Seventies Conference Schedule

National Poetry Foundation Conference on THE POETRY OF THE 1970s June 11-15, 2008 For a pdf of the Conference Program, including panel and paper information, click here; for a campus map listing key Conference locations, click here. Keynote poets: Bruce Andrews, Rae Armantrout, Nicole Brossard, Clark Coolidge, Jayne Cortez, Ann Lauterbach, Bernadette Mayer, Tom Raworth, and Fred Wah

Wednesday - 11 June 2008

12:00pm Registration begins

06:30pm Reception and Art Opening at UMaine's Lord Hall Gallery

08:00pm Plenary poetry reading by Fred Wah

09:00pm Special group reading by "Queering the 70s" panelists Dodie Bellamy, Kevin Killian, and Eileen Myles

10:00pm Open poetry readings

Thursday - 12 June 2008

09:00am Panels

10:30am Plenary panel: Black Arts

01:00pm Plenary panel: No More Masks!

02:30pm Panels

04:00pm Panels

07:30pm Plenary poetry reading by Bruce Andrews

08:30pm Plenary poetry reading by Jayne Cortez

10:00pm Special group reading by Grand Piano contributors, including Steve Benson, Kit Robinson, and Barrett Watten

11:00pm Open readings

Friday - 13 June 2008

09:00am Panels

10:30am Plenary panel: Periodizing the 1970s

01:00pm Plenary panel: DC Poetry

02:30pm Panels

04:00pm Panels

05:30pm Pre-banquet reception

06:00pm Banquet

08:00pm Plenary poetry reading by Ann Lauterbach

09:00pm Plenary poetry reading by Nicole Brossard

10:30pm Special group reading by Washington, DC poets, including Tina Darragh, Lynne Dreyer, P. Inman, Joan Retallack, Phyllis Rosenzweig, Diane Ward, introduced by Tom Orange

11:30pm Open readings

Saturday - 14 June 2008

10:00am Arrive Colby College Museum of Art for specially curated exhibition of works by Alex Katz and sneak preview of exhibition by Joe Brainard

10:30am Plenary poetry reading by Bernadette Mayer

11:15am Plenary poetry reading by Clark Coolidge

12:00pm Gallery talk by Ann Lauterbach

01:00pm Return trip to UMaine campus

02:30pm Panels

04:00pm Panels

05:30pm Plenary panel: Queering the 70s

08:00pm Plenary poetry reading by Tom Raworth

09:00pm Plenary poetry reading by Rae Armantrout

10:00pm Open readings and party

Sunday -15 June 2008

09:00am Panels

10:30am Panels

12:00pm Closing remarks and reception

Confirmed conference participants (to date): Barry Alpert, Bruce Andrews, Stan Apps, Rae Armantrout, Peter Baker, Patrick Barron, Dawn Baude, Dodie Bellamy, Chad Bennett, Steve Benson, Jasper Bernes, Joel Bettridge, Tony Brinkley, Nicole Brossard, Fahamisha Brown, Lee Ann Brown, Franklin Bruno, Marie Buck, Stephen Burt, James Byrne, Charmaine Cadeau, cris cheek, Joshua Clover, Michael Clune, Alicia Cohen, Barbara Cole, Clark Coolidge, Jayne Cortez, Renee Curry, Tina Darragh, Kathe Davis, Thom Donovan, Lynne Dreyer, Patrick Durgin, Stephen Ellis, Andrew Epstein, Annie Finch, Thomas Fisher, Robert Fitterman, Brad Flis, Ed Foster, Wendy Galgan, Susan Gilmore, Chris Glomski, Michael Golston, Timothy Gray, Jeremy Green, Piotr Gwiazda, Ross Hair, Rob Halpern, Jeffrey Hamilton, Kaplan Harris, Henry Hart, Gregory Hazleton, Jeanne Heuving, Laura Hinton, Eric Hoffman, Susannah Hollister, Bruce Holsapple, Bill Howe, Florence Howe, Lisa Howe, P Inman, Grant Jenkins, Judith Johnson, Elisabeth Joyce, Kevin Killian, Youngmin Kim, Burt Kimmelman, Linda Kinnahan, Rodney Koeneke, Liz Kotz, Timothy Kreiner, Aaron Kunin, Gerry LaFemina, Kimberly Lamm, Brooks Lampe, Doug Lang, James Langer, David Lau, Ann Lauterbach, Ross Leckie, Ben Leubner, V. Nicholas LoLordo, Kimberly Lyons, Marit MacArthur, Douglas Manson, Bernadette Mayer, James Maynard, Deborah Meadows, Mark Melnicove, Mark Mendoza, Philip Metres, Peter Middleton, Brett Millier, Joe Moffet, K. Silem Mohammad, Stephen Motika, Jennifer Moxley, Malgorzata Myk, Eileen Myles, Christopher Nealon, Jeffrey Joe Nelson, Miriam Nichols, Aldon Nielsen, Peter O'Leary, Tom Orange, Richard Owens, Kurt Ozment, Alexander Papanicolopoulos, Justin Parks, Sandeep Parmar, Scott Penney, Bob Perelman, Michael Peters, Scott Pound, Matthew Powers, Patrick Pritchett, Peter Puchek, Tom Raworth, Joan Retallack, Andrew Rippeon, Michael Roberson, Kit Robinson, Phyllis Rosenzweig, Douglas Rothschild, Jennifer Russo, Linda Russo, Michael Scharf, Andrew Schelling, Judith Schwartz, Lytle Shaw, Kenneth Sherwood, Mark Silverberg, Sandra Simonds, Jonathan Skinner, James Smethurst, Ellen Smith, Heidi Smith, Paul Stephens, Mindy Stricke, Keston Sutherland, Christine Timm, Robin Tremblay-McGaw, Sam Truitt, Keith Tuma, Demetres P. Tryphonopoulos, Jeff Twitchell-Waas, Von Underwood, Anna Vitale, Fred Wah, Xu (Simon) Wang, Diane Ward, Barrett Watten, Rebecca Weaver, Jillian Weise, Donald Wellman, Aaron Winslow, Steven Zultanski.

Posted by Steve Evans on Friday, May 16 2008 in Announcements