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Poetry Now: Who Reads It? How Do We Read? Why? [DEADLINE EXTENDED]

updated: 
Saturday, June 3, 2023 - 12:12am
Jan Maramot / PAMLA 2023
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 30, 2023

PAMLA 2023 Special Session

October 26-29, 2023

This panel is and isn’t about poetry. At its core, it is a panel about our reading habits surrounding poetry, the ways in which the definition of poetry has shifted in its capaciousness, about how we recognize a poem, what has happened to poetry’s public in the wake of Amanda Gorman’s powerful reading of "The Hill We Climb" in Joseph Biden’s presidential inauguration, and what poetry might become in a heavily digitized, perhaps even metaversal future. The specter that haunts this panel is Stanley Fish’s “How to Recognize a Poem When You See One,” but his essay is really just one starting point in how critics have been fervently trying to recognize our reading habits on poetry.

Call for Book Chapter Proposals - Women and Literature in India: A Critical Perspective (Working Title)

updated: 
Friday, June 2, 2023 - 11:20am
Dr. Animesh Roy and Srija Sanyal
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 15, 2023

Call for Book Chapter Proposals

Editors: Dr. Animesh Roy, Assistant Professor, Department of English St. Xavier's College (Ranchi University), Ranchi, India

              Srija Sanyal, Research Scholar, Ronin Institute for Independent Research, NJ, USA

 

Women and Literature in India: A Critical Perspective (Working Title)

350 Years of Paradise Lost, A Poem in Twelve Books (1674-2024)

updated: 
Tuesday, May 30, 2023 - 12:02pm
Milton Society of America
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 30, 2023

The Milton Society of America will propose a panel at the RSA 2024 that commemorates the 350th anniversary of the second edition of Paradise Lost—the twelve-book version that would become familiar to us and regarded as the great epic poem in the English language. We invite papers on any aspect of the twelve-book Paradise Lost or on the ways its significance has been reshaped between 1674 and now. Topics may include (but are not limited to) the revision of the original ten-book poem, book history, reception history, and adaptation. For consideration, please submit an abbreviated CV and a 200-word abstract to Eric Song at MiltonSocietySec@gmail.com, no later than June 30, 2023.

Judicial Rhetoric: A Symposium

updated: 
Friday, May 26, 2023 - 4:25am
Walt Hunter, Case Western Reserve University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 15, 2023

CFP: Judicial Rhetoric: A Symposium

April 5, 2024

University of Virginia School of Law

In collaboration with Case Western Reserve University

 

Judicial writing is a genre in flux. While court opinions remain both potent and controversial, many judges explicitly write for lay audiences or to entertain specialists. The resulting documents are quoted by the press, invoked at confirmation hearings, and memed in social media. Judges have been praised or blamed for cracking jokes, sharing hoary vignettes, and reciting song lyrics. Commentators might be forgiven for missing an older approach to judicial writing, one marked by a more technical, even tedious style.

 

DEADLINE EXTENDED - American Literature 1870-Present [MMLA Permanent Section]

updated: 
Saturday, May 20, 2023 - 11:04am
Midwest Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 26, 2023

The permanent section on American Literature 1870-Present invites proposals for its in-person panel at the 2023 meeting of the Midwestern Modern Language Association conference (https://www.luc.edu/mmla/convention/).

All proposals are welcome, particulary those that gesture toward the conference theme of democracy.

For consideration, please send an abstract of no more than 250 words and a brief bio to: najung@wisc.edu by May 26, 2023.

 

Poetry & Poetry Studies at MAPACA 2023

updated: 
Saturday, May 20, 2023 - 6:24am
Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 30, 2023

Poetry & Poetry Studies at MAPACA 2023

 

November 9-11, 2023

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.

 

Conceptualisms and Erasurisms

updated: 
Friday, May 19, 2023 - 11:52am
Southern Methodist University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 1, 2023

SMU Symposium on Poetic Form - Southern Methodist University, Dallas, March 18-19, 2024 
“Conceptualisms and Erasurisms” 
 Hosted by the SMU Department of English and co-sponsored by Tel Aviv University’s Department of English and American Studies and the University of Liège’s Center for Interdisciplinary Poetics/UD Traverses, the Symposium on Poetic Form will gather scholars and poets on the SMU campus for two full days to discuss poetic form in practice and theory.  

The Poetics of American Speech according to Beat Generation Poet Lew Welch

updated: 
Friday, May 19, 2023 - 11:52am
Charles Upton
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, August 1, 2023

The Poetics of American Speech

according to Beat Generation Poet Lew Welch

 

by Charles Upton

[Excerpted from Giving Myself Away, an autobiography-in-progress;

submitted for consideration to CONTEMPORARY POETRY, Volume 6]

 

 

I: The Art of Poetic Recitation

as taught by Lewis Barrett Welch

 

Anthology: The Footprints We Left Behind

updated: 
Friday, May 19, 2023 - 11:50am
The Footprints We Left Behind (Singapore)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 24, 2023

We are a self-initiated group that has plans on publishing an anthology on life based in Singapore and currently, we are looking for a Tamil editor to review short stories and poems that are written in Tamil. We welcome anyone who is interested and proficient in Tamil for this role. You will be credited for your contributions in the anthology. For indication of your interest or further enquiries, please feel free to contact us by 24th July 2023 at the following email address: anthology.fwlb.sg@gmail.com

 

Emily Dickinson's (In)Security

updated: 
Friday, May 19, 2023 - 11:40am
South Atlantic Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 31, 2023

The Emily Dickinson International Society panel at the South Atlantic Modern Language Association conference (November 9–11, 2023, in Atlanta, Georgia) seeks submissions on any aspect of Dickinson studies. Abstracts related to the conference theme of (In)Security are particularly welcome. Creative as well as critical work will be considered, and submissions from graduate students are encouraged. By July 31, please submit an abstract, CV, and any A/V requirements to Trisha Kannan at trisha@concisionmatters.com.

CFP: Audience/Participants: Great Writing International Creative Writing Conference

updated: 
Wednesday, May 17, 2023 - 10:08am
Great Writing International Creative Writing Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, June 24, 2023

Audience/Participant places are still available for

Great Writing International Creative Writing Conference

Saturday July 15 – Sunday July 16, 2023

University College London*

(*note the exciting new location)

This is the 26th Annual Great Writing International Creative Writing Conference.

Republic of Literature, Literature of Republic

updated: 
Friday, May 12, 2023 - 3:46am
Nesir: Journal of Literary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, August 1, 2023

To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Republic of Turkey, Nesir: Journal of Literary studies will dedicate its fifth issue to the theme of “Republic of Literature, Literature of Republic.” In this issue, the journal delves into Turkey’s republican experience and its manifestations and effects on fictional and non-fictional literary productions, as well as their reception, in comparison to similar experiences in other countries. In addition to examining the relationship between literature and politics, the issue encourages critical, historical, and interdisciplinary perspectives to be applied to the concept of the “autonomy of literature.”

AWP Session Presenters Needed for “Creative” and “Craft and Criticism” Panels

updated: 
Thursday, May 11, 2023 - 10:31am
Anna Faktorovich / Anaphora Literary Press
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 31, 2023

Presenters are invited to submit their interest to jointly submit panel proposals for the upcoming AWP conference in Kansas City, Missouri on February 7-10, 2024. Depending on the number of interested writers, there can be 1-3 different panels we can pitch in groups organized by category type. One panel should focus on “Craft and Criticism” in “Multiple Literary Genres”. Another panel can be a “Multiple Literary Genres Reading”. Other categories in “Craft and Criticism” include “Nonfiction”, “Poetry” and “Fiction”.

The poetical and the political in Galician and Portuguese speaking literatures and cultures: social conflict and dialogisms (Galicia, Portugal, Brazil and Africa)

updated: 
Thursday, May 11, 2023 - 9:18am
Nuno Neves
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 7, 2023

UPDATED DEADLINE

 

CHAMADA DE PROPOSTAS DE ARTIGOS | CALL FOR PAPERS NÚMERO ESPECIAL DE | SPECIAL ISSUE OF

Abriu: estudos de textualidade do Brasil, Galicia e Portugal (13, 2024)

"O poético e o político nas literaturas e culturas de língua galega e portuguesa: conflito social e dialogismos (Galiza, Portugal, Brasil e África)"

"The poetical and the political in Galician and Portuguese speaking literatures and cultures: social conflict and dialogisms (Galicia, Portugal, Brazil and Africa)"

Editoras/es convidadas/os | Guest Editors: Burghard Baltrusch, Lúcia Evangelista, Antía Monteagudo, Nuno Miguel Neves

DEADLINE EXTENDED Going Public: When Poetry Addresses Democracy (MMLA 2023)

updated: 
Wednesday, May 10, 2023 - 9:24am
Hannah Kroonblawd / MMLA Creative Writing: Poetry Permanent Section
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 14, 2023

MMLA Annual Convention: Cincinnati, Ohio, November 2-5, 2023

Creative Writing II: Poetry Permanent Section CFP 

“Going Public: When Poetry Addresses Democracy” 

Rocking Romanticism

updated: 
Tuesday, May 9, 2023 - 11:41am
Université d'Artois
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 15, 2023

ROCKING ROMANTICISM

Romanticism and Rock Music

International Conference

Université d’Artois, Arras, France

Textes et Cultures (UR 4028), équipe interne "Translittéraires", en association
avec l’ENS, la SERA, et LOOP

Thursday 28th-Friday 29th March 2024

Organised by Adrian Grafe (Université d'Artois) and Marc Porée (ENS/PSL)

SCMLA - Renaissance Literature Excluding Drama

updated: 
Tuesday, May 9, 2023 - 5:06am
South Central Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 10, 2023

We are currently accepting submissions for the Renaissance Literature Excluding Drama panel taking place at the 2023 South Central Modern Language Association annual conference. The conference will be held in Corpus Christi, TX, on October 12-14. We welcome papers on any and all non-dramatic literary Renaissance works, including works from the English Renaissance/Early Modern period. From Machiavelli to Milton and Cervantes to Stanley, all works of poetry and prose are open for consideration. Neither the conference nor the panel have a theme, so we welcome papers with a wide range of topics. The deadline to submit abstracts is July 10, 2023. Please email your 250-word abstracts to chair Nicholas A. Brush.

Brontë Studies Early Career Research Essay Prize

updated: 
Tuesday, May 9, 2023 - 4:51am
Brontë Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, August 15, 2023

Brontë Studies is delighted to announce the launch of an Essay Prize established in honour of Margaret Smith. The Brontë Studies Early Career Research Essay Prize aims to encourage new scholarship in the field of Brontë studies, recognize and reward outstanding achievement by new researchers, and support the professional development of the next generation of Brontë scholars.

Climate Crisis, Lyric Crisis?: Contemporary Poetry and the Environment

updated: 
Tuesday, May 9, 2023 - 4:45am
University of Bristol
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 17, 2023

Climate Crisis, Lyric Crisis?:Contemporary Poetry and the Environment

 

‘Un-/

natural says the news. Also the body says it.’ Jorie Graham

 

‘I place my feet/

with care in such a world.’ William E. Stafford

 

‘Task: to be where I am.’ Tomas Tranströmer

 

EXTENDED DEADLINE: MOVEMENT|Call for Submissions to Moveable Type Journal (UCL)

updated: 
Tuesday, May 9, 2023 - 4:45am
University College London (UCL) English Department Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 15, 2023

Moveable Type is the journal of the University College London (UCL) English Department. The theme for this year's journal is 'Movement'. We welcome all academic articles; book, art, music or film reviews; creative writing; and original art or film which respond to this year's theme. Submissions are welcome from across the arts & humanities and beyond. All submissions should be sent to editors.moveabletype@gmail.com by midnight on 15 May 2023. Please feel free to get in touch to discuss your choice of topic prior to submission. See below for submission guidelines.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

"No Ideas but in Things": Influences on Black Mountain Poetry

updated: 
Tuesday, May 9, 2023 - 4:44am
The Charles Olson Society
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 14, 2023

The Charles Olson Society will host panels at the upcoming Re-Viewing Black Mountain College Conference, to be held in Asheville, North Carolina, from October 13th-15th. William Carlos Williams’ well-known like, “No Ideas but in Things,” fits well with the conference theme this year, which focuses on materiality. For the poets associated with Black Mountain College – Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Robert Creeley, John Wieners, Ed Dorn, Denise Levertov, and others – preceding modernist poets were figures to follow and to oppose in various ways. From Ezra Pound to Williams, Gertrude Stein to James Joyce, the modernist generation’s experimental practices inspired Black Mountain poetry while also creating tension.

Voyages: Traversing the White Space

updated: 
Tuesday, May 9, 2023 - 4:42am
Pivot - Graduate Student Journal of York University
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 21, 2023

​​Call for Papers:

 Voyages: Traversing the White Space

 

Deadline: May 21, 2023, 11:59 pm EST

 

Pivot magazine would like to invite you all to share your work! We are so excited to share that the theme for our 2023 edition is Voyages: Traversing the White Space. 

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS : 'CONTEMPORARY POETRY' (VOLUME 6)

updated: 
Tuesday, May 9, 2023 - 4:39am
The Muse-an International Journal of Poetry
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, June 10, 2023

Website: https://themuse.webs.com/newsandevents.htm

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS : 'CONTEMPORARY POETRY' (VOLUME 6)

1 Authors may submit up to five (5) poems.

2. ANTHOLOGY seeks honest, thoughtful, well-written poetry.

3. Poems must be submitted in the body of email.

4. While submitting your poems write subject line of email as
“CONTEMPORARY POETRY VOLUME 6 SUBMISSION”

5. Send your submission to contemporarypoetryanthology@gmail.com .
Last date for submission is June 10, 2023.

6 No royalty will be paid to the contributors.

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

updated: 
Tuesday, May 9, 2023 - 4:37am
London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 30, 2023

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.

Feminist Resistance

updated: 
Thursday, April 27, 2023 - 4:50am
Janus Unbound: Journal of Critical Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, July 15, 2023

Janus Unbound: Journal of Critical Studies is pleased to announce the CFP for issue 3.1 "Feminist Resistance" scheduled for Winter 2023 publication with submissions due by 15 July 2023.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS Literature Today - July 2023 Issue

updated: 
Thursday, April 27, 2023 - 4:07am
Literature Today- an International Journal of Contemporary Literature
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, June 28, 2023

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS Literature Today - July 2023 Issue:

Literature Today- an International Literary Journal is inviting submissions for July 2023 issue of 'Literature Today'. The theme of our July 2023 issue is ' To Err Is Human '. You can send us poems, short stories, memoirs and one minute plays on :

Website: https://literaturetodayjournal.blogspot.com/

1. Life changing mistakes.

2. Mistakes in relationships.

3. Innocent mistakes.

4. The first mistake of life.

5. Memories and mistakes.

6. Conflicts and mistakes.

7. Mistakes and machines.

8. Human heart and mistakes.

Réalités alternatives contemporaines (WIF roundtable) - PAMLA 2023

updated: 
Thursday, April 27, 2023 - 4:06am
PACIFIC ANCIENT AND MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 31, 2023

Dans cette session de Women in French (WIF), nous invitons des interventions explorant des productions du 21ème siècle par des femmes (romans, films, poésie, bande dessinée) qui prennent le biais d’une autre réalité pour réfléchir sur notre contemporanéité. Fables, contes, récits de science-fiction ou de fantasy sont souvent les reflets de nos désirs et de nos peurs en matière de régime politique, abus des corps et de la technologie, relations entre les humains et les animaux et la planète. La session se veut à la fois formelle et informelle, ancrée dans la recherche des participant.e.s et l’interaction entre les expériences plutôt qu’une présentation formelle.

Reading Love's Martyr (a two-day conference at Christ Church, Oxford, 4-5 January 2024)

updated: 
Friday, April 14, 2023 - 2:06pm
Ted Tregear and Sean Geddes
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 31, 2023

First published in 1601, Love’s Martyr is usually read in parts. One part in particular, William Shakespeare’s poem on the phoenix and the turtle-dove, has won the book its lasting reputation – but at the cost  of consigning the rest of it to obscurity. Only over recent decades, with the revival of interest in Shakespeare’s poetry, have scholars found more to say about the collection as a whole. Thanks to them, Shakespeare’s untitled poem – usually known as ‘The Phoenix and Turtle’ – has increasingly been read in the context of the volume’s ‘Poeticall Essaies’, where Shakespeare features alongside John Marston, Ben Jonson, and George Chapman.

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