Past Events

(Containing events since 2011 only)

MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION

2025   Wallace Stevens and Classicism

2024   Wallace Stevens and Modern-Day Poetry

2023   Stevens and / in Germany

2022   Stevens and Short Literary Forms

2021   Stevens and Popular Culture (Virtual)

2020   Contemporary Poets on Wallace Stevens: An Open Conversation (Seattle)

2019    Wallace Stevens and Lyric Theory (Chicago)

2018    Wallace Stevens and Music (New York City)

2017    Yeats, Stevens, Eliot: Re-triangulating the Transatlantic Canon (Philadelphia)

2016    Wallace Stevens and Robert Frost  (Austin)

2015    Wallace Stevens and Walt Whitman (Vancouver)

2014    Helen Vendler’s Wallace Stevens (Chicago)

2013    Stevens and/or Auden: Whose Age?  (Boston)

2012    21st-Century Stevens:  Modernism and Its Aftermaths (Seattle)

2011    Wallace Stevens’ Voices (Los Angeles)

AMERICAN LITERATURE ASSOCIATION

2024   Stevens and the Little Magazine; Stevens and Poetry (Chicago)

2023    Harmonium at 100 (Boston)

2022    Wallace Stevens and Asia (Chicago)

2021    Wallace Stevens and Performance (Virtual)

2019    Wallace Stevens and Emerson (Boston)

2018    Stevens’s Americana (San Francisco)

2017    “When the book lay turned in the dust of his table”: Stevens in and Beyond the Book (Boston)

2016    Teaching Wallace Stevens (San Francisco)

2015    Wallace Stevens and the Natural World  (Boston)

2014    Wallace Stevens and Cognition (Washington, D.C.)

2013    Wallace Stevens’ Letters and Poems (Boston)

2012    Wallace Stevens and Education (San Francisco)

2011    Wallace Stevens and the Everyday (Boston)

LOUISVILLE CONFERENCE ON LITERATURE AND CULTURE SINCE 1900

2021    No session

2020    No session

2019    No session

2018    No session

2017    No session

2016    No session

2015    Wallace Stevens’ Rhymes

2014    Theorizing Aspects of Value: Wallace Stevens and Charles Altieri

2013    Wallace Stevens and Material Culture

2012    Wallace Stevens and the New York School

2011    Wallace Stevens:  The Solitaire Seeking Others

SPEAKERS AT THE WALLACE STEVENS BIRTHDAY BASH

(sponsored by the Hartford Friends and Enemies of Wallace Stevens

and the Hartford Public Library)

2024    Charles Bernstein

2023    Anna Maria Hong

2022   Simone White

2021   Edward Hirsch

2020   Alfred Corn

2019    Langdon Hammer

2018    Cole Swensen

2017    Paul Mariani

2016    Glen MacLeod

2015    Lisa Goldfarb

2014    Maureen McLane

2013    Bonnie Costello

2012    Jay Parini

2011    Robert Pinsky

WALLACE STEVENS POETRY PROGRAM – University of Connecticut

(sponsored by The Hartford Insurance Group; poets do two readings,

one at the main campus in Storrs, the other at a high school in Hartford)

2019    Claudia Rankine

2018    Joy Harjo

2017    A. E. Stallings

2016    Carl Phillips

2015    Susan Stewart

2014    Paul Muldoon

2013    Susan Howe (50th anniversary celebration of the Program)

2012    Kay Ryan

2011    August Kleinzahler

OTHER EVENTS & CONFERENCES

2019     “Sincerely Yours, Wallace Stevens.” (Huntington Library, CA)