Chinese/American Association of Poetry and Poetics

CAAP November 2019 in Hangzhou: CFP

The 8th International Conference of the Chinese/American Poetry and Poetics (CAAP)
Hangzhou, China / November 1-3, 2019

Hosted by
Zhejiang Sci-Tech University and
Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
Co-sponsored by
Chinese Department, Fudan University
Center for English Literatures of Central China Normal University,
Foreign Literature Studies (Journal)
International Journal of Poetry and Poetics (Journal), and
Foreign Language and Literature Research (Journal)

CFP: The 5th CAAP Convention, California State University, Los Angeles November 11–14, 2016

The Chinese/American Association for Poetry and Poetics

Charles Bernstein

>>>>>>2016 Program<<<<<

CFP: The fourth convention of the Chinese/American Association for Poetry and Poetics

Jinan，Shandong, China • November 28–29, 2015

Charles Bernstein

华中师范大学关于举办“辛亥革命与亚洲”

The 4th Convention of the Chinese/American Association for Poetry and Poetics will take place in Jinan, Shandong from November 28 to 29, 2015. This convention will be hosted by Shandong Normal University and co-sponsored by Central China Normal University, Foreign Literature Studies, Forum for World Literature Studies, Shandong Foreign Language Teaching Journal, and University of Pennsylvania. Papers are called from scholars all over the world.

CFP: The 3rd Convention of the Chinese/American Association for Poetry and Poetics, Shanghai, China, Dec. 18-19, 2014

Charles Bernstein

The 3rd Convention of the Chinese/American Association for Poetry and Poetics will take place in Shanghai from December 18 to19, 2014. This convention will be hosted by Shanghai University and co-sponsored by Central China Normal University, Foreign Literature Studies, Forum for World Literature Studies, University of Pennsylvania, and China Three Gorges University. Papers are called from scholars all over the world.

Espians: Issue #2 and CFP

Charles Bernstein

The Journal of EPSIANS

The journal’s title EPSIANS derives from EPSI, i.e., English Poetry Studies Institute of Sun Yat-sen University (P. R. China). The journal is international in scope, open to Chinese and English-speaking scholars, and is mainly devoted to poetry studies with occasional contributions on other related topics. The first issue was published in September of 2011, and can be downloaded here.

Papers submitted to the journal should be sent to: epsians2011--@--gmail.com.
Deadline for contribution to the third issue is June 1, 2012.

[free PDFs of issue 1 and 2 here]

CAAP 2011 conference in Wuhan: group photos

Charles Bernstein

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rasulas in Wuhan
Nie, Susan Bee, Bernstein, Jed Rasula, Suzie Rasula, Luo

Espians, inaugural issue, 2011 (pdf)

from English Poetry Studies Institute, Sun Yat-sen University, China

Charles Bernstein

pdf of first issue

Dialog on poetry and poetics: 1st CAAP (Chinese/American poetry) conference

Wuhan, China –– September 29-30, 2011

Charles Bernstein

Professors Marjorie Perloff & Nie Zhenzhao

The 1st Convention of the
Chinese / American Association for Poetry and Poetics
Wuhan, China
in celebration of Marjorie Perloff's 80th birthday

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Near/Miss launches

Charles Bernstein

New from University of Chicago Press: paper, cloth, e-book
Audible.com has also published an audiobook of my reading of the full work.

What happened to you?: On what is lost and what is possible in exile

An Interview with Sheila Black

Jessica Suzanne Stokes

Sheila Black, a woman with dark hair and a black top smiles at the camera

In the poem, “What You Mourn,” Sheila Black twists the notion of disability as loss: the assumption that all disabled people were once nondisabled and watched their ability slip away. This assumption is found within questions often asked of disabled people such as: “What happened to you?”

Crippled they called us when I was young
later the word was disabled and then differently abled,
but those were all names given by outsiders,
none of whom could imagine
that the crooked body they spoke of,
the body, which made walking difficult
and running practically impossible,
except as a kind of dance, a sideways looping
like someone about to fall
headlong down and hug the earth, that body
they tried so hard to fix, straighten was simply mine[1]

Review of Ahmad Almallah, 'Bitter English' (Chicago, 2019)

Al Filreis

Review of Ahmad Almallah, Bitter English (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019), 87 pp.

He stumbles as he says pretty much anything to himself — always while successfully conveying such stumbling to us. He feels that he owes everything to one place but knows that that place is “not here” - not the here of the place where he writes, not even the new “here”-ness the poem makes. How can a poet occupying the space of a page, the classic “here” where even a lost poet can call home, be alienated even from that “here”? The typical poetic existential “here I am” becomes a matter, always, of forgetting and remembering both. (It’s significant that one of the muses here is the poet’s mother, she who suffers from memory loss.)

Review of Ahmad Almallah, Bitter English (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019), 87 pp.

Note: This review was given as an introduction to Almallah's reading at the Kelly Writers House on October 15, 2019.