[Englecturers] FYI: Mixed Media in Contemporary Poetry (9/1/05; NEMLA, 3/2/06-3/5/06)

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Northeast Modern Language Association Convention

Philadelphia

March 2-5, 2006

 

Mixed Media in Contemporary Poetry

 

This panel seeks to address the heterogeneity of contemporary poetry about
visual, musical, and other media.  The other arts are a perennial source of
inspiration and provocation for poets, but recent years have seen a boom in
interart work by poets of all persuasions.  Poetic interest in envoicing,
riffing off, or interpreting other media crosses factional lines, and the
poetry that has emerged is as diverse as the contemporary poetic field
itself-from sonnet sequences to dialogues to verbal collages to graphic
hypertexts.  These responses to other media reflect a wide spectrum of
poetic stances, whether the poet participates in the venerable tradition of
ekphrasis, or in the long history of visual-verbal interactions in
avant-garde canons.  Moreover, poets are drawing on sources not limited to
easel painting, turning also to film, video, performance art, music, dance,
TV, radio, and electronic media.  One recent ekphrastic collection, Mary Jo
Bang's The Eye Like a Strange !  Balloon  (2004), addresses works in
drywall, polyester, charcoal, Styrofoam, aluminum chairs, burlap, plaster,
lacquer, and photomontage.  Other recent books, including Mark Doty's School
of the Arts (2005), Terri Witek's Fools and Crows (2003), Debora Greger's
Western Art (2004), and Claudia Rankine's Don't Let Me Be Lonely (2004),
take visual media as a focal point, dominant theme, or guiding trope. This
panel will address the range of new uses of interart aesthetics, construing
experimentalism and innovation in the broadest possible terms.  Papers that
address twenty-first century examples are of special interest, but papers
that consider later twentieth-century poetry, or that address particular
interart trends in the context of postmodernity or post-postmodernity, are
also welcome.  Possible topics include, but are not limited to, ekphrasis,
interart collaborations, collage aesthetics, mixed-media performance, poetry
and public art, interart allegiances and networks, poetic use!  s of
advertising media, poetry and comics, and interart publishing and
bookmaking.

 

Please email 1-2 page abstracts by September 1, 2005 to:

Barbara Fischer, Ph.D. 

bkfischer at yahoo.com

 

All accepted panelists must be members of NEMLA by October 15, 2005.

 

Department of English

Marymount College of Fordham University

100 Marymount Avenue

Tarrytown, New York 10591

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