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