Rosanna Warren’s Fables of the Self (Norton, 2008) is a richly idiosyncratic work, blending what Warren calls “occult autobiography” and a set of interpretative readings from her canon of Golden Oldies, as well as from 20th century poets. Warren confronts, and is affronted by, what she calls a culture of literalism and crude confession in [...]
Entries from March 2009
March 25, 2009
Report of ALSC Nominations Committee, March 25, 2009
The 2009 ALSC Nominations Committee collected suggestions for filling ALSC’s forthcoming leadership vacancies, and after deliberation and a unanimous sanctioning vote by the ALSC Council, nominates the following for confirmation by the membership:
For Vice President: Greg Delanty
For Council: Adelaide Russo, Helaine L. Smith, and John Talbot
Greg Delanty (BA University College Cork) teaches [...]
March 20, 2009
ALSC Receives Major Funding from the NEH
We are thrilled to report that on March 10, the Association received a $30,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities funded through the Division of Education Programs, continuing our recent run of great success in raising money for our programs and activities. Great thanks are owed to Immediate Past President Christopher Ricks for [...]
March 13, 2009
Daniel Hoffman Awarded L. E. Phillabaum Poetry Award
The ALSC is proud to announce that longstanding member and Former Poet Laureate Daniel Hoffman was recently awarded the L. E. Phillabaum Poetry Award for his latest collection, The Whole Nine Yards. The prize, established to honor Louisiana State University Press’s director emeritus, Les Phillabaum (1936-2009), has been bestowed in past years on Marilyn Nelson, [...]
March 10, 2009
NEW ALSC PODCAST: Putnam on Bishop, Hopkins
We are proud to announce the release of our latest ALSC podcast. In this installment, Phoebe Putnam (Harvard University) speaks on “‘We can stroke these lovely bays’: Vast Vistas and The Lyric Reach of G. M. Hopkins and Elizabeth Bishop.” This was recorded during a local meeting of the ALSC at the Editorial Institute, Boston [...]
March 9, 2009
Lennon Talks Mailer on NYRB Podcast
On February 16, the New York Review of Books featured a podcast with ALSC member J. Michael Lennon. Lennon is currently working on an authorized biography of Norman Mailer, who was the guest speaker at the Eleventh Annual ALSC Conference in 2005. In the interview, Lennon discusses Mailer’s fascination with uncovering “new pockets of American [...]
