Poetry & Poetics of the 1990s conference at the University of Maine: my panel and presentation info

I'm looking forward to presenting my paper "Telling It Slant and the Anti-Aggressive Poetics of the 1990s" on the panel "Historicizing the 1990s" (also featuring Miriam Nichols and Mark Scroggins). Saturday, July 1 at 2:30 p.m. at the conference "The Poetry and Poetics of the 1990s," at the University of Maine at Orono, June 29 to July 1.

At 10 a.m. that day, I'm also looking forward to being on a discussion roundtable about the forthcoming The Collective Explosive Anthology.
 
Details:

Panel Title:
Historicizing the 1990s
  
 Panel Date and Time:
Saturday, July 1 2:30 to 4:00 pm

Panelists:

Nichols, Miriam
“Re:Publics of Poetry: Revisiting the Recovery of the Public World Conference, 1995”

Scroggins, Mark
“The Executor’s Legacy: Paul Zukofsky and Louis Zukofsky’s Texts in the Nineties and Beyond”

Wallace, Mark
"Telling It Slant and the Anti-Aggressive Poetics of the 1990s"

And:
The Collective Explosive Anthology
A roundtable coordinated by Kay Lederer
Saturday, July 1 10:00 to 11:30 am

Participants:

Brown, Lee Ann
Lederer, Katy
Moxley, Jennifer
Schultz, Susan
Sharma, Prageeta
Smith, Dale
Smith, Rod
Wallace, Mark
Willis, Elizabeth

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