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Crisis and Poetry ACLA 2017 (Panel) Jul 6-9 Universiteit Utrecht, Netherlands The financial crisis of 2008 and the Greek crisis have become central to the thematic and formal concerns of radical poetry in recent years. The proposed panel seeks papers that explore this relationship in its totality as a cultural phenomenon and its specificity through particular literary texts. The notion of community, the representation of crowds, the mimesis of protest, ideations of alternatives and tirades against economic and social oppression are some of the problems invoked in the poetry of the financial crisis. There is also a need to investigate the formal innovations that underlie these textual artefacts. Documentary poetics, mixed-medium, the block form and the long poem are some of the generic categories that require renewed attention in the light of the various historical and cultural processes that affect contemporary poetics. Please send a paper proposal of 300 words and a short bio through the ACLA’s online portal http://www.acla.org/node/add/paper before September 23, 2017. Any questions may be emailed to the panel organizer: Arul Benito Gerard ([log in to unmask]). Please note that the proposed panel is subject to approval/selection by the screening committee of ACLA 2017. Thank you, Benito.