poetry

Extended deadline for submissions: October 11, 2026 Northeast Modern Language Association Convention

Papers (in person only, Newport, RI, March 6-9, 2027) on any aspect of William Blake’s poetry and composite art are welcome on this 200th anniversary of his death

and the 270th of his birth. Some fruitful speculations might include: how the attempt to encompass Blake’s “indeterminate texts” (lack of a clearly definitive final edition) has led to

new approaches in criticism; how his combination of text and image that his self-devised and controlled “illuminated printing” allowed him to develop has broadened to encompass

Consider the Radiance: On the Life and Poetry of A.R. Ammons

SYMPOSIUM ON THE WORK OF A.R. AMMONS

Cornell University, April 30, 2027

Join us in a celebration of the life and poetry of A.R. Ammons. This symposium will reflect the current state of scholarship on Ammons just as it will honor his life and career. Ammons, who taught in the English Department at Cornell from 1964 to 1998, was known for his book-length poems (Garbage, Tape for the Turn of the Year, Glare, andSphere) and for short, meditative lyrics, filled with the objects of everyday life.

The Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University is thrilled to host the 12th annual Post45 Graduate Symposium on March 4-6, 2027.

The Post45 Graduate Symposium seeks graduate-level works-in-progress related to post-1945 media, arts, literature, textual or visual objects, digital platforms, politics, and culture. We welcome submissions that expand our conception of objects and meaning-making post-1945 or place them in comparative, transnational, or hemispheric frames. We especially welcome contributions that foreground the importance of race, gender, class, and sexuality to post-45 studies. 

This seminar explores representations of female desire in music, literature and the visual arts. How have the complex poetics of female desire—the desire to have something, or escape something, or punish, or know—been represented over time? What strategies have been employed to subvert literary conventions defined predominantly by male perspectives on home, love, war, victory and loss? How have female characters navigated the interplay between things done overtly and thought covertly to reveal the inner web of desires, fears and conflicts that constitute a female poetics of love and longing?

submit propposals to: https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/CFP

The Claude McKay Society (CMKS) plans to convene one or two panels at the American Literature Association 38th Annual Conference at the Westin Copley Place, Boston, May 26-29, 2027. CMKS seeks proposals on any aspect of McKay’s writing. The conference registration is $200, $125 for graduate students, independent scholars, and retired faculty (the ALA requires no membership fee). Contact Gary Holcomb, holcomb@ohio.edu by January 1st, 2027. Send a title, abstract, and brief biographical information.

The IMS Standing Committee welcomes
papers in all areas of Milton Studies.

Submission deadline November 15, 2026

For possible topic and more information see https://ims14.org/call-for-papers

The Center for Refugee, Migrant, and Displacement Studies is excited to share a call for submissions for the 6th volume of Roots & Resettlement, a mixed-media digital collection. For this volume, we invite creative submissions by Latine voices from across the world for a collection exploring migration, place, and belonging.

https://ims14.org/index.php

KÁROLI GÁSPÁR UNIVERSITY, BUDAPEST, HUNGARY

21–25 JUNE 2027

The International Milton Symposium is the world's leading forum for scholars working on John Milton and his world. The 14th Symposium will be held in the historic city of Budapest in 2027.

Papers are invited in all areas of Milton Studies, including but not limited to: politics, religion, textual studies, reception, translation, digital humanities, animal studies, and more.

Abstract deadline:15 NOVEMBER 2026

https://ims14.org/index.php

CFP: The medieval reception of Greek antiquity The Annual Conference of the Interdisciplinary Center for Hellenic Studies at the University of South Florida. April 22-24, 2027. Attendance is in person at the USF campus, Tampa, FL. This interdisciplinary conference will explore the reception of ancient Greek texts in the Middle Ages (roughly, 500–1400 CE). We seek contributions treating the influence of Greek texts on, e.g., medieval philosophy, theology, science, historiography, education, literature, and art. Contributions may fall into the following (non-exhaustive) categories:

"The Power of Repetition"

Chairs: Curtis Browne (Brown University) and Chi Le (Brown University)

Call for Submissions: The Pocket Poet (JANUARY 2027 Issue) deadline for submissions: December 25, 2026 Website: https://thepocketpoetjourn.wixsite.com/the-pocket-poet-1 
 contact email: thepocketpoetjournal@yahoo.com 

Call for Submissions: The Pocket Poet (JANUARY 2027 Issue)

StructuresCarleton University
Ottawa, Canada
June 24-26, 2027

The Evelyn Scott Society invites abstracts of 1-2 pages on the American writer Evelyn Scott (1893-1963).

Papers may focus on any of her works (novels, memoirs, poetry, young adult literature) and take any contemporary critical approach. We are especially interested in papers investigating the canonicity process, the literary networks to which Scott belonged, or the role of disability in her career, but all topics will be considered. Scott participated in various and major literary currents during her writing life, including Imagism, naturalism, and modernism,. She had a variety of literary mentors, including Lola Ridge, Theodore Dreiser, Waldo Frank, William Carlos Williams, Emma Goldman, and Jean Rhys, among others. 

The Spenser Review requests proposals for the upcoming issue 56.3 on the topic of Spenser and the Weather: