Schedule of Events

UMass Lowell's Kerouac Center for American Studies presents:

The Fourth Annual New England Poetry Conference

When: Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Where: O'Leary Library 222 (auditorium), UML South, 61 Wilder St., Lowell, MA 01854

All events are free and open to the public.
No registration necessary. Free parking is available.

Noon to 1:30 p.m. - Panel 1

Lasting Legacies: William Wolcott's Paintings, the Lawrence-Derry Perspective, and Robert Frost's Early Lyrics

Chair: Marie Frank, Cultural Studies, UML

"Lasting Legacies: The Walcott Pictures and Frost's Early Lyrics"
Mark Schorr, The Robert Frost Foundation

Rebecca Bilbo, Art History, Thomas More College

Richard Holmes, Derry Museum of History

Please Note: Paper Titles TBA

1:30 to 2 p.m. - Light Refreshments

2 to 3:30 p.m. - Panel 2

The Politics of Post-War Poetics

Chair: Tony Szczesiul, English, UML

"Fun City:Kenneth Koch among Schoolchildren"
Timothy Gray, English, College of Staten Island, CUNY

"Di Prima's Hipsters: Avant-Garde Poetry as Subcultural Practice"
Ben Lee, English, University of Tennessee

"'Radical Means, Rather Than Radical Thinking': Oppen, Levertov, and the Gender of 'Judgement'"
Libbie Rifkin, English, Georgetown University
 

3:30 to 4 p.m. - Light Refreshments 

4 to 5:15 p.m. - Panel 3

Student, Faculty, and Community Reading

             Chair: Gigi Thibodeau, English, UML

             Readers: Mike Gormley
                          Eric Hultgren
                          Stephan Anstey
                          Ed Marshal
                          Anne Murphy
                          and others
                         

7 p.m. - Panel 4

French Connections: A Gathering of Franco-American Poets

A poetry reading by contributors to the recently published anthology French Connections.

Moderator: Carole Salmon, Cultural Studies, UML

Readers:

Chard de Niord
Christine Gelineau
Paul Marion
Beverly Matherne
Kevin Meaux
Chad Parenteau
Jean-Paul Pecqueur
David R. Surette  

The Kerouac Center would like to thank the UML English Department, The Robert Frost Foundation, the Department of Cultural Studies and the Dean of Arts and Sciences for their generous support of this conference.

Please direct all questions to the conference director: Michael Millner, English and American Studies, UML, michael_millner@uml.edu. 

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