poetry

Note: The deadline for submissions has been extended to December 1, =20
            2005.

Please kindly forward this CFP as widely as you can.
 
CALL FOR PAPERS
Medieval Children: 1200-1500
17 (Saturday) -18 (Sunday) June 2006 (will include Friday the 16th if necessary)
 
Keynote Speakers:
Prof. Derek Brewer (English, Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge)
Prof. Nicholas Orme (History, University of Exeter)
 
The Canterbury Centre for Medieval and Tudor Studies, University of Kent at Canterbury, United Kingdom, is hosting an international conference on Medieval Children 1200-1500.
 
Foregrounding interdisciplinarity, CCMTS welcomes papers employing any literary, historical, art-historical, demographic, or anthropological approaches and source materials.
 

We are seeking previously unpublished critical essays for Mantis 5, under
the broad theme of "Poetry and Discipline."

Mantis is a journal of contemporary poetry, poetry translation and poetry
criticism. A forum for writers coming from a broad spectrum of intellectual
and aesthetic positions, Mantis is dedicated to publishing new work that
interrogates the relationships among critical writing, creative writing, and
translation.

CALL FOR PAPERS: WALT WHITMAN (10 Oct 2005; Book)

Scholarly papers are invited for consideration for
publication in a volume on the poetry and philosophy
of WALT WHITMAN.
The Contributors are required to mail the abstracts of
their papers/essays along with their detailed biodata
to the Volume-editor on the following address:

K. Dinesh Singh
[Lecturer,Department of English,Government College,
Sanjauli,SHIMLA: 171 006 H.P. INDIA.]

Correspondence Address:
# 3, CECIL QUARTERS, CHAURA MAIDAN, SHIMLA: 171004 HP
INDIA.
e-mail: kanwardineshsingh_at_yahoo.co.in.
Deadline: 10 October 2005.

Call for Papers for the Tenth Annual Writers Conference in Honor of Elmer
Kelton
February 23-24, 2006
Angelo State University
San Angelo, Texas

15-20 minute presentations of poetry, fiction, or critical essays on the
work of Tim O'Brien, this year's keynote speaker.

Deadline for Submissions: November 7, 2005
Notification by November 21, 2005

Send submissions or inquiries to:

Dr. Leigh Harbin, Conference Committee Chair
Department of English
Angelo State University
#10894, ASU Station
San Angelo, TX 76909-0894

Email submissions welcome: leigh.harbin_at_angelo.edu

Call For Papers: Spenser at Kalamazoo

Two open sessions on Edmund Spenser
41st International Congress on Medieval Studies
Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, Michigan)

4-7 May 2006

Abstracts may be submitted on any topic dealing with Spenser. As always,
we encourage submissions by newcomers and by established scholars of all
ranks. Papers on Spenser's shorter poems are especially welcome this year.

RiLUnE - Revue of Literatures of the European Union
 
Papers are being accepted for the second issue on "Forms and antiforms in European contemporary poetry".

Please Post and Announce

        Call for Papers: Experimental Writing and Aesthetics
        Abstract/Proposals by 15 November 2005

Southwest/Texas Popular & American Culture Associations 27th Annual Conference
Albuquerque, NM, February 8-11, 2006
Hyatt Regency Albuquerque
330 Tijeras
Albuquerque, NM 87102
Phone: 1.505.842.1234
Fax: 1.505.766.6710

Proposals sought for an essay collection with the working title, "'A woman sworn to lucidity': Perspectives on the Career and Influence of Adrienne Rich."

Call for Papers:
The Politics of Culture: E. E. Cummings and Other Modernists

Call for abstracts for a proposed panel on "Recovering Beat Women
Writers" for the Society for the Study of American Women Writers
Conference to be held in Philadelphia on November 8-11, 2006.
Proposals are requested for a panel on women writers affiliated with the
Beat Generation focusing on individual authors, feminist/cultural
studies considerations of women in this mid-20th-century bohemian
milieu, or issues in the ongoing recovery project. Send brief abstracts
(1-3 pages) by October 10, 2005, to Dr. Jennie Skerl, 1502 Weatherstone
Dr., Paoli, PA 19301. Note: This panel has not yet been approved by
the conference committee; however, SSAWW says that pre-organized

Temple Poetics Group

Call for Papers

Unbinding the Book, Bound Edition

Soliciting essays, poems, short stories, and other written
and/or creative works

for

We are currently editing a special issue of _Victorian Poetry_, scheduled for publication in 2006, on Tractarian poetry and poetics and its influence on Victorian literature and religion. Due to the unavoidable withdrawal of one of our contributors, we are interested in hearing from anyone who has material on this topic which could be quickly turned into a high-quality article. The article (c.6000 words) would have to be completed by the end of July at the latest, and preferably earlier.

For further information or to express interest, please contact us at the email addresses below.

Dr Kirstie Blair
University of Glasgow
k.blair_at_englit.arts.gla.ac.uk

Stanford University's Program in American Studies
Announces

Paul Laurence Dunbar: A Centennial Conference at Stanford University, March
9-11, 2006

This conference will celebrate the centennial of Dunbar's death by exploring
new critical perspectives on the full range of his career as a poet,
novelist, lyricist, dramatist, and journalist. The conference organizers
will edit a selection of the papers for a special issue of African American
Review.