Marianne Moore Centennial Conference

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Program

FRIDAY, JUNE 12

Session One

Chair: Carroll F. Terrell

Introduction of Distinguished Guests

Session Two

Panel One

Chair: Cyrena Pondrom

Bonnie Costello, “Marianne Moore and the American Sublimeâ€
Dale Davis, “The Golden Boy: Scofield Thayerâ€
Rosanne Wasserman, “A Tutelary Muse: Marianne Moore Influence on E.B.â€

Panel Two

Chair: Catherine Ferry-Wilczek

Dona J. Hickey, “Marianne Moore: The Best of Both Worldsâ€
Margaret Holley, “Granite and Steel: The Artist as Anthologistâ€
Peggy Phelan, “Weapons and Scalpels: Marianne Moore’s and H.D.’s Early Workâ€

Session Three

Chair: Burton Hatlen

Kenneth Burke, “Marianne Moore and Meâ€
M.L. Rosenthal, “Me and Marianne Mooreâ€

Session Four

Chair: Bonnie Costello

Patricia Willis, “The Road to Paradise, Part Iâ€

Session Five

Patricia Willis, “The Road to Paradise, Part IIâ€

Session Six

Readings from Marianne Moore’s Poetry

SATURDAY, JUNE 13

Session Seven

Panel One

Chair: Bruce Henderson

Cristanne Miller and Lynn Keller, “The Tooth of Disputation: Marianne Moore’s ‘Marriage’â€
Ann Struthers, “Marianne Moore’s Use of Grace in ‘The Pangolin’â€

Panel Two

Chair: Walter Sutton

Lisa M. Steinman, “Marianne Moore and Josephine Miles: Transfiguring Magnanimityâ€
Carole Doreski, “Women’s Language, Men’s Conflictsâ€
Bonnie Honigsblum, “Marianne Moore’s Revisions of ‘Poetry’â€

Session Eight

Chair: Marie Borroff

Charles Molesworth, “In Earnest of Merits: Marianne Moore’s Early Fictionâ€
John Slatin, “The Town’s Assertiveness: Marianne Moore and New York Cityâ€
Walter Sutton, “Marianne Moore and Sibley Watson: A Parliamentary Affairâ€

Session Nine

Chair: Charles Molesworth

Marie Borroff, “Design in Marianne Moore’s Poetryâ€
Catherine Ferry-Wilczek, “Of Light in Marianne Moore’s Poems, A Symbolic Approachâ€

Session Ten

Panel One

Chair: John Slatin

Elizabeth Gregory, “‘Silence’ and Restraint: Enabling Quotationâ€
Linda Leavell, “Marianne Moore and Georgia O’Keefe: ‘Mother, Woman of Cat’â€
Daniel Guillory, “Marianne Moore and Technologyâ€

Panel Two

Chair: Grace Shulman

Inmaculada Sanz Sainz, “Logic and The Magic Fluteâ€
Louise Collins, “Marianne Moore, Melvil Dewey and Lake Placidâ€
Andrew Kappel, “Marianne Moore Among the Presbyteriansâ€

Session Eleven

Chair: Patricia Willis

Emily Wallace, “Marianne Moore and H.D.: Octopus, Octopus†(slide show)

Session Twelve

Chair: M.L. Rosenthal

Bruce Henderson, Katharine Taylor Loesch, Carol Simpson Stern, “Efforts of Affection: A Performanceâ€

SUNDAY, JUNE 14

Session Thirteen

Panel One

Chair: Lynn Keller

Betsy Erkkila, “Marianne Moore and Elizabeth Bishop: The Dynamics of Female Influenceâ€
Jeanne Heuving, “Gender in Marianne Moore’s Artâ€
Celeste Goodridge, “Marianne Moore: Rapping with Louise Boganâ€
Jeffrey Peterson, “‘Poetry’: The Ingenuity of ‘Place’â€

Panel Two

Chair: Daniel Guillory

Ruth Carrington, “Marianne Moore’s Metaphysical Giraffeâ€
Gyorgyi Voros, “Marianne Moore and Wallace Stevens: Moral and Metaphysical Landscapesâ€
Rosalee Sprout, “Marianne Moore and Her Male Mentorsâ€
Sister Bernetta Quinn, “The Artist as Armored Animal: Marianne Moore, Randall Jarrellâ€

Session Fourteen

Chair: Kenneth Burke

Cyrena Pondrom, “Marianne Moore and the Female Communityâ€
Grace Schulman, “Marianne Moore and the American Renaissanceâ€

Session Fifteen

Chair: Emily Wallace

Lois Bar-yaacov, “Marianne Moore and Ezra Pound: The Odd Coupleâ€
Dorothea Steiner, “Marianne Moore and All Those Anthologistsâ€

Session Sixteen

Chair: Robert Willis

“Marianne Moore, the Society, and the Future: A Dialogue with the Audienceâ€

Panel: Kenneth Burke, Charles Molesworth, M.L. Rosenthal, Grace Schulman, Emily Wallace, Patricia Willis