H.D. Centennial Conference
Program
THURSDAY, JUNE 5
Session One
Chair: Carroll F. Terrell
Introduction of Distinguished Guests
Session Two
Panel One
Chair: Cyrena Pondrom
Joseph Milicia, “H.D.’s Athenians: Son and Mother in Hedylus“
Dale Davis, “Heliodra’s Greece”
Eileen Gregory, “Scarlet Experience: H.D.’s Hymen“
Panel Two
Chair: Janice Robinson
Mary K. DeShazer, “Why Must I Write: H.D.’s Female Muse”
Diana Collecott, “Images at the Crossroad: The H.D. Scrap Book”
Carl Esbjornson, “H.D.’s Process, Perception and Permanence: The Awareness Behind H.D.’s Poetry”
Session Three
Chair: Michael King
Anne Friedberg, “From Imagiste to Cineaste to Analysand: The Cinema as Palimpsest”
John Walsh, “’Parse the Sun in Heaven’: H.D.’s Two Greek Dramas”
Janice Robinson, “Beginning with Imagism”
Session Four
Chair: Hugh Kenner
Diane di Prima, “The Magic Words”
Kathy Slack and Janet Wilks (Concert reading of H.D.’s poetry)
Emily Wallace, “Ten Years of Beauty…and the Gods Can Envy” (Double-screen slide show)
FRIDAY, JUNE 6
Session Five
Chair: Louis Martz
Burton Hatlen, “Recovering the Human Equation: H.D.’s ‘Hermetic Definition'”
Michael King, “H.D. and Her Reputation”
Deborah K. Kloepfer, “Fishing the Murex Up: Sense and Resonance in H.D.’s Palimpsest”
Session Six
Chair: Susan S. Friedman
M.L. Rosenthal, “H.D. Among the Poets”
Cyrena Pondrom, “Trilogy and Four Quartets: Contrapuntal Visions of Spiritual Quest”
Walter Sutton, “Trilogy and The Pisan Cantos”
Session Seven
Chair: Alicia Ostriker
Albert Gelpi, “Hermetic Definition”
Jeanne Kerblat-Houghton, “Symmetry and the Patter of Repetition in H.D.’s Verse”
Rachel Blau DuPlessis, “Gender-Inflected Greek”
Session Eight
Chair: Rachel Blau DuPlessis
Susan S. Friedman, “’Modernsim of the Scattered Remnant’: Race and Politics in H.D.’s Development”
Louis Martz, “H.D.: Masks of the Prophet”
Hugh Kenner, “E.P.’s Dryad”
Session Nine
ION, translated by H.D.
Pavilion Theatre
SATURDAY, JUNE 7
Session Ten
Chair: Albert Gelpi
Charlotte Mandel, “Timelessness Made Visible: H.D.’s Magical Lenses”
Alicia Ostriker, “’No Rule of Procedure’: The Open Poetics of H.D.”
Adalaide Morris, “’Einstein was Right’: H.D.’s Astronomical Observations”
Session Eleven
Chair: Carroll F. Terrell
Question and Answer Panel: Robert Creeley, Diane di Prima, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Susan F. Friedman, Albert Gelpi, Allen Ginsberg, Hugh Kenner, Louis Martz, Adalaide Morris, Alicia Ostriker, Janice Robinson, Perdita Schaffner
