American Poetry and Poetics in the World
A special issue of Humanities (ISSN 2076-0787).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2026 | Viewed by 6
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue attempts to situate American poetry as, and in relation to, world poetry, whether through the prisms of globalization, planetarity, or worlding, whether as a matter of diaspora, ethnicity, exile, migration, or travel and whether in the key of comparative literature, ecopoetics, or transnational studies, among other available frames. Approaches employing the work of the digital humanities, the public humanities, or the scholarship of teaching and learning within and beyond the humanities are particularly welcome.
Essays might consider biographical, geographical, and literary-historical dimensions of those who have, in their lives and works, engaged not only the language of American poetry and poetics, but also the wider world that such language points toward, be those engagements in the keys of performance or publication and whether such engagements emerge in the pages of anthologies, in the course of cultural exchange, or as facilitated by technologies of various kinds. Contributors may wish to examine these dynamics in view of geocriticism, media studies, reception history, textual criticism, or translation studies, as well as through the prisms of address, embodiment, emplacement and form.
Prof. Dr. Jim Cocola
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- American poetry
- geocriticism
- public humanities
- scholarship of teaching and learning
- translation studies
- world literature
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