Panel Discussion—9-10:15 a.m. Diplomat Ballroom, Omni Shoreham. Strategic Thievery.
(Katy Didden, Victoria Anderson, Joanne Diaz, Leslie Harrison, Shara Lessley, Katie Peterson) True to Eliot’s adage that great writers steal, poets read the work of other writers to acquire new rhythms, forms, and subject matter; occasionally, they stumble across less expected techniques. The poets on this panel will talk about the quirky writing tricks they’ve lifted from writers they love. Come hear writers discuss erasing Montaigne and decomposing and recomposing Petrarch, and learn about Marianne Moore’s interscoper, Annie Dillard’s sticky fingers, and the Larry Levis swerve.
(Andrew Hudgins, Linda Gregerson, Rodney Jones, Maurice Manning, Leslie Harrison) To celebrate Michael Collier’s first ten years editing the poetry series at HMH, five of his authors will read. Hudgins will moderate. Michael, a professor at the University of Maryland, also directs the Bread Loaf Writers Conference. Under his editorship, the press has produced a National Book Award Finalist, and won three Kingsley Tufts Awards, the Poets’ Prize, a Pulitzer Prize, and was a finalist for the National Book Award.
The Collected Poets Series Reading
Leslie has been awarded a 2011 Fellowship in Literature from the National Endowment
for the Arts!!! Check out the Writers’ Corner HERE