closing party for the Charles Olson Centenary Conference

featuring poetry readings by:

Charles Alexander
Carla Billitteri
Michael Boughn
Victor Coleman
Ben Friedlander
David Herd
Jeanne Heuving
GP Lainsbury
Kim Minkus
Peter O'Leary
Richard Owens
John Roche
Lytle Shaw
Jonathan Skinner
Sharon Thesen
Jacqueline Turner

Sunday June 6 
W2 Storyeum 
151 W. Cordova St -- [NOTE our new address!]
8:00 pm 

THIS READING IS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC guests not registered at or participating in the Olson conference are encouraged to attend

One hundred years after his birth, and fifty years after The New American Poetry anthology transformed the landscape of contemporary poetry, Charles Olson, arguably one of the most influential figures in twentieth century literature, remains a puzzlingly marginalized figure. As Ben Friedlander writes in Olson’s Collected Prose, it is “as if the unread Olson were the necessary ¾ submerged berg making possible the ¼ ice floe.” In the spirit of bringing Olson back into the polis—and delving into the “¾ submerged” portion of this “maximal” figure—the Charles Olson Centenary Conference seeks new readings of Olson’s poetry and poetics. June 4 - 6, 2010, Vancouver BC. 


for the full conference schedule, visit the conference website at: http://olsonconference.com/