Dear Poundians, I wish you all a Happy, Healthy, and Productive New Year 2008. I have been asked by Dr. Burton Hatlen to look after the San Francisco MLA panels and am writing in order to invite interested scholars to contribute ideas about possible topics as well as to offer possible proposals. As all of you are likely to know, the MLA is held every year between Christmas and New Year’s (27-30 December). The Pound Society puts on two panels, usually comprised of three papers each. During discussion following the first panel at last year’s MLA, two topics were proposed: “Pound and Place” and “Pound and the Visual Arts.” Before finalizing these topics, I would like to hear from those who did not make it to Chicago this year. Since I must have the topics, the names of presenters and the titles of their papers confirmed by 15 January 2008, please forward your ideas (and proposals for papers along with a brief CV) to me by 10 January 2008. I would like to have enough time to consider your ideas and proposals and also discuss them with Dr. Timothy Redman (who he is helping me coordinate this important Pound “event”) before submitting the 2008 Pound programme to MLA. With all best wishes, 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]