CFP: Poetry in the Cyber-Age (4/19/06; MMLA, 11/9/06-11/12/06)
MMLA '06, 11/09/06 - 11/12/06; Chicago
Call for abstracts on the relationship between poetry and the cyber-age.
Poets, professors, and lovers of poetry in general repeatedly assert that the
book as an aesthetic object has lasting value. But are we kidding ourselves?
With a readership increasingly reliant on the computer, and a new generation
of students who have never known a time when the Internet was more than a
click away, is it only a matter of time before poetry is primarily an element of
cyberspace? Is this good or bad? With more than a hundred fonts, point
sizes, untold programs and graphic elements, how will the function of the computer
affect the actual forms of poetry?