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”