Dear ALSCW members and friends,
We have had requests for more time to think about responses to the call for papers at the October conference at Yale University from October 22-25. In view of these, and given the unique pressures under which we’re all now working, we are postponing the deadline for proposed seminar papers to July 1.
Please know that we are moving forward with plans for October, and will continue to accept submissions, but there is serious uncertainty at this time about the likely duration of the mitigation and containment measures that universities, like all other responsible institutions, have been putting in place; and it seems possible that the pandemic will affect the planned dates for the 2020 conference. We will let you know as soon as we have any information about this.
Bruce Bond is the author of twenty-three books including, most recently, Immanent Distance: Poetry and the Metaphysics of the Near at Hand (U of MI, 2015), Black Anthem (Tampa Review Prize, U of Tampa, 2016), Gold Bee (Helen C. Smith Award, Crab Orchard Award, SIU Press, 2016), Sacrum (Four Way, 2017), Blackout Starlight: New and Selected Poems 1997-2015 (L.E. Phillabaum Award, LSU, 2017), Rise and Fall of the Lesser Sun Gods (Elixir Book Prize, Elixir Press, 2018), Dear Reader (Free Verse Editions, 2018), and Frankenstein’s Children (Lost Horse, 2018).