"William Bronk in New York"
A Conference on the Life and Work of William Bronk
and
Celebration of the Publication of
Bursts of Light: The Collected Later Poems of William Bronk
Sponsored by
Columbia University, New York University, and Talisman House, Publishers
Friday, April 13, 2012 at New York University
(The Great Room, 1st Floor, 19 University Place
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Saturday, April 14, 2012 at Columbia University
(501 Schermerhorn Hall
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Free Admission and Open to the Public
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Schedule
Friday, April 13th, NYU (The Great Room, 1st Floor, 19 University Place)
William Bronk Correspondences 10:00
Robert Murphy, “The William Bronk – Robert Murphy Correspondence”
Mark Katzman, “Desire and Denial: The William Bronk – Mark Katzman Correspondence”
Paul Pines, “My Brother in Elysium”
William Bronk and Reader Reception 1:00
Daniel Wolff, “Why Nobody Reads William Bronk”
Stephan Delbos, “Cusp Poet: A Case for William Bronk”
Burt Kimmelman, “The Problem of Pleasure in Reading William Bronk”
William Bronk and Religion 3:00
David Clippinger, “Bill the Taoist”
Daniel Leary, “The Mystery of Faith in Two Poems by William Bronk”
Ed Foster, “William Bronk and the Reformed Church”
“William Bronk’s Walk by the Canal" 5:00
(a talk by Daniel Leary about his photographs of William Bronk)
Plenary Address 6:00
by Henry Weinfield, “[Title TBA]”
Saturday, April 14th, Columbia University (501 Schermerhorn Hall)
William Bronk’s Rhetorical Forms and Figures 11:00
Jane Augustine, “The Image in Bronk, Early and Late"
Elisabeth Joyce, “‘another house’: William Bronk’s Contained Spaces”
Joseph Donahue, “The Ones We Meet Asleep: William Bronk and the Limits of Dreaming”
Jonathan Curley, “"Gnostics and Nots: William Bronk's Poetic Questionings”
William Bronk and Nineteenth- Century Writers 2:00
Norman Finkelstein, “Bronk, Melville, and the Mild Day”
Carole Stone, “Gender Issues in Emily Dickinson and William Bronk”
Tim Peterson, “The Presumptuous We: Figures of Address in Bronk and Thoreau”
William Bronk and World 3:45
Sherry Kearns, “The Arts and William Bronk: Response and the Artist”
Eric Hoffman, “‘The Real World’: William Bronk as Nature Poet”
Deborah Diemont, “A Visit to the Ruins: William Bronk, Pablo Neruda, and Octavio Paz”
William Bronk and Reality/Unreality 5:30
W. Scott Howard, “Apophatic Haecceity: William Bronk and the Analytic Lyric”
James Marian Bober, “The Late Agnostic: God, Sleep and Dreams in the Poetry of William Bronk”
Gerald Schwartz, “From ‘The Sunbeam on the Balcony’ to ‘The Ignorant Lust for Knowledge’: Bronk, Proust, Desire, Beauty and the Reality Veiled”
"String Quartet for Ballet Inspired by Poems by William Bronk" 7:00
(original music by Jonathan Newell, interspersed by recordings of William Bronk reading)
The Silhouette String Quartet, Conducted by Jonathan Newell
Ariana Rosen (violin)
Kate Mollica (violin)
Hannah Hens-Piazza (viola)
Lauren Riley-Rigby (cello)
Readings of William Bronk’s Poetry 8:00
(Closing Ceremony)
Readers (in alphabetical order):
Jane Augustine, Charles Bernstein, Martin Bober, David Clippinger, Jonathan Curley, Stephan Delbos, Deborah Diemont, Joseph Donahue, Norman Finkelstein, Ed Foster, Lyman Gilmore, Michael Heller, Sara Henning, Eric Hoffman, Alan Holder, W. Scott Howard, Susan Howe, Courtney Hughes, Elisabeth Joyce, Sherry Kearns, Andrew Klobucar, Burt Kimmelman, Basil King, Martha King, Daniel Leary, Ruth Lepson, Robert Murphy, Murat Nemet-Nejat, Peter Nicholls, Geoffrey O'Brien, Michael Perkins, Tim Peterson, Simon Pettet, Paul Pines, Gerald Schwartz, Leonard Schwartz, George Spencer, Carole Stone, James Tolan, Henry Weinfield, Mark Weiss, Daniel Wolff.
