Dear All,

Alec Marsh (President of the Ezra Pound society) and I are scheduled to
co-chair a seminar on International Poetics and Expatriate Modernism at the
fourth annual meeting of the Modernist Studies Association, which will
convene on the shores of lake Monona, in Madison, Wisc., from 31 October to
3 November 2002. We've designed the seminar's theme to dovetail with that
of the XXth International Ezra Pound Conference on EP and American Identity
(2-6 July 2003). Our hope is that a number of panel proposals for that
latter conference may develop in the course of our discussion this fall.

The MSA4 seminar description is as follows:

>What does an American poet owe America? This seminar addresses the ways in
which modern American poets chose to represent their homeland, its
citizens, and themselves from the metropolitan centers of Europe during and
between the two world wars. In addition to studies of individual poets, we
will also pay special attention to collaborative efforts between poets and
other artists and intellectuals, such as those found in avant-garde
groupings, salon affiliations, and publishing coteries. Relevant themes
include--but are not limited to--the role of poetic language in the
political, poetry's forms of praise and protest, issues of censorship and
circulation, expatriates' access to domestic audiences, and the various
ways in which loyalty and treason were defined during the period.

We wish to invite all interested in modernist poetry, and especially those
interested in Pound's poetry, to register by sending an email to Elizabeth
Evans at <[log in to unmask]>. Simply include the name of the
seminar in the subject line and provide your summer contact information in
the body of the message. There is no formal application process.

                                Cheers, Matt

P.S. Information about MSA4 is available on the association's website
<http://msa.press.jhu.edu/>, and information about the XXth International
Ezra Pound Conference is available on the National Poetry Foundation's
bulletin board <http://www.ume.maine.edu/~npf/bull.html>.