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| SPECIAL ISSUE: POETRIES Guest Edited by Adalaide Morris, Mike Chasar, and Heidi Bean The Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies seeks contributions for a special issue, possible book project, and major conference presentation on the topic of “Poetries.” Our focus is not The Poem but the range and multiplicity of poetries made newly visible by recent developments in cultural studies: performance studies, everyday life studies, book studies, etc. We are looking for essays that position poems as part of the material conditions, technologies, and social histories of their moments. Contributors are encouraged to think broadly about poetic utterances, the acts such utterances perform, and the intentional and unintentional effects they have in specific contexts and communities as they get produced, distributed, used and consumed as cultural phenomena. As we wish to invite broad consideration of poetries, poems, poetry criticisms and their communities, there are no restrictions on period or place. Essays may address, but are not limited to, the following kinds of topics: • Poetry and the public landscape • Poetry and politics (e.g., political poetry, poetry and activism, poet laureates) • Poetry and technology • Poetry in performance (e.g., slam poetry, poet’s theater, poetry and performativity, etc.) • Poetry and, in, or as commodity culture • Poetry in specific institutional settings (e.g. prisons, high schools, the workplace, writers workshops, chat rooms, etc.) • Poems issued or excerpted on posters, cards or broadsides; collected in scrapbooks or printed in newspapers; appearing or referenced in film, television or video • Poetry, visual arts and material culture • Documentary poems • Poems by hoaxers, plagiarizers and polemicists • “Micropoetries” (Damon’s term) such as greeting card verse, lullabies, playground rhymes, and occasional poems Deadline for submission is March 15, 2005. Please send to: Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies Poetries English Department 308 English-Philosophy Building University of Iowa Iowa City IA 52242-1492 Three hard copies of the manuscript (8,000-10,000 words) in MLA formatting should be provided along with a cover letter and brief abstract; eventual contributors will be asked to resubmit their work on disk, preferably in Microsoft Word format. Manuscripts cannot be returned unless accompanied by a SASE with US postage. For more information, please contact michael-chasar@uiowa.edu .
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