It’s time to submit ideas for papers to present on Beat and Counterculture Literature!

I have a new e-mail address since I mailed last year’s call for papers--so if you have sent me questions about the conference and I haven’t responded, now you know why. The address I’m now using is ThomYoung@yahoo.com.

As in the past, 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

Any modern language is welcome for presentations. For details about last year's meeting, this year's meeting, registration, hotels, and travel, see the web site at: http://www.h-net.org/~swpca

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).

I would prefer to receive all abstracts and biographies as part of the e-mail, but attachments in MS Word or as an RTF file are acceptable. A response will be sent in one week or less.

Hard copies may be sent to one of the following two snail mail addresses below.

Your 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 that includes university or business affiliation, mailing address, phone, fax, and e-mail. No paper will be considered unless all these criteria are fulfilled.

I hope everyone submits a proposal and that we have a great turnout. I will be there this year!