70s Conference Reports

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

NPF ThoughtMesh

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NPF on Facebook

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.

NPF on YouTube

 

Participant Accounts, Photosets, Responses

Jasper Bernes

 conference report

Raymond Bianchi

non-participant account

Anne Boyer

conference report

flickr set

Al Filreis

recalling previous NPF conferences

Benjamin Friedlander

flickr set

Kaplan Page Harris

flickr set

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)

books acquired in Orono

conference report (part one)

conference report (part two)

conference "confidential" (part one)

conference "confidential" (part two)

conference "confidential" (fin)

Brooks Lampe

on Bruce Andrews

Doug Lang

facebook photoset

conference report

presentation summary

extended conference report (part one)

Philip Metres

on Bernadette Mayer and conference in general

on Bruce Andrews

on Clark Coolidge

general observations on conference & community

Aldon Nielsen

conference report w/photos

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

flickr set

YouTube clip of Kit Robinson reading from Ted Greenwald's "You Bet!"

Patrick Pritchett

flickr set

Tom Raworth

flickr set

Ron Silliman

on recent conferences in Tucson, Oakland, and Orono

Lytton Smith

blogging first two days of conference

report on Grand Piano reading

Sandra Simonds

conference report

Diane Tuma

flickr set

 

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