Dear Poundians, It is with great sadness that I send along the news to Poundians around the globe that my good friend and colleague Burt Hatlen passed away yesterday afternoon (21 January 2008) at a Bangor, Maine hospital. As many of you will know, Burt had been undergoing chemotherapy and was unable to fight off the pneumonia that brought him to the hospital a week or so ago. At the time of his death, Burt was surrounded by family, including his wife Virginia and his daughters Julia and Inger. Though the family wishes for privacy at the moment, I am certain that sympathy cards would be appreciated. For those of you who wish to write, here is the address: Virginia Nees-Hatlen, 491A College Avenue, Orono, Maine 04473. Those of you who would like to say something about Burt and his life as a scholar, editor, conference organizer, friend and promoter of contemporary poets and of younger scholars may address their comments to me and I’ll make sure that they are presented to Virginia and his daughters—better yet, such comments may be send to all through this list. The family will have a private memorial, with a more public event planned for this summer or fall. An obituary will be published in the Bangor Daily News tomorrow or the next day at http://www.bangordailynews.com/; it will include information about Burt's wishes for memorial donations. I myself have known Burt for approximately twenty years and am very sad to lose, above all else, his good humor, his modest but sure way of representing himself and his ideas about literature, and—above all—his immense knowledge and range in matters pertaining to modernist and contemporary poetry. In some important ways, he is responsible for the way we have been thinking about and discussing modernist and contemporary poetry over the past couple of decades. Demetres P. Tryphonopoulos Dr. Demetres P. Tryphonopoulos A/Dean, School of Graduate Studies Professor, Department of English Book Review Editor, Paideuma: Studies in American and British Modernist Poetry University of New Brunswick Sir Howard Douglas Hall, Room 317 3 Bailey Drive Fredericton, N.B. Canada E3B 5A3 Tel.: 506-453-4673 Fax: 506-453-4817 E-mail: [log in to unmask]