This book project developed out of a panel of the same name at the American Comparative Literature Association 2014 annual meeting. Please submit a 250 word abstract. The project is in its middle stages, but more papers are needed. In particular, since the book will likely be published by a Canadian University press, we also particularly papers by Canadians (subvention waived with 50% Canadian participants). However, any papers that fit the broad theme and scope are enthusiastically invited. The original ACLA description follows:

Poetry in its Relations with Painting, Photography, Film, and the New Visual Media

We are interested in formulating new ways to consider the relations between the visual and verbal arts, between word and image, that arise with the inventions of photography, film, and, more recently, digital media. How have these new modes of visual representation influenced (and been influenced by) poetic expression? Are the languages of ekphrasis still applicable? How do the increasingly complex technical modes of visual representation stretch (or snap entirely) the analogies—competitive and otherwise—that tradition ekphrastic theorizations articulate between poetry and painting and the plastic arts? How have photographers and filmmakers been influenced by poets? How have poets and poetic thinking entered into new modes of visuality? While these questions are inevitably grounded in the language of ekphrasis and ekphrastic theory, we are especially interested in proposals that move beyond this realm, either by extending earlier formulations of visual/verbal relations to new terrains of visual representation, or by interrogating the traditional discourse via insights engendered by investigations of poets in their interactions with these newer, or more experimental, modes of visual representation. The hope is to locate our thinking about poetry in its relation to newer modes of visual representation within the longer ekphrastic tradition even as we extend and, perhaps, transcend that tradition.