Marianne Moore Centennial Conference
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 Sublime”
Dale Davis, “The Golden Boy: Scofield Thayer”
Rosanne Wasserman, “A Tutelary Muse: Marianne Moore Influence on E.B.”
Panel Two
Chair: Catherine Ferry-Wilczek
Dona J. Hickey, “Marianne Moore: The Best of Both Worlds”
Margaret Holley, “Granite and Steel: The Artist as Anthologist”
Peggy Phelan, “Weapons and Scalpels: Marianne Moore’s and H.D.’s Early Work”
Session Three
Chair: Burton Hatlen
Kenneth Burke, “Marianne Moore and Me”
M.L. Rosenthal, “Me and Marianne Moore”
Session Four
Chair: Bonnie Costello
Patricia Willis, “The Road to Paradise, Part I”
Session Five
Patricia Willis, “The Road to Paradise, Part II”
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’”
Ann Struthers, “Marianne Moore’s Use of Grace in ‘The Pangolin’”
Panel Two
Chair: Walter Sutton
Lisa M. Steinman, “Marianne Moore and Josephine Miles: Transfiguring Magnanimity”
Carole Doreski, “Women’s Language, Men’s Conflicts”
Bonnie Honigsblum, “Marianne Moore’s Revisions of ‘Poetry’”
Session Eight
Chair: Marie Borroff
Charles Molesworth, “In Earnest of Merits: Marianne Moore’s Early Fiction”
John Slatin, “The Town’s Assertiveness: Marianne Moore and New York City”
Walter Sutton, “Marianne Moore and Sibley Watson: A Parliamentary Affair”
Session Nine
Chair: Charles Molesworth
Marie Borroff, “Design in Marianne Moore’s Poetry”
Catherine Ferry-Wilczek, “Of Light in Marianne Moore’s Poems, A Symbolic Approach”
Session Ten
Panel One
Chair: John Slatin
Elizabeth Gregory, “‘Silence’ and Restraint: Enabling Quotation”
Linda Leavell, “Marianne Moore and Georgia O’Keefe: ‘Mother, Woman of Cat’”
Daniel Guillory, “Marianne Moore and Technology”
Panel Two
Chair: Grace Shulman
Inmaculada Sanz Sainz, “Logic and The Magic Flute”
Louise Collins, “Marianne Moore, Melvil Dewey and Lake Placid”
Andrew Kappel, “Marianne Moore Among the Presbyterians”
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 Performance”
SUNDAY, JUNE 14
Session Thirteen
Panel One
Chair: Lynn Keller
Betsy Erkkila, “Marianne Moore and Elizabeth Bishop: The Dynamics of Female Influence”
Jeanne Heuving, “Gender in Marianne Moore’s Art”
Celeste Goodridge, “Marianne Moore: Rapping with Louise Bogan”
Jeffrey Peterson, “‘Poetry’: The Ingenuity of ‘Place’”
Panel Two
Chair: Daniel Guillory
Ruth Carrington, “Marianne Moore’s Metaphysical Giraffe”
Gyorgyi Voros, “Marianne Moore and Wallace Stevens: Moral and Metaphysical Landscapes”
Rosalee Sprout, “Marianne Moore and Her Male Mentors”
Sister Bernetta Quinn, “The Artist as Armored Animal: Marianne Moore, Randall Jarrell”
Session Fourteen
Chair: Kenneth Burke
Cyrena Pondrom, “Marianne Moore and the Female Community”
Grace Schulman, “Marianne Moore and the American Renaissance”
Session Fifteen
Chair: Emily Wallace
Lois Bar-yaacov, “Marianne Moore and Ezra Pound: The Odd Couple”
Dorothea Steiner, “Marianne Moore and All Those Anthologists”
Session Sixteen
Chair: Robert Willis
“Marianne Moore, the Society, and the Future: A Dialogue with the Audience”
Panel: Kenneth Burke, Charles Molesworth, M.L. Rosenthal, Grace Schulman, Emily Wallace, Patricia Willis