CFP: Contemporary Poetry (grad) (9/15/05; 11/3/05-11/6/05)

CUNY Conference on Contemporary Poetry
Graduate Center, City University of New York
November 3-6 2005
www.beautifulnovember.com

The CUNY Conference on Contemporary Poetry, sponsored by the department of
Comparative Literature, Graduate Center, City University of New York, will
take place November 3-6, 2005. We are seeking papers on a variety of topics
that address, and perform, the current state of poetry. (By "current" we
understand the period from 1984 on, with an emphasis on the present day.) We
encourage creative approaches to issues of poetics, criticism, and
translation. We also plan for panels that showcase English translations of
contemporary poetry. Some suggestions for topics are included below, but
prospective participants should not feel in any way limited to these
categories:

    ~ critical discussion of contemporary poets
    ~ poetics/theory (vs. textual study)
    ~ poetic knowledge: poetry vs. theory/philosophy
    ~ poetry in translation
    ~ polyglot poetry
    ~ unreadable poetry
    ~ dissemination & print culture / early vs. contemporary / online
poetry: blogs, lists, etc.
    ~ evaluating poetry: the role of the critic / self-critical movements /
the new poet-critic
    ~ roles of narrative
    ~ new formalisms
    ~ the contemporary lyric
    ~ hybrid genres
    ~ new media poetry
    ~ poetry as a political gesture/activist poetry
    ~ the relation of poetry to everyday life
    ~ how the poem addresses/engages the reader
    ~ influence/dissonance between poetic movements / evolution of poetic
movements

Please submit a one-page abstract to poetryconference_at_gmail.com. If you are
interested in forming a panel, please submit your proposal to the same
address. For translations, please submit approximately two pages of
translation work, as well as the poem(s) in the original language.

Deadline for submissions: September 15, 2005.
Conference website: www.beautifulnovember.com

Conference coordinators:

Anna Moschovakis
Noam Scheindlin
Matvei Yankelevich

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