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The Open Light: A Celebration of Notre Dame Poets

Presented by University of Notre Dame Creative Writing Program at University of Notre Dame, McKenna Hall

March 29-March 31, 2010

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The Open Light is a three-day celebration of Notre Dame poets, sponsored by the Creative Writing Program and the Department of English. It will take place in the spring of 2010, and feature readings by eleven poets who have graduated from Notre Dame or are faculty members in the Creative Writing Program or the Department of English: Jenny Boully (MFA 2002), Kimberly Blaeser (PhD 1990), Beth Ann Fennelly (BA 1993) Mary Kathleen Hawley (BA 1979), Robert Archambeau (MFA 1996), and Professors Jacque Vaught Brogan, Henry Weinfield, John Wilkinson, Joyelle McSweeney, Cornelius Eady, and Orlando Menes. The conference will include panel discussions as well as poetry readings. These events will be open to all, and are meant to appeal to anyone interested in contemporary poetics, or engaged with poetry at Notre Dame, in South Bend, and beyond. By asking participants to interact with each other as well as with their audiences, we hope to spark lively discussions about the vitality and visibility of poetry at Notre Dame. The program strives to embrace diversity, by representing a variety of ethnic backgrounds and styles of poetry, from the formalist to the experimental. The title

The Open Light is taken from a poem by Professor Eady, “Why Was I Born? A Duet Between John Coltrane and Kenny Burrell”, and serves as a metaphor for the explosion of diversity that has taken place since the last festival of Notre Dame poets, The Space Between, in 1991. A volume of poetry, The Open Light: Poets from Notre Dame, 1991-2007 will be published by University of Notre Dame Press in 2010. An up-to-date schedule of events will be posted on the Creative Writing website as soon as it’s available.