MLA Commons | GS Poetry and Poetics | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/poetry-and-poetics/ Activity feed for the group, GS Poetry and Poetics. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 10:39:29 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 3074a7b3c87a12c56239d4529302b9ba Doris Hambuch deposited Ways of Seeing Nujoom Alghanem’s Nearby Sky (سماء قريبة) and Sharp Tools (آلات حادة) as Docupoetry,Comment voir le ciel proche de Nujoom Alghanem (سماء قريبة) et les outils tranchants (آلات حادة) comme docupoésie in the group GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1900961/ Mon, 07 Oct 2024 03:00:08 -0400 This article proposes to establish a
sub-category called “docupoetry” to
classify the documentary films by
Emirati poet and filmmaker Nujoom
Alghanem. Detailed analysis of two
selected films, Sharp Tools (2017) and
Nearby Sky (2014), illustrates the
unique composition, cinematography,
and use of poetic devices, such
as rhythm, sym…[Read more]

]]> 0 aeca886e970f1b390aba778c188c0119 Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic New article on Turkish Girls' Studies in the discussion GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/poetry-and-poetics/forum/topic/new-article-on-turkish-girls-studies-2/ Sun, 30 Jun 2024 08:32:30 -0400 Dear All,

I am a Turkish researcher who is an associate professor in sociology with a focus on Turkish girlhood studies from İstanbul Aydın University, Turkey. I recently published an article with the title “A Study on the Poem “Zamane Kızları” (Girls of Today) Regarding the Representations of Young Turkish Girls from a Male-centered Perspec…[Read more]

]]> 0 1651080c71469d401f52fed810de2a1d Thomas Mazanec deposited Poet-Monks: The Invention of Buddhist Poetry in Late Medieval China in the group GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1874112/ Wed, 31 Jan 2024 04:00:15 -0500 Poet-Monks focuses on the literary and religious practices of Buddhist poet-monks in Tang-dynasty China to propose an alternative historical arc of medieval Chinese poetry. Combining large-scale quantitative analysis with close readings of important literary texts, Thomas J. Mazanec describes how Buddhist poet-monks, who first appeared in the…[Read more]

]]> 0 e6873c1affb3a760931be2104e4f8c8f Arif Camoglu deposited Provincializing Romanticism: Ottoman Hayaliyyun and Literary Globality in the Nineteenth Century in the group GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1868241/ Sat, 16 Dec 2023 04:04:28 -0500 This essay considers the shortfalls of globalizing tendencies in nineteenth-century
literary studies with a focus on the Ottoman Turkish articulation of romanticism, i.e.,
hayaliyyun. Retrieving a historically and geographically hybrid genealogy of romanticism
through the Ottoman Turkish context, my discussion situates romantic imaginary…[Read more]

]]> 0 e378d0584f4c3a24cd6fd2b3d01ac9cf Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic new article: The Turkish Angel in the House: A Travelling Concept... in the discussion GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/poetry-and-poetics/forum/topic/new-article-the-turkish-angel-in-the-house-a-travelling-concept/ Tue, 05 Dec 2023 15:18:44 -0500 Dear Colleagues,

We would like to announce the publication of our new article titled “The Turkish Angel in the House: A Travelling Concept in the Housewife Poems of Ziya Gökalp and Halide Nusret Zorlutuna” in the Journal of International Women’s Studies. It is possible to download the article from the following link for free:…[Read more]

]]> 0 bcd8a9fe3d7d60fbcbbb3ed79b432a55 Arif Camoglu deposited Loving Sovereignty: Political Mysticism, Seyh Galib, and Giorgio Agamben in the group GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1866784/ Tue, 05 Dec 2023 04:03:40 -0500 Centering on the poetry of Şeyh Galib (1757–1799), this article considers Ottoman imperial sovereignty in tandem with the discourse of mysticism that underpinned it. A key rhetorical device that enables the abstraction of the politics of empire in this discourse is the metaphor of the beloved sovereign. In the mystical writing of Galib, this me…[Read more]

]]> 0 d63016f53b2ead1228aa3dc2eae70ffe Arif Camoglu deposited “Supreme in Ruin”: Empire’s Afterlife in Romantic Encounters with Imperial Ruins in the group GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1866467/ Fri, 01 Dec 2023 04:02:58 -0500 Registered in Romantic depictions of imperial ruins is the endurance of empire in its immateriality: the imageries of empire’s ruination announce a future where imperial sovereignty maintains its presence spectrally. Using Jacques Derrida’s notion of hauntology, and recruiting further insight from political theory, this essay argues that emp…[Read more]

]]> 0 7ed0ff2f9c60b03993dbcd456c289880 Steven Schroeder deposited as murder is to crow in the group GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1863980/ Thu, 09 Nov 2023 03:00:18 -0500 Thomas à Kempis wrote that everyone desires peace but not the things that make for peace. Such a universal desire would be a hopeful sign, a foundation to build on as we contemplate (and, no doubt, debate) “the things that make for peace.” I offer as murder is to crow as a record of “perchings” in my contemplation of things that make for peace.…[Read more]

]]> 0 0b773a8ffbe8ffaa9453cc44a4e595f7 Jamie Callison deposited Modernism and Religion: Between Mysticism and Orthodoxy in the group GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1860579/ Wed, 04 Oct 2023 04:00:13 -0400 ‘Modernism and Religion’ argues that modernism participated in broader processes of religious change in the twentieth century. The new prominence accorded to immanence and immediacy in religious discourse is carried over into the modernist epiphany. Modernism became mystical. The emergence of Catholic theological modernism, human rights, Christian…[Read more]

]]> 0 dc6d789a2d242c1f5a8f7977c807d107 Steven Schroeder deposited the epic opposite | poems and fragments, 2004-2013, volume ten in the group GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1854161/ Tue, 08 Aug 2023 01:13:36 -0400 the epic opposite is the tenth of a series of ten collections that draw on material from notebooks I kept between 2004 and 2013. I returned to that material in 2021 with Basho and haibun in mind, as well as the prosimetrum tradition that flourished in medieval Europe. Both play off a tension between poetry and prose, and, looking back, that is…[Read more]

]]> 0 0c368497307a73690861fee032b30ea8 Steven Schroeder deposited solitude is another matter | poems and fragments, 2004-2013, volume nine in the group GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1854160/ Tue, 08 Aug 2023 01:10:59 -0400 solitude is another matter is the ninth of a series of ten collections that draw on material from notebooks I kept between 2004 and 2013. I returned to that material in 2021 with Basho and haibun in mind, as well as the prosimetrum tradition that flourished in medieval Europe. Both play off a tension between poetry and prose, and, looking back,…[Read more]

]]> 0 ea2ef9f95e46db5aa11509fb14d94737 Steven Schroeder deposited a composition of fractions | poems and fragments, 2004-2013, volume eight in the group GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1854159/ Tue, 08 Aug 2023 01:07:59 -0400 a composition of fractions is the eighth of a series of ten collections that draw on material from notebooks I kept between 2004 and 2013. I returned to that material in 2021 with Basho and haibun in mind, as well as the prosimetrum tradition that flourished in medieval Europe. Both play off a tension between poetry and prose, and, looking back,…[Read more]

]]> 0 9538c7bf1d2cfe2269b0e0c6c83ea446 Steven Schroeder deposited how this city lies | poems and fragments, 2004-2013, volume seven in the group GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1853857/ Fri, 04 Aug 2023 02:26:45 -0400 The seventh of ten notebooks, drafted between June 2008 and March 2009. Some of the material has appeared previously in poetry collections I have published since 2006, but I have gone back to the original drafts to rethink and reconfigure what appears here.

]]> 0 87fbb21f14bb6552ea962e516704b0f1 Steven Schroeder deposited the fleeting possibility of otherwise | poems and fragments, 2004-2013, volume six in the group GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1853856/ Fri, 04 Aug 2023 02:23:40 -0400 The sixth of ten notebooks, drafted between June 2007 and June 2008. Some of the material has appeared previously in poetry collections I have published since 2006, but I have gone back to the original drafts to rethink and reconfigure what appears here. Many of the poems in part two are included in a dim sum of the day before, published by Ink…[Read more]

]]> 0 eae592cce7e3af51b8d0ebade781cc8d Steven Schroeder deposited before the body was cold | poems and fragments, 2004-2013, volume five in the group GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1853271/ Tue, 01 Aug 2023 02:23:40 -0400 The fifth of ten notebooks, drafted between April 2006 and June 2007. Some of the material has appeared previously in poetry collections I have published since 2006, but I have gone back to the original drafts to rethink and reconfigure what appears here. While particular places are referenced in the text of some of the poems in this volume, only…[Read more]

]]> 0 b233785285bed1f828be67108ae2e5d0 Steven Schroeder deposited an orchestration of silences | poems and fragments, 2004-2013, volume four in the group GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1853086/ Sat, 29 Jul 2023 02:28:05 -0400 The fourth of ten notebooks, drafted between February and August 2006. Some of the material has appeared previously in poetry collections I have published since 2006, but I have gone back to the original drafts to rethink and reconfigure what appears here. This fourth volume differs from the first three in that all of the compositions are clearly…[Read more]

]]> 0 20e140ccbfcde129dc0cd8ffc8fdb84d Steven Schroeder deposited the fragility of gathering | poems and fragments, 2004-2013, volume three in the group GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1853085/ Sat, 29 Jul 2023 02:24:46 -0400 The third of a series of collections that draw on material from notebooks I kept between 2004 and 2013. I returned to that material in 2021 with Basho and haibun in mind, as well as the prosimetrum tradition that flourished in medieval Europe. Both play off a tension between poetry and prose, and, looking back, that is what I found myself doing…[Read more]

]]> 0 9e9d4e476b83a091365554a754118ac8 Steven Schroeder deposited deep enough to hold a city | poems and fragments, 2004-2013, volume two in the group GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1852466/ Sat, 22 Jul 2023 02:23:51 -0400 The second of a series of collections that draw on material from notebooks I kept between 2004 and 2013. I returned to that material in 2021 with Basho and haibun in mind, as well as the prosimetrum tradition that flourished in medieval Europe. Both play off a tension between poetry and prose, and, looking back, that is what I found myself doing…[Read more]

]]> 0 f0783317a4a393b57099344e3fad8d8b Steven Schroeder deposited a tiny circle tessellated | poems and fragments, 2004-2013, volume one in the group GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1852241/ Wed, 19 Jul 2023 02:28:34 -0400 a tiny circle tessellated is the first of a series of collections that draw on material from notebooks I kept between 2004 and 2013. I returned to that material in 2021 with Basho and haibun in mind, as well as the prosimetrum tradition that flourished in medieval Europe. Both play off a tension between poetry and prose, and, looking back, that is…[Read more]

]]> 0 100d2fff64eb027a43efe3a35f803c28 Stefania Irene Sini started the topic Rhythm, Speed, Path: Spatiotemporal Experiences in Narrative, Poetry, and Drama in the discussion GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/poetry-and-poetics/forum/topic/rhythm-speed-path-spatiotemporal-experiences-in-narrative-poetry-and-drama/ Mon, 27 Feb 2023 21:54:54 -0500 Dear colleagues,

we’ve extended the deadline for submitting to ENN7, the European Narratology Network conference.

The new deadline is: 10th March 2023 (timezone: anywhere in the world).

This year’s conference is co-located with IGEL 2023, the conference of the International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature, and the common theme i…[Read more]

]]> 0 a0889bba58491081846e2be766965bbc Steven Schroeder deposited still in the group GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1834088/ Mon, 13 Feb 2023 02:23:38 -0500 “Steven Schroeder’s most recent collection of poems, Still, offers an amazing juxtaposition of imaginary elements and sensible phenomena that keeps the reader turning page after page in wonder. Poems of varied textures, from Zen-like shorts to lengthier narratives, offer shifts in perspective that surprise and delight, many with seasonal beauty or…[Read more]

]]> 0 3f142e726b81d1206287c6af70517c41 Steven Schroeder deposited one well ordered collision among others in the group GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1833987/ Sun, 12 Feb 2023 02:34:40 -0500 The title of this collection, taken from the poem with which the collection closes, calls to mind Helen Frankenthaler’s description of the places where colors converge on raw canvas in her “soak-stain” paintings. That closing poem is a meditation on her “Seven Forms of Ambiguity” in the “1940s to Now” section of the Crystal Bridges Museum in Ark…[Read more]

]]> 0 7b3f4fd2df015b91808a96ac7545fcdc Steven Schroeder deposited learning to see nothing: new and recent work on paper and canvas in the group GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1830072/ Tue, 17 Jan 2023 02:31:20 -0500 Exhibition Catalog for “learning to see nothing: new and recent work on paper and canvas,” by Steven Schroeder. Eleanor Hayes Art Gallery, Kinzer Performing Arts Center, Northern Oklahoma College, Tonkawa, Oklahoma, 4 September – 18 October 2018.

]]> 0 60c4c16d97c66ee22be952e172a02045 Steven Schroeder deposited in the path of totality in the group GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1830069/ Tue, 17 Jan 2023 02:23:38 -0500 The forty poems in this collection have percolated through more than forty years of meditation on “city” that began when I was an undergraduate studying with Richard Luecke at Valparaiso University. The title, In the Path of Totality, references a phrase made familiar by media coverage leading up to the total solar eclipse that was visible acr…[Read more]

]]> 0 d36f8adf9cc0094fc0ae34184e62db47 Steven Schroeder deposited fallen prose in the group GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1829953/ Mon, 16 Jan 2023 02:38:57 -0500 China is the occasion, not the subject or the object, of the forty-seven poems collected in Steven Schroeder’s Fallen Prose – lyrical glimpses of the “new” city in Southern light. Most of the poems in the collection are set in Shenzhen, a few in Zhuhai, Macao, Guangzhou, and Hong Kong – and one or two a bit further west, in Kunming. All attend…[Read more]

]]> 0 306fb80ea61fadb42e13b95a716d55f2 Steven Schroeder deposited the imperfection of the eye in the group GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1829949/ Mon, 16 Jan 2023 02:31:54 -0500 There is an all at once quality to lyric poetry that makes it akin to mysticism. It knows there is more to vision than meets the eye. It takes the whole world in while knowing the whole of it is always known imperfectly, always here, always now. The here and now of the seventy-one poems in Steven Schroeder’s new collection is most often Chicago,…[Read more]

]]> 0 ea21f3d9f1f5c1ab5f051e37772379ac Steven Schroeder deposited turn in the group GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1829946/ Mon, 16 Jan 2023 02:23:55 -0500 In the spirit of the old Shaker hymn, the poems in Steven Schroeder’s new collection turn and turn – from a question Laozi raises to Woody Guthrie’s holy ground, from Chicago to Texas to Shenzhen to Macao, in conversation with poets and philosophers from Euclid and Thoreau to Emily Dickinson, John Donne, Gertrude Stein, Buddy Holly, Lyle Lovet…[Read more]

]]> 0 9e5555452c40c60ed093be2e805cb34a Brian Gregory Caraher deposited Ciaran Carson: A Memorial Tribute (10 October 2019) in the group GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1817172/ Tue, 11 Oct 2022 02:30:34 -0400 This memorial tribute for the late Ciaran Carson (1948-2019), Irish creative writer extraordinaire, was commissioned three years ago for inclusion in a special number of “Reading Ireland” which has not yet materialised. It is now archived in and by Humanities Common on the third anniversary of his funeral rites and burial in Belfast, Northern…[Read more]

]]> 0 bf8ae8a690da7663f80b19e2e6d89e4b Samuel Baker deposited “The Forsaken Merman,” “The Little Mermaid,” and early modernism: Undersea imagery for the dissociation and dissolution of culture in the group GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1750925/ Tue, 07 Sep 2021 02:25:58 -0400 This essay shows how marine imagery mediates thought about culture, by exploring a series of imagined submarine visions across an intertextual network that extends from Matthew Arnold’s poem “The Forsaken Merman” back to Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale “The Little Mermaid,” across the Atlantic to William James’s writings, and thence to ess…[Read more]

]]> 0 15e521250fbfcdce2abc61f6bac3348a Thomas Mazanec deposited Of Admonition and Address: Right-Hand Inscriptions (Zuoyouming) from Cui Yuan to Guanxiu in the group GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1742498/ Sat, 19 Jun 2021 02:39:42 -0400 This essay traces the development of the right-hand inscription (zuoyouming 座右銘) from its birth in the second century CE through its culmination as a complex literary subgenre in the tenth. Over the course of these eight centuries, right-hand inscriptions were used by some of the most prominent poets of their respective eras, including Cui Yuan…[Read more]

]]> 0 08f01fe53e9ab2baebbb8a986e27271c James Mulholland deposited The Past and Future of Historical Poetics: Poetry and Empire in the group GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1742216/ Fri, 18 Jun 2021 02:44:38 -0400 This essay suggests that with the increasing prominence of “historical poetics” as a set of social collectives, methodologies, and debates (especially about literary analysis), now seems to be an ideal time to assess its history and consider its future. The first part of the essay offers a genealogy of historical poetics, accounting for some of…[Read more]

]]> 0 3970f3e1c882d0c507537b3b35a998c3 Brian Gregory Caraher deposited Tragedy, Euripides, Melodrama: Hamartia, Medea, Liminality in the group GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1729108/ Fri, 26 Feb 2021 02:26:20 -0500 This article examines socio-historical dimensions and cultural and dramaturgic implications of the Greek playwright Euripides’ treatment of the myth of Medea. Euripides gives voice to victims of adventurism, aggression and betrayal in the name of ‘reason’ and the ‘state’ or ‘polity.’ Medea constitutes one of the most powerful mythic forces to…[Read more]

]]> 0 60ec0ce8d299bddc5910764ceabf223f Doris Hambuch deposited Ecopoetic Elements in the Work of Sarah Kirsch, Ahmed Rashid Thani, and Derek Walcott in the group GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1726389/ Fri, 05 Feb 2021 02:23:38 -0500 Comparative analyses of poetry by the German Sarah Kirsch, the Emirati Ahmed Rashid Thani, and the St Lucian Derek Walcott identify three distinct ecopoetic elements their work has in common. The three poets, born before the origin of ecocriticism, favour metaphors that represent natural landscapes. These metaphors express a certain…[Read more]

]]> 0 96a3b99a423f6c6dfcf30859c4e3c4ed Scott Challener deposited The New Border (Spring 2021) in the group GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1725446/ Fri, 29 Jan 2021 04:03:07 -0500 This course is a study of the literature of the U.S.-Mexico border from the 1980s to the present. We begin with Gloria Anzaldúa’s foundational texts, Borderlands / La Frontera, and her landmark feminist anthology, co-edited with Cherríe Moraga, This Bridge Called My Back: Radical Writings by Women of Color. We then consider the legacies and aft…[Read more]

]]> 0 724b3fbfb7a668acf2578bcd328ca304 Gerard Holmes deposited "‘The Bird / Who Sings the Same, Unheard, / As Unto Crowd —’: Dickinson, Birdsong, and the Business of Improvisation" in the group GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1724416/ Fri, 22 Jan 2021 02:29:40 -0500 Birds are everywhere in nineteenth-century American literature, including the work of Emily Dickinson. Women poets often referred to their poems in terms of making songs. This essay rethinks the birds in Dickinson’s letters and poems. It suggests that Dickinson’s birds, and their songs, show her awareness of business. They exist within com…[Read more]

]]> 0 3e4e311f0ccc4884910b3b18e7d0045f Gabrielle Dean started the topic Society for Textual Scholarship 2021 conference in the discussion GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/poetry-and-poetics/forum/topic/society-for-textual-scholarship-2021-conference-4/ Fri, 15 Jan 2021 15:20:22 -0500 Please consider submitting a proposal for the 2021 conference of the Society for Textual Scholarship, to be hosted virtually by The New School May 19-22, on the theme Reckonings, Recoveries, and Transitions. Proposals are due February 8, for presentations in a variety of formats. The Society is keen to welcome new participants and encourage…[Read more]

]]> 0 fb0325241b12e16458caf89f42dc58c8 Brian Gregory Caraher deposited Sourcing "a place of first permission": Robert Duncan's 'mythological mind' and H.D.'s "Trilogy" in the group GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1717815/ Mon, 23 Nov 2020 02:35:35 -0500 This article is a slightly revised version of a plenary panel address presented at the ‘Passages’ Symposium at the Sorbonne, Paris on the 12th of June 2019, in honor of the centenary of the birth of the American poet Robert Duncan. The article traces some of the mutual interest and influence between the poets Robert Duncan and Hilda Doolittle…[Read more]

]]> 0 29923d2e17cb8485a7ff96d1de03db82 Zélia Catarina Pedro Rafael deposited "Wild Nights": Death and Humor in the Poetry of Emily Dickinson in the group GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1717808/ Mon, 23 Nov 2020 02:24:12 -0500 Emily Dickinson’s unique style of poetic composition is marked by ambiguity and open-endedness, leading to the genesis of a privileged space wherein reader and writer are able to meet as co-creators of meaning. As a poet, Dickinson addresses many themes in ways that are subject to countless layers of interpretation. This essay focuses p…[Read more]

]]> 0 a0cd2c255cc2df627f734f5e91749f3e Lisa H. Cooper replied to the topic Medieval English Poetry and Poetics at MLA 2021 in the discussion GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/poetry-and-poetics/forum/topic/medieval-english-poetry-and-poetics-at-mla-2021/#post-1025337 Fri, 13 Nov 2020 17:03:48 -0500 ABSTRACTS FOR: 660. Poetry and Pandemic: Medieval English Perspectives, Sunday, 10 January, 3:30-4:45 pm (jointly sponsored with GS Poetry and Poetics); Presider: Lisa H. Cooper, U of Wisconsin, Madison

1. “Plague and Post-trauma in Chaucer’s ‘First Fragment,’” David Coley, Simon Fraser U

Critics have long discerned what we might call post-trau…[Read more]

]]> 0 c341a79401be13eec2b0107aedaa817e Lisa H. Cooper started the topic Medieval English Poetry and Poetics at MLA 2021 in the discussion GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/poetry-and-poetics/forum/topic/medieval-english-poetry-and-poetics-at-mla-2021/ Fri, 13 Nov 2020 17:00:08 -0500 Please take note of the following sessions sponsored by the Middle English Forum at virtual MLA 2021 that may be of interest to members of this group. Session 660 in particular is jointly sponsored with GS Poetry and Poetics.

205. Medieval Abstraction, Friday, 8 January, 10:15-11:30 am Presider: Julie Orlemanski, U of Chicago Speakers: Danielle…[Read more]

]]> 0 8236bdce0628fe1a599c98af933c790c Brian Gregory Caraher deposited Turning Point '68: From Tet to Chicago, Paris to D.C., Hesiod to "Works & Days" in the group GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1716174/ Wed, 11 Nov 2020 02:38:41 -0500 This commemorative and retrospective memoir examines events fifty years ago in the interests of tracking and placing the editorial ideals and dynamics of the journal “Works & Days”, founded in 1978 and published through 2019. The author was one of the original co-founders of the journal, as well as a contributor and member of the editorial board…[Read more]

]]> 0 f2d6fc910415e3c95fb9889a78738e96 Brian Gregory Caraher deposited 'Balancing Fire, Dreams and the Signatures of All Things': Sinead Morrissey's Poetry and Poetics in the group GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1716170/ Wed, 11 Nov 2020 02:29:38 -0500 This article is a sustained profile and study of prominent Northern Irish poet Sinead Morrissey’s complete run of work from the 1990s through 2018. The article examines closely the developing course of her poetry as well as the developing itinerary of her poetics, especially in the light of her transatlantic poetics as well as local and…[Read more]

]]> 0 09fb14bc52a9b1e48c7a0e55ed1c8c20 Thomas Mazanec deposited Review: The Halberd at Red Cliff: Jian'an and the Three Kingdoms, by Xiaofei Tian in the group GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1707440/ Sat, 05 Sep 2020 02:23:55 -0400 Review of The Halberd at Red Cliff: Jian’an and the Three Kingdoms, by Xiaofei Tian (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2018)

]]> 0 05592ebca08b6af1b545d797aa044c92 Zélia Catarina Pedro Rafael deposited “What Thoughts I Have of You Tonight, Walt Whitman” Continuity and Innovation in Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl” in the group GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1706565/ Thu, 27 Aug 2020 03:49:22 -0400 In his essay “The Poet,” Emerson called for the poet who would sing the burgeoning nation of the United States of America. The answer to his request far exceeded all his expectations in the form of a ground-breaking volume of poems where Walt Whitman sang not only a nation, but the people who inhabited it as the people incarnated the values, str…[Read more]

]]> 0 708c30c31a232c2add4c6b6921330bd7 Eric Weiskott deposited Meter and Modernity in English Verse, 1350-1650 in the group GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1703157/ Tue, 28 Jul 2020 02:26:58 -0400 What would English literary history look like if the unit of measure were not the political reign but the poetic tradition? The earliest poems in English were written in alliterative verse, the meter of Beowulf. Alliterative meter preceded tetrameter, which first appeared in the twelfth century, and tetrameter in turn preceded pentameter, the…[Read more]

]]> 0 e20337549ac5ab492ddbe9aa76b4258e Tana Jean Welch started the topic MLA 2021 CFP: State of the Body: Health and Illness in the 21st Century in the discussion GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/poetry-and-poetics/forum/topic/mla-2021-cfp-state-of-the-body-health-and-illness-in-the-21st-century-2/ Tue, 21 Jan 2020 15:37:59 -0500 MLA 2021 CFP: State of the Body: Health and Illness in the 21st Century
What methodologies and/or texts best help us make sense of our current bodily relationship to health, illness, and medicine? Papers utilizing posthumanism, new materialism, feminist science studies, or other philosophical tools are welcome. All literary genres and time p…[Read more]

]]> 0 c762cedd7002b3f344d37ae8b7c5d41d Julie Phillips Brown deposited Reading as Ritual Response: The Artist’s Books of Cecilia Vicuña [remarks] in the group GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1675019/ Sun, 12 Jan 2020 03:54:24 -0500 Since the 1960s, Chilean poet and artist Cecilia Vicuña has developed an internationally-recognized body of hybrid works that draw on poetry, painting, sculpture, installation, dance, song, and film. “Reading as Ritual Response” considers one of Vicuña’s lesser-known categories of work, the artist’s book, through which she harnesses the visual, m…[Read more]

]]> 0 17e093124b9fdf5fc8a899a591bff3ee Julie Phillips Brown deposited Reading as Ritual Response: The Artist’s Books of Cecilia Vicuña [slides] in the group GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1674903/ Sat, 11 Jan 2020 03:58:06 -0500 Since the 1960s, Chilean poet and artist Cecilia Vicuña has developed an internationally-recognized body of hybrid works that draw on poetry, painting, sculpture, installation, dance, song, and film. “Reading as Ritual Response” considers one of Vicuña’s lesser-known categories of work, the artist’s book, through which she harnesses the visual, m…[Read more]

]]> 0 0ad845182f7bbf0e7a8bdfb06cf290c8 Julie Phillips Brown deposited Otherbreath: Bare Life and the Limits of Self in Claudia Rankine's 'Citizen' in the group GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1674838/ Fri, 10 Jan 2020 16:30:20 -0500 For the “Extreme Texts” special issue of Jacket2, edited by Divya Victor (2019)

]]> 0 d1b020753ac46911f10695b19cd6e9d4 Scott Challener deposited The New Border in the group GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1674616/ Thu, 09 Jan 2020 03:53:48 -0500 This course is a study of the literature of the U.S.-Mexico border from the 1980s to the present. We begin with Gloria Anzaldúa’s foundational texts, Borderlands / La Frontera, and her landmark feminist anthology, co-edited with Cherríe Moraga, This Bridge Called My Back: Radical Writings by Women of Color. We then consider the legacies and aft…[Read more]

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