William Carlos Williams Centennial Conference
Progress
TUESDAY, AUGUST 23
Panel
Chair: Diane Wakosi
Linda Wagner, “The Genesis of Many Loves”
Theodora Graham, “A Dream of Love”
Thomas Kilroy, “Brecht, Becket and Williams”
C.F. Terrell, “Expressionism and Many Loves”
Many Loves
Produced by the National Poetry Foundation
Directed by John Ballou
Performed by Members of the Bangor Civic Theatre
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 24
Panel
Chair: Paul Mariani
Douglas Messerli, “A World Detached, Early Criticism”
Paul Chistensen, “WCW, Prelude to Post Modernism”
Dove Sta Memora
Chair: Hugh Kenner
Kenneth Burke, “WCW Dove Sta Memora, I”
M.L. Rosenthal, “WCW Dove Sta Memora, II”
Panel
Chair: John Dollar
Edith Heal Berrien, “Memory is a Sort of Renewal”
Dr. Paul Williams, “Bringing Up Father, I”
Dr. William E. Williams, “Bringing Up Father, II”
Panel
Chair: Mitchell Goodman
Robert Creeley, “The Poet’s Poet, I”
Allen Ginsberg, “The Poet’s Poet, II”
Diane Wakoski, “The Poet’s Poet, III”
THURSDAY, AUGUST 25
Panel
Chair: Burton Hatlen
Hugh Witemeyer and E.P. Walkiewicz, “Desert Music: WCW in the Great Southwest”
Panel
Chair: M.L. Rosenthal
James Breslin, “WCW’s Presence in Contemporary Poetry”
Paul Mariani, “The Hard Core of Beauty”
Panel
Chair: Diane Wakoski
Philip Booth, “WCW: An Open Thanksgiving”
Mitchell Goodman, “Those Were the Days”
Ralph Gustafson, “Meeting the Great Man”
Pat Willis, “WCW, Marianne Moore and The Dial”
Slide Presentation
Chair: Theodora Graham
Emily Wallace, “WCW and Painting”
Panel
Chair: C.F. Terrell
Stephen King, “Scenes from Paterson”
Hugh Kenner, “The Rhythm of Ideas…”
FRIDAY, AUGUST 26
Panel
Chair: Pat Willis
Eleanor Berry, “The Williams-Oppen Connection”
Kerry Driscoll, “The Mythos Mother”
Marilyn Kallet, “Asphodel: That Greeny Flower”
Panel
Chair: John Dollar
Roy Miki, “Driving and Writing”
Rod Townley, “The Early Collected Poems”
Dr. Richard Zbornik, “On Stealing Paterson I”
