H04068 NOVEMBER 2004 ANNOUNCEMENTS - 11/1/04 - HARDY FORUM ARCHIVES
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POTM FOR NOVEMVER 2004 2004 POTM
ROSEMARIE ON RADIO
TTHA BYLAWS AMENDMENT
THSOC OF JAPAN
TTHA A REGISTERED NOT FOR PROFIT
NEW ON REVIEWS PAGE
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From: wwmorgan@ilstu.edu
Subject: TTHA Poem of the Month for November
Date: November 1, 2004 8:48:42 AM PST
As usual, you can find the TTHA Poem of the Month Discussion by following the links from the main TTHA page at
http://www.yale.edu/hardysoc/Welcome/welcomet.htm
or by going directly to
http://webboard.ilstu.edu/~TTHA_POTM_DISCUSSIONS
Whichever route you take, when you arrive at the Poem of the Month site, you will encounter a program called WebBoard, which will give you the opportunity to read the poem as well as any comments it may have generated, compose a response, preview your response, edit it further if you wish, and then post it by using the button labeled Post. If you are composing an intricate or long response, you may want to prepare your message in a word processing program, then copy it to your clipboard before pasting it into the message area of WebBoard. And if you prefer, feel free to send me your contribution as an e-mail, and I will post it for you:
wwmorgan@ilstu.edu.
Besides this autumnal series and a series devoted to epigraphs, epigrams, epitaphs, and other pithy sayings in verse (May through September, 2004), there are eight discussions from 2003 and 2004 that are concerned with the poems that appear last in Hardy's volumes of verse available at the site: September ("I Look Into My Glass"), October ("Agnosto Theo"), November ("A Young Man's Epigram on Existence"), December ("A Poet" and "In the Moonlight"), January ("Afterwards"), February
("Surview"), March ("Why Do I?"), April ("He Resolves to Say No More").
Likewise, all twelve discussions from 2003 are posted: January ("Winter Night in Woodland"), February ("Ice on the Highway"), March ("A Light Snow-Fall After Frost"), April ("The Sheep-Boy"), May ("A Sheep Fair" and "Last Look round St. Martin's Fair"), June ("A Backward Spring," "Last Week in October," and "Shortening Days at the Homestead"), July ("No Buyers" and "An East-End Curate"), August ("Life and Death at Sunrise"), September ("I Look Into My Glass"), October ("Agnosto Theo"), November "A Young Man's Epigram on Existence"), December ("A Poet" and "In the Moonlight"), January ("Afterwards"), February ("Surview"), March ("Why Do I?"), and April ("He Resolves to Say No More"), a full year of conversations in 2002 about some of Hardy's sonnets are available at the site: April ("Hap"), May ("At a Lunar Eclipse"), June ("She, to Him, I-IV"), July ("Her Reproach" and "Her Confession"), August ("To an Actress" and "To an Impersonator of Rosalind"), September ("In the Old Theatre, Fiesole," "Rome: On the Palatine," and "Rome: Building a New Street in the Ancient Quarter"), October ("Embarcation" and "Departure), November ("The Pity of It" and "Often When Warring"), and December ("We Are Getting to the End" and "Thoughts from Sophocles").
The discussions of Hardy's memorial and holiday poems from August 2001 ("The Last Signal"), September ("Rome: At the Pyramid of Cestius" and "Shelley's Skylark"), October ("At a House in Hampstead" and "At Lulworth Cove a Century Back"), November ("To Shakespeare: After Three Hundred Years"), December ("Lausanne: In Gibbon's Old Garden" and "George Meredith"), January 2002 ("A New Year's Eve in War Time"), February ("The Oxen"), March ("A Drizzling Easter Morning") are also posted at the site and open for contributions.
The discussions of poems with female narrators ("The Dark-Eyed Gentleman," "She At His Funeral," "Her Confession," "Tess's Lament," "The Pine-Planters," "The Pink Frock," "The Beauty," "I Rose and Went to Rou'tor Town," "An Upbraiding," "The Chapel-Organist," "A Sunday-Morning Tragedy," and "A Trampwoman's Tragedy") have been published in *The Hardy Review*, V (Winter 2002).
All of the older discussions will remain posted at the site until such time as they are moved to the Members' Resource section of the TTHA website or edited and published in either *The Hardy Review* or in one of TTHA's Occasional Papers.
The discussions for February, 1998 through November 1999 have been "closed" and their contents edited and published in *The Hardy Review* [I:1 (July 1998) and 2:1 (Summer 1999)]. Likewise, the conversations from 1999 about the "Emma" poems have been published as the second of the TTHA Occasional Series. And those concerning "Channel Firing," "Satires of Circumstance in 15 Glimpses," "After the Visit," "To Meet, or Otherwise," and "A Singer Asleep" have been published in *The Hardy Review*, III (Summer 2000). The discussions of "Nature's Questioning," "The Mother Mourns," "The Subalterns," "The Lacking Sense," "In a Wood," "To Outer Nature," "June Leaves and Autumn," "Wagtail and Baby," "On a Midsummer Eve," "Afterwards," "Shut Out That Moon," "The Last Chrysanthemum," "The Year's Awakening," and "The Night of the Dance" have been edited and published in *The Hardy Review*, IV (Summer 2001). All of these publications are available free or at a discounted price to TTHA members and may be ordered by others using an on-line form available at the main TTHA page (see the URL above).
Welcome to the TTHA Poem of the Month Discussion for November of 2004.
cheers,
Bill Morgan
Director, the Thomas Hardy Poetry Page
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From: wwmorgan@ilstu.edu
Subject: Rosemarie on the Radio Reading Hardy again today (Sunday)
Date: November 7, 2004 6:56:36 AM PST
Dear Forum Members,
You may want to know that Rosemarie will be featured once again on Poetry Radio today--in just over an hour, in fact, at 10:00 AM and then again tonight at 10:00 PM (Central Time). This time she's reading Hardy's "The Last Chrysanthemum."
Most of you, of course, don't live within the broadcast range of WGLT, but you can listen on-line world-wide by going to:
www.wglt.org
and clicking on the button that says "Listen." The program is quite short--just about 2 1/2 minutes--so I'd recommend that you get your computer on and ready a few minutes in advance. On Sunday mornings, in fact, the program frequently airs just a few minutes before 10AM.
best,
Bill Morgan
Producer, Poetry Radio
Director, Thomas Hardy Poetry Page
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From: Debbynewhaven@aol.com
Subject: Re: Rosemarie on the Radio Reading Hardy again today (Sunday)
Date: November 7, 2004 7:13:34 AM PST
Thank you so much Bill. I look forward to hearing Hardy's words read aloud.
Debby Evans
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From: wwmorgan@ilstu.edu
Subject: Re: Rosemarie on the Radio Reading Hardy again today (Sunday)
Date: November 7, 2004 7:40:29 AM PST
You're quite welcome, Debby. I hope you enjoy it. I'll continue to let the Forum know when a Hardy poem appears on Poetry Radio.
Bill
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From: Rosemarie.morgan@yale.edu
Subject: Re: TTHA Bylaws Amendment
Date: November 8, 2004 11:23:37 AM PST
Greetings All:
This is a formal notice to inform you that on the recommendation of the Not-For-Profit office of the IRS The Thomas Hardy Association's Bylaws have been amended.
See: http://www.yale.edu/hardysoc/Welcome/bylaws.htm
With every good wish,
Rosemarie Morgan
President, TTHA
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From: Rosemarie.morgan@yale.edu
Subject: RE: The Thomas Hardy Society of Japan Bulletin
Date: November 16, 2004 5:47:10 PM PST
Greetings --
-- I recently received the annual publication, The Thomas Hardy Society of Japan Bulletin, and have written up a brief review of it for those who might be interested.
See: News Updates at http://www.yale.edu/hardysoc/updates.htm
Congratulations to The Thomas Hardy Society of Japan for a stimulating and learned publication
With every good wish,
Rosemarie Morgan
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From: Rosemarie.morgan@yale.edu
Subject: RE: New Status for TTHA
Date: November 24, 2004 7:23:23 AM PST
Greetings All!
This is a message to announce TTHA's new status as a Registered Charity, thanks to our friends at IRS.
For information on making donations please go to: http://www.yale.edu/hardysoc/Charitable%20Donations.htm
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone, and for those still harbouring thoughts of home, from abroad, here are some pensive lines from Hardy's "Welcome Home":
Back to my native place
Bent upon returning,
Bosom all day burning
To be where my race
Well were known, 'twas keen with me
There to dwell in amity.
Cheers,
Rosemarie
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From: ROGERS@juniata.edu
Subject: New on the Reviews Page
Date: November 30, 2004 12:40:44 PM PST
Just posted to the Reviews Page is Jeanie Smith's review of Thomas Hardy's Vision of Wessex by Simon Gatrell.
I want to thank Jeanie (as well as other reviewers I've badgered to stay on schedule) for her patience with me while I recovered from two computer crashes. I lost some reviews that I had waiting in the wings as well as the means to post to Yale's server. All systems are once again go, knock on wood, so everyone can look forward to regular reviews in a timely fashion.
If you are an author or a publisher with a book for review, please contact me at the addresses below. Also if you are interested in becoming a reviewer, please also contact me with your specializations/interests and experience. Other media, such as films, are also of interest for review.
The Reviews Page can be accessed via the Members Research Resources pages on TTHA's web site. If you are a member and have forgotten your membership number (required for access) or are interested in becoming a member, please contact Prof. Rosemarie Morgan at rosemarie.morgan@yale.edu
Cheers,
Shannon
Shannon L. Rogers
General Editor
Reviews Page, TTHA
Assistant Professor of History
200 I. Harvey Brumbaugh
Juniata College
1700 Moore Street
Huntingdon, PA 16652
(814) 641-3638
rogers@juniata.edu
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