poetry

61st Annual Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Conference
Calgary, Canada at the Westin Calgary Hotel
October 4-6, 2007

Southwest Graduate English Symposium – 2007
   
   
  The Gothic and the Sublime: Romanticism and Reason
   
  As I was walking among the fires of Hell,
  delighted with the enjoyments of Genius;
  which to Angels look like torment and insanity.
  I collected some of their Proverbs. – William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, 1790
   
  How should we read these famous lines from Blake's masterpiece? What is the place of Reason in religion? Passion in morality? The Gothic in the Sublime – and vice versa?
   

CALL FOR PAPERS
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CFP: Charles Olson: The End of the Maximus and the Late Prose

American Literature Association, Boston, May 24-27, 2007

The Charles Olson Society invites proposals that focus on any aspect of the
end of "The Maximus Poems" or Olson's late prose (published or unpublished).

250-word proposals should be sent to Don Byrd at dbyrd1_at_nycap.rr.com or to
Gary Grieve-Carlson at grieveca_at_lvc.edu by December 15, 2006. Please include
your name, institutional affiliation (if any), e-mail address, and AV needs
(if any).

Please note the new deadline: JANUARY 15, 2007

"Edgar Allan Poe & The Juke-Box": Poe and Twentieth Century Poetry.
Poe and his poetic theories have continued to be a point of
engagement for twentieth-century poets, as witnessed by the recent
publication of the posthumous Elizabeth Bishop poem from which the
title of this panel is taken. This panel is calling for papers that
engage with any aspect of Poe's relation to poets and poetry of the
last century.

Edwin Arlington Robinson?s (1869-1935) most popular poems consistently
appear in numerous American poetry anthologies and high school
textbooks, his Collected Poems are carried by ?big box? bookstores, and
one of his poems was even the subject of the Simon and Garfunkel song
?Richard Cory.? Scott Donaldson?s forthcoming biography demonstrates
that Robinson remains a figure of literary interest. However, the
scarcity of recent critical work is remarkable; Donaldson?s biography
is the first in more than sixty years. So why does Robinson?s poetry
encourage so little critical attention if he was and is still a public,
published poet? This proposed ALA panel is soliciting 400-600 word

Call for Papers: Frost's Ascent to Poet Laureate (MLA Chicago, Dec. 27-30,
2007; proposals by March 9, 2007) The Robert Frost Society invites
proposals that address Frost's reputation, politics, and cultural
positionings as well as relations with other writers before he became poet
laureate in 1958. Send inquiries to Camille Roman at Washington State
University at roman_at_wsu.edu by March 9, 2007

Blake at 250: Celebrating the 250th Anniversary of the Birth of William Blake
   
  The Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies, The King's Manor, University of York
   
  30 July—1 August 2007
   
  First Call for Papers
   

The Sylvia Plath 75th Year Symposium, to take place at Oxford on
October 25-29, 2007, announces a Call For Papers for its literary
conference. For more information please visit:
www.plathsymposium2007.org

Call for Papers: Frost and His Legacy
(ALA Boston, MA, May 24-27, 2007; Proposals by December 1, 2006)
The Robert Frost Society invites proposals that address either the=20
understanding that later poets have had of Frost?s legacy or the=20
understanding Frost had of his legacy or of his debt to previous=20
generations. One- or two-page proposals should be sent to Michael L.=20
Manson mmanson_at_american.edu. Please include your name, institutional=20
affiliation, and any AV needs in the proposal. Proposals must be received =

by December 15, 2006.=20

Poe and Periodical Culture. This panel is calling for papers having
to do with any aspect of Poe's work with newspapers and magazines,
esp. papers engaging with recent scholarship that has addressed such
areas as authorship, literary nationalism, the culture of reprints,
copyright, mass production, marginalia, etc.

Send 250-word abstracts to Stephen Rachman
<mailto:rachman_at_msu.edu>rachman_at_msu.edu or Marcy J. Dinius
<mailto:dinius_at_english.udel.edu>dinius_at_english.udel.edu by March 1, 2007.

ARABESQUES REVIEW is seeking work for our November/December 2006 issue
focusing on writing inspired or informed by the experiences, observations,
and/or daily news and social possibilities of the following topic: "War &
Poetry" and for our January/February 2007 issue "Colors".

We are open to work that covers any of the multitude of ways that our world,
our media, and ourselves mark the public and private, political, and
individual decisions of passage we define and define ourselves around,
defining in the same time the destiny of other people, cultures and nations.

The William Carlos Williams Review is actively seeking submissions. We
invite essays of varying length (12-36 pages) on any aspect of the life
and work of William Carlos Williams, and on his relationship to the
artistic, philosophical, social, and political movements of his day.
New theoretical approaches to Williams's work are particularly
encouraged. Authors may submit manuscripts as Word files or in hard
copy to:

  bryce.conrad_at_ttu.edu

The Department of English at Howard University invites abstracts of papers
to be
presented at its annual Heart's Day celebration to be held on the
University's
main campus Friday, February 16, 2007. The Heart's Day Conference
commemorates the work
of African American and Diasporic writers and supports the endowment of the
Sterling A. Brown Professorship.

This year, the Department celebrates the achievement of African American
Poetry
through the works of Lucille Clifton, Mari Evans and Nikki Giovanni. We
invite abstracts
for papers which consider the works of these poets and the development of
African American
Poetry from 1746 to the present.