WALLACE STEVENS, NEW YORK, AND

MODERNISM

In Honor of John N. Serio

Schedule of Events

All events are free and open to the public.

Please register (see bottom of the Web-posted schedule)

http://www.nyu.edu/gallatin/news/2009/11/stevens.html

Thursday, March 4

5:30 – 8:30 p.m.: Plenary Opening and Reception

Milton Bates, Marquette University, “Stevens and Modernist Narrative”

Friday, March 5

Session I, 10:30 a.m.: Stevens and New York

Lisa Goldfarb, Gallatin School of NYU, Chair

George Lensing, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, “Wallace Stevens,

New York, and the ‘June Books’ ”

Joan Richardson, Graduate Center, City University of New York, “Wallace

Stevens’ New York as New Atlantis”

Edward Ragg, Tsinghua University, “Bourgeois Abstraction: Poetry, Painting,

Gastronomy, and the Allure of New York in Late Stevens”

12:30 – 2:00 p.m.: Break

Session II, 2:00 p.m.: Poetic Configurations and the Temper of the Times

Lytle Shaw, New York University, Chair

Alan Filreis, University of Pennsylvania, “Wallace Stevens and the

New York School”

Natalie Gerber, State University of New York at Fredonia, “Of Firecats and

Swans: A Word on Stevens’ Mixed-Breed Versifying”

Angus Cleghorn, Seneca College and Trent University, “Stevens’ Translated

‘Moment of Light’ from 1918: Refracting the Poet’s Role”

4:00 – 5:30 p.m.:  Organizational Meeting of the New Wallace Stevens Society

5:30 p.m. – Introduction to Poetry Readings: Alice Quinn, Poetry Society of America

Panel of Poets Reading: Emily Fragos, Gallatin School of NYU, Chair

Eamon Grennan

Maureen McLane

Tracy K. Smith

Mark Strand

7:00 p.m.: Reception sponsored by Knopf/Random House

Saturday, March 6

Session I, 10:30 a.m.: Stevens and Spatial and Pictorial Conversations

Stacy Pies, Gallatin School of NYU, Chair

Bonnie Costello, Boston University, “ ‘My head full of strange pictures’:

Stevens in the New York Galleries”

Barbara Fisher, Professor Emeritus, City College (CUNY), “Stevens Dancing:

‘Something light, winged, sacred’ ”

Bart Eeckhout, University of Antwerp, “The Invisible Skyscraper: Stevens

and Architecture”

12:30 – 2:00 p.m.: Break

Session II, 2:00 p.m.: Stevens, James, and the Experience of New York

Bart Eeckhout, University of Antwerp, Chair

Juliette Utard, University of Paris IV, Sorbonne, “ ‘Unless New York Is Cocos’:

Stevens, New York, and the Discourse of Disappointment”

Glen MacLeod, University of Connecticut, “Wallace Stevens and Henry James:

The New York Connection”

Axel Nesme, University of Lyon II, “On Stevensian Transitoriness”

4:00 – 4:30 p.m.: Break

4:30 p.m. – Introduction to Poetry Readings: Robert N. Casper, Poetry Society of

America

Panel of Poets Reading: Scott Hightower, Gallatin School of NYU, Chair

Matthea Harvey

Edward Hirsch

Matthew Rohrer

Elizabeth Willis

For more information,contact
Lisa Goldfarb

lisa.goldfarb@nyu.edu

or
Nicole DeRise

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Announcing

The Wallace Stevens Society
2010 Membership Drive

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Join the Wallace Stevens Society as a new member and receive free the

CD of the first 25 years of The Wallace Stevens Journal.

The CD is text-searchable and contains all the issues of the journal from 1977 through 2001 as well as the rarely seen Wallace Stevens Newsletter (1969-1971) and a history of the Wallace Stevens Society.

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Call for Papers

MLA

The 126th MLA Annual Convention will be held in

Los Angeles from January 6–9, 2011

Wallace Stevens Society

General Topic:

Any Aspect of Wallace Stevens' Poetry

Send abstracts or 20-minute papers Elisabeth Oliver by March 15, 2010

elisabeth.oliver@mcgill.ca