Villanelle protagonist Stephen Dedalus. William Empson revived the villanelle more seriously in the 1930s, and his contemporaries and friends W. H. Auden and Dylan Thomas also picked up the form. Dylan Thomas's "Do not go gentle into that good night" is perhaps the most renowned villanelle of all. Theodore Roethke and Sylvia Plath wrote villanelles in the 1950s and 1960s, and Elizabeth Bishop wrote a particularly famous and influential villanelle, "One Art," in 1976. The villanelle reached an unprecedented level of popularity in the 1980s and 1990s with the rise of the New Formalism. Since then, many contemporary poets have written
Things That Go Bump In The Night Film Festival 2013), at Whistling Idiots Comedy Dinner Theatre in Bay City, Michigan. Prior to the 2014 event, the first formal festival committee was formed. This included Wade Lodewyk, Brian Donaldson and Nic White. The 2014 festival was held on October 17, with an encore October 19. The venue was the Westown Theater in Bay City, Michigan. The event was also informally called BUMP FEST. Things That Go Bump In The Night Film Festival The Things That Go Bump In The Night Film Festival (BUMP FEST) is an annual event in Bay City, Michigan presenting films produced by local film makers. The