Audio from the Symposium

• Introduction to Symposium and to Cary Nelson by Dee Morris and Ed Folsom
• Keynote address by Cary Nelson“When Context Is All: The Specificity of Popular Poetry”
• Panel: "The Futures of Poetry Studies"
     Introduction Michael Chasar (University of Iowa)
     Melissa Girard (University of Illinois),
     “Backward Glances: The Sentimental Poetess at the Height of Modernism”
     Stephen Healey (University of Minnesota),
     “Notes on the Value of Poetry, or, What's the Difference Between an MFA Candidate and a Prisoner”
     Matthias Regan (University of Chicago),
     “Embodied Politics, or, the Poet as Perceiver and Improviser”