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The National Poetry Foundation has a long tradition of fostering scholarship on major figures and trends within American poetry through its conferences.
In 1975, the NPF hosted the first of three conferences on Ezra Pound (the other two were held in 1980 and 1985), to which were soon added conferences on William Carlos Williams (1983), H.D. (1986), Marianne Moore (1987), T.S. Eliot (1988), and Pound and W.B. Yeats (1990).
In 1993, a new tradition emerged with the first of the “decade” conferences, devoted to the poetry of the 1930s. In subsequent years, the poetry of the 1950s (1996), the 1960s (2000), and the 1940s (2004) have been treated to exhaustive commentary by emerging and established scholars and writers in intensive four-day conferences distinguished both by the quality of the critical and creative work exchanged and by the good-natured atmosphere in which that exchange has taken place.
The next “decade” conference—on the poetry of the 1970s—will take place in the summer of 2008 (June 11-15). For the schedule of events, click here. A guide to on-line registration is available here.
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