Friday, May 20, 2005
Robert Pack led us through the poems of Milton, Howard Nemerov, Emily Dickinson, and others this afternoon at the opening session of The Literary Connection at LCCC in Cheyenne. Pack, who teaches at University of Montana in Missoula, obviously has a fondness for Nemerov's "Walking the Dog" poem, and dogs in general. This poem has what Pack considers one of the most important aspects of poetry: tension created by the interplay among dictions. Pack will be one of the speaker's at the conference's Saturday, May 21, sessions, 11:30 a.m.-5 p.m., Little America Hotel ballroom.