POUND, ID.: A CONVERGENCE

If you are in Boise, Idaho later this week, please join us for the following festivities surrounding the poetry of Ezra Pound:

Wednesday April 9th

7:00 pm

Marjorie Perloff will open the conference with her paper “Recharging the Ideogram: Poundian Reverberations in Brazilian Concrete Poetry”

Thursday April 10th

10:00 am - 10:55 am

Discussion group for Marjorie's paper

11:00 am – 12:30 am

Yunte Huang, “Pound, Made In China”

3:00 pm – 4:30 pm

Vaclav Paris, “Pound and Disability”

7:00 pm

Ronald Bush, “How Great Poems Survive the Accident of Their Creation: Writing Canto 81”

Friday April 11th

7:00 pm

Bob Perelman, “’Lie Quiet Ezra’: Pound’s Timelines”

Saturday April 12th

11:00 am – 12:30/1:00 pm

Discussion group for the series of papers

3:00 pm – 4:30 pm

Jennifer Scappettone will end the paper series with “Strategic Passeism: The Invention of a Modernist in the City of Aldus”.

7:00 pm - ?

Poetry reading by Bob Perelman, Jennifer Scappettone, and Valerie Mejer