9:15 – 9:30: Registration
9:30 – 9:45: Opening Remarks
9:45 – 10:45: Panel 1
‘Now what we desire is space’: Place and Space
Geoff Ward: Notley, Padgett, Paterson
Mae Losasso: ‘Works as big as cities’: mapping the poetry of the New York School onto the architecture of New York City, 1950-1980
Yasmine Shamma: Spatial Poetics: The Second Generation
10:45 – 10:55: Break
10:55 – 12:00: Panel 2
‘I was there because of the poetry’: Alice Notley, and others
Agnieszka Studnizka: Witnessing Alice Notley’s ‘House of Self’ in Mysteries of Small Houses
Jess Cotton: Notley and Mayer: social reproduction and the poem as a form of mothering
Zachary Humphrey: Collaging Waldman and Notley: radical canonization for subversive women
12:00 – 1:00: Panel 3
‘talking to the Sun’: Influence and Action
Edmund Berrigan: What of ‘What of’: influence and strategies in Post-NY School Poetry
Ben Hickman: Action in New York Poetry
Jeremy Over: ‘The Saint Lurches’: impulses towards saintliness, the mystical and lurching in the work of Ron Padgett
1:00 – 2:00: Lunch (provided)
2:00 – 3:00: Panel 4
‘We’ve got a lot of what it takes to get along’: Sociability and Conversations Across Borders
Sam Ladkin: Sociable lyrics
Rosa Campbell: The Unfinished: Bunny Lang & the New York School
Rona Cran: ‘strangers on other sidewalks’: community and contact in New York
3:00 – 4:00: Panel 5
‘moving over the nebulous / keyboard’: Forms and Books
Nick Sturm: ‘Guided by Right Spirit’: the radical editorial vision of Alice Notley and Douglas Oliver in Scarlet and Gare du Nord
Mark Ford: Editing John Ashbery
Jenna Clake and Luke Kennard: ‘Litany’
4:00 – 4:15: Break
4:15 – 5:15: Panel 6
‘Joy. Sobriety. Nutty Poetry’: Art and the New York School
Peter Robinson: ‘Deeply ludicrous’: T. J. Clark on Abstract Expressionism and lyric
Jessica Stark: ‘If Brainard was Racist,’ or what’s blackface doing in Joe Brainard’s Nancy comics?
Alexandra Gold: Two generations of New York School artists’ books
5:15 – 5:20: Closing Note
5:20 – 6:30: Free Time (taxis into the city centre (provided); pre-poetry snack)
6:30 – 8:30: Poetry Reading with Alice Notley, Edmund Berrigan, Mark Ford, Peter Robinson, and Rosa Campbell
John Lee Theatre, Birmingham and Midland Institute, 9 Margaret Street, Birmingham B3 3BS
8:30 – 9:30: Drinks at Brew Dog (81-87 John Bright St, Birmingham B1 1BL)
New Work on the New York School 