I have gone ahead and started organizing the two ALA sessions for Boston.

The deadline for the ALA is January 30. I have received proposals in
response to my suggestions of Pound and New England. There is continuing
interest in Fenollosa, so I think we may have a session on Pound and
Fenollosa, but I'm still short one paper.

For Pound and New England, Ron Bush will give a talk on Pound and the
Pastoral Tradition: The Pisan Cantos. We need one more talk on that subject.

To get all the paperwork organized I need to receive any proposals by
January 20 so time is short.

It's nice to have so many Pound sessions and conferences coming up, but we
need, what is the current buzz phrase, "content providers."

Please respond ASAP to [log in to unmask] AND [log in to unmask]

Cordially,

Tim Redman

-----Original Message-----
From: - Ezra Pound discussion list of the University of Maine
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Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 10:59 AM
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Subject: Re: ALA 2005

- Ezra Pound discussion list of the University of Maine
<[log in to unmask]> writes:
>The Pound sessions at the American Literature Association Conference over
>Memorial Day in San Francisco went well though we had two speakers who had
>to cancel at the last minute (one because he had just gotten a job
requiring
>an immediate move to Washington, D.C., the other because the person she was
>caring for back in Chicago took suddenly ill). Luckily, both were in the
>session Pound and Politics so we turned it into a group discussion.
>
>It is time to think of panel topics for the ALA Conference in Boston next
>Memorial Day. One that immediately occurs is Pound and the New England
>Heritage -- I thought Pound and the Adams family but that might be a bit
too
>narrow.
>
>Suggestions are welcome. I can organize it again if you want, or, if Burt
>wishes to take it back, he can do it. The key now is panel ideas and paper
>proposals.

Tim Redman sent around this message last September, and since then I've
heard no further discussion about possible Pound sessions at the 2005 ALA. I
thought that there might be some action at the MLA, but apparently no EP
Society business meeting
was scheduled.  With respect to the MLA, Alec Marsh and I conferred by
telephone, and we have come up with topics for the 2005 MLA: panels on EP at
St. Elizabeths (organized by Alec) and on EP and the Confucian Tradition
(organized by Robert
Kibler). But as far as I know there has been no planning to date for the
2005 ALA in Cambridge, MA. Perhaps with TWO Pound conferences coming up this
year (April 28-May 1 at Hamilton College, and July 4-7 in Rapallo) people
are feeling overwhelmed.
But if we are to have EP sessions at the ALA (we're entitled to two), we
must make that decision now, as the deadline is the end of this month.

So first, I'd like to take up Tim's offer to organize a panel on EP and the
New England Heritage.  Tim, are you still willing? And to all of you who
receive this message, do you have papers you would like to propose for such
a panel? If so, please
send the proposals to Tim. His e-mail address is [log in to unmask]

And if there is interest in a second panel, I am willing to try to organize
one. (Cambridge is just down the road from me--well, it's a five hour
drive--and I have two daughters living in the Boston area, so I'm always
looking for reasons to make
the trip.) As far as such a second panel is concerned, I think I will simply
invite proposals from anyone who would like to do a paper.  Let me know what
you are interested in, and I will try to put together a panel that will be
reasonably coherent.
My e-mail address is [log in to unmask]

But this must all happen VERY SOON, or it won't happen at all.

Burt Hatlen