Calling for Sci/Technopoems
Thursday December 15, 2005
from Annemarie Estor in Antwerp, Belgium:
“For the poetry reading at the 4th European Biannual Conference of the Society for Science, Literature, and the Arts from 13-16 June 2006 in Amsterdam, I am looking for poets who have written ‘sci/technopoetry.’ This is poetry that addresses technoscientific themes, reflects on the sciences, connects creative processes to cognition, and/or links scientific experiments to experimentation in style. Poets can send poems they propose to read to annemarie.estor@skynet.be. The poems should be in English; translations into English are welcome, too. When the poems are part of a specific project, that project can be briefly introduced by the poet. The reading will most likely be held on Thursday evening, 15 June. There is room for 6-8 poets, who will each have a chance to read for 15 minutes. Please note also that due to a tight budget, we will not be funding the poets. In case the poets want to also attend the parallel sessions and other SLSA events, they would have to pay the conference fees.”
Join the discussion:
Last spring in the Poetry Forum, Anthropocentric challenged Forum poets to write science poems -- and he got no response. Surely science provides fruitful inspiration for poetry -- remember Geology Poetry makes the earth move? Your Guides are reissuing the challenge: Post your science poems on the Poetry Forum, and if you can get to the Netherlands next June, send them to Annemarie Estor!
“For the poetry reading at the 4th European Biannual Conference of the Society for Science, Literature, and the Arts from 13-16 June 2006 in Amsterdam, I am looking for poets who have written ‘sci/technopoetry.’ This is poetry that addresses technoscientific themes, reflects on the sciences, connects creative processes to cognition, and/or links scientific experiments to experimentation in style. Poets can send poems they propose to read to annemarie.estor@skynet.be. The poems should be in English; translations into English are welcome, too. When the poems are part of a specific project, that project can be briefly introduced by the poet. The reading will most likely be held on Thursday evening, 15 June. There is room for 6-8 poets, who will each have a chance to read for 15 minutes. Please note also that due to a tight budget, we will not be funding the poets. In case the poets want to also attend the parallel sessions and other SLSA events, they would have to pay the conference fees.”
Join the discussion:
Last spring in the Poetry Forum, Anthropocentric challenged Forum poets to write science poems -- and he got no response. Surely science provides fruitful inspiration for poetry -- remember Geology Poetry makes the earth move? Your Guides are reissuing the challenge: Post your science poems on the Poetry Forum, and if you can get to the Netherlands next June, send them to Annemarie Estor!
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