R210. Henry at 100: A Centenary Tribute to John Berryman

Room 615/616/617, Washington State Convention Center, Level 6
Thursday, February 27, 2014
1:30 pm to 2:45 pm

 

This panel celebrates the lasting legacy of one of the latter 20th Century’s most original figures, John Berryman, whose epic poem, "The Dream Songs," occupies a unique place in American literature. Yet Berryman remains a controversial figure, and our panel will commemorate his accomplishment while at the same time confronting the more fraught elements of his writing, among them matters of gender, race, and the limitations of the confessional mode.


Participants

Moderator:

David Wojahn's eighth collection of poetry, World Tree, was published in 2011 and won the Acadmey of American Poets' Lenore Marshall Prize. He teaches at Virginia Commonwealth University and in the MFA in Writing Program of Vermont College of Fine Arts.

Peter Campion is the author of three collections of poems, Other People, The Lions, and El Dorado. He is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, the Larry Levis Reading Prize, The Rome Prize (Prix de Rome) and the Guggenheim Fellowship. 
He directs the MFA program at the University of Minnesota.

Kathleen Graber is the author of two collections of poetry, The Eternal City and Correspondence. She teaches in the Creative Writing Program at Virginia Commonwealth University and the low residency MFA Program at Fairleigh Dickinson University.

J. Allyn Rosser's books of poems are Foiled Again, Misery Prefigured, and Bright Moves. She has received fellowships from the Guggenheim and Lannan Foundations, the NEA, and the Ohio and New Jersey Arts Councils. Rosser teaches at Ohio University and edits New Ohio Review.

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