Literary Encyclopedia


American Literature & Studies





The Literary Encyclopedia at www.litencyc.com is looking for qualified writers to enhance its coverage of postwar and contemporary American poetry. Following is a list of poets and/or movements for whom/which we are seeking introductory essays of ca. 2500 words covering biography and historical context and giving a brief overview of relevant works. The list below is not comprehensive or final, and new proposals of writers/works/context essays that are not currently listed in our database are also welcome. In addition to articles on canonical or frequently taught literary works, the Encyclopedia hopes to make available information about writers and works that have not received proper attention, and to publish articles about movements, theories, concepts, themes and historical events that are relevant to literary understanding. 



The overwhelming majority of our contributors are academic scholars, while the remaining are highly endorsed doctoral students and independent researchers. All contributions will be peer-reviewed.



More detailed information on the Encyclopedia – including its publishing model, editorial policies, specific information for authors, etc. – can be found on its homepage at www.litencyc.com, under the ABOUT tab. We hope that you will wish to join us in expanding this enterprise. If you wish to contribute, please contact the volume editor(s) for American (US) Writing and Culture, Dale Fancher Enggass (dale.enggass@utah.edu) and Justin Parks (justin.parks@uit.no), or the managing editor, Dr Cristina Sandru (cristinasandrulitencyc@gmail.com). 



Names highlighted in bold require urgent contributions. “Works” or specific titles appended to the name of an author indicate that we need articles on that author’s most important works. 



Rae Armantrout



Jimmy Santiago Baca



Jen Bervin



Kamau Edward Braithwaite



Mei-mei Bressenbrugge



Sterling A. Brown (works: Southern RoadCollected Poems)



John Cage (+Silence: Lectures and Writings)



Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (+ Dictée)



Clark Coolidge



Jayne Cortez



Hart Crane (The Bridge)



Craig Dworkin



Robert Duncan (major works: The Opening of the FieldRoots and BranchesPassagesThe H.D. Book)



Larry Eigner



Baroness Else von Freytag-Loringhoven



Allen Ginsberg (major works: Howl and Other PoemsKaddish and Other PoemsPlanet NewsThe Yage Letters)



Kenneth Goldsmith



Robert Grenier



Robert Hayden



Cathy Park Hong



Kenneth Irby



Ronald Johnson



Jackson Mac Low



Robert Kelly



Myung Mi Kim



Philip Lamantia



Li-Young Lee



Mina Loy



Nathaniel Mackey (+ major multivolume works From a Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still EmanateSong of the Adombulou



Harryette Mullen



Maggie Nelson



Charles Olson (works incl. The Maximus PoemsCollected Poems)



George Oppen (+works: Discrete Series; Of Being NumerousThe MaterialsThis in WhichNew Collected Poems)



Simon Ortiz



Michael Palmer



Vanessa Place



Sylvia Plath (Ariel)



N.H. Pritchard 



Sun Ra



Carl Rakosi



Claudia Rankine (works; Citizen)



Ed Roberson



Jerome Rothenberg (+works and anthologies such as Poems for the MillenniumTechnicians of the Sacred)



Aram Saroyan



Juliana Spahr



Jack Spicer



Wallace Stevens (works: Ideas of OrderThe Man with the Blue GuitarNotes Toward a Supreme Fiction



Nathaniel Tarn



Anne Waldman



William Carlos Williams (major works: Spring and All; In the American Grain; Paterson; The Desert Music; The Complete Collected Poems). 



Hannah Weiner



John Wieners (+ works incl. The Hotel Wentley Poems)



John Yau



Louis Zukofsky (major works: AA Test of PoetryBottom: On ShakespeareCatullusCollected Short Poems)