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Events Schedule
All events are free and open to the public
Thursday, September 22, 2005
12:30 – 2:15 pm Central Connecticut State University, Students/Faculty
Poetry Reading. Introductory Remarks by Dr. John Miller, President of
CCSU.
Coordinators Professor Ravi Shankar, author of Instrumentality, (2004) &
Professor David Cappella, author of Gobbo: A Solitaire’s Opera, (2005) [Torp
Theater, Davidson Hall]
2:30 – 4:00 pm "American Icons: Walt Whitman and Mark Twain"
presented by Professor Jerome Loving, Texas A&M University, and author of
Walt Whitman: The Song of Himself (1999).
Professor Karen Karbiener, New York University, curator of the exhibit
Walt Whitman and The Promise of America, 1855-2005 at South Street Seaport, New
York City [Torp Theater, Davidson Hall]
4:15 – 5:15 pm Reception and Book Signing, Exhibit “Images of Walt
Whitman: The Commercialization of an American Original”, [Elihu Burritt
Library Special Collections Department]
7:00 pm Performance Extravaganza: Theatre & Music!
[Torp Theater, Davidson Hall]
Introductory Remarks by Dr. Susan Pease, Dean of the School of Arts and
Sciences.
Theatre: World premiere of "I Sing the Body Electric," a new stage
work based on Whitman's poetry created by CCSU Professor Thom Delventhal
and performed by CCSU students.
Music: World premiere of two new settings of Whitman texts by CCSU
Professors Brian Kershner and Charles Paul Menoche. Performances of these
works and other settings of Whitman's poetry by Maksim Ivanov and the CCSU
University Singers directed by Dr. Pamela Perry.
8:15-8:30pm - Break
8:30 pm Martín Espada, poet and author of Alabanza: New and
selected poems 1982-2002 (2003), will read from his work.
Opening Remarks by Dr. Katherine Sugg, Professor of English [Torp Theater,
Davidson Hall]
9:30 pm Reception and Book Signing with Martín Espada [Founders Hall
Davidson]
Friday, September 23, 2005
2:30 – 3:15 pm "A Poet's Utopia: The 1855 Leaves of Grass
and the American 1850s" presented by Professor David S. Reynolds, Graduate Center, City
University of New York and author of Walt Whitman’s America (1995), and
John
Brown Abolitionist (2005) [Torp Theater, Davidson Hall]
3:30 – 5:00 pm Panel Discussion, Billy Collins, Martin Espada,
Karen Karbiener, Jerome Loving and David S. Reynolds. Moderator: Professor
Robert M. Dowling [Torp Theater, Davidson Hall]
7:00 – 8:00 pm Billy Collins, former U.S. Poet Laureate (2001-2003).
Introductory Remarks by Dr. Ellen Whitford, Provost of CCSU
[Welte
Auditorium]
8:30 – 10:00 pm Book signing and reception with Billy Collins [Founders Hall Davidson]
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