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The NPF is pleased to announce the publication of Ronald Johnson: Life and Works, edited by Joel Bettridge and Eric Murphy Selinger. This title extends the Man/Woman & Poet series inaugurated by Carroll F. Terrell in 1979 with Louis Zukofsky: Man & Poet.
Posted by Steve Evans on Monday, June 23 2008 in Announcements
The National Poetry Foundation's conference on The Poetry of the 1970s brought upwards of two hundred writers and scholars to the University of Maine for five days of conversations and performances between June 11-15, 2008. Below you will find a number of links to on-line reports emerging from the Conference. (We'll be updating as new materials become available.)
Conference Related Sites
A sampling of abstracts and presentation texts is available via ThoughtMesh, created in collaboration with USC's Vectors Journal. Read more about ThoughtMesh on the Vectors project page. Or go directly to the NPF mesh
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We've also created an NPF "channel" on YouTube, to which we'll be adding video clips from the Conference (shot by Jim Sharkey of Folk Films) and highlights from past New Writing Series events.
Participant Accounts, Photosets, Responses
Jasper Bernes
Raymond Bianchi
Anne Boyer
Al Filreis
recalling previous NPF conferences
Benjamin Friedlander
Kaplan Page Harris
Kevin Killian
What I Saw at the Orono Conference
parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24
Rodney Koeneke
an alphabet for Orono (part one)
an alphabet for Orono (part two)
conference report (part one)
conference report (part two)
conference "confidential" (part one)
conference "confidential" (part two)
conference "confidential" (fin)
Brooks Lampe
Doug Lang
extended conference report (part one)
Philip Metres
on Bernadette Mayer and conference in general
general observations on conference & community
Aldon Nielsen
audio clip of Clark Coolidge
audio clip of Nicole Brossard with Fred Wah
audio clip of Tom Raworth
audio clip of Rae Armantrout
Mark Nowak
on Linton Kwesi Johnson & 70s poetries
Peter O'Leary
blogging Wednesday
blogging Thursday
blogging Friday
blogging Saturday & Sunday
Tom Orange
YouTube clip of Kit Robinson reading from Ted Greenwald's "You Bet!"
Patrick Pritchett
Tom Raworth
Ron Silliman
on recent conferences in Tucson, Oakland, and Orono
Lytton Smith
blogging first two days of conference
Sandra Simonds
Diane Tuma
Media Coverage
Emily Burnham and Jessica Bloch both filed Conference-related stories, though the links have now expired.
Emily Burnham's preview of the conference for the Bangor Daily News [link expired]
Burnham's follow-up on banquet announcement of Hatlen Seminar Room [link expired]
Anne Ravana's Maine Public Broadcasting Network report on Conference (featuring Cortez & Coolidge)
Jessica Bloch's article on "Art of the 1970s" exhibition [link expired]
Posted by Steve Evans on Sunday, June 22 2008 in Announcements
An online version of Emily Burnham's Bangor Daily News article on the NPF's upcoming conference on The Poetry of the 1970s is now available here.
An earlier story by Jessica Bloch on the "Art of the 1970s" companion exhibition is archived here.
One correction to Burnham's story: All conference events, including the daytime papers and panels, are open to the public.
Posted by Steve Evans on Saturday, June 7 2008 in Announcements
In collaboration with our colleagues at UMaine's Still Water Lab, the NPF has developed a ThoughtMesh space specifically devoted to archiving, tagging, and interlinking the papers and presentations at the upcoming conference on The Poetry of the 1970s.
ThoughtMesh is an innovative interface aimed at bring Web 2.0 features to scholarly publishing. We're glad to be serving as "early adopters" for the program and hope that conference participants will help out by contributing to the site.
A nice thing about using ThoughtMesh is that it compensates for the constraints of the real-time conference, where attending one panel means missing another. Its "lexia"-based tagging system also helps identify connections between presentations that might otherwise be overlooked
To get started, we're asking that conference participants upload their presentation titles and abstracts. Those comfortable with posting full presentation texts prior to the conference are welcome to do so. We'll be encouraging everyone to post their texts after making their presentations—either at the Conference or in the days immediately following.
Once posted to ThoughtMesh, content will be "integrated" into the NPF-specific "submesh." (That entails a separate step, done by a site administrator on our side, so please note that posts will not immediately display in the proper format.) Here's a look at the mesh so far.
And here are a few links to ThoughtMesh resources to help you get started:
ThoughtMesh welcome & sign-up page
ThoughtMesh co-creater Jon Ippolito narrates a brief tutorial here
You can read more about ThoughtMesh here
Read a recent Chronicle of Higher Education article on several Stillwater projects here
Posted by Steve Evans on Saturday, June 7 2008 in Announcements
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