Presenters

Conference chair and respondent:

Ian D. Copestake (President, William Carlos Williams Society)

Conference organiser and respondent:

Stephen Hahn (Associate Provost, William Paterson University)

Invited guest speaker and respondent:

Professor Steven Gould Axelrod ( University of California, Riverside)

Opening presentation: “Williams and Ginsberg”


Conference presenters

Daniel E. Burke ( Marquette University , Wisconsin )

“Of Pearls and Parks: Paterson as Eco-Commentary”

 

Edith M. Vasquez ( Pitzer College)

"William Carlos Williams and 'the Latins': From the Passaic to the Río Bravo, The Heat of Latina/o Poetics"

 

Graham Stowe ( University of South Carolina)

“‘Pistons too powerful for delicacy’: Paterson’s Kinetic Poetics and Politics”

 

Greg Londe ( Princeton University)

“Cinna in India, or, An Aerial View of Paterson

 

Joe Milutis (University of Washington-Bothell)

Paterson Blog Project: New Jersey as an Impossible Object”

 

Lindsey Warren ( Boston University)

“No One to Drive the Car”: Voice in Paterson and Spring and All 

 

Matthew S. Bruen ( New York University)

The Intersections of Serial Poetic Form and Social Criticism in William Carlos Williams’s Spring and All and Paterson

 

Theodora Rapp Graham ( Penn State, Harrisburg)

“Your Big Toe, The Mayonnaise Jar Label, and Other Crucial Matters in Paterson
and The Great American Novel.”

 

Ian D. Copestake ( Frankfurt)

“The Pragmatic Flow of Williams’s Paterson