[R. S. Gwynn]

Registration for the conference will close on Monday, May 23.

Wednesday, June 8

8:15-9:45 am
Panel 1: Program Director's Forum
Coffee and Q & A with Sam Gwynn
Poetry House

10:00-11:30 am
Panel 2: First Books
Chair: W. F. Lantry
James Wilson
Jan D. Hodge
Wendy Sloan
Midge Goldberg

11:45 am-12:45 pm
Lunch

1:00-2:30 pm
Panel 3: Formal Friendly Editors
Chair: Gerry Cambridge, The Dark Horse
Paula Deitz, The Hudson Review
Quincy Lehr, The Raintown Review
Lane Young, Calamaro

2:45-4:00 pm
Panel 4: Whitworth at Seventy
Chair: Jayne Osborn
Walter Ancarrow
Sam Gwynn

4:15-5:30 pm
Panel 5: Awards Readings
Iris N. Spencer Award
Myong Cha Son Haiku Award
Rhina P. Espaillat Award
Debra Wierenga, Wil Mills Fellowship
Donald Justice Award, Pat Valdata
Donald Justice Award, Jeff Hardin

5:30-6:15 pm

Reception
Sponsored by the College of Visual and Performing Arts
West Chester Foundation Building

6:15-7:45 pm
Banquet
West Chester Foundation Building

8:00-9:00 pm
Keynote Reading: Sir Andrew Motion
Introduction, Sam Gwynn

10:00 pm-midnight
Open House and Jam Session
Poetry House

Thursday, June 9

8:15-9:30 am
Panel 6: Form and the Politics of Race
Chair: Alexander Long
Sarah Cortez
Bernard Hall
Quincy Lehr
Jess Smith

10:00-11:30 am
Panel 7: Chair: Dana Gioia
Town Meeting with Andrew Motion

10:00-11:30 am
One-day workshop: Short-line Verse, Timothy Murphy

11:45 am-12:45 pm
Lunch

1:00-3:00 pm
Workshops and Critical Seminars

3:15-4:30 pm
Panel 8: Conjugal Poets
Chairs: Chelsea Rathburn and Jim May
Ned Balbo and Jane Satterfield
Robert Crawford and Midge Goldberg

3:15-4:30 Participant Readings
Poetry House

4:30-5:45 pm
Panel 9: Great Debates I: Poetry or Verse?
Robert Archambeau, Lake Forest College
James Wilson, Villanova University
Panel of Distinguished Mystery Judges

5:45-6:45 pm
Reception
Sponsored by the College of Visual and Performing Arts

7:00-8:00 pm
Dinner


8:15-9:30 pm
Faculty Readings
Dana Gioia
Timothy Murphy
Sarah Cortez
William Logan
Melissa Balmain
Julie Kane
Dick Davis

10:00 pm-midnight
Open House and Jam Session
Poetry House

Friday, June 10

8:15-9:30 am

Panel 10: The Houses of Frost
Chair: Robert Crawford
Leslie Monsour
Timothy Murphy
Maudelle Driskell

10:00-11:30 am
Panel 11: The Wilbur Biography
Sam Gwynn, Chair
Robert and Mary Bagg

10:00-11:30 am
One Day Workshop: The Free-verse Line, Dana Gioia

11:45 am-12:45 pm
Lunch

1:00-3:00 pm
Workshops/Seminars

3:15-4:30
Panel 12: The Sonnet in 2016
Claudia Gary, Chair
Robert Crawford
D. R. Goodman
Julie Kane
Susan McLean
Marty Steyer

3:15-4:30 pm
Participant Readings
Poetry House

4:30-5:45
Panel 13: Syllabic Abacus
Chair, Susan de Sola
Tony Barnstone
Alfred Corn
Dick Davis
Grace Schulman


Reception
Sponsored by the College of Visual and Performing Arts

7:00-8:00 pm
Dinner

8:15-9:30 pm
Faculty Readings
Tony Barnstone
Shirley Geok-lin Lim
Frank Osen
Mark Jarman
John Whitworth
Caki Wilkinson
Alfred Corn

10:00 pm-midnight
Open House and Jam Session
Poetry House

Saturday, June 11

8:15-9:30 am
Panel 14: Forms of Repetition, Susan McLean, Chair
Michael Cantor
Julie Kane
Ed Shacklee
J. D. Smith

10:00-11:30 am
Panel 15: Robert Conquest and New Lines
Sam Gwynn, Chair
Dick Davis
Cynthia Haven
John Whitworth
Elizabeth Conquest

10:00-11:30 am
One-Day Workshop
Rhyme and Rorshach, Alfred Corn

11:45 am-12:45 pm
Lunch

1:00-3:00 pm
Workshops/Seminars

3:15-4:45 pm
Panel 16: Readings by Resident Poets
Chair: Ernest Hilbert
Rebecca Foust
Juliana Gray
George Green
Quincy Lehr

3:15-4:45 pm
Participant Readings
Poetry House


5:00-6:15 pm
Panel 17: In Memoriam, Kate Light
Chair: Charles Martin
Chair: Suzanne Noguere
Gerry Cambridge
Johanna Keller
Wendy Sloan

6:15-7:45 pm
Faculty Book Signing
Social Hour, Jam Session, and Picnic

8:00-9:30 pm
Concert
Iris DeMent
Adler Theatre

Carnival: West Chester Foundation Building
10-1

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.

All receptions, meals, opening banquet, and picnic 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). Alcohol may be consumed only at the Foundation Building because of University regulations.