April 18, 2006
Dear Kalamazoo Crew,
As some of you may have noticed already, there is a Business Meeting for the
Sidney Society scheduled at Kalamazoo on Friday evening, May 5th.
Because of the success of last year's Friday meeting, with readings and
discussion sponsored by David Wilson-Okamura and Spenser at Kalamazoo, Sidney
at Kalamazoo has been inspired to continue the event with a change of
emphasis. We read last year from the Mutability Cantos and primarily lyric
poetry, with some prose. This year, we are inviting the Spenser-Sidney crew to
come to the Business Meeting prepared to read aloud poetry in dialogue form:
perhaps an Eclogue from the Calendar or the Arcadia or a sonnet from the
Amoretti or Astrophil and Stella or dialogue from The Faerie Queene. As one
event for the evening--and there will be, I'm happy to add, an open-bar--a
reading of "The Lady of May" will take place, to be followed (as democratic
intervention) by a vote on the wisdom of Elizabeth's choice between the
suitors.
So come one and come all, and please bring interesting--and dialogical--matter
to read.
Good wishes in advance of Kalamazoo!
Rob Stillman
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