This is a follow-up to a query I circulated in August, when many of you may have been spending your time in more interesting ways than keeping up with e-mail.
I'm interested in putting together a session for the 2002 Narrative Conference.
Tentative title: "Contemporary Poetry and/not Narrative."
Possibilities: using contemporary poetry to refine narratological concepts, stated opposition of some poets to narrative, narrative in/not in longer poems.
Please send me a proposal (at least 500 words) or, even better, proposal plus a completed paper, by October 1; I'll invite panelists to be involved in editing the package that gets submitted to the conference committee. Electronic submission is strongly preferred.
Thanks.
Michael Kearns
Professor of English and Kathlyn Cosper Dunagan Professor of Humanities
Univ. of Texas of the Permian Basin
Odessa, TX 79762
(915-552-2292)
kearns_m@utpb.edu