Schedule of Workshops and Panels 2017 West Chester University Poetry Conference Wednesday, June 7 Paintings by Rick Mullin Wednesday-Saturday 8:00 a.m.-9:30 p.m. Knauer Gallery Swope Music Building 8:00-9:45 am Panel 1: Film and Coffee Stevie, starring Glenda Jackson, Trevor Howard, and Mona Washbourne Ware Recital Hall 10:00-11:30 am Panel 2: First Books Chairs: Wendy Sloan and Quincy Lehr Austin Allen Kevin Cutrer Charlotte Innes Annie Kim Dawn Manning 11:45 am-12:45 pm 1:00-2:30 pm Panel 3: Great Debates II: A Women's Poetry or a Woman's Poetry? Chair: Sam Gwynn Annie Finch Emily Grosholz Panel of Distinguished Mystery Judges 2:45-4:00 pm Panel 4: Molly Peacock, an Appreciation Chair: Annie Finch Rebecca Foust Julie Kane Moira Egan Molly Peacock 3-4:30 pm Critical Seminar: Poetic Translation
Swope Music Building Room TBA 4:15-5:30 pm Panel 5: Awards Readings Iris N. Spencer Award Myong Cha Son Haiku Award Rhina P. Espaillat Award Wil Mills Fellowship, Deborah Diemont Donald Justice Prize, Ryan Wilson, The Stranger World 5:45-6:15 pm West Chester Foundation Building 6:15-7:45 pm Banquet Poet Emeritus: X. J. Kennedy Poet Laureate: Molly Peacock West Chester Foundation Building 8:00-9:00 pm Keynote Reading: A. E. Stallings Introduction, Sam Gwynn Adler Theatre 10:00 pm-midnight After-hours at the Poetry House Hosts: Ned Balbo and Jane Satterfield Thursday, June 8 8:15-9:45 am Panel 6: What to Say? Editors, Friends, Poets, Beginners Chair: Quincy Lehr Melissa Balmain 10:00-11:30 am Panel 7: The Great American Songbook I Chair: Al Basile David Katz Sam Gwynn Jennifer Melek Ozgur
10-11:45 am One-day Workshop Robert Archambeau, The Non-metrical Line 11:45 am-12:45 pm 1:00-3:00 pm Workshops and Critical Seminars Panel 8: Stress Marks, the Accentual Line Chair: Susan de Sola George Green Julie Kane Marilyn Taylor John Whitworth Open Readings and Breaking the Ice Poetry House Host: Anna Yin 4:30-5:45 pm Panel 9: Realms of the Mothers: The First Decade of Dos Madres Press Chair: Rick Mullin Deborah Diemont Kevin Cutrer David Katz Robert Murphy 5:45-6:45 pm 7:00-8:00 pm Dinner 8:15-9:30 pm Faculty Readings Robert Archambeau Shirley Geok-lin Lim Mark Jarman Melissa Balmain Moira Egan Leon Stokesbury
10:00 pm-midnight After-hours at the Poetry House Hosts: Ned Balbo and Jane Satterfield Friday, June 9 8:15-9:45 am Panel 10: [W]Riting and WRevising Amy Lemmon, Chair Walter Ancarrow Justine El-Khazen Catherine Staples 10:00-11:30 am Panel 11: The Gwendolyn Brooks Centennial Chair: Alexander Long Cornelius Eady Lester Lennon Leslie Monsour Celeste Doaks 10:00-11:45 One-Day Workshop Hailey Leithauser, (In)formal Inventions 11:45-12:45 1:00-3:00 pm Workshops and Seminars Panel 12: The Other Cities I: Baltimore Chairs: Ned Balbo and Moira Egan Celeste Doaks Jane Satterfield Greg Williamson Joseph Harrison (?) Open Readings and Mysterious Links Poetry House Host: Anna Yin 4:30-5:45
Panel 13: Bob Dylan, Yea or Nay? Chair: Luke Stromberg Leslie Monsour Quincy Lehr Jane Satterfield George Green James M. Wilson, Critic-in-Residence 5:45-6:45 7:00-8:00 pm Dinner 8:15-9:30 pm Faculty Readings Rebecca Foust Frank Osen Sarah Cortez William Logan Debora Greger John Whitworth 10:00 pm-midnight After-hours at the Poetry House Hosts: Ned Balbo and Jane Satterfield Saturday, June 10 8:15-9:30 am Panel 14: Casting a Wider Net: Poetry and the Other Arts Chair: Sarah Cortez Rebecca Foust Tony Barnstone Meredith Bergmann Amy Lemmon Claudia Gary 10:00-11:45 noon Panel 15: Symposium: Poetry and Global Responsibility Adler Theatre Chair: Shirley Geok-lin Lim Emily Grosholz A. E. Stallings Bhikshuni Weisbrot, United Nations SRC Society of Writers
11:45 am-12:45 pm 1:00-3:00 pm Workshops and Critical Seminars 3:15-4:45 pm Panel 16: Readings by Faculty and Resident Poets Chair: Ernest Hilbert Hailey Leithauser Tony Barnstone Juliana Gray Julie Kane George Green 3:15-4:45 pm Open Readings and Iron Haiku Chef Competition Poetry House Host: Anna Yin 5:00-6:45 pm Panel 17: Readings from the Critical Seminar on Poetic Translation Chair: Dick Davis 6:30-7:45 pm Faculty Book Signing and Dinner Book sales will close Saturday at 5:00 p.m.. 8:00-9:30 pm Concert Lori Laitman (Kate Light Scholar in Poetry and Music) and David Mason The Scarlet Letter in Concert Adler Theatre Adler Theatre Lobby 9:30-11 pm After Hours TBA Notes:
Keynote address and concert will be held in the Madeleine Wing Adler Theatre, Swope Performing Arts Center. All panels and faculty readings will be held in the Ware Family Recital Hall, Swope Performing Arts Center unless otherwise noted. All receptions, meals and the opening are at the West Chester University Foundation Building (Matlack Street). The Poetry House will be open daily from 8:00 am till 6:00 pm and from 10-midnight (except Saturday evening). Beer & wine will be served Thursday and Friday evenings.