2013 Conference Schedule

All events and times are subject to change.

Tuesday, June 4

6:00-9:00 pm
Welcome dinner at Faunbrook Bed & Breakfast

Wednesday, June 5

8:15-9:30 am | Panel 1: The Prosodist Is In
Tom Cable (Chair)
Natalie Gerber
Charles Hartman
David Rothman
Timothy Steele

10:00-11:30 am | Panel 2: Hot Sonnets
Moira Egan (Co-chair)
Clarinda Harriss (Co-chair)
Michael Cantor
Julie Kane
Quincy Lehr
Amy Lemmon
Laura Maffei
Marilyn Taylor
Lewis Turco
Kathrine Varnes
Terri Witek

10:00-11:30 am | One-Day Workshop
Performance Part 1 with David Yezzi

11:45 am-12:45 pm | Lunch

1:00-2:30 pm | Panel 3: Robert Hayden Centenary Panel
Herman Beavers
Adrian Matejka
Marilyn Nelson
Spring Ulmer

2:45-4:00 pm | Panel 4: First Books Panel
Len Krisak (Chair)
Barbara Lydecker Crane
Nausheen Eusuf
Frank Osen
James Pollock

2:45-4:00 pm | One-Day Workshop
Performance Part 2 with David Yezzi

4:15-5:30 pm | Panel 5: Iris N. Spencer Awards
Poetry Out Loud, First Place Winner, Pennsylvania: DJ Gress
Donald Justice Poetry Prize winner: Anne-Marie Thompson, Audiation
Iris N. Spencer Award Winner: Stephen Rodriguez, Ohio State University
Iris N. Spencer Award Runner-up: Laura Grothaus
Myong Cha Son Haiku Award Winner: Kasey Erin Phifer, Eastern University
Myong Cha Son Haiku Award Runner-up: Therese O'Shaughnessy, Millikin University

5:30-6:15 pm | Reception

6:15-8:30 pm | Banquet

8:45-9:30 pm | Keynote Reading: Julia Alvarez
Introduction, Dana Gioia

Thursday, June 6

8:15-9:30 am | Panel 6: Three Readers: Mezzo Cammin
Kim Bridgford (Chair)
Erica Dawson
Jehanne Dubrow
Carrie Jerrell

10:00-11:30 am | Panel 7: Town Meeting
Julia Alvarez
Dana Gioia, interviewer

11:45 am-12:45 pm | Lunch

1:00-3:00 pm | Workshops/Seminars

3:15-4:30 pm | Panel 8: Robert Frost 50^th Anniversary Panel
Dolores Hayden (Chair)
Michael Manson
Donald Sheehy
Timothy Steele

4:30-5:45 pm | Panel 9: Daniel Hoffman Tribute
David Mason (Chair)
Dana Gioia
X. J. Kennedy
Marilyn Nelson
Jill Allyn Rosser

5:45-6:45 pm | Reception

7:00-8:00 pm | Dinner

8:15-9:30 pm
Faculty Readings
Dick Davis
Annie Finch
Dana Gioia
Allison Joseph
Terri Witek
David Yezzi

Friday, June 7

8:15-9:30 am | Panel 10: The Metrical Code
Annie Finch (Chair)
Joshua Davis on Muriel Rukeyser
David Katz on Robert Duncan
Michael Manson on Sterling Brown
Joyce Wilson on Adrienne Rich

10:00-11:30 am | Panel 11: The Contemporary Narrative Poem
Steven Schneider (Chair)
Gregory Dowling
April Lindner
Robert B. Shaw

10:00-11:30 am | Panel 12: A Poet’s Field Guide to the English Language
Natalie Gerber

11:45 am-12:45 pm | Lunch

1:00-3:00 pm | Workshops/Seminars

3:15-4:30 pm | Panel 13: Poetry and Religion
Angela O’Donnell (Chair)
Kim Bridgford
Kevin John Hart
Daniel Tobin

3:05-4:30 pm | Participant Reading
First Book Feature: George Green, introduced by David Yezzi

5:00-6:45 pm
Artistic Collaboration
Art Trust, 16 W. Market Street, West Chester
Terri Witek and Cyriaco Lopes
Kim Bridgford and Jo Yarrington
David Yezzi and Tom Goldenberg
Spring Ulmer and Brett Walker
Meredith Bergmann and Michael Bergmann
Deborah Arnold and Aliza Holmes

7:00-8:00 pm | Dinner

8:15-9:30 pm
Faculty Readings
Presentation of Story Line Press Monographs, Kim Bridgford, Executive Director
Rhina P. Espaillat by Leslie Monsour
David Mason by Gregory Dowling
Kim Bridgford
Julie Kane
William Logan
David Mason
A. E. Stallings
Timothy Steele

Saturday, June 8

8:15-9:30 am | Panel 14: Critical Seminar Report Outs
Gregory Dowling
Jan Schreiber (Free Verse Seminar)
Anna Evans
Cherise Pollard

10:00-11:30 am | Panel 15: Light Verse
Melissa Balmain (Chair)
Bruce Bennett
X. J. Kennedy
Gail White

10:00-11:45 am | One-Day Workshop
A Metaphysical Poetry Studio and Seminar: George Herbert and John Donne and the New 21^st-Century Metaphysical Poem with Molly Peacock

11:45 am-12:45 pm | Lunch

1:00-3:00 pm | Workshops/Seminars

3:15-4:30 pm | Panel 16: Invented Forms
Leslie Monsour (Chair)
Melissa Balmain
Allison Joseph
Lewis Turco

3:05-4:30 pm | Participant Readings
First Book Feature: Eileen Kinch, introduced by Angela O’Donnell

4:30-5:45 pm | Panel 17: Libretti
David Rothman (Chair)
Ernest Hilbert
Kate Light
David Mason
David Yezzi

5:30-6:15 pm | Faculty Book Signing

6:00-7:45 pm | Social hour and picnic

8:00-10:00 pm | Concert: Vanessa Rubin and Cyrus Chestnut

10:30 pm | Reception, Sheraton Great Valley