Table of contents of the first issue of Close Up Magazine, Jul. 1927, published by POOL
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CFP: Louisville Conference on Lit and Culture since 1900 (abstracts due Sept 14–note extended deadline)
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Paper proposals are invited for an H.D. International Society panel at the Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900, February 18-20, 2016. This is a welcoming conference that is hosted each year by the University of Louisville in Louisville, KY and which typically features a healthy mix of academic and creative writing presentations. Keynote speakers on the program will include Rodrigo Toscano, Johanna Drucker, Mat Johnson, and Lisa Gitelman.
This call for papers is open topic: we are happy to consider work attending to any aspect of H.D. and/or her circle as we field a cohesive panel. Please send 250 word abstracts and a brief bio to Rebecca Walsh, rawalsh@ncsu.edu, by Monday, September 14 (please note that the Louisville conference organizers have extended their own deadline to Sept 15). Feel fee to get in touch with any questions.
For more information, please visit the conference website:
H.D. Receives Posthumous Honorary Degree from Lehigh University
H.D. was awarded a posthumous honorary Doctor of Letters at the Lehigh University commencement ceremony on 18 May 2015. Beth Wolle McKay, H.D.’s relative and one of the first women students at Lehigh University, accepted the degree on H.D.’s behalf.
Source: Honorary degree recipients named | News Article | Lehigh University
H.D.’s Circle of Correspondence at Spicy Nodes
Screen Shot of Node Map of H.D. Correspondents
Although H.D.’s circle extends beyond the people in her files of correspondence, it is possible to map her circle of friends, acquaintances, and correspondents, based on her archives. The map below shows all of her correspondents based on the finding aids in the Beinecke, Bryn Mawr, and several other special collections libraries (Go to SpicyNodes to see it in full screen). Any overlaps with Bryher’s files of correspondence are also indicated. Click any name to expand and explore further connections. Contacts are nested under the people who introduced H.D. to them. Created by Dr. Celena E. Kusch, co-chair H.D. International Society.
Circles: H.D./Bryher | Strange Flowers
James J. Conway’s Strange Flowers blog includes brief profiles of H.D., Bryher, and members of their social and literary circles. This posting also features a brief glimpse of some of those circles in a graphic format.
Source: Circles: H.D./Bryher | Strange Flowers
Monkey’s Moon Film at City Lights Bookshop Blog
City Lights Bookshop featured the Pool Film, Monkey’s Moon, on its Web site.
“Pool Films resulted from the creative collaboration of writers Kenneth Macpherson and Bryher (Annie Winifred Ellerman) and Imagist poet H. D. (Hilda Doolittle). Funded by Bryhers inheritance from a vast family fortune, their projects were fueled by the principals interest…
Source: National Poetry Month: Monkey’s Moon » Abandon All Despair Ye Who Enter Here
Teaching Tribute to Freud and Borderline
See Tamara Beauchamp’s Web site for English 102D Topics in Twentieth
Century Literature: Modernist Subjectivity for examples of teaching H.D.’s Tribute to Freud.
Pages:
H.D. Reads Aloud | Modernist Subjectivities
Lecture Notes: H.D.’s life, relationship to Freud, and Writing on the Wall
Lecture Notes 2: Borderline, H.D., and Kenneth Macpherson
Pretty books, messy drafts | LESLEY WHEELER
Lesley Wheeler posts a poem inspired by H.D.’s Trilogy
H.D. and Feminist Poetics Conference Program Available
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.