We are eager to post announcements of all international, English-language conferences generated by both writing and academic communities -- when those events pertain to modernist studies and contemporary innovate poetries & scholarship, particularly when focused on the works of women authors. his section will be continuously UPDATED between the September and February isues. Please send Call for Papers, dates, location, website information --with plenty of lead time -- to Up'date Coordinator Arielle Greenberg acgreenberg@syr.edu
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CALLS FOR APERS
"Wider
boundries of daring": The Modernist Impulse in Canadian Women's Poetry
October
25-28 001
Windsor,
OntarioCo-hosted by the University of Windsor and York University Di
Brandt ad Barbara Godard
DEADLINE FOR PROPOALS: DECEMBER 15, 2000
"Neither
one alive o see
In wider boundaries of daring
What the recompense might be."
(Dorothy
Livesay, "W Are Alone")
Dorothy Livesay's poem (written in the 1930s) announces a bold project
and expresse curiosity about its future reception. Was she working alone
or striving wth comrades to build an archive for future times? How was
this legacy taen up or modified by other writers, artists, critics, feminists
and social actiists, then and later? What are the "wider boundaries of
daring" envisiond and created by the work of Modernist women poets of
Canada? What issus does retrieval of this past raise for literary history,
for feminist theor? These are some of the questions to be addressed in
a conference that wll focus on the important contribution of Dorothy
Livesay, P.K. Page, iriam Waddington, Margaret Avison, Jay MacPherson,
Elizabeth Smart, Phylis Webb, and other lesser known poets of their generations
such as Doris Ferne, Foris McLaren, Anne Marriott, Kay Smith, Elizabeth
Brewster, to Canadian lterature and society.
Modernism is a fraught issue in Caadian literature criticism. Robert Kroetsch once announced that Canadian lterature passed straight from Victorianism to Postmodernism with nothingin between, thereby contributing to a marked decline in scholarly attenton to the Modernist period since the 1980s. Poststructuralist and postcoonial studies in the last decades have tended to privilege narrative at theexpense of poetry. Focus on the troubled relationship of feminism and pstmodernism has contributed to the neglect of contemporary women writers' egacy from their Modernist predecessors. A festival of readings by severa generations of women poets will address this question through performanceand dialogue. We wish to celebrate the "wider boundaries of daring" Moderist women poets envisioned and created for women artists who came after an the wide-ranging artistic affiliations and inter-media connections they estblished.
Critically, the conference will supplement existig scholarship on Modernist poetry in Canada that has been primarily the ork of poets, collecting manifestoes, identifying little magazines and other vant-garde sites of diffusion, writing biographies. A critical gap has merged recently as the first outlines of a more general narrative of Cnadian Modernism have been sketched with a decidedly masculinist cast (Gnarowsi, Trehearne, Kizuk). Only the rare token woman figures in these studis as practitioner of an aesthetic to be surpassed on the way to greater artistc heights. Additionally, this narrative posits Canadian modernism as drivative of British and American experiments. Elsewhere, though, a retinking of Modernism through the lens of gender has greatly expanded the numer of texts and the formal range of rejections of tradition, as well as enlrging the connecting strands of association between modernists so as t displace the canon from a few masters. One thinks of the work of Bonne Kime Scott who includes women writers of the of the Harlem Renaissance in Te Gender of Modernism; of Whitney Chadwick in Women Artists and the Surrealst Movement and Georgiana Colvile in La Femme s'entte who show how Surrealism oly appeared to objectify the feminine, proving rather to be an enabling aesthetc for many women painters and writers. Closer to home, Patricia Smart's round-breaking study of Quebec women artists, Les femmes du Refus Globa, suggests they were written out of the history of the Automatiste movemet because still working today, in a variety of media, their artmaking exceds the aesthetic of that particular moment with which critics identified thegroup.
In a similar revisionary spirit, we propose to analyze the contibution of women poets to the development of Modernism in Canada, in allits facets and in as wide a context as possible. One of the enduring myth of Modernism, with a powerful hold in the Canadian context, posits an oppositon between formalist aestheticism and socio-political engagement. Yet thesewomen writers pursued both projects; as teachers, editors, publishers, ctivists, they did much to build the literary institution in Canada, creatin examples and opportunities for younger writers. We are therefore interested n contributions that examine their roles as public intellectuals and/o social activists as well as artists.
To this end we invite analyses of their political drama, reportage, revies, criticism, speeches and life-writing, as well as the fiction and poetry for which they are primarily celebrated. What affiliations did they estalish with their predecessors? With artists in other media? How has the next generation responded to/benefitted from their initiatives? What questions do these connections pose for periodization and historiography in the literary critical context? We also invite contributions that analyze their relationship implicit or explicit to international aesthetic and social movements, and translation of their work into different languages, including those of sound and visual image.
Please send a proposal of 200 words along with a brief CV by December 15th, 2000/p>
Barbara Godard, 350 Stong, York University, 4700 Keele St., North York, Ontario, M3J 1P3. Fax: 416-736-5412. email: bgodard@yorku.ca Or Di Brandt email: drandt@uwindsor.ca
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24-27 May 2001
Cambridge, MA
Call for Panelists
I have been gathering a list of Niedecker critics and researchers in an effort to orgnize a forum for scholarly discourse about the poet. Currently, I am proosing a Niedecker panel for this year's ALA. The American Literature Asociation is holding their 2001 Annual Conference in Cambridge Massachusettes. www.americanliterature.org] The conference consists of panels representing variou Author Societies and is now in its 12th year. To date there has been no ALApanel dedicated exclusively to the work of Lorine Niedecker.
I would like to propose such a panel for ALA's East Coast 2001 conference which runs from May24-May 27. If scholarly interest is high and this panel gets accepted, ten perhaps an Author Society and/or Newsletter will follow.
I will send information to interested parties. For
an overview and Call for Papers go to:
http://grad.cgu.edu/~girardij/webpage/
Judith S. Girardi
Claemont Graduate University
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"Poetry
& Music: An International Conference"
1-4
April 2001
Universiy of Liege, Belgium
PROPOSALS DUE: January 15, 2001
Guest speakers will include Marjorie Perloff and Steve McCaffery.
Designed to bring a broad range of writers, composers and scholars into conversation, the conference will feture roundtable discussions, poetry readings and performances, keynote lecturs and workshops. Submissions must represent innovative thought (either i the form of extending or challenging current critical positions). Any inerdisciplinary critical approach may be employed providing it deals with th theoretical and practical interrelationships between XXth century poetry andmusic.
Please send proposals (max. 500 words) for 20 minute talks by Jan. 15, 2001 to:
Michael
Delville at mdelville@ulg.ac.be
or
Selected
papers will be published.
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"Surrealism and Wome"
Journal - no deadline
FEMSPEC, a interdisciplinary feminist journal dedicated to critical and creative works in the realms of science fiction,fantasy, magical realism, surrealism, myth, folklore and other supernaturl genres, is now accepting submissions for a future special issue of fiction, oetry, critical articles and visual art by women who feel their work is affliated with surrealism and by women who write about international surrealism-- the movements and its women artists and writers. We welcome both crative works in all media and critical works.
Contact
the gest editor:
Gloria Orenstein
1284 Montana Avenue #10
Los Angeles, CA 90049
Also one hard copy each to FEMSPEC office marked "Surrealism Issue":
FEMSPEC
Dept of English
Cleveland State University
Cleveland, OH 44115
email: femspec@csuohio.edu
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CONFERENCES OF INTEREST
The Centre for Contemporary Arts, De Montfort University, announces an historic gathering of the international avant-garde:
LANGUGE/POETRY/
PERFORMANCE
Friday 8 December - Saturday 9 December 2000
VINCENTBARRAS (SWITZERLAND)
CAROLINE BERGVALL (UK)
CHARLES BERNSTEIN (USA)
BOB COBBING (UK)
HENRI CHOPIN (FRANCE)
ANDREW MACLENNAN (AUSTRALIA)
STEVE McCAFFERY (CANADA)
KAREN MAC CORMACK (CANADA)
ENZO MINARELLI (ITALY)
MAGGIE O^SULLIVAN (UK)
EMMETT WILLIAMS (USA)
LANGUAGE/POETRY/PERFORMANCE Friday 8 and Saturday 9 December 2000
LANGUAGE/ POETRY/ PERFORMANCE - a two day international conference examining how Language Poetry and the Sound Poetry, Fluxus and Multimedi Avant-Gardes have explored and continue to explore innovative poetic prformance.
LANGUAGE/ POETRY/ PERFORMANCE presents exclusive UK readings and papers by Language Poets CHARLES BERNSTEIN (NY) & STEVE MCCAFFERY (Toronto) ad by legendary transatlantic avant-garde innovators, Fluxus poet EMMETT WILIAMS (Berlin) and Sound Poets BOB COBBING (London) & HENRI CHOPIN (Paris) along with younger poets, editors, radio producers, festival directors andresearchers including: VINCENT BARRAS (Geneva) CAROLINE BERGVALL (Dartinton), KAREN MAC CORMACK (Toronto), ANDREW MACLENNAN (Sydney), ENZO MINARELLI(Bologna), MAGGIE O^SULLIVAN (Yorks), REDELL OLSEN (London) & NAGY RASHWA (Leicester).
WHEN: 1.00PM - 10.00 PM Friday 8 DEC. and 9.30 -4.00PM Saturday 9 DEC. 2000. WHERE: Lecture Theatre 2.13, The Clephan Building, De Montfort Univerity, Corner of Oxford Street and Bonners Lane, Leicester. Registration rquired.
ORGANIZERS: Nicholas Zurbrugg and Jane Dowson.
For more information onregistration, accommodations and sponsors: CONFERENCE WEBSITE: http://www.cta.dmu.ac.uk/CCA/
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NEMLA
(Northeast Modern Languages Association)
2001 Convention
March
30-31, 2001
Hartford, CT
DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS: September 15, 2000
The following are approved panl sessions for the upcoming NEMLA convention. Two-page abstracts for proposed papers should be sentdirectly to the session chair by September 15, 2000 along with a cover letter and any audio-visual requests If your paper is accepted, you will be required to join the NEMLA./p>
Sessions
Denise
Levertov
Papers on any aspect of Denise Levertov's poetry,translations, prose and
their political or intellectual contexts. Chair: Denise laine Lynch;
Department of English; Central Connecticut State University; Stanley Street;
New Britain, CT 06050; Phone: 860-832-2780; Email: lynchde@ccsu.edu; Home
address: 80 Barksdale Road; West Hartford, CT 06117
The Politics
of PoeticForm
Discussions of the political implications,uses, and interpretations of
poetic form in American poetry. More interested in papersaddressing prosodic
and other formal features than in papers that are addressing genre. Chair:
Michael Manson; English Department; Anna Maria College; 50 Sunset Lane;
Paxto, MA 01612; Phone: 508-849-3481; Fax: 508-849-3362; Email: mmanson@annamaria.edu
Sene,
School, Poet: Contemporary Links
This panel identifies and discusses potential links between the aesthetics
of traditional and avante garde poetic shools and individual critics
and poets.Chair: Heather White; Department of English; University of Rochester;
500 Wison Boulevard; Rochester, NY 14627; Phone: 716-275-2160; Email:
hcasswite@hotmail.com; Home address: 40 Rowley Street; Apt. #9; Rochester,
NY 14607
Ho the small press shapes authors conceptions of publishing and audiences;
the role of the small press inliterary culture. E-mail proposals preferred.Chair:
Jim OLoughlin; English Department; Penn State University at Erie-Behrend
Colleg; Station Road; Erie, PA 16563; Phone: 814-898-6073; Fax: 814-898-6032;
Email: jbo2psu.edu; Home address: 556 West 8th Street; Erie, PA 16502
Papers are welcome that examine the written works of surrealist women
artists hailing from a variety of countries and decades.Chair: Kistin
E. Zimmerman; French Department; The Pennsylvania State University; 325
South Burrows Bldg; Univrsity Park, PA 16802; Email: kez104@psu.edu;
Home address: 510 ToftreesAvenue; Apt #231; State College, PA 16803;
Home email: Mzimmerman@aol.co
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CONTESTS & PRIZES
font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif">The Alberta Prize and the Fence Modern Poets Series
DEADLINE: 30 November 2000 (Alberta Prize), 31 Decembe 2000 (Modern Poets Series)
The Alberta Prize, sponsored by Fence Books in conjunction with the Alberta duPont Bonsal Foundation, aards $5,000 and publication to a female poet writing in English for a first or second full-lngth book of poetry. The Fence Modern Poets Series, sponsored by Fence ooks and Saturnalia Books, offers $1,000 and publication for a book bya poet writing in English at any stage in his or her career. For complete gidelines and entry form for both contests: http://www.fencemag.com or send n SASE to: Alberta Prize and/or Fence Modern Poets Series, 14 Fifth Avene, #1A, New York, NY 10011
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READINGS & SPECIAL EVENTS
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WOMAN-EDIED JOURNALS & PRESSES FOCUSSED ON INNOVATIVE WRITING
Moria
The e-zine Moria welcmes submissions for a soon to be added section on
poetic theory. Theory submissions should deal with current issues in contemporary
poetics, especially with issues relating to the language school and its
inheritors. The essays do not need to folow any traditional notions of
composition for academic essays. Submissions must besent via e-mail to
alegr@ibm.net or to wallegr@lsu.edu.
big allis
Editors: Melanie Neilson & Deirdre Kovac
Issue 8 available now with new work by poets including: Heather Ramsdell, Juliana Spahr, Liz Waldner and many others. Special British and Irish feature. Guest editor: Fiona Templeton.
20 Douglass St.
&nsp; Brooklyn, NY 11231
a+bend
press
editor Jill Stengel
3862 21st
Street
San Francisco, CA 94114
jilith@aol.com
(all titles 1999)
SAYING
NO. 3 by Jenna Roper Harmon
a s f a r a s by Jen Hofer
Spelt by Susan Gvirtz and Myung Mi Kim
Eve Doe: Prior to Landscape by Elizabeth Treadwell
definite articles by Sarah Anne Cox
Waltzing the Map byStandard Schaefer
extraneous roses by Lisa Kovaleski
Room by Dana Teen Lomax
C h a
i n
Since 1993, Chain has been publishing a yearly issue of work.
Each issue features the work of around seventy people and is about 250
pages long.
Chain started with publishing mainly poetry. Now we publish photographs,
essays, operas, performance transcripts, plays, sculptures, paintings,
and other forms. Chain also emphasizes work by new or emerging artists
and collaborative and mixed genre work.
Eachissue focuses on a topic. Past topics have included gender and editing,
documentary, mixed media and hybrid genres, processes and procedures,
ad different languages. The topic allows Chain's editors to switch the
editorial question that they ask of each piece of work submitted--from
"Is this a great piece of art?" to "Does this piece of art tell us someting
about the topic that we didn't otherwise know?". This makes Chain a ittle
rougher around the edges, a little less aesthetically predictable
Editors: Jena Osman and Juliana Spahr
www2.hawaii.edu/~spahr/chain
Em Press br> Editor/Printer: Dale Going
Poetry Pamphlet Series, 16 page books
letterpress printed on Italian and French mould-made papers
in signed limite editions of 100-150.
Currrently available:
Unseen Stream, Jaime Robles, ISBN 1-889589-01-2
Even the Smallest Act, Denise Liddell Lawson, ISBN 1-889589-02-0
Bowl, Carol Snow ISBN 1-889589-03-9
Due this Spring:
&O, Dale Going ISBN 1-889589-04-7
Human Forest, Denise Newman ISBN 1-889589-05-5
Series subscribers receive each book at $10 per copy. Individual titles are
available without subscription at $15. Subscription requests and single book requests:
Em Press
541 Ethel Avenue
Mill Valley, CA 94941
415-381-1243
DaleGoing@aol.com
Ether Dome Press
Editors: Elizabeth Robinson and Colleen Lookingbill
Inquiries: c/o E. Robinson, 10.moris@lw.com
"A forum for new poetic voices." Goal: two chapbooks a year by women who
have never published either a chapbook or a full-length collection. First
book out, later this year: Brydie McPherson.
Kelsey St. Press: 25 years publishing women's innovative poetry
Kelsey St. Press publishes poetry by contemporary women writers that challenges traditional notions about form, content, and expression, and that offers
readers insight into our diverse culture. In the mid-1980's Kelsey St.
initiated a unique series of collaborations between visual artists and
poet. Believing that poets and visual artists should talk to each other,
the ress coordinates collaborations and then documents the results.Kelsey
S. Press supports the work of innovative writers whose work has been
disegarded by large, for-profit publishers. Just as New Directions championed
early 20th century innovators Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams,
Kelse St. Press has published late 20th century innovators Mei-mei Berssenbrugge,
Kathleen Fraser, Barbara Guest, Myung Mi Kim and Erica Hunt. A partial
lit of contemporary artist-collaborations include the work of Kiki Smith,
Alison Saar, Richard Tuttle and Anne Dunn.
Kelsey Street Press
50 Northgate Avenue
Berkeley, CA. 94708
Visit he Kelsey St. Press website: http://wwwsirius.com/~kelseyst/
E-mail: kelseyst@sirius.com.
Information about our subscriber program is available upon request.
O Books
5729 Clover Dr.
Oakland, CA. 94618
for a atalog, go to: www.obooks.com
Editor, Leslie Scalapino
[See "In Print", for individual titles]
Outlet Magazine & Double Lucy Boks
PO Box 9013
Berkeley CA 94709 USA
http://user.lanminds.com/dblelucy
Outlet publishes poetry, fiction and criticism, loosely centered around a common theme. Themes have so far included fairy tales, ornament, and wather/maps. Please visit our website to view excerpts from current & previous issues, whch include work by Franklin Bruno, Norma Cole, Malcolm de Chazal, Brenda Ijima, Lily James, Tan Lin, Pamela Lu, Yedda Morrison, Laura Moriarty, Michele Murphy, Stephen Ratcliffe, Camille Roy, Linda Russo, Jocelyn Saidenbrg, and many others.
[Sample copies: $5/ea. Subscriptions: $10/yr (2 ssues). Checks to E. Treadwell]
Outlet (4/5) Weathermap -- due out Fall '99 -- will include new poetry and prose by Norma Coe, Gwyn McVay, Christopher Reiner, Kathy Lou Schultz, Liz Waldner & many others, plus an interview with Kathleen Fraser and a history of women publihers at the Poetry Project, NYC.
CALL FOR WORK/OUTLET
Outlet (6) Stars
Astronomy, astrology, celebrity, catastrophe, destiny, roance, navigation, wishes, fortune-telling, constellations. The passage of time. Hemispheres, seasons. Prophecy, heaven. Leonardo da Vinci/di Caprio. Submission postmark period: January 1-February 1, 2000.
Replies by: April 15, 2000. The issue will appear during Summer, 2000./font>
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send correspondence to:
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Rooms
Rooms is a quarterly publication-by-contribution created to provide a
forum
and a consistent means of communication among women writers and artists
interested in formal and visual experimentation. The journal has no editor;
the work published in each edition depends on what individual Roomates
wish to contribute. Poery, essays, fiction, non-fiction and visual work
will be included.
Guidelines
For New Contributors:
Send a ample of your work, a letter introducing yourself, and SASE to
the
address below.
For Ongoing Contributors:
Send fifty photocopies of your piece and $10 (in a cash, stamps, or a
check
made out to Dale Going) for binding and mailing to:
Rooms c/o Sari Broner PO Box 12955
Berkeley, CA 94712
The deadlines for 2000 will be the 15 of March, September and December.
Second
Story Books
Mary Burger, editor
85 Henry
Street, #5
San Francisco, CA 94114
mburger@adobe.com
Second Story Books publishes works which navigate a relationship between narrative and lyric, interrogating implications of verbal consciousness as event and invoking fugitive conditions of place, time and subjectivity.
Titles from Second Story Books:
Not
Right Now, Renee Gladman
A Summer Newsreel, Brenda Coultas
The Television Documentary, Lauren Guath (forthcoming)
Confusion Comix/i>, Jaques Debot (forthcoming)
Tinfish
A Journal of experimental poetry with an emphasis on work from the Pacific
region
Editor: Susan M. Schultz
47-391 Hui Iwa, #3
Kaneohe, HI 96744
www.wings.buffalo.edu/epc/ezines/tinfish
Look for on-line issues featuring work by poets including: Lyn Hejinian,
Eileen Myles, Susan Geviritz, Mary Burger, Carolyn Lei-lanilau, Ron
Silliman, Elizabeth Treadwell, Bill Luoma, Yi Sha, Juliana Spahr and many
more!
tripwire:
ajournal of poetics
edited by Yedda Morrison & David Buuck
PO Box 420936
San Francisco, CA 94142
yedd@aol.com
tripwire3: Gender
featuring work by: Diane Ward, Carla Harryman & Lyn Hejinian, Norma Cole, Jocelyn Saidenberg, Linda Russo, Kristin Prevallet, Kevin Killian, Elizabeth Robinson and many others.
WEB NEWS
narrativity -- a critical journal of innovative narrative. Co-editors: Mary Burger, Robert Gluck, Camille Roy and Gail Scott.
www.sfsu.edu/~newlit/narrativity
non
Editor, Lara Moriarty
non, an electronic journal, emphasizes short essays, commentary,
reviews, letters, journal extracts etc. and includes poetry and prose.
The next issue of non will be on the work of Leslie Scalapino.
Future
issues of non are planned on song and on critical autobiography.
The headche non is the current issue. It includes writing
in relaion
to the usual writer and philosopher migraines, as well as work about or
gnerated by any on-going physical anguish.
Submissions and queries about submission are welcome.
http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~moriarty/index.html
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discussion of women poets of all periods, languages, aesthetics, and
ethnicities, and to their poetic and critical works.
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