Paideuma: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics

Beginning with volume 44, Paideuma began publishing an annual symposium. The first was planned with former editorial assistant Jill Hughes and subsequent editorial assistants have played a crucial role in determining the topic and inviting participants.

One of our goals at the outset was to expand the range of contributors to the journal and to widen its horizon beyond that of Paideuma‘s original, Poundian commitments. We are now in the process of editing our fifth symposium and feel that the roster of poets and scholars who have participated and the perspectives they have opened up marks the initiative as a success. Details on these recent and forthcoming issues can be found on this blog, but here is an overview of our five symposia.

Sixth Symposium
Poems and Places
Volumes 51 and 52 (2024 and 2025)
(editing underway)

Contributors: Lucy Alford, Eric Gary Anderson, Patrick Barron, Kimberly Blaeser, Joel Bettridge, John Burns, Norma Cole, Michael Davidson, Joseph Donahue, Marcella Durand, Roger Gilbert, Fiona Green, Rachel Hadas, Josh Hoeynck, Cynthia Hogue, LeAnne Howe, Grant Jenkins, Megan Kaminski, John Kinsella, Charles Kraszewski, Michael Leong, David Lloyd, Zachary Ludington, Krishna Mehrota, Laura Mullen, Ken Norris, Gillian Osborne, Eugene Ostashevsky, Robert Dale Parker, Marjorie Perloff, Zhaoming Qian, Dean Rader, Samia Rahimtoola, Lisa Samuels, James Sherry, Eleni Sikelianos, Zoë Skoulding, Harriet Tarlo, Karen Van Dyck, Pasquale Verdicchio, Don Wellman, Rob Sean Wilson, Stephanie Young, and Sandra Zagarell…with others expected.

Fifth Symposium
Poems We Live With
Volume 50 (2023)
(in production)

Contributors: Charles Altieri, Tyler Babbie and Katelyn Kenderish, Massimo Bacigalupo, Jennifer Bartlett, Anne Boyer Andrea Brady, Franklin Bruno, Chris Chen, Kate Colby, Ann Cotten, Jordan Davis, Paul Eaton, Jack Foley, Stephen Fredman, Nora Fulton, Chris Funkhouser, Florian Gargaillo, Gary Geddes, Mary Ellis Gibson, Mushira Habib, Matthew Hoffer, Walt Hunter, Jack Jung, Daniel Kane Lynn Keller, Joy Ladin, Tim Lilburn, James Longenbach, Jill Magi, Shaul Magid, Leslie Morris, Miriam Nichols, Richard Owens, Jared Pearce, Seth Perlow, Jed Rasula, Brian Reed, Rhea Côté Robbins, Margaret Ronda, Claude Royet-Journoud Linda Russo, Siobhan Scarry, Andrew Schelling, David Levi Strauss, Maeera Yaffa Shreiber, Eric Selland, Courtney Weiss Smith, Keston Sutherland, and John Yau.

Fourth Symposium
Literature and War
Volume 47 (2020)

Contributors: Ammiel Alcalay, Ifi Amadume, Merle L. Bachman, Steve Benson, Richard Berengarten, Stephen Collis, Adam Gilbert-Berry, Pierre Joris, Mona Kareem, Ann Keniston, Phil Klay, Howard McCord, Tracie Morris, Murat Nemet-Nejat, Pina Piccolo, Kristin Prevallet/Yamuna Sangarasivam, Nahid Rachlin, Anthony Rudolf, Brooke Sheridan, Ryan Stovall, Jonathan Vincent, Mark Wallace, Robert Whelan, Shira Baron Wolosky, Wormser, and Rachel Zolf. With an afterword by Philip Metres.

Third Symposium
Community
Volume 46 (2019)

Contributors: Jacqueline Ardam, Clint Burnham, Cris Cheek, Cheryl Clarke, Peter Coviello, Ray DeJesus, Kristin Dykstra, Alec Finlay, Norman Fischer, Michael Kelleher, Hank Lazer, David Marriott, James Maynard, Peter O’Leary, Bob Perelman, The Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt Recovery Project (Elizabeth Renker, Jolie Braun, S. E. Andres, Larry Michaels), David Pritchard, Suzanne Stein, Gillian White, and John Wilkinson. With an afterword by Andrew Epstein.

Second Symposium
Literary History
Volume 45 (2018)
Jstor link

Contributors: Hélène Aji, Gregory Betts, James Brophy, David Buuck, Cristina Giorcelli, Kaiser Haq, Jeanne Heuving, Erin Kappeler, J. Peter Moore, Chris Nealon, Nancy Ellen Ogle, Josephine Park, Joshua Schuster, Lytle Shaw, Brian Kim Stefans, Erica Weaver, and Tyrone Williams.

First Symposium
“In what sense does the work to which you are committed share in the renovation of society?”
Volume 44 (2017)
Jstor link

Contributors: Rachel Tzvia Back, Sarah Barnsley, Allison Cobb, Commune Editions, Maria Damon, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Norman Finkelstein, Alan Golding, Michael Heller, David Herd, Laura Hinton, Linda A. Kinnahan, Ann Lauterbach, Philip Metres, Malgorzata Myk, A. L. Nielsen, Jean-Michel Rabaté, Dale Smith, Askia M. Touré, David Trinidad, Keith Tuma, Ann Vickery, Fred Wah, and Jerome McGann.