American Literature Association Annual Conference
Westin Copley Hotel, Boston (May 21-24, 2015)

Friday May 22, 2015
8:10 – 9:30 am

Session 7-L Business Meeting: Elizabeth Bishop Society (Parliament 7th Floor)

Friday May 22, 2015
12:40 – 2:00 pm

Session 10-M New Perspectives on Elizabeth Bishop (St. George C 3rd Floor)
Organized by the Elizabeth Bishop Society
Chair: Heather Treseler, Worcester State University

1. “Elizabeth Bishop and the Aesthetic of the Ugly,” George Lensing, University of North Carolina
2. “Approaching Bishop’s Letters to Dr. Ruth Foster,” Lorrie Goldensohn, Poet Critic
3. “‘We loudly protest your sensational untruths’: Elizabeth Bishop and the Rio de Janeiro Press,1965,” Jessica Goudeau, Southwestern University

Friday May 22, 2015
11:10am – 12:30pm

Session 9-G Elizabeth Bishop and Marianne Moore (Great Republic 7th Floor)
Chair: Leslie Petty, Rhodes College

1. “Elizabeth Bishop’s Love Poems and Letters: Degrees of Distance and Intimacy,” Yangsoon Kim, Korea University
2. “A Magic of Pau(w)ses: Marianne Moore’s Neural Sublime,” Katie Piper Greulich, Michigan State University
3. “Marianne Moore in Transatlantic Modernist Magazines,” Celena E. Kusch, University of South Carolina Upstate

Friday May 22, 2015
2:10 – 3:30 pm

Session 11-L Roundtable (Double Session, Part I) What Happens When the Archives Are Open? The Instances of Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop (St. George B 3rd Floor)
Organized by the Robert Lowell Society and the Elizabeth Bishop Society
Chair: Kathleen Spivack, Poet

1. Steven Gould Axelrod, University of California, Riverside
2. Frank Bidart, Wellesley College
3. Lorrie Goldensohn, Vassar College
4. Gizegorz Kosc, University of Warsaw
5. Alice Quinn, Poetry Society of America
6. Lloyd Schwartz, University of Massachusetts, Boston
7. Thomas Travisano, Hartwick College

Friday May 22, 2015
3:40 – 5:00 pm

Session 12-L Roundtable (Double Session, Part II) What Happens When the Archives Are Open? The Instances of Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop (St. George B 3rd Floor)
Organized by the Robert Lowell Society and the Elizabeth Bishop Society
Chair: Kathleen Spivack, Poet

1. Steven Gould Axelrod, University of California, Riverside
2. Frank Bidart, Wellesley College
3. Lorrie Goldensohn, Vassar College
4. Gizegorz Kosc, University of Warsaw
5. Alice Quinn, Poetry Society of America
6. Lloyd Schwartz, University of Massachusetts, Boston
7. Thomas Travisano, Hartwick College