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H.D. and Feminist Poetics Conference Program Available
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The complete program for the H.D. and Feminist Poetics Conference at Lehigh University from September 17-19, 2015, is available online at https://english.cas2.lehigh.edu/content/program.
Highlights include opening speaker Nathaniel Mackey and plenaries Susan Stanford Friedman and Cynthia Hogue as well as a tour of historic Bethlehem.
H.D. Family Tree Online (Doolittles and Wolles)
4-Generation Pedigree Family Tree from Wikitree
Based on an undergraduate research project with Kristian Wilson from the University of South Carolina Upstate (’15), the Silverstein Chronology, and an H.D. family tree already started at http://wikitree.com, a very nice genealogical background is available, and more will be added in the coming months. The snapshot below gives a quick taste of the site. To explore the whole family so far, click here.
H.D. in Borderline featured in Paris Review
In Sept. 2014, The Paris Review posted a birthday wish to H.D. which includes the full video of Borderline. Thank you, Paris Review!
CFP: H.D. panel at the SAMLA conference, Nov 13-15, 2015 (abstracts due June 10)
We invite paper proposals for a panel called “H.D. and her Circle: New Directions” at this year’s South Atlantic MLA in Durham, NC, November 13-15, 2015.
Papers may focus on work by H.D. and/or those in her circle (Bryher, Kenneth MacPherson, Marianne Moore, Richard Aldington, John Cournos, Robert Herring, Ezra Pound, Paul and Eslanda Robeson, etc.), and the thematic focus of the panel is open to a range of new approaches. Given SAMLA 2015’s conference theme, “In Concert: Literature and the Other Arts,” papers that address connections to other art forms/media are welcome, although not necessary.
Please send 250-word abstracts, a brief bio, and A-V requests to rawalsh@ncsu.edu by June 10, 2015.
For more information about SAMLA 2015, please visit
https://samla.memberclicks.net/
Beyond Isis: Women Poets, Ancient Egypt, and Social Crisis
Marsha Bryant (UF English) and Mary Ann Eaverly (UF Classics) will be co-presenting on H.D., Muriel Rukeyser, and Agnes Nemes Nagy at Poetry By The Sea: A Global Conference (May 26-29, 2015). Their slide talk “Beyond Isis: Women Poets, Ancient Egypt, and Social Crisis” takes place on Tuesday afternoon, May 26.
H.D.’s Hirslanden Notebooks now available
Book Cover of Hirslanden Notebooks by H.D., edited by Matte Robinson and Demetres P. Tryphonopoulos
The Hirslanden Notebooks (ELS 2015), written from 1957-1959, offer autobiographical reflections and dream interpretations from this productive period in H.D.’s career. Copies are now available at Amazon.com.
The Geopoetics of Modernism, featuring H.D. chapter now available through UFloridaPress
The Geopoetics of Modernism by Rebecca Walsh, UPF 2015 (book cover)
Rebecca Walsh’s new book, The Geopoetics of Modernism (UPF, 2015), includes an impressive chapter on H.D.’s poetry through the lens of global, spatial theories. Other chapters focus on Walt Whitman, Langston Hughes, Helene Johnson, and Gertrude Stein in relation to both academic and mass geographical perspectives of Humboldt and Somerville, Ellen Churchill Semple, Ellsworth Huntington, and the National Geographic magazine.
More information about the book is available at https://floridabookshelf.wordpress.com/2015/02/24/the-geopoetics-of-modernism/
CFP: The Modernist Rebellions of H.D. and/or Her Circle at Modernist Studies Association Conference, Nov. 19-22, 2015 (Abstract due 4/15/15)
The study of H.D., the many other modernist figures in her orbit, and the many modes in which she worked has often focused on aesthetic revolution (language, form, genre) and cultural revolutions (gender/sexuality, and lately national identity). This panel seeks to build on and expand the revolutionary frame by inviting papers that either re-evaluate this existing terrain or shed new light on H.D. and/or her circle by considering transformations in technology, science, media, culture, translation, notions of history or of the everyday, and/or in particular literary movements or genres. Each paper ideally will thus link H.D. and/or those in her circle to at least one other modernist phenomenon. Send brief bios and 500 word abstracts by April 15 to Celena Kusch (ckusch@uscupstate.edu)
The 2015 MSA Conference will be held in Boston, Nov. 19-22, 2015. For more information, see: https://msa.press.jhu.edu/conferences/msa17/CFP.html
H.D.’s Helen in Egypt Featured in PoemTalk Podcast
Screenshot of PoemTalk Podcast focusing on H.D.’s Helen in Egypt at http://jacket2.org/podcasts/i-hieroglyph-poemtalk-84
Hear H.D. read Helen in Egypt while scholars and poets close read selections from the poem in the podcast from Poem Talk #84 “The I as Hieroglyph: H.D., Helen in Egypt” with Julia Bloch, Dee Morris, Annette Debo, and host Al Filreis (27 Jan. 2015). This podcast offers excellent background into H.D.’s sources for the poem as well as detailed pathways for interpreting key lines and images within it. It can serve as a valuable teaching resource for classes on the modernist long poem, late modernism, feminist poetry, classics and their adaptations, and, of course, H.D. herself.