National Poetry Foundation

News & Events

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

On Facebook? Join the more than 250 members of the new NPF group

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

Media Coverage

Read and hear local news media reports on the Conference

Emily Burnham's preview of the conference for the Bangor Daily News

Burnham's follow-up on banquet announcement of Hatlen Seminar Room

Anne Ravana's Maine Public Broadcasting Network report on Conference (featuring Cortez & Coolidge)

Jessica Bloch's article on "Art of the 1970s" exhibition

Participant Accounts, Photosets, Responses

Jasper Bernes

conference report

Raymond Bianchi

non-participant account