poetry

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.

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.

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)

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". 

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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? 

“Poetry and Data,” A Call for Papers for a Panel at 

Dear Colleagues and Friends,

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

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.

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