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