Plenary Lecture/Reading:
Michael Palmer, Film Screening: Robert McTavish’s The Line Has Shattered
(Vancouver’s Landmark 1963 Poetry Conference)
This year marks the
fiftieth anniversary of one of the most seminal events in modern American
poetry, the Vancouver Poetry Conference 1963. Following the publication of
Donald Allen’s prescient The New American Poetry in 1960, Warren Tallman and
Robert Creeley gathered together a number of the New American poets (including
Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, and Allen Ginsberg) in Vancouver for three weeks
of poetry readings, public lectures, workshops and roundtable discussions on
contemporary experimental poetics. To coincide with UEA’s own fiftieth
anniversary, the School of American Studies will be hosting a one day
conference to reassesses the continuing legacies of the Vancouver Poetry
Conference and its participants. Please see attached flyer for suggested
topics.
Please send
abstracts of no more than 300 words to davidmccarthy.uea@gmail.com by Saturday 31st August 2013.
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