Panel: The Seventies
Location
Memorial Union Ballroom
Event Website
http://www.undwritersconference.org
Start Date
21-3-1979 12:00 PM
End Date
21-3-1979 1:00 PM
Description
In this audiovisual recording from Wednesday, March 21, 1979, as part of the 10th Annual UND Writers Conference: “Epitomes, Bombast & Climaxes," Frederick Exley, Grace Paley, and Robert Bly participate in a panel called “The Seventies.” The panelists discuss the continuity of trends between decades, increased infatuation with celebrities, attachment to parents, activism and social responsibility, the threat of nuclear warfare, American politics and military, their perspectives on literature, the publishing industry, gender and parenthood, a perceived lack of prominent Vietnam war literature, criticism of Jane Fonda, and hardships of Vietnam veterans. Robert Bly closes with a reading of “The Hockey Poem.”
Moderated by Dr. Nancy Furstenberg, Dean of Students and Admissions.
Note: The end of the panel, including Bly's reading, wasn't recorded.
Panel: The Seventies
Memorial Union Ballroom
In this audiovisual recording from Wednesday, March 21, 1979, as part of the 10th Annual UND Writers Conference: “Epitomes, Bombast & Climaxes," Frederick Exley, Grace Paley, and Robert Bly participate in a panel called “The Seventies.” The panelists discuss the continuity of trends between decades, increased infatuation with celebrities, attachment to parents, activism and social responsibility, the threat of nuclear warfare, American politics and military, their perspectives on literature, the publishing industry, gender and parenthood, a perceived lack of prominent Vietnam war literature, criticism of Jane Fonda, and hardships of Vietnam veterans. Robert Bly closes with a reading of “The Hockey Poem.”
Moderated by Dr. Nancy Furstenberg, Dean of Students and Admissions.
Note: The end of the panel, including Bly's reading, wasn't recorded.
https://commons.und.edu/writers-conference/1979/day3/3
Comments
Permissions pending, digitization planned.