Since the NPF’s founding in 1971, an extraordinary number of scholars and poets have participated in its projects. One aim of this blog is to take note of their ongoing accomplishments as they come to our attention. As we do so, we will create here a growing list of “NPF Alumni.”
Alumni of the National Poetry Foundation include poets and scholars who have been published by the NPF, have presented at the NPF’s decade conferences, have read in the New Writing Series, or have studied poetry and poetics in the UMaine English Department.
If you fall into one of these categories, we want to hear from you. Also, because we are still digitizing our old records, we may miss something. Please send all updates to npf [dot] paideuma [at] umit [dot] maine [dot] edu.
For a complete list of alumni referenced in posts to date, click on the tabs “Alumni A-K” and “Alumni L-Z.”
Abbreviation Key
Journals
Pai — Paideuma
Sag — Sagetrieb
Person and Poet Volumes
BB — Basil Bunting: Man and Poet (1980)
ChR — Charles Reznikoff: Man and Poet (1984)
CR — Carl Rakosi: Man and Poet (1993)
DJ — David Jones: Man and Poet (1989)
GO — George Oppen: Man and Poet (1982)
HD — H.D.: Woman and Poet (1986)
HM — Hugh MacDiarmid: Man and Poet (1992)
LN — Lorine Niedecker: Woman and Poet (1996)
LZ — Louis Zukofsky: Man and Poet (1979)
ML — Mina Loy: Woman and Poet (1998)
MM — Marianne Moore: Woman and Poet (1990)
MS — May Sarton: Woman and Poet (1982)
PK — Patrick Kavanagh: Man and Poet (1986)
RJ — Ronald Johnson: Life and Works (2008)
TSE — T. S. Eliot: Man and Poet (2 vols.) (vol. 1 1990; vol. 2 1992)
WCW — William Carlos Williams: Man and Poet (1983)
Other Edited Volumes
IAT — In the American Tree (1986, 2002)
LMOT — Literary Modernism and the Occult Tradition (1996)
RCPW — Robert Creeley: The Poet’s Workshop (1984)
SoO — Scenes of Ourselves: New Work on the New York School (2001)
Events
NWS — UMaine New Writing Series
Conf — NPF Summer Conference(s):
83 — William Carlos Williams Commemorative Centennial Conference (1983)
85 — Ezra Pound Centennial Conference (1985)
86 — H.D. Centennial Conference (1986)
88 — T.S. Eliot Centennial Conference (1988)
90 — W.B. Yeats-Ezra Pound Celebration Conference (1990)
93 — The First Postmodernists: American Poets of the 1930s Generation (1993)
96 — American Poetry in the 1950s (1996)
00 — The Opening of the Field: North American Poetry in the 1960s (2000)
04 — Poetries of the 1940s: American and International (2004)
08 — Poetry of the 1970s (2008)
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