Call for Presentations and Panel Proposals: The West Chester Poetry Center Writing Conference

"Setting Out for the Sublime: Voice, Verse, and Craft"

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: The West Chester Poetry Center welcomes scholarly/critical submissions in anticipation of presenting at our annual conference, June 5-8, 2019. We are especially interested in writing and presentations associated with, but not limited to:

-- Formal poetics and versification;
-- Biographical investigation, examination, analysis of, etc. poets working in forms;
-- Critical analysis of the work of Anthony Hecht;
-- Narrative craft in poetry;
-- Poetry as found in the veteran and activist experience(s).

Please submit a 200-400 wrd. abstract w/ (working) title along with a CV to:

watersjATetownDOTedu (Change AT to @ and DOT to .)

no later than Dec. 1, 2018.

We are also open to submission for panel presentations concerning the topics listed above, as well as:

-- Poetry pedagogy in the high school classroom;
-- Poetry as interdisciplinary media for a given purpose;
-- Interdisciplinary and/or interrelated engagements with music and poetry;
-- Underrepresented voices of formal poets in contemporary poetry.

Please submit a 200-400 wrd. summary of panel topic with title; time needed for panel; number of participants; names of participants to be contacted/already contacted about participation.

I look forward to hearing from you!

Jesse Waters, Director, West Chester Poetry Center and Bowers Writers House at Elizabethtown College
22 Parkview Drive
Elizabethtown, PA 17022
717-279-1015