Below is a call for proposals for a proposed panel at the 2013 American Literature Association conference to be held in May 2013 in Boston -- a fascinating preliminary discussion around the exciting anthology project that is being created by Anne Shifrer, Brian Bartlett and Corey Clawson. We'll keep you posted on the progress of this project.
“Elizabeth
Bishop as Muse: Inspiration and Emulation”
In
conjunction with an anthology project which collects published poems about,
addressed to, or strongly influenced by Elizabeth Bishop, the project editors
are proposing a session at ALA
in which participants discuss one or two such poems. We are hoping to create a
panel or roundtable which includes both critics and poets (even poets who have
authored such a poem). In a ten-minute presentation (approx. four pages),
participants will consider what the poem(s) of their choice uniquely reveals
about E.B.'s life and character or the nature, craft, and value of her art.
Those interested may find our provisional list of anthology poems (by her
British and American peers as well as generations of poets from Ireland's Seamus Heaney to Brazil's Anna
Cristina Cesar) at the following address:
We also
welcome poems we haven’t yet discovered, so long as these provide valuable
insights into what it is about E.B.’s poetry that so inspires admiration and
emulation.
Please
send proposals (about 250 words or even a paper draft) to the editors: Corey
Clawson (cdc115@eden.rutgers.edu),
Brian Bartlett (bbartlett@hfx.eastlink.ca),
Anne Shifrer (Anne.Shifrer@usu.edu).
We seek compressed and polished short essays. After the presentations (5-6
people), the panelists will have an open discussion. PROPOSAL DEADLINE: January
15, 2013.
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