N. McLane, Justin Quinn and Kerry Shawn Keys

21.00

Welcome Reception, Konvikt, just above "Bílá nora"

Chair: Josef Jařab (Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Rep.)

09.00-10.00

Key-note lecture: Maureen McLane (Faculty of English, NYU, USA):

My Poets: Divagations toward a Weather Report

10.00-10.30

coffee break

Chair: Alena Smiesková

10.30-12.30

Matthew Sweney (Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic): Backwoods Broadsides: Samizdat Made in Maine

Mariana Machová (Literary Academy, University of South Bohemia, Czech Rep.): Quotes and Notes: Marianne Moore and the Boundaries of Poetry

Stephan Delbos (Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep.): Radical Formalism: Robert Lowell's The Dolphin

Stamatina Dimakopoulou (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece): Affect, Contingency and Open Forms in US poetry of the late 1960s and early 1970s

lunch break

14.00-15.30

Panel discussion: The Rainbow of American Poetry

Chair - Josef Jařab (Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Rep.)

Panelists: Maureen N. McLane (NYU, USA)

               Justin Quinn (University of Western Bohemia, Czech Rep.)

               Kerry Shawn Keys

15.30-15.45

coffee break

15.45-18.00

Post-graduate section – Chairs:  Josef Jařab and Maureen N. McLane

Gabriela Jeleńska (University of Warsaw, Poland): Sherman Alexie and the Colors of His Poems

Jan Beneš (Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Rep.): Midwife of the New Negro: The Pedagogic Aspect of Jessie Fauset’s Poetry in and Editorship of The Brownies’ Book

Petr Anténe (Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Rep.): Poems as Stories and Memories: Joy Harjo’s Narrative Poetry

Michal Kleprlík (Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Rep.): Leonard Cohen & The Lesson of Baudelaire

19.00

Farewell dinner