The Center for Poetry and Poetics

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”