MMLA Literary Criticism Permanent Section CFP / In person panel
MMLA 2025 Literary Criticism Permanent Section CFP / In person.
Chair: Timothy Erwin
Conference: Nov 14-16, 2025
Marquette University
Milwaukee, WI
When Emily Dickinson writes that “Hope is the thing with feathers – / That perches in the Soul –” she links the emotion to lyric indomitability. For Czeslaw Milosz hope is “with you when you believe / The earth is not a dream but living flesh,” that is, when dreams surprisingly come true.