poetry

The UC Davis English Graduate Student Association (EGSA) is hosting its fourth annual student-led Connections Conference under the wide-ranging theme of “Time.” This year’s conference considers “Time” in its broadest sense. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, “time” is defined as “A finite extent or stretch of continued existence.” Time has also been conceptualized in other terms.

Seeking submissions exploring the formal contours of ecopoetics across time, cultural traditions, and media environments.

250-word abstract, brief bio and CV by March 20, 2026. 

Nikki Skillman, Indiana University-Bloomington

nskillma@iu.edu

In 1966, Seamus Heaney published Death of a Naturalist, the collection that would launch his career and establish him firmly in the public eye as a poet of place whose local accents and autobiographical bent marked a new direction in twentieth century Irish poetry. In the same year, Heaney accepted a lectureship at his alma mater, Queen’s University Belfast, and made his first appearance on Ireland’s Late Late show, reading Blackberry Picking and gaining a mass audience thanks to the power of broadcast media. 

Call for Papers - Fall 2026 Issue  

The Dragon Lode Journal, a peer reviewed publication through the International Literacy Association, is now accepting submissions for the Fall 2026. The Dragon Lode is dedicated to literacy, language arts, and the teaching of reading and writing. 

We seek original, unpublished work that engages with contemporary issues and questions, genre studies, literary theory, and research related to children’s literature and reading. Submissions may address (but are not limited to): 

WRITING THE MIDWEST: A Symposium of Scholars and Creative Writers

The Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature (SSML)

May 28-29, 2026. Kellogg Hotel and Convention Center, East Lansing, Michigan

About SSML and The Writing the Midwest Symposium: The Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature (SSML), founded in 1971, exists to support the study and dissemination of work in Midwestern literature, art, film, and scholarly study. 

The Faerie Queene confronts its characters and readers alike with perceptual, cognitive, and physical struggles, and the reader’s passage through Spenser’s monumental work is as arduous and seemingly unending as the journeys and quests of its knights. The parallels between the characters’ trials and the readers’ embodied experience of the poem become more pronounced when The Faerie Queene is read out loud in its entirety. In 2019, the English department at Tampere University organised its first marathon reading of Spenser’s epic romance. The 2026 iteration will be the sixth marathon reading overall, and the second to be attached to an international symposium.

CALL FOR PAPERS

vol. 7/2026

Forum for Contemporary Issues in Language and Literature (e-ISSN: 2719-8111)  is an international multidisciplinary periodical that welcomes for review any innovative and challenging research article encroaching upon the fields of literature, linguistics, philosophy and cultural studies.

The editorial board encourages researchers and young scholars to submit their article proposals that  comprise with the profile of the journal. The proposals can be sent in English, German, French, Spanish, Catalan and Polish. The manuscript submitted for publication is to be original and unpublished. It should not have been simultaneously submitted for review in any other journal.

‘A breeze in God’: The Spirituality of Music and Song

International Conference.

September 10th-11th 2026.

Parthenope University, Naples, Italy

Organised by Raffaella Antinucci (Parthenope), Adrian Grafe (Textes & Cultures research lab, Université d’Artois, France)

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Leonard Cohen 2026

Global Perspectives on a Multi-disciplinary Artist

Ghent University, Belgium

Oct. 6-8, 2026

https://cohen2026.ugent.be/en

The Australasian Modernist Studies Network and Modernist Studies in Asia present

JOINT AMSN / MSIA ANNUAL CONFERENCE

NOVEMBER 19-21, 2026

In 1916, interviewed for the New York Times, the poet-diplomat Robert Underwood Johnson took up the “new movement” in poetry: “There is an intoxication about the way our contemporary poets fling themselves into a dauntless quest for self-expression.” “Alas!,” he went on, “this is just the trouble! For intoxication is no more desirable in poetry than in the household. Intoxication is not the state of mind in which, as Matthew Arnold says, one may ‘see life clearly and see it whole’.”

Call for Submissions

Eye to the Telescope Guest Editor Angela Acosta is accepting poetry submissions for Issue 60, Paying Tribute

The Zeitpyramide in Germany gains a new block every decade to mark the passage of time until the year 3183. Will future humans remember this art installation, or will it cease to have any meaning by the next millennium?

The Society for the Study of American Poetry invites proposals for a session to be held at the 37th annual American Literature Association conference in Chicago, IL, May 20-23, 2026. 

Panel: Mediating American Poetry

This panel invites papers that examine American poetry through the lens of media, broadly construed and across historical periods. We seek work that explores how poetic production, circulation, reception, and interpretation have been shaped by media forms—from print technologies and the history of the book to digital platforms, archives, and social media.

Wallace Stevens’s poetry abounds with animals, from the bucks and firecat of “Earthy Anecdote” to the “gold-feathered bird” of “Of Mere Being.” This session invites papers on Stevens’s animals and animal imagery across his oeuvre. How do animals in Stevens’s poems reflect or complicate his sense of human perception, subjectivity, and the environment? In what ways do they trouble distinctions between the human and the nonhuman, the domestic and the wild, the material and the symbolic?

Proposals might consider individual poems or sequences, the wider bestiary of The Collected Poems, or Stevens’s animals in relation to earlier, contemporaneous, or later writers.

Possible topics include but are not limited to: