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Program

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28

Opening Reception and Outdoor Barbecue

Greetings from President Peter Hoff, Dean Rebecca Eilers, and Vice Provost Douglas Gelinas

Plenary Session #1

Chair: Burton Hatlen

Marjorie Perloff, “Watchman and Spy: O’Hara, Johns, and Cage in the ‘Cool’ Sixties�

Michael Davidson, “Missing Larry�

Poetry Reading #1: Amiri Baraka

Chair: Aldon Nielsen

Poets of the 1960s General Reading #1

Chair: Don Wellman

Amiri Baraka, Lorenzo Thomas, Gene Frumkin

Open Reading #1

Chair: Mark Rutter

K. Silem Mohammad, Mark McMorris, Jim Dunn, John Landry, and others

THURSDAY, JUNE 29

Panel Session #1

Panel 1A: Echoes of the 1930s

Chair: Richard Brucher

Thomas Lisk, “Ramon Guthrie as a Modernist Renegade�

Elizabeth Losh, “Epigrams from Another Front: Carl Rakosi’s Americana Poems�

John Lowney, “‘A Metamorphic Palimpsest’: the Underground Memory of Thomas McGrath’s Letter to an Imaginary Friend�

Panel 1B: In and Around New York

Chair: Steven Evans

Lytle Shaw, “Airing Pound’s Cubicle: Audience from Citizen to Person�

Christopher Volpe, “The Unbearable Lightness of Being Avant Garde: Pop Art, the New York School, and Contemporary ‘Language’ Poetry�

Panel 1C: A Sense of Place

Chair: Laura Cowan

Jonathan Minton, “‘A Living Current’: Charles Tomlin­son and the Embodiment of Place�

George Hart, “Larry Eigner, Landscape, Place, and Space�

Burton Hatlen, “A Poetic Geography, a Geo­graphic Poetics: Theodore Enslin and the Maine Poetry Scene in the 1960s�

Panel 1D. John Ashbery

Chair: Marjorie Perloff

Matthew Richardson, “Ashbery’s Writings of the 60s: Surrealism and Citation�

Jacques Debrot, “Exact Fantasy: John Ashbery’s The Tennis Court Oath�

Mark Silverberg, “Shades of Ella Wheeler Wilcox: Camp, Cliché, and John Ashbery’s Good Bad Verse�

Panel 1E. Baraka and Others I

Chair: Aldon Nielsen

Richard Quinn, “Pursuing Blackness: Amiri Baraka, Albert Ayler, and John Coltrane�

Chris Funkhouser, “LeRoi Jones, Larry Neal, The Cricket and JIHAD: Jazz and Poets’ Black Fire�

Aldon Nielsen, “Crow Jane Approxi­mately: Bob Dylan, LeRoi Jones and Big Joe Williams�

Poetry Reading #2: Theodore Enslin

Chair: Mark Nowak

Poetry Reading #3: Nathaniel Tarn and Toby Olson

Chair: Mark Nowak

Panel Session #2

Panel 2A. Louis Zukofsky I

Chair: Kenneth Sherwood

Jonathan Ivry, “Articulating Self-Identity in the Translations of Louis Zukofsky�

Jeffrey Twitchell-Waas, “Turning Verses: Zukofsky and Duncan Translating�

Mark McMorris, “Postcolonial ‘A’�

Panel 2B. Dickey, Eckman, Snyder

Chair: Paul Bauschatz

Daniel Turner, “The Savage(d) Ideal: Southern Poetic Primitivism in James Dickey’s ‘May Day Sermon’�

David Adams, “Coming Home: Pivotal Changes in Frederick Eckman’s Poetry�

Luke C. Schlueter, “The Founding of the Domestic in Gary Snyder’s Regarding Wave�

Panel 2C. From Modern to Postmodern: Brooks, Rukeyser, Rexroth

Chair: Shyamal Bagchee

Jenny Goodman, “Gwendolyn Brooks and Muriel Rukeyser in the 1960s: From Modernism to Post­modernism in the Long Poem�

Sophia Tekmitchov, “No More Masks! No More Mythologies!: Muriel Rukeyser as Innovator and Influence�

Samuel Garren, “The Influence of Kenneth Rexroth’s Bird in the Bush and Assays on North American Poetry in the 1960s�

Panel 2D. The Politics of Publication

Chair: Dodie Bellamy

Matthew T. Pifer, “The Underground Press and the Poetry of Resistance in 1960s Detroit�

Nicholas Lawrence, “Mimeo Fever: Sixties Small Press within a Global Context�

Linda Russo, “On Seeing Poetic Production: The Case of Hettie Jones�

Panel 2E. Baraka and Others II

Chair: Aldon Nielsen

Andrew Epstein, “‘Against the Speech of Friends’: Amiri Baraka, Individualism, and the Avant-Garde�

Alicia R. Thompson, “Amiri Baraka’s ‘Am-Tram, Ka ’Ba’�

Jonathan Gill, “History and Habit: Allen Ginsberg and LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka in the 1960s�

Panel 2F. The New York School

Chair: Kevin Killian

Marjorie Welish, “The New York School and Metapoetic Lyric�

K. Silem Mohammad, “‘Unrelentingly? Huh’: New York School Poetics and the Romance of the Inarticulate�

Tony Lopez, “‘Powder on a Little Table’: Berrigan’s Sonnets and 60s Poems�

Panel Session #3

Panel 3A. Johnson, Samperi, Bronk

Chair: Peter O’Leary

Patrick Pritchett, “The Prairie Home Companion, or Location Location Locution: Ronald Johnson and the Liturgy of (Queer) Poetics�

Peter O’Leary, “‘The new man is always the spiritual man’: Frank Samperi’s Poetry of Paradise�

Gary Roberts, “Bronk’s Chaste Collectivity�

Panel 3B. Identities

Chair: Shyamal Bagchee

George Hartley, “Yo Soy Joaquin: Chicano Poetry and Retroactive Identity, 1967�

Donna Hollenberg, “‘Black one, incubus’: Sisterhood and Identity Politics in Levertov’s The Sorrow Dance�

Panel 3C. Allen Ginsberg

Chair: John Landry

Sean McDonnell, “‘The Key is in the Sunlight’: Bodily Distortion and Visionary Madness in Allen Ginsberg’s Kaddish�

Joshua Clover, “Allen Ginsberg and Bob Dylan�

Panel 3D. Roethke, Ammons, Jarrell

Chair: Karen Alkalay-Gut

Karen Mills-Courts, “The Gift of Emptiness: Ammons’ Tape for the Turn of the Year and the Diary Genre of the 1960s�

Von Underwood,  “In a Far Field, In a Dark Time: Theodore Roethke’s Uncanny Timeliness in the Mid-1960sâ€�

David Adams, “Lost & Found: Thirty-five Years with Randall Jarrell’s The Lost World�

Panel 3E. Poetry and the Visual Arts

Chair: Kevin Killian

Catherine E. Paul, “Rituals of Citizenship: Poetic Critique of Museums in the 1960s�

L. A. Phillips, “Modern Visual Art and Some Poems by Frank O’Hara�

Alicia Cohen, “Visual Art and the Art of Poetic Vision: The Visible in the Work of Robert Duncan�

Panel 3F. The East Coast Scene

Chair: Laura Cowan

Anthony Libby, “Diane di Prima, ‘Nothing is Lost; It Shines in Our Eyes’�

Peter Puchek, “Desire and Ideology: Anne Waldman’s Early Poetry�

Kevin McGuirk, “Poetry and ‘Stupidity’: Beats to Language�

Poetry Reading #4: Keith Waldrop

Chair: Steve Evans

Plenary Session #2

Chair: Marjorie Perloff

Frank Davey, “Regressive Poetics of the Sixties�

Barrett Watten, “The Turn to Language after the 1960s�

Poets of the 1960s Generation Reading #2: David Bromige and Frank Davey

Chair: George Bowering

Open Reading #2

Chair: Sylvester Pollet

Keith Tuma, Dodie Bellamy, Kevin Killian, Tony Lopez, Linda Russo, Arielle Greenberg, Tom Lavazzi, Patrick Pritchett, and others