Marianne Moore and the Archives Program Virtual Conference, May 24-26, 2021
Day 1: 24 May Monday
9:00-10:00 Workshop on using the Marianne Moore Digital Archive, Nikolaus Wasmoen
10:10-10:25 Welcome: UB Dean of the College, Robin Schulze; For conference committee, Cristanne Miller; Zoom announcements, Alison Fraser
10:30-11:30 Roundtable I: Archives Moderator: Cristanne Miller Linda Leavell, “The Archives’ Silences” Alison Fraser, “Marianne Moore and Her Circle: Materials from the Poetry Collection” Bart Brinkman, “Mo(o)re Archives!: Mass Print Ephemera and the Limits to the Marianne Moore Archive” Elizabeth Fuller, “Unexplored Territory: Moore's Material Recycling” Claire Nashar, “Moore and the Marianne Moore Digital Archive”
11:45-1:00 Panel 1: More (Moore) Archival Questions and Objects Moderator: Stacy Hubbard Elizabeth Gregory, “Moore Later” Jeff Westover, “Highlights from the 1930-1943 Reading Notebook” Patricia C. Willis, “Archival Research on Moore, Eliot, and The Cocktail Party”
1:00-2:00 Lunch break
2:00-3:15 Panel 2: Reading Moore’s poems Moderator: Amanda Golden Ryan Tracy, “‘His Shield’: Haile Selassie and Moore’s Countersignature of Black Sovereignty” Linda Kinnahan, “Archives of Excess and ‘power over the poor’ in Moore’s ‘The Jerboa’” Cristanne Miller, “Vienna: A Cat & Other Unpublished Poems (or Titles) from her Notebooks”
3:30-4:15 Panel 3: Aesthetics and Humor Moderator: Robert Volpicelli Nikolaus Wasmoen, “Aesthetic Possession: Marianne Moore and Kenneth Burke” Andrew Dorkin, “Moore and Some Modernist Senses of Humor”
4:15-5:00 Break-out rooms for anyone who’d like to chat
Day 2: May 25 Tuesday
9:00-10:00 Roundtable 2: Swerves in Moore’s Poetry, and Ways of Reading It Moderator: Victoria Bazin Cynthia Hogue, “The Swerve in Marianne Moore’s Poetry” Mitali Tase, “Figural Imagination and the Biological Archives in 'The Monkey Puzzler’” Ben Rawlins, “Floral Extravagance and Persian Design in Marianne Moore” Kirby Olson, “Tracking the Camperdown Elm Story Behind the Moore Poem That Saved Prospect Park: The Story of a Journey” Shira Wolosky, “Moore and Levinas” Jeredith Merrin, “Writing Naturally”
10:15-11:30 Panel 4: Correspondence Moderator: Mariana Machová Elin Käck, “The Web Moore Weaves of Europe: Marianne Moore’s Europe in Letters and Poems” Lois Gilmore, “Fashion in the Rosenbach Archive: Moore’s Bryn Mawr Letters” Aurore Clavier, “Postmarks and Watermarks: Reading through Moore’s Letters”
11:45-1:00 Panel 5: Poetic Networks I Moderator: Ellen Levy Fiona Green, “Moore, Pound, and Rhyme” Douglas Basford, “One or two bushel-baskets-full of work: Elizabeth Bishop, Louise Crane, and Moore’s Archives” Amanda Golden, “‘Armed with Poetry’: Sylvia Plath’s Moore Archive”
1:00-2:00 Lunch break
2:00-3:15 Panel 6: Poetic Networks II Moderator: Fiona Green James Maynard, “Moore and Robert Duncan” Roger Gilbert, “Moore, Ammons, and the Aesthetics of Notebooks” Christina Pugh, “Wordless Discursivity: Semicolon Patterning in the Poetry of Louise Bogan and Marianne Moore”
3:30-4:30 Roundtable 3: Poems, Popular Culture, and Ephemera Moderator: Stacy Hubbard Melissa Bradshaw, “The Marianne Moore Postage Stamp: Fantasy, Ideology, and Cultural Memory” Luke Carson: “Moore as a translator of Hölderlin” Margaret Konkol, “Wearables and Modernist Poetry’s Prototypes” Karin Roffman, “Marianne Moore’s Things in ‘He “Digesteth Harde Yron””
4:45 “Flash” poetry reading: Laura Marris Cynthia Hogue Christina Pugh Jeredith Merrin Ben Friedlander
Followed by Zoom cocktail hour
Day 3: 26 May Wednesday
9:00-10:15 Panel 7: Poem as Response / Responding to the Poems Moderator: Benjaminn Friedlander Victoria Bazin, “Instinct as Instruction: Teaching Moore in the Classroom” Chelsie Malyszek, “Diction in the Dictionary” Stacy Hubbard, “Invitations and Occasions in Moore’s Late Poems”
10:30-11:15 Panel 8: Objects and Information Moderator: Linda Kinnahan Robert Volpicelli, “The Poet’s Room as Archive” Emily Setina, “Marianne Moore’s Photographic Readings”
11:25-?? Closing Discussion: Where we are now and where to go next in MM studies? [Moderator: Cris Miller] We invite all to participate in a discussion of where you think MM studies might fruitfully go in the future, and of things you would like to see taken up either by the MM Society or by the Marianne Moore Digital Archive (MMDA). Are there things that would be useful to you that either the Society or the MMDA might provide? Would you like to volunteer? Would you like to let us know about a project of your own that is underway?