Panel: The Seventies

Presenter Information

Frederick Exley
Grace Paley
Robert Bly

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.

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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