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| This celebration has been made possible by the following contributors: Anonymous (NFR) Wisconsin Humanities Council Wisconsin Arts Board Milwaukee Arts Board Fort Atkinson Community Foundation Kohler Foundation Brico Fund Franke Idea Fund with additional support from: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel W.D. Hoard and Company Midwest Airline Center Mary (Kit) Basquin and special thanks to: Woodland Pattern Board and staff members, whose enthusiasm and support helped make this conference possible. |
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Armantrout is Adjunct Professor of Literature at
the University of California at San Diego and the
author of six books of poetry, most recently Veil: New
and Selected Poems (Wesleyan University Press, 2001)
and The Pretext (Green Interger, 2001). Recognized
internationally as one of the most original poets of
the last decade, her work incorporates elements of
both a close observation of the world around er and a
witty play of linguistic and syntactical elements.
Augustine is a poet and scholar whose most recent poetry collections are Arbor Vitae (Marsh Hawk Press, 2002) and Transitory (Spuyten Duyvil, 2002). She has written about Lorine Niedecker since 1975 and has published numerous essays on Niedecker, H.D. and other modern women writers. Women's studies courses still use her much-anthologized story "Secretive" (1977). She edited The Gift by H.D.: The Complete Text (UP Florida, 1998) and has held the H.D. Fellowship at Beinecke Library, Yale, as well as two Fellowships in Poetry from the New York Foundation on the Arts.
Bergland's first novel, A Farm Under A Lake, was published in 1989 by Graywolf Press, and subsequently by Vintage Books, Bloomsbury in England, Bonniers in Sweden, and Krueger in Germany. Graywolf published her novel Idle Curiosity in 1997. Bergland's essays, poems, and short stories are widely published in literary journals. Her short story "An Embarrassment of Ordinary Riches" was awarded a Pushcart Prize. Bergland taught English for many years at Milwaukee Area Technical College.
Campion's poems and prose have appeared or are
forthcoming in AGNI, Jacket, Literary Imagination,
Poetry, Raritan, The San Francisco Chronicle, Slate
and other journals. His essay on Lorine Niedecker and
George Oppen appeared last year in PN Review, where he
has also published an essay on James Schuyler. He is a
Jones Lecturer in Poetry at Stanford. He has also
taught at San Francisco University and Boston
University. He lives in Berkeley.
Clark was born in Greenock in 1944 and
lived in Nailsworth, Gloucestershire until 2002. In
recent years, the different landscapes of the
Highlands and Islaneds have been the central
preoccupation of his poetry. Between 1986 and 2002,
with the artist Laurie Clark, he directed Cairn
Gallery, one of the earliest and most respected of
'artist-run spaces', specializing in conceptual,
minimal and land art. His most recent publications
include One Hundred Scottish Places (October, 1999)
and Distance and Proximity (Morning Star
Publications, 2000) and numerous small books and cards
from his Moschatel Press. "Stay with the one thing,
give it some space or time, if its worth noticing at
all, before hurrying on to the next thing: that is
what I've always felt about poetry. It's a question of
the space around each perception rather than
glamourous production."
Cook has made over 20 short experimental films
& videos over the last 20 years. Cook has exhibited
her award winning work extensively in both solo and
group shows including MOMA and the Whitney Museum. In
2001, Cook was awarded a Guggenheim Memorial
Fellowship. In addition, she received fellowships
and grants from New York State Council of the Arts,
Experimental Television Center, The Jerome Foundation
(Film in the Cities) and Wisconsin Arts Board. Cook's
media works are in the permanent collection of the
Donnell Library (NYC), Princeton University, National
Library of Australia (Canberra), NYU Film Library,
among others. Currently Cook is creating a short
experimental film that explores her responses to the
poetic works of Lorine Niedecker and will be screening
an excerpt of the film in progress at the conference.
Corbett is Writer-in-Residence at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a poet, memoirist and art critic whose books include New and Selected Poems (Zoland Books, 1995), Boston Vermont (Zoland Books, 1999), Furthering My Education (Zoland Books, 1997), Philip Guston's Late Work: A Memoir (Zoland Books, 1994), and All Prose (Zoland Books, 2001). He is currently editing Just The Thing: The Selected Letters of James Schuyler. He lives in Boston's South End and is an editor of the magazine Pressed Wafer, a small press that publishes poetry.
Corman was born in Boston in 1924, and received
his B.A. from Tufts. He did graduate work at the
University of Michigan, where he won the Hopwood Award
for Poetry, and the University of North Carolina. In
1950-51 Corman begain editing and publishing a little
magazine called Origin which featured his own works
and those of his contemporaries including Robert
Creeley, Robert Duncan, Larry Eigner, Denise Levertov,
William Bronk, Charles Olson, Louis Zukofsky, and Paul
Blackburn. In 1954 Corman went to Europe on a
Fulbright Grant and studied at the Sorbonne in France.
He later moved to Japan where his output, in addition
to his own poetry and editing work, included
translations of the works of Japanese poets. Corman
has published over seventy volumes of poetry,
translated several French and Japanese poets, and
published four volumes of essays. He has lived in
Kyoto, Japan since 1958 where he and his wife run a
business, Cid Corman's Dessert Shop. Corman is one of
"late" modernism's most significant enablers, a poet
of talent himself, and a master of "production" --
whose work, both as poet and publisher, is intertwined
with the Objectivists Zukofsky and Oppen, as well as
Creeley and Olson.
Dunn
studied at Reed College, University of Illinois and
University of Wisconsin-Madison where she received her
Ph.D. in English. Her dissertation investigated
avant-garde aesthetics and the writings of Mina Loy
and she continues to work on this as well as other
explorations of the modern lyric. In addition to
literary criticism she writes poetry and fiction and
she is working on a collection of essays on animals in
literature, art and science. Until recently, she was
the Associate Director of the Stanford Humanities
Center. She is currently a Lecturer in English and
American Studies at Stanford University.
books by Rachel Blau DuPlessis appeared in 2001: the first parts of her long poem project, Drafts 1-38, Toll (Wesleyan University Press) and her critical work, Genders, Races, and Religious Cultures in Modern American Poetry, 1908-1934 (Cambridge University Press). In 2002, she received a Pew Fellowship in the Arts, and she was awarded the Roy Harvey Pearce / Archive for New Poetry Prize for a significant lifetime contribution to American poetry and literary scholarship. She is also the author of The Pink Guitar: Writing as Feminist Practice (Routledge, 1990) and the editor of The Selected Letters of George Oppen (Duke, 1990), as well as other works. DuPlessis teaches at Temple University in Philadelphia in the English Department and the Creative Writing Program.
(Ron) Ellis lives near Cambridge, Wisconsin.
He is Associate Editor of Rosebud magazine as well as
its art director and web author. He has most recently
placed poems with Switched-on Gutenberg: A Global
Poetry Journal, WordWrights, New Works Review, new
digressions, Recursive Angel, 2River View, The Wolf
Head Quarterly, The Lucid Stone, and Mississippi
Review Web. He is the author of The Blue Train and The
Tenting Cantos. His albums of performance poetry
include the six-CD set entitled The Rough Cuts Series,
and the albums Open My Eyes, Lunar Crescent Wrench,
Dangerous Odds, The Andro Poems: A Rock Cantata, and
Selected Tenting Cantos (in progress).
first book, The Work Proposed, was published in 1958 on Cid Corman's Origin Press. Since then, he has written over seventy books, many of which are out of print. Enslin's poetry has been identified with Objectivist writers Louis Zukofsky, Lorine Niedecker, and George Oppen. Musicality, nature, landscape, and observation of daily existence inhabit his writing. In 1999 National Poetry Foundation published Then, and Now: Selected Poems 1943-1993, the first comprehensive selection of Enslin's work. In addition, he has three books of recent work forthcoming: Nine (National Poetry Foundation), a collection of nine sequences from 1994-1999, Ring (St. Andrews College Press), and Keep Sake. He chooses to work outside of the academy, living in rural, coastal Maine.
Fishman is the author of DEAR, READ, which was selected by Brenda Hillman for publication on Ahsahta Press (2002). Her first book, The Deep Heart's Core is a Suitcase, was published by New Issues Press (1996). Her poems appear in recent issues of Colorado Review, American Letters and Commentary, Elixir, and elsewhere. She teaches at Beloit College.
Fraser is the author of twelve books of
poetry, including two letterpress collaborations with
artists Sam Francis and Mary Ann Hayden. She has
taught at the Iowa Writers Workshop, Reed College, The
Naropa Institute and San Francisco State University
where she was professor of Creative Writing from 1972
to 1992. She founded the American Poetry Archives
during her directorship of The Poetry Center at SFSU.
From 1983 through 1991, Kathleen Fraser published and
edited the groundbreaking journal HOW(ever), focusing
on innovative/exploratory work by English-language
women poets. She is a Guggenheim Fellow in Poetry and
has received an NEA Poetry Fellowship and the NEA
Young Writers Award. Kathleen currently splits her
year between San Francisco and Rome.
Frym is the author of two critically acclaimed
collections of short stories—Distance No Object
(City Lights Books) and How I Learned (Coffee House
Books)—as well as several volumes of poetry,
including By Ear (Sun & Moon Press), and Back to Earth
(The Figures). Her most recent book of poems,
Homeless at Home (Creative Arts Book Company), won an
American Book Award in 2002. Frym has served as guest
lecturer at Scripps College in Claremont, CA; the
American Embassy Cultural Centers in Nagoya and Kyoto,
Japan; Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado and the
Chautauqua Institution in New York. She now teaches
in the MFA/BA Writing and Literature Programs at
California College of the Arts and in spring 2004,
will serve as Distinguished Writer in Residence at St.
Mary's College in Moraga, California.
Greenberg was born in Ohio and has lived in
New York and Israel. She holds a BA in literature
(with a concentration in film and drama studies) from
SUNY Purchase College and an MFA in creative writing
(poetry) and CAS in women's studies from Syracuse
University. She is the author of Given, a collection
of poems. Her poems have appeared in many journals,
including the Denver Quarterly, Crazyhorse, Fence,
Volt, American Letters & Commentary, Pleiades,
jubilat, CROWD and Crayon. She is the recipient of a
Saltonstall individual artist's grant and a MacDowell
Colony residency and serves on the editorial board of
How2: an Online Journal of Innovative Women's Poetics.
Greene is the author of 20 books, including most recently A Little Ink in the Paper Sea (Tangram, 2001), Book of Correspondences (tel-let, 2002), and Watching Dewdrops Fall (Mountains & Rivers Press, 2003). His forthcoming book, correspondence with Thomas Merton, will be published by the University of Kentucky Library Press. Greene has received fellowships from The National Endowment for the Arts, the Southern Federation of State Arts Agencies, and the Kentucky Arts Council. Since 1965 he has edited and published books by Robert Duncan, Wendell Berry, Cid Corman, Jonathan Williams, Robert Morgan, amongst others, under the Gnomon Press imprint.
G. Hayes reported for The Milwaukee Journal and its Sunday magazine, Wisconsin, from 1962 until his retirement in 1995. As a daily reporter he specialized in environment, energy, and the natural sciences. As a magazine writer he wrote about outstanding Wisconsinites. His honors include the Richard S. Davis award, the Gordon MacQuarrie medal, and two Westinghouse Science Writing Awards from the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is a fellow of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters and serves on the boards of the Academy and the Ice Age Park and Trail Foundation.
Heller is a poet, essayist and critic. His most recent volume of poetry is Exigent Futures: New and Selected Poems (Salt Publishing, 2003). Among his books are Conviction's Net of Branches, In the Builded Place, Wordflow and Living Root: A Memoir. He wrote the libretto for the recently performed opera, Benjamin, based on the life of Walter Benjamin. His poetry and criticism have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies including The Paris Review, Conjunctions, Harpers, New Letters, The Nation, American Poetry Review, Pequod, The New York Times Book Review, Parnassus: Poetry in Review, and many others. His awards include the NEH Poet/Scholar grant, the Di Castagnola Prize and New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships. He has been a member of the faculty of NYU's American Language Institute since 1967 and has taught at The Naropa Institute, The New School, San Francisco State, Notre Dame and other universities. He was born in 1937 in New York City, where he now lives.
Jarnot was born in 1967 in Buffalo, New York. She
attended State University of New York at Buffalo and
Brown University. She has been the editor of two small
poetry magazines: No Trees and Troubled Surfer. She
was also editor of St. Mark's Newsletter until 1997.
Touted as one of the finest young poets in the United
States, she is the author of Some Other Kind of
Mission (Burning Deck Press, 1996), which was
mentioned by John Ashbery in The Times Literary
Supplement International Books of the Year, as well as
the much anticipated Ring of Fire (Zoland Books,
2001). She has taught at the Naropa Institute's Jack
Kerouac School for Disembodied Poetics, and is
currently working on a biography of Robert Duncan.
Lehman is the founder and first publisher of Rosebud. He is also the poetry editor of the Wisconsin Academy Review as well as managing partner of Zelda Wilde Publishing and editor/publisher of the free Madison street-quarterly Cup of Poems with a Side of Prose. His latest collection of poetry is Dogs Dream of Running. At this conference he is pleased to be premiering his latest book, America's Greatest Unknown Poet, Lorine Niedecker in Letters, Reminiscences, Photographs and Poems.
Meier's first book of poetry, Terrain Vague, was selected by Tomaz Salamun as winner of the 2000 Verse Prize. His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Conduit, Fence, American Letters and Commentary, Paris Review, and other journals. He has worked as poet-in-the-schools with Teachers & Writers Collaborative in New York City and with Gateway to the Arts in Pittsburgh. He has taught creative writing at the Universities of Alabama and Pittsburgh and is currently Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Beloit College.
Middleton was born in 1950 and grew up in both England and the United States. He studied at the universities of Oxford, Sheffield, and SUNY Buffalo. He is the author of a book on masculinity, The Inward Gaze (1992) and Literatures of Memory: History, Time and Space in Postwar Writing (2000), which he co-wrote with Tim Woods. A book of essays on performance, readership, and consumption in contemporary poetry is forthcoming, and Salt Press has just published a book of his poems, Aftermath. He teaches English at the University of Southampton.
Owen, an Irish American from Minnesota, now of
Denver, Colorado, edited Telephone Books and Telephone
magazine through thirty titles of the press and
nineteen issues of the magazine to date. She
received a Poetry Fellowship from the National
Endowment for the Arts and was awarded a grant from
the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts, Inc.
in 1999. She has worked as Program Coordinator at the
St. Mark's Poetry Project in NY and served on the
Board of the Poetry Project and the Coordinating
Council of Literary Magazines—both as a member and
as a vice-chairperson. She has taught a number of
creative writing workshops including St. Mark's Poetry
Project, was a full professor of Creative Writing at
Edinboro University, Edinboro, Pennsylvania Fall of
1999/2000. She is now teaching at The Naropa
Institute.
Ondaatje was bork in Sri Lanka and has lived
in Canada since 1963. His works include The
Converations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing
Film, Anil's Ghost, The English Patient, In the Skin
of a Lion, Coming Through Slaughter, The Collected
Works of Billy the Kid, and his memoir, Running in the
Family. During his career Ondaatje has received
numerous awards and honors. He was the recipient of
the Canadian Governor-General's Award for Literature
in 1971 and again in 1980. In 1980 he was also awarded
the Canada-Australia price and in 1992 he was
presented with the Booker McConnell Prize for his
novel The English Patient. He has made two
documentary films: Sons of Captain Poetry (on the poet
bp Nichol) and The Clinton Special (about Theatre
Passe Muraille's The Farm Show)—available from
Mongrel Media September 2003 (Three short films by
Michael Ondaadje).
Penberthy lives in Vancouver, where she
teaches, writes, and raises a family. Her study of
Lorine Niedecker has been a steady commitment for over
twenty years. Her meticulous and insightful
(inciteful) attention to LN's poetics makes her
preeminent among Niedecker scholars. Her most recent
work Lorine Niedecker Collected Works (2002) was
published by the University of California Press.
Other titles include Niedecker and the Correspondence
with Zukofsky, 1931—1970, and Lorine Niedecker Woman
and Poet, both edited by Penberthy.
Pritchett is the author of Ark Dive, (Arcturus
Editions), and Reside (Dead Metaphor Press). His poems
have appeared in New American Writing, Rhizome, River
City, Mirage, Antenym, Bombay Gin, non, and Prairie
Schooner, among others. He is a contributing editor to
Facture and a member of the mysterious School of
Continuation.
Quartermain has published and read in Canada,
the U.S. and Britain. Books and chapbooks include
Terms of Sale (Meow 1996), Spatial Relations
(Diaeresis 2001), A Thousand Mornings (Nomados 2002)
and The Eye-Shift of Surface (greenboathouse 2003).
With Robin Blaser, she recently completed a series of
poems, entitled Wanders (Nomados 2002). In Fall 2002,
ecopoetics published some of her long poem Matter (now
forthcoming from Chax, Fall 2003). Her work has also
appeared in Matrix, Queen Street Quarterly, The
Capilano Review, West Coast Line, Raddle Moon, Five
Fingers Review, Chain, Sulfur, Tinfish, Potepoetzine,
East Village Poetry Web, Jacket, Goodfoot, and other
magazines.
Quartermain taught contemporary poetry and
poetics at the University of British Columbia for over
thirty years; was Mountjoy Fellow, University of
Durham (1990); was Resident Fellow, Bellagio
Conference Centre, Italy (1997); received a Killam
Research Prize University of BC,1997); and taught at
Naropa (2002). He has written or edited numerous
articles and several books, including Basil Bunting:
Poet of the North (1990) and Disjunctive Poetics
(1992); with the English poet Richard Caddel he edited
Other: British and Irish Poetry Since 1970 (1999),
and, with Rachel Blau DuPlessis, The Objectivist
Nexus: Essays in Cultural Poetics (1999). He is
currently writing his autobigraphy Where I Lived and
What I Learned There: Part I: Growing Dumb.
Robertson is a member of the Kootenay School of
Writing, a group of energetic young poets who
collectively changed the face of Western Canadian
writing beginning in the 1980s. She co-edits the
poetry journal Raddle Moon with Susan Clark in
Vancouver. In her spare time, she tells her American
fans, Lisa visits scrap yards and trains large dogs.
Her books and chapbooks include The Apothecary
(Tsunami 1991), XEclogue (Tsunami 1993; rev. New Star
1999), The Badge (The Berkeley Horse/ Mindware 1994),
The Descent (Meow 1996), Debbie: an epic (New Star
1997) and Soft Architecture: A Manifesto
(Artspeak/Dazibao 1999). Her recent poetry and
criticism appears in American Book Review, Big Allis,
Boundary2, Mix, Nest: a magazine of interiors, Raddle
Moon, Sulphur, Stand and West Coast Line.
Robinson coedits EtherDome Press with
Colleen Lookingbill, and is coeditor of a new
magazine, 26, as well as Instance Press. Fanny Howe
selected her book, Pure Descent, for the National
Poetry Series, 2001, which will eventually be
published by Sun & Moon Press. Robert Creeley
selected her work to appear in the Best American
Poetry of 2002. Her poetry is widely considered to
represent the best in lyric abstraction and
physicality of language. Robinson lives in Berkeley.
Samuels has a PhD from the University of Virginia
with a dissertation on Wallace Stevens and Laura
Riding. She publishes on Riding and other modernist
and contemporary poets as well as on subjects such as
poetic beauty, intellectual property and modes of
poetic analysis. Her book, Seven Voices, was published
by O Books in 1998 and she continues to publish widely
in literary journals. Samuels teaches creative writing
and literature at the University of Wisconsin at
Milwaukee.
Sikelianos is the author of The Book of Tendons, The Lover's Numbers, and To Speak While Dreaming. She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, two Gertrude Stein Awards for Innovative American Writing, and the James D. Phelan Award for Blue Guide. Sikelianos was featured in the Glamour magazine article, "Women Are Making Poetry Hot Again," and her work has appeared in numerous journals and magazines, including Grand Street, Fence, The Chicago Review, and Sulfur.
Skinner, who hails from New Mexico, edits and
publishes ecopoetics in Buffalo, NY where he
misidentifies birds along the Niagara River and is
currently completing a dissertation on "environ-mental
contact in postmodern poetry" for the SUNY Buffalo
English Department. His essays, reviews, translations
and poems have appeared in in numerous publications,
including Buffalo Vortex, Circulars, Elevator, Gare du
Nord, Jacket, Kenning, Kiosk, Lagniappe, La Main de
Singe, Sibila, The Gig, The Poetry Project Newsletter
and Verdure; his chapbooks include Political Cactus
Poems (Periplum Editions) and Little Dictionary of
Sounds (RedDLines).
Szymaszek is the author of the fine press
broadside Three Poems (Heavy Duty Press, 2000) and the
chapbook Survival. She coedits the literary journal
Traverse and coedited an anthology of avant garde
Milwaukee writing called Oranges Hung. Recently, she
has led a discussion group on poetry and politics at
Woodland Pattern, given a talk on concrete poetry at
Beloit College and performed her poem "loomings, a
bosom friend" at the Tingle Review. She holds the
esteemed position of literary coordinator at Woodland
Pattern.
Tarlo (BA, Ph.D) teaches Creative Writing and
English at the University of Leeds, UK. Her interest
in Niedecker stems from her creative and critical
interests in poetry; Modernism; Feminist Theory and
poetry and environment/landscape. She wrote two essays
on Niedecker in the 1990s, one for the journal
Fragmente and the other for Kicking Daffodils:
Twentieth-Century Women Poets, Edinburgh University
Press, 1997. Recent academic publications include
"Radical British Landscape Poetry in the Bunting
Tradition", The Star You Steer By: Basil Bunting and
British Modernism, ed. R. Price and J. McGonigal,
Editions Rodopi, 2000 and "'A she even smaller than a
me': gender dramas of the contemporary avant-garde",
Contemporary Women's Poetry: Reading/Writing/Practice,
Macmillan/St Martin's Press, 2000. Recent poetry
publications include Love/Land, Rem Press, 2003, and a
selection in Foil: defining poetry 1985-2000, ed.
Nicholas Johnson, etrsucan books, 2000. She is
currently working on a new volume of poetry, Nab
(selections of which can be found in the latest
Electronic Poetry Review), and co-editing a book on
British Environmentalism for the University of
Virginia Press.
Waldman is the author of over 30 books and pamphlets of poetry, including Fast Speaking Woman (20th Anniversary, 1996), IOVIS, Books I and II (1993 and 1997), Marriage: A Sentence (2000), Vow to Poetry: Essays, Interviews and Manifestoes (2001) and Dark Arcana/Afterimage or Glow (2003). She is also the editor of numerous anthologies including The Beat Book (1999); and co-editor of The Angel Hair Anthology (2001). Her CDs include Alchemical Elegy (2001) and Battery: Live At Naropa (2003). She is an active member of the Naropa University Audio Archive Preservation and Access Project. With Ammiel Alcalay, she founded the activist coalition Poetry Is News, www.poetryisnews.org. Anne is co-founder of The Kerouac School, and Chair and Artistic Director of its Summer Writing Program. She has collaborated with many artists and musicians, and has performed her poetry world-wide.
Whalen is Education Coordinator at Woodland Pattern Book Center. His poetry has appeared in Modern Haiku, Barrow Street, The Southeast Review, Reed, Free Verse, and Poetry Motel. His poetic series, The Mayan Way, currently available on audiotape, received an Academy of American Poets Award in 1993. In 2000 he earned a Ph.D. in English at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Cream City Review. He's taught writing and literature at Mount Mary College, UW-Milwaukee, and Dominican High School, and middle school Spanish at Urban Day School of Milwaukee.
Willis is the author of three books of poetry. The Human Abstract (Penguin, 1995) was selected for the National Poetry Series, and Turneresque is just out from Burning Deck. Second Law, a booklength poem, was published by Avenue B in 1993. A fourth collection of poems and a critical work are currently under construction. Her essays on Niedecker have appeared in Xcp: Cross-cultural Poetics, American Poet, and How2. She grew up in Eau Claire and currently teaches at Wesleyan University.