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Call for Papers for dialog no 45 (spring 2025)

updated: 
Tuesday, May 20, 2025 - 2:04am
Department of English and Cultural Studies, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 25, 2025

Call for Papers

dialog, No. 45, Spring 2025

dialog, a Peer-reviewed, Bi-annual International Journal of the Department of English and Cultural Studies, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India is open to submissions for its next issue, No. 45, Spring 2025 (ISSN: 0975 - 4881). dialog provides a forum for interdisciplinary research on diverse aspects of culture, society and literature. For its forthcoming issue, Department of English and Cultural Studies, Panjab University specifically invites:

 

International Conference on Poetry Studies: "Poetry Between Creation and Interpretation"

updated: 
Monday, May 19, 2025 - 3:37pm
London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, May 31, 2025

Poetry is a constant, being produced by all known civilisations from ancient to modern times. Throughout its extensive history, the individual art of high emotions sublimated into perfect language has approached a vast array of subject matters, including love, war, social issues, the beauty of nature, etc. A particular exercise of the mind and soul, and a unique way of apprehending reality, poetry is a self-sufficient universe that intensifies and enlarges life experience. Pointing to inner knowledge rather than real circumstance, it activates different layers of perception, sweeps away human thoughts, feeds emotions and soothes suffering.

Between Text and Paratext: The Prefatory Poem in the Early Printed Book (RSA 2026)

updated: 
Monday, May 19, 2025 - 3:36pm
Hayley Cotter, University of Massachusetts Amherst
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

This panel seeks papers for the Renaissance Society of America’s annual meeting (February 19–21, 2026, San Franscico, California). It explores an overlooked poetic genre: the prefatory poem of the early printed book for the It considers such appendages as simultaneously occupying the niches of text and paratext: discrete units which both conform to the structural and aesthetic constraints of poetry and adorn a corresponding, substantive text. These poems are at once ubiquitous and neglected, appearing in books of nearly all genres: from the luxury atlas to the sailing manual; from the personal devotional to the folio Bible; from the illustrated epic poem to the clinical legal handbook.

XXVIII Generative Art Conference

updated: 
Monday, May 19, 2025 - 3:36pm
XXVIII Generative Art Conference / ARGENIA
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, September 3, 2025

XXVIII Generative Art conference.
topics: Human Culture & AI in GA worthiness. The theme of this conference focuses on how to preserve human complexity, with Generative Art and AI.
Art, poetry, music, architecture, and historical cities need generative ideas to adapt to the deep new demands of our fast-changing times.
Our field of interest is to identify these possibilities and relate the most advanced creative approaches of Generative Art and AI.
We will be happy to present your generative approach. This can be done through generative ideas that could safeguard specific identities of Art, Nature, Environments, and History.

Performance and Black Mountain Poetics

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Monday, May 19, 2025 - 3:34pm
The Charles Olson Society
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 20, 2025

The Charles Olson Society will sponsor a session at the upcoming Re-Viewing Black Mountain College Conference, to be held in Asheville, NC, September 25-27, 2025. In keeping with this year’s conference theme of “Performance at Black Mountain College,” we are especially interested in abstracts that address aspects of performativity in relation to Black Mountain poetics, though more general proposals focused on broader topics within the work of Black Mountain poets, projective verse, or the New American Poetry more broadly construed will also be considered.

Eco-Poetics and Environmental Artivism

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Friday, May 16, 2025 - 6:30am
London Arts-Based Research Centre
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 2, 2025

Eco-Poetics and Environmental Artivism 
A Transdisciplinary Conference

July 4-5, 2025 

July 4: In person participation at Pembroke Lodge, Richmond Park (and online)
July 5: Fully online

Conference Page: https://labrc.co.uk/ecopoetics-2025/

Fees** (for both attendees and presenters):
£180 (In person participation)
£100 (Online participation)

 

 

Thomas Nashe and Voice

updated: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025 - 7:42am
St John’s College, Cambridge and Faculty of English, Cambridge
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 1, 2025

CFP: Thomas Nashe and Voice

St John’s College, Cambridge and Faculty of English, Cambridge

January 9-January 10, 2026

Call for Submissions: Poetry Anthology Titled "Alone Together: Echoes of Existence in the Modern Abyss"

updated: 
Tuesday, May 13, 2025 - 2:05pm
Fresh Words-An International Literary Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 7, 2025

Call for Submissions: Poetry Anthology Titled "Alone Together: Echoes of Existence in the Modern Abyss"

Overview:

Fresh Words-An International Literary Journal is thrilled to invite submissions for an international poetry anthology titled "Alone Together: Echoes of Existence in the Modern Abyss". 

Coercive Forces in the Contemporary World

updated: 
Tuesday, May 13, 2025 - 2:04pm
University of Southern California
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

We invite website submissions of poems and creative essays that engage with coercive forces in capitalist and imperialist states based on  Marxist thought, particularly in the Global South. We are especially interested in poems and essays that critically address contemporary global issues, including but not limited to race, gender, environment, decolonization, and imperialism.

Our Blog section features poetry, creative and analytical essays. 

Submissions: https://www.thelocomotive.org/submission

Due Date: 06/30/2025

Small Forms in Nineteenth-Century America

updated: 
Tuesday, May 13, 2025 - 2:03pm
Madeline Zehnder and Thomas W. Howard
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 15, 2025

CFP: Small Forms in Nineteenth-Century America

This edited collection expands critical approaches to scale in nineteenth-century America by shifting focus from immensity (Baker 2006; Roberts 2014) to “small forms,” or forms disposed toward brevity or reduction. Building on scholarship that examines the operation of individual forms such as epigraphs (Stokes 2021), extracts (Wisecup 2021), footnotes (Cohen 2022), recipes (Tompkins 2013), and the serial sketch (Spires 2021), this collection aims to synthesize analysis of diverse small forms evident in nineteenth-century American literature and culture.

Poetry and Poetry Studies at MAPACA

updated: 
Tuesday, May 13, 2025 - 1:49pm
Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, July 31, 2025

Poetry & Poetry Studies at MAPACA 2025

 

November 6-8, 2025

Philadelphia, PA

 

The Poetry and Poetry Studies area at the Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association (MAPACA) seeks creative and critical proposals for this year’s annual conference.

 

Follow the Money: Economic Concerns in Early Modern English Texts

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Tuesday, May 13, 2025 - 1:41pm
Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 1, 2025

During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries markets expanded globally, transactions increased, and the circulation of capital accelerated. This new situation, that created an unprecedented concern with the nature of money (in different forms: bullion, coins, bills of payment, and promissory notes) and with economic concepts (inflation, interest, usury), made its way into all sorts of literary texts and cultural artefacts: plays, poems, pamphlets, or emblems, among others. People started to suspect that money, commercial exchanges, and economic transactions at large were becoming mysteriously free from bedrock referents (fixed value, fair prices) in order to be subjected to uncertain and fluctuating social rituals and conventions.

Marianne Moore Generations Conference

updated: 
Monday, May 5, 2025 - 1:58pm
Jon Tadmor (Stanford), Celine Shanosky (Harvard)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 1, 2025

Call for Papers: Marianne Moore Generations Conference October 23 and 24, 2025
Organizing Committee: Jon Tadmor (Stanford), Celine Shanosky (Harvard)
Speakers: Elizabeth Gregory (University of Houston), Virginia Jackson (UCI), Cristanne Miller (University at Buffalo SUNY)
Location: Stanford Humanities Center

The Marianne Moore Generations Conference is an invitation to join in consideration of one poet in the broadest sense, and with a spirit of experiment. How does Moore contribute, or not contribute, to a variety of fields and approaches within literary studies? How might this poet be carried forward?

New Chaucer Society 2026: Medieval Lyric Situations

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Monday, May 5, 2025 - 1:55pm
DeVan Ard, American University of Beirut
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, May 10, 2025

From John Shirley’s chatty incipits to the petitionary envois of courtly poetry, medieval lyrics often come down to us attached to specific situations. By situation we mean both the immediate rhetorical occasion that a poem addresses and the broader social circumstances that give rise to it. Responding to the recent renewal of scholarly interest in Middle English lyric (e.g. Ingrid Nelson’s Lyric Tactics [Penn] and What Kind of Thing Is Middle English Lyric?, ed. Nicholas Watson and Cristina Cervone [Penn]), this panel will explore the critical affordances of the situation, as opposed to broader frameworks such as context or history, in the study of vernacular lyric.

Romantic-Era Literature Session at PAMLA

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Monday, May 5, 2025 - 1:52pm
Ben P. Robertson / Troy University
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025

Abstracts are invited for the Romanticism section of the 122nd annual conference of the Pacific and Ancient Modern Language Association (PAMLA), scheduled for 20-23 November 2025 in San Francisco, California, USA, at the InterContinental Hotel.

 

The Romanticism session seeks papers that examine any aspect of Romanticism, whether English, German, French, or in other languages (although we ask that papers and proposals be primarily in English). We welcome but do not require paper proposals attuned to some facet of the conference theme, "Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion.”

 

Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to:

The 11th International Conference on Languages, Linguistics, Translation and Literature

updated: 
Monday, May 5, 2025 - 1:20pm
PAH
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, October 31, 2025

The conference will be dedicated to current issues of linguistics, languages, dialects, literature and translation.

Date:1-2 February 2026

Venue: Ahwaz, Iran

Website: WWW.TLLL.IR

All are cordially invited to present their research regarding current issues of linguistics, languages, dialects, literature and translation in English, Arabic or Persian.

 

Elegies: A Reading (PAMLA, 11/25)

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Monday, May 5, 2025 - 1:18pm
Ann Keniston/ U of Nevada Reno
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025

A reading of original work by participants focusing on loss and modes of remembering the dead, as well as other kinds of loss. Please submit a few sentences about your poem(s) in the abstract spot (https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/19592) and a selection from the poems you’d like to read in the description spot. Then please email me your full submission (five pages of poetry). I welcome submissions by both established and emerging writers. Should you be chosen you will have approximately ten minutes to read .

PAMLA San Francisco: Memory and Loss in Contemporary North American Documental Poetry

updated: 
Monday, May 5, 2025 - 1:18pm
Ann Keniston/U of Nevada Reno
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025

This panel explores Michael Leong’s recent association between “documental” poetry—poetry that draws on and/or revises official or invented documents—and explorations of memory broadly construed, including forgotten historical events, the plight of unrepresented people(s), and the psychological and/or physiological workings of memory itself. How do such works define memory? To what extent are the workings of memory affirmed in these works? To what extent are processes of remembering obstructed, disrupted, or fragmented?

Marianne Moore Generations Conference 2025

updated: 
Monday, May 5, 2025 - 1:05pm
Stanford Humanities Center
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 1, 2025

Call for Papers: Marianne Moore Generations Conference
October 23 and 24, 2025

Organizing Committee: Jon Tadmor (Stanford), Celine Shanosky (Harvard)
Speakers: Elizabeth Gregory (University of Houston), Virginia Jackson (UCI), Cristanne Miller (University at Buffalo SUNY) 
Location: Stanford Humanities Center

The Marianne Moore Generations Conference is an invitation to join in consideration of one poet in the broadest sense, and with a spirit of experiment. How does Moore contribute, or not contribute, to a variety of fields and approaches within literary studies? How might this poet be carried forward? 

W. B. Yeats: Dubliner

updated: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2025 - 10:54am
International Yeats Society
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 16, 2025

W. B. YEATS: DUBLINER

The 2025 Conference of the International Yeats Society

30 October to 1 November | Trinity College Dublin

 

The Literary Encyclopaedia seeks entries on postwar and contemporary US poetry

updated: 
Thursday, April 10, 2025 - 12:46pm
The Literary Encyclopedia
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

The Literary Encyclopedia at www.litencyc.com is looking for qualified writers to enhance its coverage of postwar and contemporary American poetry. Following is a list of poets for whom we are seeking introductory essays of ca. 2500 words covering biography and historical context and giving a brief overview of relevant works. The list below is not comprehensive or final, and new proposals of writers/works/context essays that are not currently listed in our database are also welcome.

NCS 2026: 42. Queer and Trans Temporalities Within Chaucer and the Lancastrian Poets

updated: 
Tuesday, April 8, 2025 - 6:40pm
New Chaucer Society, 2026 Congress, University of Freiburg
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, April 27, 2025

Session Format: Seminar

This session invites scholars to bring Chaucer and the Lancastrian poets in

conversation with the latest criticism and theoretical underpinnings in

relation to queer and trans studies of the last few years. Particularly, using

time as a teleological field to measure queer and trans experience,

embodiment, and memoir. Chaucerian and medieval studies have been33

responsible for groundbreaking work over the years on pre-modern

conceptions of gender and sexuality. However, those fields are also

responsible for the perpetuation of cisgender/cissexual centred optics that

have continued to influence the reception of texts like The Canterbury

[deadline extended] Boundaries: Preserving and Creating Space (October 9–11, 2025)

updated: 
Monday, April 7, 2025 - 2:29pm
Vermillion Writing and Literature Conference at University of South Dakota
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 5, 2025

DEADLINE EXTENDED! [send proposals by 5 May 2025]

Vermillion Writing and Literature Conference at University of South Dakota

Boundaries: Preserving and Creating Space (October 9–11, 2025)

University of South Dakota (Vermillion, SD)

 

Featured Readers: Laird Hunt and Eleni Sikelianos

 

Call for Papers

Echoes of the Past in Written Memories: The Latinx Experience (Creative Session)

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Thursday, April 3, 2025 - 3:47pm
PAMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025

Echoes of the Past in Written Memories: The Latinx Experience, is a creative session where participants will share a written piece that embodies a memory embracing oblivion, aligning with this year's conference theme. The session will be bilingual, and both English and/or Spanish texts are welcome. Submissions welcome include essays, poems and short stories.

 

https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/19503

Posthuman Studies: Emergence and Relation (PAMLA)

updated: 
Thursday, April 3, 2025 - 3:41pm
Akim Golubev/UNLV/PAMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025

The Posthuman Studies panel is interested in papers that investigate the ongoing transformation of a human subject in social, political, and transhistorical contexts. Since the introduction of Cartesian duality, as opposed to the British Empirical monism, the field of literary studies has investigated the role of language and cognition. This panel is looking for papers that deal with literary theory, early modern philosophy, and English literature by analyzing what it means to be human and posthuman.

Survival and Healing

updated: 
Wednesday, April 2, 2025 - 11:23am
Michigan College English Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, September 18, 2025

       

https://michigancea.org/

 

Call for Papers:  Michigan College English Association Conference on Zoom

Saturday, October 4, 2025

 

Themes:  Survival and Healing

 

Featured Speaker: Gail Griffin, poet and non-fiction writer

 

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