Ezra Pound Centennial Conference
Program
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19
English Panel One
Chair: Hans Zimmermann
Walter Baumann, “EP’s Reception in the German-speaking World”
Marianne Korn, “EP: The Dance of Words”
Martin Kayman, “EP: The Color of His Money”
English Panel Two
Chair: Walter Baumann
David Moody, “What Constitutes a Canto”
Lionel Kelly, “GK: The Book as Ball of Light”
Ian Bell, “Pound, Mauberley and James”
Poets Panel One
Chair: Donald Davie
Robert Creeley, William Corbett, Don Hall
Poets Panel Two
Chair: James Laughlin
Allen Ginsberg, Desmond Egan, Eric Mottram
THURSDAY, JUNE 20
Session One
Chair: Akiko Miyake
David Gordon, “The Buddhist-Neoconfucian Concept of Mind”
John Nolde, “EP and the Ta Hio: The Making of a Confucian”
Session Two
Chair: Burton Hatlen
Kathryne Lindberg, “Tradition and Heresy: EP and T.S. Eliot”
Walter Sutton, “Coherence in The Cantos and William James’s Pluralistic University”
James Longenbach, “Pound and Yeats at Stone Cottage”
Panel
Chair: C.F. Terrell
Mary de Rachewiltz, “Remembering Pound the Poet”
Hugh Kenner, “Pound’s Second Century”
Panel
Chair: Sanehide Kodama
Hiroshi Izubuchi, “Aesthetics of the Moment in Short Poems”
Akiko Miyake, “Noh and The Cantos”
Sachiko Yoshida, “Pound, Yeats, and Noh”
Toward a New Biography
Chair: David Gordon
Jerome Kavka, “The St. E’s Years”
James Wilhelm, “EP’s Four Grandparents”
Blossoms From the East
A concert-staged opera by Sally Lutyens
Ludlow Hallman, Music Director
FRIDAY, JUNE 21
Session One
Chair: Desmond Egan
Wendy Flory, “EP and Economics”
Father G. Rice, “EP and Del Mar’s Monetary Systems”
Richard Sawyer, “Monetary Literacy in The Cantos”
Session Two
Chair: Marjorie Perloff
Pat Willis, “Avec Ardeur: EP and Marianne Moore”
Celeste Goodridge, “MM Looks at Ezra Pound”
Burton Hatlen, “Pound and His Heirs”
Panel
Chair: Hugh Kenner
Donald David, “Poundians Now”
M.L. Rosenthal, “Discovering EP”
Panel
Chair: M.L. Rosenthal
Philippe Mikriammos, “The Paris Years”
James Laughlin, “EP: The Lighter Side”
Panel
Chair: Mary de Rachewiltz
Ronald Bush, “Rereading EP”
Marjorie Perloff, “EP and the Prose Tradition in Verse”
Hugh Witemeyer, “David Hsin-fu Wand”
The Women of Trachis
Tr. by Ezra Pound
Special score written by Don Stratton
Produced by The Maine Masque
Directed by Al Cyrus
SATURDAY, JUNE 22
Session One
Chair: Wendy Flory
Richard Taylor, “The Variant Readings of The Cantos”
Mohammad Shaheen, “Islamic (Arabic) Sources in Pound”
Session Two
Chair: Pat Willis
Tim Redman, “EP’s Library”
Kay Davis, “Three Techniques Made New”
Terri Joseph, “Recent Critics of EP”
Panel
Chair: C.F. Terrell
Robert Creeley, Donald Davie, Allen Ginsberg, Hugh Kenner, James Laughlin, Marjorie Perloff, Mary de Rachewiltz, M.L. Rosenthal, Olga Rudge, Walter Sutton
