West Chester University Poetry Conference
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Founded by West Chester professor Michael Peich and poet Dana Gioia, the West Chester University Poetry Conference is a poetry conference that has been held annually since 1995 at West Chester University. The conference focuses on various aspect of formal poetry, narrative poetry, New Formalism and Expansive Poetry. Many of the original core faculty members, such as Timothy Steele, Mark Jarman and R.S. Gwynn, return regularly to teach, but the faculty has expanded in recent years to include Rhina Espaillat, Rachel Hadas, Mary Jo Salter, A.E. Stallings, B.H. Fairchild and many other widely published New Formalists. It has become the largest poetry-only conference in the United States.
Keynote speakers
- 2006 James Fenton
- 2005 Anne Stevenson
- 2004 Dana Gioia
- 2003 William Jay Smith
- 2002 Nina Cassian
- 2001 Marilyn Nelson
- 2000 Louis Simpson
- 1999 X. J. Kennedy
- 1998 Wendy Cope
- 1997 Anthony Hecht
- 1996 Donald Justice
- 1995 Richard Wilbur
External links
- [Conference website]
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