The University of Sussex in conjunction with the University of

Southampton will be hosting a conference on the work of the poet Susan

Howe on June 18 and 19, 2007.  This two-day event will include a

reading by and panel discussion with the poet herself, and a

performance by the experimental musician, David Grubbs, with whom she

has recently collaborated on a series of interdisciplinary projects.

Susan Howe is a unique figure in twentieth century poetry.  Her work

came to prominence in the early 1990s in association with the American

Language poets, but quickly set its own agenda outside these

parameters.  From her first career as an artist, Howe brought an

intense sensitivity to the visual dimensions of the text, producing a

diverse body of work that has continually probed the borders between

poetry and other disciplines and media.  In its unorthodox readings of

the American canon, its obsessive interest in history and what the

official narratives of history exclude, Howe’s work is unrelenting in

its capacity to surprise and stimulate us.

In this, the first conference devoted to her work, we aim to recognize

the impact Howe’s writing has had on contemporary poetics, and to

provide a focus for new critical approaches to her poetry.

We invite proposals for 20 minute papers on any aspect of Susan Howe’s

work.  Please send an abstract of no more than 250 words to both

Christina Makris <cm22 at sussex.ac.uk> and Catherine Martinby <C.L.Martin at sussex.ac.uk>, as well as to <howeconference at hotmail.co> by
December 8, 2006.

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HOWE on the WEB:
EPC author page
PennSound page
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PEPC Editons:
"These Flames and Generosities of the Heart:
Emily Dickinson and the The Illogic of Sumptuary Values"
fromThe Birth-Mark

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