Two-day festival, presented by Poetry Society of America with The New School and El Museo del Barrio. Day 1, "The Narrative, the Lyric and the Blues." Participants: Frank Bidart, Ana Castillo, Alfred Corn, Suzanne Gardinier, Yusef Komunyakaa, Joyce Carol Oates. Day 2, Panel discussion 1, "Writers of Fiction and Poetry." Panelists: Ai, Ana Castillo, David Mura, Carol Muske. Panel discussion 2, "Implications of the Narrative: The Individual, the Political, the Poetic." Panelists: Frank Bidart, Alfred Corn, Suzanne Gardinier, Yusef Komunyakaa, Robert McDowell.