“A Fine Excess”: A Three-Day Celebration of Poetry

With Richard Wilbur, W. D. Snodgrass, Mark Strand, J. D. McClatchy, Mary Jo Salter, and other Waywiser Press Poets

Emory University
April 2–4, 2008

Sponsored by the Emory Libraries; The Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library; Emory's Creative Writing Program, and Humanities Council; with additional support from The Waywiser Press; and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Unless otherwise noted, all events will be held in the Joseph W. Jones Room, 3rd Floor of the Robert W. Woodruff Library.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2

5:00 p.m.


 

Welcome by Earl Lewis

Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs

Opening remarks by Dana Gioia
Chair, National Endowment for the Arts
Reading by W. D. Snodgrass
Introduced by Philip Hoy, The Waywiser Press
Michael C. Carlos Museum Reception Hall

6:15 p.m.



Reception and Exhibition Viewing of “Democratic Vistas: Exploring the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library”
Curated by Kevin Young, Atticus Haygood Professor of English and Creative Writing
Schatten Gallery, 3rd Floor, Robert W. Woodruff Library

THURSDAY, APRIL 3
9:30 a.m. Coffee
10:00–11:00 a.m. Poetry Readings by Deborah Warren and Clive Watkins
11:15 a.m.–12:15 p.m.

Between the Lines Interview with Mark Strand
Interviewed by Joseph Harrison

12:15–1:30 p.m.

Lunch (on your own)

1:30–2:30 p.m. Poetry Readings by Jeffrey Harrison and Eric McHenry
2:45–3:45 p.m.

Between the Lines Interview with W. D. Snodgrass
Interviewed by Eric McHenry

3:45–4:15 p.m. Break
4:15–5:15 p.m. Poetry Readings by J. D. McClatchy and Mary Jo Salter
6:00 p.m.

Poetry Reading by Mark Strand
Cannon Chapel

FRIDAY, APRIL 4
9:30 a.m.


 Coffee
Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library
Level 10, Robert W. Woodruff Library
10:00 a.m.

Gallery Talk on Raymond Danowski Poetry Library and
small group visits to the Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library

 
11:00 a.m.

Between the Lines Interview with Richard Wilbur
Interviewed by Philip Hoy

 
Noon–1:30 p.m Lunch (on your own)
 
1:30–2:30 p.m. Poetry Readings by Joseph Harrison and Greg Williamson
 
2:30–3:00 p.m. Break
 
3:00–4:00 p.m.


Poetry Readings by the 2005 and 2006 winners of
the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize, Morri Creech and
Erica Dawson
Introduced by J. D. McClatchy and Mary Jo Salter

 
5:00 p.m.

Poetry Reading by Richard Wilbur
Schwartz Center for Performing Arts