I'm thrilled to invite submissions for a volume entitled Trespassing in the Archive:  Poetry in Conversation with History, which is under contract with Lexington Books, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group.  

I’m envisioning this project as an edited collection of scholarly essays about works of contemporary innovative poetry that engage archival texts.  The essays will consider topics ranging from the ethics of archival projects, the aesthetics of the archive, questions of access to archives for creative practitioners and how this accessibility has shaped the works themselves, the politics of the archive, and the ways in which poetry has offered a hypothetical testing ground where the power dynamics, upheavals, and discontent reflected historical texts can be renegotiated. 

Please submit finished essays in advance of the deadline for consideration.  The length guidelines are flexible.  Feel free to contact me with any questions.  

I look forward to reading your work!

All the best,
Kristina