CFP: Women's Poetry 1999/2000 (11/1; NWSA, 6/14-6/18)

From: Sara Lundquist (slundqu@UOFT02.UTOLEDO.EDU)
Date: Tue Oct 05 1999 - 12:30:12 EDT

"Women's Poetry 1999/2000; Future's Conduit"
A Proposed Panel for "2000 Subversions: Women's Studies and the
Twenty-First Century," the National Women's Studies Association 21st Annual
Conference at Simmons College in Boston, June 14-18, 2000.

This panel seeks papers which explicate, describe, or analyze poetry
collections by women which were or will be published during the calendar
years 1999 and 2000. Papers should locate the authors in their careers and
in literary history, and indicate how their most recent work anticipates
poetic drifts and directions and possibilities, both stylistic and
thematic, for the next century. Particular welcome would be discussions of
the works' (perhaps gendered) metapoetics: the comments of the poem on its
own processes and procedures, its music and form, its idiom, its fortunes
in the world, its relationship to its creator and its readers, its
awareness of this moment in history. How does your chosen collection of
poems "carry forward the transformative momentum" (NWSA) both of poetry
written by American women in the 20th century and of feminist poetics and
politics? Is there a tradition developing of poetic experimentalism by
women poets? What is the status of lyric, narrative, and other traditional
forms among actively writing women poets?

I am looking to send a complete panel proposal (with all presenters in
place) to the National Women's Studies Association Conference Coordinator.

Please send a 1-2 page abstract and brief vita by November 1, 1999 to:
Sara Lundquist
English Department
University of Toledo
2801 W. Bancroft Street
Toledo, OH 43606

or
sara_lundquist@utoledo.edu

Note: It is not necessary to be a NWSA member to submit an abstract, but
you do need to become a member and register for the conference by April 15,
2000 in order to present your work at the conference. For more
information, check the NWSA web site at www.nwsa.org.

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