poetry

The W. Franklin Evans Review: Peer-Reviewed Global Call for Student Submissions—Fall 2026

W. Franklin Evans Honors College /Voorhees University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, October 30, 2026

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

THE W. FRANKLIN EVANS REVIEW
Inaugural Fall 2026 Issue

Theme: Leadership, Legacy, and Transformation

The W. Franklin Evans Honors College at Voorhees University invites undergraduate and graduate students from colleges and universities worldwide to submit original work for the inaugural Fall 2026 issue of The W. Franklin Evans Review: A Peer-Reviewed, Refereed Journal of Student Leadership, Scholarship, and Creative Expression.

The journal provides an international platform for emerging scholars, leaders, writers, artists, and creators whose work examines leadership, service, innovation, identity, resilience, ethical decision-making, legacy, and positive social transformation.

Robert Frost and Music (ALA symposium, Nashville TN, 28-30 Jan. 2027)

The Robert Frost Society
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 15, 2026

The American Literature Association will hold a symposium on “Music and the American Literary Imagination” in Nashville, TN (January 28-30, 2027), and the Robert Frost Society seeks proposals for papers on Frost and music. Topics might include 

-new readings of Frost poems explicitly about music

-Frost’s interest in musical notation, meter, intonation, voice, pitch, timbre

-Frost's uses of musical forms

-Frost’s poems about thrushes, ovenbirds, brooks, and other musicians of the nonhuman world 

-Frost’s references to (e.g. metaphors drawing on) music, sound, or voice

-Frost and sound studies, recitation, performance, audio recordings

-musical settings of or responses to Frost’s poems

What About Wonder? at ACLA 2027

Anne Marie Thompson and Helena Tomko, organizers
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 22, 2026

This seminar is about wonder. Specifically, we want to explore how wonder might enliven and invigorate our profession in a time of many pressures, if not crises, in higher education. Why wonder? From the ancients, who claimed that philosophy begins in wonder, to contemporary philosophers like William Desmond, who articulates wonder as a primal experience of “astonishment at the too-muchness of being,” wonder has been identified as a starting point from which to think, and therefore—as we might more closely consider—read, write, and teach. 

Other Traditions and Queeries: Queer Poetics as Critical Practice (Panel)

Allison Vanouse / NeMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, September 30, 2026

Seeking papers on queer poetics and criticism for a supple program on "other traditions" and (punning) "queeries". Contributors might consider models such as: Eileen Myles, whose essays and lectures construct a literary history inseparable from aesthetic inheritance; the New Narrative Writers; Anne Carson; Heather Love; José Muñoz; Elizabeth Freeman; the New York School poets and painters; and Wayne Koestenbaum, whose work models engagements with cultural history that amount to queer methodology in practice. Papers on related topics or their complications are enthusiastically sought.

 

Call for Papers: Journal of Beat Studies #14

Journal of Beat Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 15, 2026

This is a final call for papers for the Journal of Beat Studies' 14th volume, welcoming new and renewed contributions on any Beat Generation or Beat Generation-adjacent relevant subject (including the New York School, Black Mountain College, San Francisco Renaissance, Umbra Writers Workshop, etc.). The journal is interested in essays that reconsider familiar figures, recover overlooked ones, and explore the connections as well as any frictions between these overlapping scenes and their legacies.

Literary Foodways: Narratives of Community and Empowerment

NeMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, September 30, 2026

This panel seeks to examine the profound significance of food as a central narrative element in literature and its broader implications for literary scholarship. Inspired by this year's conference theme, Empowering Communities, the panel explores moments in which food transcends its culinary function to become a source of cultural knowledge, communal identity, and collective agency. Whether gathered around a dinner table, preserving family recipes, or cultivating food traditions in the face of displacement or oppression, literary communities frequently use food to sustain memory, foster belonging, and resist erasure.

Emerson and Poetry at ALA

Ralph Waldo Emerson Society
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 15, 2027

The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society invites proposals for a panel on “Emerson and Poetry” at the American Literature Association’s 38th Annual Conference, to be held May 26–29, 2027, in Boston at the Westin Copley Place, 10 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02116.In “Circles” (1841), Emerson describes “the poet” as a representative seer who breaks the reader’s “whole chain of habits” while opening up new possibilities.

Black Mountain Poetry and the Arts

The Charles Olson Society
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 11, 2026

As part of the 54th annual Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture, the Charles Olson Society invites papers on the theme of “Black Mountain Poetry and the Arts.” Working amidst the rich, interdisciplinary atmosphere of Black Mountain College and The Black Mountain Review, Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Denise Levertov, and many others developed their conceptions of projectivist poetics in tandem with colleagues in painting, music, and dance. As multimedia events like the first “Happening,” which featured poetry by Olson, readings by M.C.

Lawrence and the Mediterranean

17th International D.H. Lawrence Conference, 02-08 July 2028
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 18, 2026

17th International D.H. Lawrence Conference,

02-08 July 2028

 

Lawrence and the Mediterranean

 

Co-sponsored by the English Department of Aix-Marseille University, France, the English Department of Paris Nanterre University, France and the D. H. Lawrence Society of North America

 

Conference Dates: 02-08 July 2028 (Sunday-Saturday)
Conference Site: Aix-en-Provence, France (Aix-Marseille University)

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