poetry

Call for Contributors: I am seeking contributors for Represent Where
I'm 
From: The Greenwood Guide to American Regional Hip Hop, a
two-volume 
reference set under contract with Greenwood Press. This
collection will 
consist of 10,000-word essays on the most important
regional hip hop 
scenes in the US. I have signed several contributors
for the project, but the following regions are still available:

"Lords of Wine and Oil": Community and Conviviality in the work of
Robert Herrick and his contemporaries.

UPDATE: New Deadline for Submission of Abstracts: 4/25/07
 
Approaches to Teaching Early African American Poetry (1700-1900) (4/15/07; 11/8/07-11/11/07)

Special Session Topic Panel: M/MLA 2007 Annual Convention, November 8-11, Cleveland, Ohio

SHAKESPEARE AND MODERN POETRY
Half day conference at Bristol University

Wednesday 27th June 2007

PLENARY SPEAKER:

NEIL CORCORAN
KING ALFRED PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL

Topics for any aspect of the relation between Shakespeare and 20th and 21st
century poetry might include Shakespeare and Modernist Poetics; Shakespeare
and the poetry of war; Shakespeare and women's verse; the Shakespearean
colonial and postcolonial; Shakespeare and modern formalism; and the nature
of Shakespearean influence.

Call for Papers

UPDATE

2007 ALSC Conference, Chicago, IL, October 12-14, 2007

April 3, 2007

The Association of Literary Scholars and Critics (ALSC) is re-issuing the
call for papers for its panel on "Poetry and Politics in the 1930s," which
is part of the 2007 ALSC Conference Program.

The submissions deadline for this panel has been extended to April 30.

Additional prospective members and current members alike are strongly
encouraged to apply.

Please see below for details.

Call for Papers

UPDATE

2007 ALSC Conference, Chicago, IL, October 12-14, 2007

April 3, 2007

The Association of Literary Scholars and Critics (ALSC) is re-issuing the
call for papers for its panel on "Poetry, Philosophy, Translation: Lucretius
and After," which is part of the 2007 ALSC Conference Program.

The submissions deadline for this panel has been extended to April 30.

Additional prospective members and current members alike are strongly
encouraged to apply.

Please see below for details.

Reconfigurations: A Journal for Poetics and Poetry

Volume 1: Contingency

Submission Deadline: July 4, 2007

Publication Date: October 1, 2007

Call for Work: Abstracts, dialogues, essays, fictions, interviews,
manifestos, poems, statements, translations, vectors & whatnots.

Limitations: No image or sound files. 2,000 words maximum. New work. No
simultaneous submissions.

Call for Papers:

T.S. Eliot, Dante, and the European Tradition: An International Symposium
Florence, Italy, January 19th – 26th, 2008

Participants will experience the pleasures of intellectual exchange in the
environs of Florence, staying at a three star hotel and enjoying daily
excursions and activities, as well as free time to explore the city.
DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS OR COMPLETED PAPERS: OCTOBER 15, 2007.

Visit the Symposium website to see the entire plan of the programme:
http://www.fondazione-delbianco.org/seminari/progetti_prof/progview_PL.asp?start=1&idprog=52

Audibleword.org, seeks critical essays, commentaries, and reviews on
oral and aural poetries with an emphasis on the 20th- and 21st
centuries. Contributions related to American Modernist poetry,
Ethnopoetics, the Black Mountain School, New York School, and more
recent experimental poetry are particularly welcome. Featured authors
at Audibleword include: Cecilia Vicuna, Charles Bernstein, Rachel Blau
DuPlessis, John Taggart, and Martin Espada.

Atlantikos seeks short position papers for a special edition that will
examine the benefits and impact of transatlantic scholarship on current
trends/theories in literary and cultural studies. The essays should be
approximately 2,000 â€" 3,000 words in length and address one of the
following questions:

Based on the papers I've accepted so far, I'd like to invite proposals =
that focus on modern/early postmodern female poets -- e.g. lorine =
niedecker? -- and i'm extending the deadline to march 29. I still need =
at least two more papers, so please, if you have something along this =
line you'd like to present, send it along.

Papers (15-20 minutes) are invited for the Poetry and Poetics session of
the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association annual conference,
meeting Nov 2-3, 2007 at Western Washington University in Bellingham, =
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WA.

Send a 500 word proposal (double spaced) and a CV to David =3D
Hadbawnik (dh1184_at_txstate.edu) by March 29, 2007.=20

Writing Macao:
creative text and teaching

Call for Fifth Number:
Submissions are now sought for the fifth number of Writing Macao: creative
text and teaching, a special issue on Poetry and Translation, to appear
later in 2007 and already under construction.

Workshop: The Poetics of Globalisation=20

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May 2, Centre for Contemporary Writing, University of Southampton

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The implications of the ubiquitous languages of 'globalization' for literar=
y and cultural critique are far from clear. The term is deeply ambivalent, =
suggesting both a political critique of the neo-liberal agenda and an acces=
sion to the universalizing assumptions of its corporate entities. This work=
shop offers literary critics the opportunity to assess and openly debate th=
e significance of the theoretical and political frameworks of globalization=
 for the study of literature.=20

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Specific issues to be addressed include:=20=20

CFP: Approaches to Teaching Early African American Poetry (1700-1900) (4/15/07; 11/8/07-11/11/07)

Proposed Special Session Topic Panel: M/MLA 2007 Annual Convention, November 8-11, Cleveland, Ohio