15:00 Parallel Session 10 Chair: Marián Martínez, UCM

• Dolores Juan-Moreno, Clark U.: “From Papyrus To Celluloid: Classical and Contemporary Myths in Aurora Luque’s Poetry”

• Maria Elsy Cardona, St. Louis U.: “Poetry and Translation: Aurora Luque’s Art of Making the Old New”

• Josefa Alvarez, Le Moyne College: “Mito y viaje

en la poesía de Aurora Luque”

17:00 Coffee Break

17:30 Stephanie Mckenzie, poet

18:00 In conversation with Nicole Brossard. With Carmen Mata, UAM.

19:00 Farewell

Women poets have critically responded to myth, to how myths have been rendered and passed on generationally, and to how they give meaning to different domains of the human world. Myths are woven into kinship, sociality, politics, and the life cycle, and the way in which women poets have been rereading and revisiting myths in the 20th and 21st centuries has had a profound impact on women’s agency and authoritative voices. Highly self-conscious about their relationship to literary tradition, women poets have responded to myth and found a venue for issues and characters that not only defy mythic conventions but also refashion them.

As we approach our own time, women’s mythological poems demonstrate increasing self-consciousness, increasing irony and increasing awareness that the poet may not only say ‘Sappho’ or ‘Ariadne’ when the culture does not permit her to say ‘I’ but may also deviate from or explicitly challenge the meanings attributed to mythic figures and tales. She may keep the name but change the game, and here is where revisionist mythology comes in.

Alicia Suskin Ostriker Stealing the Language (1986)

International Conference

ON SAPPHO’S WEBSITE Women Poets and Myth

in the 20th and 21st Centuries

PROGRAM

Madrid, April 25th-27th Facultad de Filología

Universidad Complutense

Organized by: Poetics Group (Filología Inglesa II)

Esther Sánchez-Pardo, Rosa Burillo, María Porras

Special thanks to Mario Millanes and student collaborators

Scientific Committee

Isabel Alonso (U. Barcelona) Bernd Dietz (U. Córdoba) Marta Hernández (U. California-Riverside) Esther Lezra (U. California-Sta Barbara) Marián Martínez (U. Complutense Madrid) Carmen Mata (U. Autónoma, Madrid)

Information: onsapphoswebsite.wordpress.com

onsapphoswebsite@gmail.com

Sponsored by: Universidad Complutense de Madrid,

Facultad de Filología, Acis&Galatea, AIEQ, Deptos. Filología Inglesa I & II

Thursday, April 27

9:00 Session 6. Chair: Francisco J. Cortés, UCM • Francisco J. Cortés, UCM:

“Dorothy Parker’s Poetry against Resisting Myths in Women’s Magazines”

• Elisa Ortiz, UCM: “Praise Be to Young Eros Who Fucks All the Girls”: Sex, Love, and Myth in Lenore Kandel’s Poetry”

• Mayron E. Cantillo, U. Valencia: “Refashioning the Christian Myth of the Apocalypse: Desolation, Repentance and Spiritual Awakening in Michael Field’s Poems of Adoration (1912)”

• Mario Millanes, UCM: “Helene Johnson, rara avis del Renacimiento de Harlem: Langston Hughes frente a la nueva mujer afroamericana”

10:30 Coffee Break

11:00 Session 7. Chair: Pilar Sánchez Calle, U. Jaén • Javier Martín Párraga, U. Córdoba: “The Myth of

Nature in Canada: M. Atwood's The Journals of Susanna Moodie”

• Pilar Sánchez Calle, U. Jaén: “Mythic Subtexts in Margaret Atwood's The Door (2007)”

12:00 Session 8. Chair: Rosa Burillo, UCM • Liz Schoppelrei, Pennsylvania State U.: “Myth

through Revision: Nelly Sachs’s “Lieder Vom Abschied,” the Myth of Procne and Philomela, and the Trauma of Compounding Loss”

• Hope Jennings, Wright U.: “Voices from the Wilderness: Post/colonial Trauma, Spectral Witness, and Environmental Apocalypse in Margaret Atwood’s “Circe/Mud Poems” and The Journals of Susanna Moodie”

• Christina Luiggi, Wright U.: “Reclaiming Mythic Sexual Legacies: (De)Colonizing Kinship, Kink, and Creation Myth in Chrystos’s In Her I Am”

13:30 Lunch

15:00 Parallel Session 9 Chair: Miriam Fernández-Santiago, U. Granada

• José Manuel Rodríguez Herrera, U. Las Palmas: “The Goddess Ishtar in Lesbos: The Transgender Muse in the Poetry of Sylvia Plath and Denise Levertov”

• Beatriz Revelles, U. Barcelona: “The Cyborg and the Goddess: Toni Morrison’s Jandine”

• Miriam Fernández-Santiago, U. Granada: “A Post-human Approach to Feminist Myth Re-Vision”

International Conference

“On Sappho’s Website: Women Poets and Myth

in the 20th and 21st Centuries”

PROGRAM

12:30 Session 3 Chair: Sara Torres, Queen Mary U.

• Stephanie McKenzie, Memorial U.: “Renouncing and Re-writing Myth: Imagining Anew

and Employing Feminist Agency in Natalie Diaz's When My Brother Was an Aztec”

• María Porras, UCM: “The Windigo and the Hydra: Myth, Identity and Heritage in the Poetry of Louise Erdrich”

• Sara Torres, Queen Mary U.: “Toward a Corporeal Feminism?: Myth and the Irruption of

Chaos in Gloria Anzaldua's Poetry”

14:00 Lunch

15:30 Parallel Session 4 Chair: María Goicoechea, UCM

• Rosario Guarino, U. Murcia: “Tejer y destejer: tradición y reescritura de mitos clásicos en la poesía de Aurora Saura, Ana Mª Alcaraz y Mª Cruz Agüera”

• Mathilde Ferez, UCM: “Clitemnestra o el crimen” de Marguerite Yourcenar: ¿emancipación o pasión

de una mujer?” • Laura Sánchez & María Goicoechea, UCM:

“El Ciborg español: Voces femeninas en la literatura digital española”

Parallel Session 5 Chair: Cristina Gámez, U. Córdoba

• Leonor M. Martínez Serrano, U. Córdoba: “Following the Old Stones Skyward: Mythmaking in Gwendolyn MacEwen’s Poetry” • Marián Martínez & Esther Sánchez-Pardo, UCM:

“Niedecker’s Allegorical Vision: Re-framing Myth and the Material in Objectivism. A Cross Linguistic- Literary Proposal”

• Cristina M. Gámez-Fernández, U. Córdoba: “Wanderers, Vagabonds, Seekers and Pilgrims: The Myth of the Quest in Denise Levertov”

17:30 Coffee Break

18:00 Poetry Reading. Introduced by Margarita Ardanaz and Rosa Burillo, UCM

• Noni Benegas, Rosana Acquaroni, Berta Piñón, Olga Muñoz, Emilia Conejo, María García Zambrano, Isabel Navarro, Sara Torres

Tuesday, April 25

16:00 Welcome

16:30 Plenary Opening Lecture. Chair: Esther Sánchez-Pardo, UCM

• Aurora Luque, poet: “Pandora’s New Box: Personal and Political Myths”

17:30 Coffee Break

18:00 Session 1 Chair: Silvia Herreros de Tejada, U. Nebrija

• James Papoutsis, York U.: “Annie Finch, New Formalism, and American Yuppie Poetry of

the 1980s” • Robin Tremblay-McGaw, Santa Clara U.:

“‘Scarcely Silent though Often Unheard’: Eurydice and Echo in the Poems of Harryette

Mullen and Kathleen Fraser” • Paul Michael Whitfield, SFSU: “Let the Nectar

Mixed with Good Cheer: Sappho and Skepticism”

Wednesday, April 26

9:00 Session 2 Chair: Melania Stancu, U. Bucharest

• Rosa Burillo, UCM: “Sylvia Plath and the Agony of Life”

• Manuel Botero Camacho, UCM: “Searching for the Myth through A. S. Byatt´s Poets”

• Melania Stancu, U. Bucharest: “Mythology and Everyday Life in Ana Blandiana’s Poetry”

11:00 Coffee Break

11:30 Plenary Lecture. Chair: María Porras, UCM • Robert Silhol, U. Paris VII: “Structure of Myth:

Literature As Representation