The New England Poetry Conference

Fourth Annual New England Poetry Conference
Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Founded in 2005, the New England Poetry Conference features poetry readings and public discussions about poetry. The 2008 conference will take place on Wednesday, Feb. 27, in O’Leary Library, Room 222, 61 Wilder St., located on the South Campus of UMass Lowell. This year's conference includes discussions of Robert Frost's visual influences in the 1930s as well as paper presentations on the poetics of Denise Levertov, George Oppen, Diane Di Prima, Kenneth Koch, and other post-War poets. The conference will also feature readings by New-England area writers and by contributors to the recently published anthology French Connections: A Gathering of Franco-American Poets. 

Please join us for panels on timely topics that will spark debate among panelists and with the audience. No registration is necessary, and all conference events are free and open to the public. Free parking is available in the Riverview student parking lot on Broadway and in the visitors’ lot on Wilder St.

The NEPC is sponsored by the Jack and Stella Kerouac Center for American Studies with kind assistance from the Robert Frost Foundation, the UML English Department, the Department of Cultural Studies, the Provost's Office, and the Dean of Fine Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences.