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SATURDAY, JUNE 14
Leave for Colby College Museum of Art
Exhibition of Works by Alex Katz
Selected for the NPF by Lunder Curator of American Art Elizabeth Finch
Sneak preview of “If Nancy Was” exhibition by Joe Brainard
Plenary Poetry Reading: Bernadette Mayer
Paul J. Schupf Wing for the Works of Alex Katz, Colby College Museum of Art
Chair: Jonathan Skinner
Plenary Poetry Reading: Clark Coolidge
Paul J. Schupf Wing for the Works of Alex Katz, Colby College Museum of Art
Chair: Tom Orange
Gallery Talk: Ann Lauterbach
Upper Jetté Galleries, Colby College Museum of Art
Return Trip to UMaine Campus
Panels
11A: William Bronk
Chair: Demetres Tryphonopoulos
Edward Foster, “William Bronk: Later Words”
Eric Hoffman, “William Bronk, or the Ambiguities: Breaking Against the Waves of Silence”
Burt Kimmelman, “‘I Want to be that Tantalus’: From Worldlessness to Self-Abnegation and Acquiescence in William Bronk’s Poetry of the 1970s”
11B: Periodizing the 1970s: The Adolescence of the Spectacle and the End of the Post-War Boom in Debord, Ashbery, and Others
Chair: Michael Scharf
Joshua Clover, “The Sunday of the Seventies, The Saint of the Negative”
Christopher Nealon, “John Ashbery’s Optional Apocalypse”
Bob Perelman, “Democracy & Bathos: Variations, Calypso & Fugue on a Theme by Ella Wilcox Wheeler”
11C: Charles Bernstein & Ron Silliman
Barbara Cole, University at Buffalo: Poetic Justice: Charles Bernstein’s Inheritance of the Stein Legacy
Andrew Epstein, “‘There is No Content Here, Only Dailiness’: Poetry as Critique of Everyday Life in Ron Silliman’s The Age of Huts”
Scott Pound, “Ron Silliman’s The Chinese Notebook and the Materialities of Communication”
11D: “All Middle”: Tom Raworth & Ted Greenwald
Kit Robinson, “All Middle: On Ted Greenwald”
Keith Tuma, “Tom Raworth’s Writing”
Tom Raworth, Respondent
11E: Hannah Weiner
Jennifer Russo, “‘I am trying to show the mind’: The Development of Hannah Weiner’s ‘Clair-style’”
Sam Truitt, “Hannah Weiner’s Complete Mind”
Jillian Weise, “The Disability Rights Movement and the Legacy of Poets with Disabilities”
Panels
12A: New Narrative – New Sentence – New Left
Chair: Carla Billitteri
Rob Halpern, “New Narrative and the Restoration of ‘China’”
Kaplan Harris, “The Small Press Traffic School of Dissimulation”
Robin Tremblay-McGaw, “Community & Contestatory Writing Practices: New Narrative and the New Sentence”
12B: Bernadette Mayer Roundtable
Chair: Jonathan Skinner
Lee Ann Brown, “Alphabet Bernadette”
Kimberly Lyons, “Studying Studying Hunger”
Jennifer Moxley, “Memory Constructs: From Augustine to Bernadette”
Jonathan Skinner, “Mayer’s Walden: The Thoreauvian Experience in Studying Hunger”
Bernadette Mayer, Respondent
12C: Image, Index, Empire
Bruce Andrews, “Meaning, Motive, Method: Empire and so-called Language Writing”
Laura Hinton, “Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Cross-Genre Poetics: Her Late ‘70s Film Shorts and Artist Books”
Deborah Meadows, “On Icons and Iconoclasts”
12D: Elizabeth Bishop and Derek Walcott
Renee Curry, “‘In the Waiting Room’: Bishop’s ‘Subliminal Uprush’ and the Advent of the 1970s”
Marit MacArthur, “Origins of the 747 Poem: Flight and Globalization in Elizabeth Bishop and Derek Walcott”
Sandeep Parmar, “‘The Classics can console. But not enough’: Heroes, History and the Epic in the Poetry of Derek Walcott”
12E: Alternative Compositional Practices (II)
Trevor Sawler, “Poetry and Hypertext: When Literature and Technology Meet”
Heidi Smith, “Renshi: Poetry ‘Linking’ Cultures”
Plenary Panel: Queering the ’70s
Chair: Kevin Killian
Dodie Bellamy, “The Feminist Writers’ Guild”
Kevin Killian, “John Wieners’ Transvestite Passion”
Liz Kotz, “Language & Art at the Beginning of the 1970s”
Eileen Myles, “Queerness, Performance, and Prose”
Plenary Poetry Reading: Tom Raworth
Chair: Keith Tuma
Plenary Poetry Reading: Rae Armantrout
Chair: Benjamin Friedlander
Open Readings and Party
Chair: Bill Howe
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SUNDAY, JUNE 15
Panels
14A: Language Poetry & Theory
Chair: Carla Billitteri
Youngmin Kim, “A Poetics of the Klein Bottle: Poetry, Language, and Poetics in Language Poetry”
Timothy Kreiner, “The Dérive, the 27th Letter of the Alphabet, and Poetics and Politics in Language Poetry and the Situationist International”
V. Nicholas LoLordo, “Reading Seventies Reading: The Yale School and the Language Poets”
14B: Sounding the 70s (II)
Chair: Demetres Tryphonopoulos
Franklin Bruno, “Kenward Elmslie’s Camp Prosody”
Christine Timm, “Do You See What I Hear? When Modern Spoken Word Hits the Stage”
Donald Wellman, “Seventies Prosody: ‘The tone leading vowels’”
14C: West Coast Poets in the 1970s
Bruce Holsapple, “The Collected Poems of Philip Whalen”
Stephen Motika, “A Poet from Los Angeles: The Life and Work of Leland Hickman”
Mark Silverberg, “Kenneth Patchen’s Last Poem-Paintings”
Panels
15A: Ronald Johnson Roundtable
Chair: Joel Bettridge
With remarks by contributors to Ronald Johnson: Life & Works
15B: James Merrill and Jean Garrigue
Chad Bennett, “James Merrill’s ‘Celestial Salon’: Gossip in The Changing Light at Sandover”
Brett Millier, “Studies for an Actress: Jean Garrigue’s Last Poems”
15C: Sounding the 1970s (III)
Chair: Steve Evans
Charmaine Cadeau, “R. Murray Schafer and the World Soundscape Project”
Ken Sherwood, “The Oral Impulse in 1970s Poetry Revisited”
15D: James Schuyler
Chair: Jennifer Moxley
Chris Glomski, “Material Ecstasies: The Secular Comedy of Jame Schuyler’s Long Poems”
Ben Leubner, “Age and Anxiety: Elizabeth Bishop and James Schuyler in the 1970s”
Michael Roberson, “‘the pure pleasure of simply looking’: Objectivist Sincerity in James Schuyler’s ‘Hymn to Life’”
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Poetry of the 1970s Conference Organizers
Conference Director
Steve Evans
Assistant Director
Jennifer Moxley
Executive Director
Gail Sapiel
Publications
Betsy Rose
Organizing Committee
Carla Billitteri, Steve Evans, Benjamin Friedlander, Jennifer Moxley
Volunteers & Assistants
Michelle Allen, Tony Brinkley, Richard Brucher, Patricia Burnes, Silvana Costa, Alison Fraser, Rebecca Griffin, Hansie Grignon, Judith Hakola, Meghan Hancock, Danielle Hilchey, John Hyland, Naomi Jacobs, David Kress, Danielle Laliberte, Megan London, Elizabeth Maliga, Nicholas Mohlmann, Malgorzata Myk, Stella Santerre, and Kiera Seekins
Special thanks to:
Lynda Claassen and the staff at the Archive for New Poetry, Mandeville Special Collections Library, University of California, San Diego, without whose invaluable help the digital reconstruction of Bernadette Mayer’s “Memory” could not have been accomplished.
Laurie Hicks, interim director of the University of Maine Museum of Art, MaJo Keleshian, Lord Hall Gallery Coordinator, and Owen Smith, professor of Art History and Digital Art in the Department of Art at the University of Maine and the current Director of the New Media Department, for their collaboration on “The Art of the 70s” exhibition.
Sharon Corwin, the Carolyn Muzzy Director and Chief Curator of the Colby College Museum of Art, and Elizabeth Finch, Lunder Curator of American Art, for their collaboration on, and generous hosting of, our Saturday morning plenary events.
John Ippolito, Associate Professor of New Media at the University of Maine, Craig Dietrich, User Interface Engineer at Vectors and new media artist at the University of Iowa, and John Bell, Stillwater Research Fellow, for their collaboration on the NPF Conference ThoughtMesh project.
Jim Sharkey, of Folkfilms (www.folkfilms.com), and Rebecca Griffin, for their help in documenting the sights and sounds of the Conference.
Marjorie Perloff, professor emerita of English and Comparative Literature at Stanford University and currently scholar-in-residence at the University of Southern California, for her memorial tribute to Burton Hatlen.
Robert Kennedy, President of the University of Maine, and Evelyn Silver, Senior Advisor to President Kennedy, for their generous and timely support of the English Department and the National Poetry Foundation.
Stephen and Tabitha King, for their support of the NPF.
MaJo Keleshian, for designing the Conference poster.
Judith Carr at Hewins Travel for her help with travel arrangments and Tracey Whitten at the University Inn for local accommodations.
Marlene Charron, of UMaine Conference Services, for all her tireless work on every aspect of this Conference.
