FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4
Registration, Coffee Lurie Conference Room
First Session Grace Conference Room
Dr. Parker Towle
The Sage and the Pedagogue: Kunitz and Roethke
Jonathan Blake
King of the Wood
Lunch
Second Session - Wecoming Remarks Grace Conference Room
Dr. John Bassett
Clark University President
Discovering Worcester's Literary History
Third Session Grace Conference Room
Dr. Cleopatra Mathis
Stanley Kunitz, My Mentor
Fourth Session Grace Conference Room
Dr. B.E. McCarthy
Brave Music: Desire and Sound in the Poems of Stanley Kunitz
Fifth Session Grace Conference Room
Dr. Robert Cording
The Poetry of Stanley Kunitz
Friday Evening Grace Conference Room
Poetry Reading: ROBERT CORDING
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5
Registration, Coffee Lurie Conference Room
Sixth Session Grace Conference Room
Dr. Thomas Travisano
A Study in Contrasts: Olson and Bishop as Literary Mentors
Dr. Laura J. Menides
Sense of Place in Kunitz, Olson, and Bishop
Lunch
Seventh Session Grace Conference Room
Dr. Michael True
Stanley Kunitz and the Order of the State
Saturday Afternoon Grace Conference Room
Poets for Peace hosted by DENNIS BRUTUS
Invited and open readings.
Afternoon/Evening Sessions at WPI Higgins House
Writing Workshop
Writing Deeply with Kathleen Spivack
Poetry Reading
KATHLEEN SPIVACK
Biographies
Dr. John Bassett, President of Clark University
Jonathan Blake, Instructor, Worcester State College, and poet, lives and writes in
Fitchburg, Massachusetts. He has published in The Worcester Review, in the Journal of Southern New Hampshire University, AMOSKEAG, Blueline, and Poetry East.
Dr. Robert Cording, Professor of English and Creative Writing at College of the Holy
Cross, and poet, resides in Connecticut. His books include Life-List, What
Binds Us to this World, Heavy Grace, and Against Consolation. He is widely published
and has won numerous awards and fellowships. He is a present board member of the Frost
Place in Franconia, N. H.
Cleopatra Mathis, Director of the Creative Writing Program at Dartmouth College, and
poet, lives in Hanover, N. H. Sheep Meadow Press published her first five volumes of
poetry; her most recent volume, White Sea (2005), is published by Sarabande Books.
Dr. B. Eugene McCarthy, Professor of English - emeritus, College of the Holy Cross, lives
in Worcester, Massachusetts and is writing a book on sound in poetry.
Dr. Laura Jehn Menides, Professor of English - emeritus, WPI, and poet, lives in
Worcester, Massachusetts and is a member of the Worcester County Poetry Association
Board of Directors and is a past president of the WCPA. She has published an operatic
libretto based on Faulkner's As I Lay Dying.
Dr. Parker Towle, Dartmouth Medical School, teaches in the field of neurology.
He is a poet and lives in Franconia, N. H. He has edited the Frank O'Hara Special Issue
and the Stanley Kunitz Special Issue (2005) for The Worcester Review. He has published
several chapbooks and his poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. He
has served on the board of the Frost Place in Franconia, N. H.
Dr. Thomas Travisano, Professor of English, Hartwick College, lives in Oneonta, N. Y.
He is President of the Elizabeth Bishop Society, is editing the complete correspondence
between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell, and is co-editor of the projected
three-volume The New Anthology of American Poetry for Rutgers University Press.
Dr. Michael True, Professor of English - emeritus, Assumption College, lives in
Worcester, Massachusetts, and is a poet. His work, especially in peace studies, is widely
published. As a respected authority on the history of nonviolence in the United States, he has written and edited 10 books, including An Energy Field More Intense Than War and The Frontiers of Nonviolence.
