Wallace Stevens is regarded as one of the great American poets, yet he was also an inimitable letter writer. Leading international experts make the first concerted effort to study Stevens' letters as a major part of the poet's literary heritage. Rothenberg Hall
Registration for this 2-day conference is $25, with an optional buffet lunch each day for $20.
Conference registration is $10 for current Huntington docents, and free for current Long-Term Fellows and students with a current Student I.D. Please bring your current I.D. to event day check-in. Students, please note school affiliation after your name when registering.
Conference Schedule
FRIDAY, SEPT. 20
9 a.m. - Registration & Coffee
9:30 a.m. - Welcome: Steve Hindle (The Huntington)
Remarks: Bart Eeckhout (University of Antwerp) Lisa Goldfarb (Gallatin School, New York University)
Karla Nielsen (The Huntington) The Wallace Stevens Papers
10 a.m. - Session 1: Forms of Personal Exchange Moderator: Bonnie Costello (Boston University)
Juliette Utard (University of Paris IV - Sorbonne) Epistolary Stevens: Transitions and Transactions in the Letters
Al Filreis (University of Pennsylvania) The Other Side of Letters
12 p.m. - Lunch and viewing of the Wallace Stevens Papers
1:30 p.m. - Session 2: Publishers and Mass Culture
Moderator: George S. Lensing (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
Edward Ragg (Independent Scholar) Stevens and the Publishers: What the Huntington Correspondence Reveals
Lisa M. Steinman (Reed College) Selling Lemonade to a Crowd of Drunks
3:30 p.m. - Break
3:45 p.m. - Session 3: Particular Occasions and People
Moderator: Marjorie Perloff (Stanford University)
Milton J. Bates (Marquette University) A Paternal Interest in Bears: The Stevens Family Christmas of 1935
Lee M. Jenkins (University College Cork) The Best of All My Correspondents: Stevens and Thomas McGreevy
SATURDAY, SEPT. 21
8:30 a.m. - Registration & Coffee
9 a.m. - Session 4: Constructing Places, Realities, Worlds Moderator: Lisa M. Steinman (Reed College)
George S. Lensing (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) Stevens's Correspondence: How the World Found the Poem
Bonnie Costello (Boston University) Life Is an Affair of Places
Charles Altieri (University of California, Berkeley) Changing Notions of the Real in Stevens's Letters
12 p.m. - Lunch
1 p.m. - Session 5: Reflections on Sound and Rhythm
Moderator: Milton J. Bates (Marquette University)
Lisa Goldfarb (Gallatin School, New York University) Reading and Listening to Stevens's Letters: The Delicatest Ear of the Mind
Natalie Gerber (State University of New York at Fredonia) Aesthetics, Poetry, Art, or Blondes: Why Stevens's Letters Don't Theorize Rhythm
3 p.m. - Break
3:15 p.m. - Session 6: Elliptical Definitions of Poetry Moderator: Al Filreis (University of Pennsylvania)
Marjorie Perloff (Stanford University) The Formulation of Stevens's Poetics in the Late Letters
Bart Eeckhout (University of Antwerp) Somebody Puts a Manifesto Together: The Submerged Adagia
Location
Rothenberg Hall, The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens (View)
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
United States
