From Incoherence to Sustainability: Performance, Activism, and Social Media in the Most Recent Russian Poetry by Kirill Korchagin

“…As such, it has always maintained a closeness to the poetic work and was most often practiced by poets who sought to extend their texts beyond the space of the page and into the “external” world. …”
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A Conversation with Michael Heller: This Constellation is a Name by Fiona McMahon

“…Les réflexions réunies ici sont le fruit de deux conversations qui ont eu lieu à l’occasion de la venue du poète Michael Heller en France en 2013. L’accueil du poète par l’Université Toulouse II–Le Mirail en janvier 2013 et par l’Université Paris Ouest Nanterre en février 2013 fut un événement riche en échanges pour sonder l’inscription de son œuvre dans la lignée historique des poètes objectivistes et pour mettre en lumière sa place actuelle parmi les courants contemporains américains.…”
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Voices in the Machine: Class, Subjectivity and Desire in Victorian Women’s Factory Poems by Fabienne Moine

“…The first objective of this paper is to present the voices of the upper and middle-class women poets, who show sympathy for the labourers as they try to advance the cause of the female workers. …”
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Warring Claims: Victorian Poetry and Conflict by Matthew Bevis

“…This article examines how Victorian poets represented and explored the complexities of war; it considers the writings of Browning, Arnold, Tennyson, Meredith, Morris, Kipling, Hardy, Housman, and others, and demonstrates how the richness of this body of work offered itself to modern poets as both bequest and as monitory force.…”
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A poética cantada: investigação das habilidades do repentista nordestino by João Miguel Manzolillo Sautchuk

“…It is always sung in pairs of poets who, while improvising, dialogue with each other and with the public. …”
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Ludisme et allusion dans l’étymologie poétique latine by Cécile Margelidon

“…The Latin etymological wordplay, although the object of more and more studies, has received few definitional attempts that take into account both the singularity of the ancient etymology and the playful modalities implemented by the poets. Whereas sound echoes and paronyms are the basis of certain ancient etymological connections, it is important to have a poetic approach to the process based on the allusive capacity of the origin of words, and to insist on the playful part of the process.In what way is the origin of words one of the means available to Latin poets to play with the literary, philological and antiquarian knowledge of their readers? …”
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Ficções da memória ou a memória da ficção: Dulce María Loynaz e Cecília Meireles by Aimeé G. Bolaños

“…Dulce María Loynaz e Cecília Meireles are read as poets that share, with their singular poetics, a memorialistic and reflexive aesthetics, in the condition of sym- bolist poets untimely. …”
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Utopian Gossip: “The Homosexual in Society” from Robert Duncan to New Narrative by Eric Sneathen

“…This paper collects the commentary surrounding Robert Duncan’s 1944 essay “The Homosexual in Society” to develop an account of Duncan’s relationship to New Narrative, a group of younger, mostly-gay poets. The first half of the essay focuses directly on Duncan’s composition of the essay, his emendations of 1959, his experiences with the editor John Crowe Ransom, and Duncan’s portions of interviews with gay poets throughout the 1970s that brought out new details about “The Homosexual in Society” essay. …”
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Kreis in Verse: Robert Duncan and the Masters in Poetics Program at New College of California by Nicholas James Whittington

“…The paper plays on the aural cognates (to the ear most accustomed to English) of the German kreis and the French crise to show how this close circle of poets and scholars banded together to face the perceived crisis of professionalization and careerism represented by the explosive growth of the creative writing complex and the long devaluation of poetry as a vital form of knowledge.…”
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Les deux ‘Corinnes’ des Amours d’Ovide by Jacqueline Fabre-Serris

“…Dans cet article, je défends l’hypothèse que ce choix s’explique par le désir d’instaurer une autre compétition entre l’‘ancienne’ Corinne et un poète masculin, lui-même en l’occurrence, et de la gagner en créant une ‘nouvelle’ Corinne. …”
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Trente ans d'exil en Suisse. José Herrera Petere (Genève, 1947-1977) by Rose Duroux

“…The poems he published are bilingual, usually translated by the poets who were friends with him. He was recognized in Switzerland, but what he expected was a call from Spain, which never came. …”
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Distance without Remoteness: The Objectivist Poetics of Nonmimetic Pain by Xavier Kalck

“…This article then proposes to compare three excerpts––all written after 1945––from the work of three US poets (George Oppen, Charles Reznikoff and Louis Zukofsky) which all deal with the experience and trauma of World War II. …”
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Metaphors we grow old by: A study of gocalıq (old age) metaphors in Azerbaijani Turkish poetry by Mostafa Shahiditabar

“…The corpus of the study contains Azerbaijani Turkish poems of Shahriar (1906-1988) as well as seven other poets. A total of 50 Turkish verses on old age were recruited for this study. …”
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Expressões retóricas do amor no Cancioneiro Geral de Garcia de Resende by Geraldo Augusto Fernandes

“…The resources used by poets would be, through the revaluation of poetry, harmony and musicality, through which the most diverse contents of human inquiry were expressed, which reveals the ancient concerns that medieval poets emulated. …”
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Thick as Trees: Kinship and Place in Transatlantic Small Press Poetry Networks by Ross Hair

“…Cet article examine le rôle que jouent les maisons d’édition de poésie dans le travail et la réception de plusieurs poètes américains, écossais et britanniques : Lorine Niedecker, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Roy Fisher et Stuart Mills. …”
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Langston Hughes chez Pierre Seghers : récit d’un engagement poétique by Annick Ettlin

“…Although the Harlem Renaissance considerably influenced the poets of the “negritude” movement, its editorial and academic reception among French writers and readers has been quite confidential. …”
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Conversions to Catholicism among Fin de Siècle Writers: A Spiritual and Literary Genealogy by Claire Masurel-Murray

“…During the last decade of the 19th century, a number of English writers converted to Roman Catholicism: the “Decadent” poets John Gray, Lionel Johnson and Ernest Dowson joined the Church in 1890 and 1891, while Oscar Wilde flirted with the Catholic faith during his college years at Oxford, and received the last sacraments on his deathbed in 1900. …”
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Análise cultural do torrão dos infernos: imaginário do mal nas poéticas de Dante Milano e Nauro Machado by Alexandre Fernandes Corrêa

“…This is an introduction to the cultural analysis of the imaginary of evil expressed in two works by Brazilian poets from different regions of the country. It is a com- parative study of the poetry of Dante Milano (RJ) and Nauro Machado (MA), through which we propose an archaeological excavation of the remains of the representation of evil in social and literary unconscious.…”
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Assessing Poetry and Diction in Contemporary Uganda: A Case Study Of "Building The Nation". by Muhanguzi, Amos

“…Poetry lovers claim that diction leads to problems such as slow interpretation of poems since difficult words are used in Barlow's poem; Building the Nation since they don't easily adapt to the changes in the words used by these poets. The purpose of this study was to assess poetry and diction in contemporary Uganda; a case study of "Building the Nation".…”
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Ruínas de mundos perdidos: a estética residual de Brennand by Ana Luiza Andrade

“…Besides analyzing Brennand’s heads as remainders of worlds which were lost in catastrophes, it relates Brennand’s sculptures to ruins in the works of some writers and poets such as Osman Lins, Antonio José Ponte, João Cabral de Melo Neto and Jorge Luis Borges.…”
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