[New-Poetry] Fwd: Call For Papers--2010 Charles Olson Conference

[James Cervantes]

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From: jami macarty <jlmacarty at earthlink.net>
Date: Fri, May 1, 2009 at 1:39 PM
Subject: Call For Papers--2010 Charles Olson Conference
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Charles Olson wants you!

Please see the CFA below (and attached) for the June 2010 Charles Olson
Conference.

And, please also, kindly, circulate far and wide--and wider.

You're grand!

Thanks very much!
JM

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CHARLES OLSON CENTENARY CONFERENCE
June 4-6, 2010
Simon Fraser University
Vancouver, British Columbia


One hundred years after his birth, and fifty years after The New American
Poetry anthology transformed the landscape of contemporary poetry, Charles
Olson, arguably one of the most influential figures in twentieth century
literature, remains a puzzlingly marginalized figure. As Ben Friedlander
writes in Olson's Collected Prose, it is "as if the unread Olson were the
necessary 3/4 submerged berg making possible the 1/4 ice floe." In the spirit of
bringing Olson back into the polis--and delving into the "3/4 submerged"
portion of this "maximal" figure---the Charles Olson Centenary Conference
seeks new readings of Olson's poetry, poetics, and his influence on
twentieth and twenty-first century literature and culture. Topics to be
addressed could include (but are not limited to):

● Black Mountain College reconsidered
● The New Canadian Poetry? Olson north of the border
● Olson, economics, and democracy
● Olson, geography, and the spatial turn
● Olson and American history
● Olson and the archive
● Olson / Melville / Shakespeare
● Olson and Mexico
● Olson, Women, and the Feminine
● Olson and his contemporaries
● Olson and 21st century poetry
● Olson's influences/Olson's influence
● Poetry as research
● Poetry and the polis
● The politics of poetic form

Please submit abstracts of 250-500 words to Stephen Collis at
olson-conference at sfu.ca by October 1 2009. More information and conference
updates will be available at http://www.sfu.ca/olson-conference.
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