Rethinking once again

Stephanie Young has her report on the Rethinking Poetics Conference at Columbia University in PDF form on her site:

I kept saying to myself and others that the curating at such a rethinking poetics conference needed to be so much more ruthless with itself, by which I mean the powers who constructed, those who held the reins, needed to be ruthless with themselves. Maybe it will sound stupid, but numbers obviously continue to count if such a conference could construct itself in such a homogenous way. It seems like homogeneity is a big problem. At the academic poetics conference, sure, but in lots of non-­academic poetics contexts, too, and not just in who gets invited to speak/read/participate, or even who feels welcome and invited in, but also who shows up to listen to who.