Poetry and Poetics Conferences
The Center (under our previous name the National Poetry Foundation) has been host to many summer conferences on poetry and poetics. As with Paideuma, the original focus of these gatherings was Ezra Pound, but this quickly broadened to include Pound’s contemporaries. Starting in 1993, conferences shifted from focusing on a single figure (or two) to examining an entire decade of twentieth-century poetry.
Our conferences have always included both poets and scholars of poetry, academic panels and keynotes as well as poetry readings and performances.
Conferences to Date
1975 |Symposium on Ezra Pound’s 90th Birthyear
1980 | The Sixth International Pound Conference
1983 |William Carlos Williams Centennial Conference
1985 | Ezra Pound Centennial Conference
1986 |H.D. Centennial Conference
1987 |Marianne Moore Centennial Conference
1988 | T.S. Eliot Centennial Conference
1990 | W. B. Yeats-Ezra Pound Celebration Conference
1993 | The First Postmodernists: American Poets of the 1930s Generation
1996 | American Poetry in the 1950s
2000 | The Opening of the Field: A Conference on North American Poetry in the 1960s
2004 | Poetries of the 1940s: American and International
2008 | The Poetry of the 1970s