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Materials for Assemblage Practices session with Brian Ang and Paul Ebenkamp
August 29, 8pm, Bathers Library Summer Symposium 2026

Brian Ang and Paul Ebenkamp are part of an emergent poetics called “assemblage poetics.” They will read and give an introduction to and discuss latest thoughts on assemblage poetics. Discussion will seek participation from the audience including connections with the audience’s practices.

Paul Ebenkamp, The Miscompetently-Inclined Improvisor’s Reader or Handbook, compiled for Ugly Duckling Presse’s 2026 Spring Workshop, Adventures in Mis-Competence: A Workshop on Contrary Practices with Paul Ebenkamp (June 13, 2026)

Brian Ang, Post-Crisis to Assemblage Poetics, American Poetry and Poetics, 2008-2025 folio, Annulet (9) and (10) (February 2026)

Brian Ang, Hejinian assemblage, in To be linked: On Lyn Hejinian, Jacket2 (March 2025)

Brian Ang and a.j. carruthers, Totality, Axis, Music, Assemblage, Tripwire 21: Dialogues (January 2025)

Assemblage: Durback, Lo, Mosconi, Townsend and Ang, cruse, Ebenkamp, Hunter (September 16-17, 2023): Brian Ang, alex cruse, Lara Durback, Paul Ebenkamp, Carrie Hunter, Kevin CK Lo, Joseph Mosconi, and Jamie Townsend

Brian Ang, Process Note #23: Totality, Assemblage, Multiplicity (September 1, 2023)

Paul Ebenkamp, Assemblage Poetics Statement, Peace, The Dead End That Just Wouldn’t Die, Assemblage Sampler (April 11, 2023)

a j carruthers, How AXIS may relate to Brian Ang’s The Totality Cantos and the idea of an “assemblage poetics”, Assemblage Sampler (April 5, 2023)

Brian Ang, ed., Assemblage Sampler (April 2023): Brian Ang, Caleb Beckwith, a j carruthers, Tom Comitta, alex cruse, Lara Durback, Paul Ebenkamp, Carrie Hunter, Michael Leong, Kevin CK Lo, Joseph Mosconi, Kate Robinson, Jamie Townsend, and Jessica L. Wilkinson

Brian Ang, Assemblage Poetics (December 2022): Brian Ang, Caleb Beckwith, a.j. carruthers, Tom Comitta, alex cruse, Paul Ebenkamp, Angela Hume, Carrie Hunter, Michael Leong, and Divya Victor