Paideuma: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics

Submissions are welcome during our reading period, August through March. Articles received outside of the reading period can be held for review in the subsequent reading period, if the author so chooses.

Contributors are asked to format their manuscripts following MLA style guidelines, including a properly formatted Works Cited list and parenthetical in-text citations (rather than footnotes). All text should be double-spaced, including end notes and works cited. All punctuation and spelling should follow American usage.

We accept electronic submissions at Paideuma@maine.edu. We request two versions of the document: one Microsoft Word (or otherwise compatible) document with a cover page that includes any identifying information, and one PDF document without a cover page or any other identifying information (for purposes of anonymous review). It is crucial that the text of the two electronic formats be otherwise identical, with the only exception being that of the omission of the cover sheet from the PDF version.

Contributors of manuscripts using unpublished materials must secure permission for their publication in Paideuma. On being granted publication permission, please send a copy of the permission letter to Paideuma.

Paideuma began as a journal of Ezra Pound scholarship and still uses the following abbreviations for Pound’s writings:

ABCE . . . ABC of Economics
ABCR . . . ABC of Reading
ATH . . . Antheil and the Treatise on Harmony
Cav . . . Pound’s Cavalcanti
C . . . The Cantos
CEP . . . Collected Early Poems of Ezra Pound
CNTJ . . . The Classic Noh Theatre of Japan
Con Analects . . . Confucian Analects
Con GD . . . Confucius / Great Digest & Unwobbling Pivot
Con Odes . . . The Confucian Odes / The Classic Anthology
EPEC . . . Ezra Pound’s Economic Correspondence
Elek . . . Elektra: A Play by Ezra Pound and Rudd Fleming
EP&J . . . Ezra Pound and Japan
EP&M . . . Ezra Pound and Music
EP&VA . . . Ezra Pound and the Visual Arts
GB . . . Gaudier-Brzeska: A Memoir
GK . . . Guide to Kulchur
HSM . . . Hugh Selwyn Mauberley
HSP . . . Homage to Sextus Propertius
J/M . . . Jefferson and/or Mussolini
L . . . The Letters of Ezra Pound, 1907-1941
L/MA . . . The Letters of Ezra Pound to Margaret Anderson
L/BC . . . Ezra Pound and Senator Bronson Cutting
L/FMF . . . The Correspondence Between Ezra Pound and F. M. Ford
L/ACH . . . Letters of Ezra Pound to Alice Corbin Henderson
L/JJ . . . The Letters of Ezra Pound to James Joyce
L/JL . . . Ezra Pound and James Laughlin / Selected Letters
L/WL . . . Pound/Lewis: The Letters of Ezra Pound and Wyndham Lewis
L/E & DP . . . Ezra and Dorothy Pound / Letters in Captivity, 1945–1946
L/JQ . . . The Selected Letters of Ezra Pound to John Quinn
L/DS . . . Ezra Pound and Dorothy Shakespear: Their Letters 1909-14
L/TW . . . Pound, Thayer, Watson & The Dial
L/JT . . . Ezra Pound / John Theobald Letters
L/GT . . . The Correspondence Between Ezra Pound and Con. Tinkham
L/WCW . . . Pound/Williams: Selected Letters of Ezra Pound and WCW
L/LZ . . . Selected Letters of Ezra Pound and Louis Zukofsky
LE . . . Literary Essays, ed. T. S. Eliot
MA . . . Machine Art and Other Writings: The Lost Thought of the Italian Years. Ed. M. Ardizzone
MIN . . . Make It New
NPL . . . Postscript to The Natural Philosophy of Love
PD . . . Pavannes and Divagations
P . . . Personae / The Shorter Poems of Ezra Pound, rev. ed. Baechler and Litz
P&P . . . Ezra Pound’s Poetry and Prose Contributions to Periodicals
PE . . . Polite Essays
PM . . . Patria Mia
PT . . .Poems and Translations, Ed. Richard Sieburth
RSWWII . . . “Ezra Pound Speaking”: Radio Speeches of WW II
SL . . . Selected Letters of Ezra Pound, ed. D.D. Paige
SP . . . Selected Prose, 1905-1965, ed. W. Cookson
SR . . . The Spirit of Romance
T . . . Ezra Pound / Translations
WTSF . . . A Walking Tour in Southern France
WT . . . Sophocles: Women of Trachis