CFP: E. E. Cummings Sessions at the American Literature Association’s 36th Annual Conference
The E. E. Cummings Society will sponsor two sessions at the 2025 American Literature Association conference in Boston [ https://americanliteratureassociation.org/ ]. We invite proposals for papers on any aspect of Cummings’ life and/or work. Proposals that touch upon the following topics will be especially welcome:
• Close readings of individual Cummings poems
• Cummings the Modernist: Making it New (and Now)
• Cummings’ “philosophy of life”— “transcendental, romantic, prelapsarian, organicist, and individualistic”? (Friedman, Art 66). Discuss.
• & [AND] and XLI Poems at 100.
• Cummings’ art during and after WWII
• Cummings’ prose (The Enormous Room, A Miscellany, EIMI, i: six nonlectures, Letters) and theatre works (Him, Tom, Santa Claus)
• Cummings and Re-Vision [For some drafts of poems, see the Cummings Archive: https://cummingsarchive.org/ ]
Submit 250-400-word abstracts to Michael Webster (websterm@gvsu.edu) by January 28, 2025.
For further information, consult the web page of the American Literature Association conference.