Dear Rob, Thank you for the invitation , but I cannot be there. I am teaching for the term at ASU and caannot get away. My best wishes to all Kazooers. tpr
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From: rstillma <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 5:44 am
Subject: Friday Night at Kalamazoo, Sidney/Spenser Invitation
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> 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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