The University of Iowa Department of English College of Liberal Arts & Sciences A Poetries Symposium Home Schedule Bios Sponsors Roundtable IJCS "poetries" issue

Participants

photoMaria Damon is associate professor of English at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of many essays on poetry and poetics as well as The Dark End of the Street: Margins in American Vanguard Poetry, co-author (with mIEKAL aND) of Literature Nation, Eros/ion, and pleasureTEXTpossession, and co-editor (with Ira Livingston) of the forthcoming Poetry and Cultural Studies: A Reader.

photoMelissa Girard is a Ph.D. student in modern American poetry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is currently completing her dissertation, "Feeling Modern: Sentimentalism and American Poetry, 1900-1945.” She has an essay on the “rhetorical poetics” of the literary critic Kenneth Burke forthcoming in a new collection of Burke scholarship.

photoSteve Healey lives in Minneapolis and is a Ph.D. candidate in English Literature at the University of Minnesota. He earned an M.F.A. in poetry from UMASS/Amherst, and he has taught at various colleges and prisons in the Minneapolis area. He's associate editor of the literary magazine, Conduit, and his first book of poems, Earthling, was published by Coffee House Press in 2004.

Cary Nelson is Jubilee Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and national president of the American Association of University Professors. His books include Repression and Recovery: Modern American Poetry and the Politics of Cultural Memory, 1910-1945 and Revolutionary Memory: Recovering the Poetry of the American Left. His next book When Death Rhymed: Poem Cards and Poetry Panics of the Great Wars is forthcoming from the University of Illinois Press.

photoMatthias Regan received his doctorate in English Literature at the University of Chicago in December 2006.  He is the author of several books of poetry and cofounder of Rubba Ducky Press and the Cheap Art for Freedom (CAfF) political arts collective. He currently works in the Master of Arts Program at the University of Chicago and teaches poetry in Chicago public schools.

photoJames D. Sullivan teaches English at Illinois Central College.  His main critical interest is in American poetry of the mid to late twentieth century, especially poetry in unconventional publishing formats, as in his book On the Walls and in the Streets: American Poetry Broadsides from the 1960s.  He’s published articles on, among other topics, Gwendolyn Brooks, Robert Lowell, and the economic problems of the profession.

photoRobert von Hallberg is Helen A. Regenstein Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago.  His books include Poetry, Politics, Intellectuals, Literary Intellectuals and the Dissolution of the State, and American Poetry and Culture, 1945-1980.


Organizers

photoMike Chasar is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Iowa where he is completing a dissertation currently titled "Between the Bookends" to Burma-Shave: Reading Popular American Poetry Between the Wars. He has work forthcoming in American Literature and is a regular verse contributor to "Poetic License," an Op-Ed page feature of The Press-Citizen, Iowa City's daily newspaper.


photoAdalaide Morris is John C. Gerber Professor of English at the University of Iowa. She is author of How to Live What to Do: H.D.'s Cultural Poetics, editor of Sound States: Innovative Poetics and Acoustical Technologies, and, most recently, editor with Thom Swiss of New Media Poetics: Contexts, Technotexts, and Theories. With Lynn Keller and Alan Golding, she is co-editor of the Contemporary North American Poetry Series at the University of Iowa Press.