Last year in Albuquerque, participants presented papers on topics ranging from the misperception of musical genres in Jack Kerouac’s On the Road to William S. Burroughs' relations with the natives of Morocco to Diane Di Prima’s female mythology in Loba. This year, the 2004 meeting of the SW/TX PCA/ACA will be a joint meeting with the National PCA/ACA at the Marriott Rivercenter Hotel in San Antonio. Suggested topics for papers include (but are no means limited to) the following:

• The shamanic/beatific vision in Beat literature
• The changing nature of the Beat canon
• Modernism and the Beats
• The influence of folk and ethnic literatures on the Beats
• Blues, jazz and/or folk music and the Beats
• Influence of graphic art on the Beats and vice versa
• Asian religion and literature as an influence on the Beats
• Gender and the Beats
• Ecopoetics and the Beats
• Specific movements, places, and/or personalities
• Beats and travel
• Beats overseas
• Beat influence on the literatures of other countries and cultures
• Beats and postmodernism

Please post or e-mail a 250 word abstract of your paper (no papers please) and a brief biography by November 15th (reception deadline, not postmark) to: Tim Bradford at the address or email below.

This abstract should be headed by a two-part title that moves from general to specific—for example, "Women of the Beats: Anne Waldman's Performance Poetics." The biography should be followed by a signature file that includes university affiliation, mailing address, phone, fax, and e-mail. No paper will be considered unless all these criteria are fulfilled. I would prefer to receive all abstracts and biographies as part of the e-mail, but attachments in MS Word or compatible programs are acceptable. A response will be sent in one week or less.