Elizabeth Madox Roberts Society

CFP ALA 2012

2011-11-10T17:10:00.000-08:00

Call for Papers for the 2012 American Literature Association Conference in San Francisco, California

The Elizabeth Madox Roberts society is seeking papers for a sponsored panel at the 2012 American Literature Association conference in San Francisco, May 24–27.

Conference directors welcome papers on any aspect of Elizabeth Madox Roberts' life and work. Papers may also deal intertextually with Roberts and other writers, Roberts in the context of the Southern Renascence, Roberts viewed from a regional and historical perspective, Roberts and Modernism, Roberts' poetry or short stories, Roberts and feminism, etc.

Titles and abstracts are due by January 23, 2012. Papers should be no longer than 15 minutes in oral presentation. Email your proposal to Lyndsey Brown at lyndseydbrown@gmail.com.

Call For Papers

2011-09-20T20:30:00.000-07:00

The XIV Annual Elizabeth Madox Roberts Conference
April 21-23, 2012 Harrodsburg and Springfield (Roberts' hometown), KY

The XIV Annual Elizabeth Madox Roberts Conference will be held April 21-23, 2012, at St. Catharine College (Springfield, KY) and the Beaumont Inn (Harrodsburg, KY).
Conference directors welcome papers on any aspect of Elizabeth Madox Roberts’ life and work. Papers may also deal intertextually with Roberts and other writers; Roberts in the context of the Southern Renascence; Roberts viewed from regional and historical perspectives; Roberts and Modernism; Roberts and Southern history; Roberts and Religion, etc. First time reader response papers or essays of discovery and celebration from new readers of Roberts are also strongly encouraged.

Titles and abstracts are due January 7, 2012. Papers should be no more than 15 minutes in oral presentation. Academic paper sessions will be held at St. Catharine College in Springfield. The conference headquarters is the lovely and legendary Beaumont Inn in Harrodsburg.

Email title and abstract to Jessica Mackenzie Conti (SUNY New Paltz), Program Chair at jesmackenzie@hotmail.com.

Direct all other conference inquiries to the Co-Conference Directors: Matthew Nickel (University of Louisiana—Lafayette) at mattcnickel@gmail.com and H. R. Stoneback, (Dept. of English, SUNY New Paltz) at Stoney_Sparrow@webtv.net.

Call For Papers: SAMLA

2011-04-24T17:10:00.000-07:00

The Elizabeth Madox Roberts Society will host two panels at SAMLA, Atlanta, GA, Nov 4-6, 2011.

Elizabeth Madox Roberts Society, Session I

Elizabeth Madox Roberts: Discovery and Recovery

Papers for this session may deal with all aspects of Roberts’s work and life. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to, the following: Roberts in the context of Southern literature; Roberts and other writers (i.e., Roberts and Faulkner, Roberts and Yeats, Roberts and James Still, Roberts and Wendell Berry, Roberts and John Burroughs); Roberts and Southern Agrarianism; Roberts’s literary and stylistic influences (i.e., Synge, Hardy, Joyce, Homer, Hopkins, Beethoven); Roberts and nature writing; Roberts and Modernism; Roberts and the novel; Roberts as poet; Roberts as writer of short fiction; Roberts and Regionalism; Roberts and the politics of literary reputation; Roberts and feminism; and, Roberts and Kentucky. By June 1, 2011, please submit a title and a 250-word abstract to Cristin Rogowski-Vita, Independent Scholar, at CrissyRogowski@gmail.com. Papers should run between fifteen and twenty minutes long.

Elizabeth Madox Roberts Society, Session II

Elizabeth Madox Roberts and Poetry

Papers for this session should deal with Elizabeth Madox Roberts and Poetry. Suggested topics include an analysis of the contrasting images and poems in In The Great Steep’s Garden, Roberts’ poetry as children’s verse (especially throughout Under the Tree and even Song in the Meadow), the historic and folkloric—even mythic—contexts of her poems, Roberts as mystical poet, Roberts and the ballad form, Roberts as an Imagist, intertextualities between Roberts and other poets, Roberts’s philosophy on poetry and art, and Roberts’s prose and dialogue as poetry. Papers should run between fifteen and twenty minutes long. By June 1, 2011, please submit a title and a 250-word abstract to Matthew Nickel, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, at mnickel@louisiana.edu.

XIII Call for Papers

2010-11-15T08:46:00.000-08:00

Call for Papers

The XIII Annual Elizabeth Madox Roberts Conference
April 16-18, 2011 Harrodsburg and Springfield (Roberts' hometown), KY

The XIII Annual Elizabeth Madox Roberts Conference will be held April 16-18, 2011, at St. Catharine College (Springfield, KY) and the Beaumont Inn (Harrodsburg, KY).
Conference directors welcome papers on any aspect of Elizabeth Madox Roberts' life and work. Papers may also deal intertextually with Roberts and other writers; Roberts in the context of the Southern Renascence; Roberts viewed from regional and historical perspectives; Roberts and Modernism; Roberts and Southern history; etc. First time reader response papers or essays of discovery and celebration from new readers of Roberts are also strongly encouraged.
Titles and abstracts are due January 10, 2011. Papers should be no more than 15 minutes in oral presentation. Academic paper sessions will be held at St. Catharine College, Springfield. The conference headquarters is the lovely and legendary Beaumont Inn, Harrodsburg.

Email title and abstract to Amanda Boyle (SUNY New Paltz), Program Chair at AmandaLyn1028@gmail.com.

Direct all other conference inquiries to the Conference Director: H.R. Stoneback, Dept. of English, SUNY New Paltz at Stoney_Sparrow@webtv.net.

Penn's Store Poetry Contest Benefit

2010-10-19T23:17:00.000-07:00

As many of you know, there were devastating floods throughout Kentucky and Tennessee last year. One place held dear to many of us in the Elizabeth Madox Roberts Society, Historic Penn's Store (http://www.pennsstore.com), was barely left standing by the floods. Penn's Store is America's oldest country store operated by the same family (relatives of Robert Penn Warren) since before the Civil War. It has been a legendary site for poetry readings and picking and singing gatherings for years.

There will be a poetry reading benefit for Penn's Store in November, and the proceeds will go directly to the Penn's Store benefit fund for restoration so that the store may open again. Anyone is welcome to participate in the poetry reading, but since it will occur in New York and some of you may be far abroad, you are invited to submit your One-Page poem to the contest before November 1st.

You may choose either to: a) send a poem (max. one-page, somehow related to the old-country-store-theme) with $5 donation and your poem will be read at
the event; b) send a poem with $10 donation and "contest entry form" (attached to this email) and your poem will be eligible for publication in the ensuing chapbook
plus awards; c) or just send a donation.

The Reading: CABALOOSA (Main St. New Paltz)

Wednesday November 17 (7 PM)

All readers are welcome who sign up in advance

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Details: 1) Chapbook of poems selected from this reading will be published; 2) Contest ($10 entry fee in advance) with prizes in various categories for the best poems on the theme: The Old Country Store

Contact by November 1^st: H. R. Stoneback (stonebah@newpaltz.edu) and Amanda Boyle (amandalyn1028@gmail.com) in the English Department at SUNY-New Paltz (257-2720).

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All proceeds from this Benefit Reading will go directly to the fund to save Penn’s Store. For information on Penn’s Store see www.pennsstore.com.

Contest Entry Form

Send this form with a one-page poem and $10 entry fee (check or cash) before November 1^st to: H. R. Stoneback, Department of English, SUNY-New Paltz, New Paltz, NY 12561.

Name: ___________________________________

Contact Information:____________________________________________________________________________

Title of Poem: (do not put your name on the manuscript page with the poem)__________________________________

Check One: I am an undergraduate____graduate___

student at _____________________Other________

_________________________________

Kentucky Writers Day and Roberts Society

2010-04-13T19:52:00.000-07:00

American Premiere of Des Hymnagistes: An Anthology

The 2010 Kentucky Writers Day Celebration at Historic Penn's Store will feature the American Premiere of the new poetry volume Des Hymnagistes: An Anthology (Des Hymnagistes Press, 2010). The book will have its World Premiere and formal release celebration in June at Brunnenburg Castle in Italy, former home of Ezra Pound and now the residence of his daughter Mary de Rachewiltz. The Des Hymnagistes volume resonates with Pound's landmark Des Imagistes: An Anthology (1914). Inspired by Imagism, filtered through a century of literary history and transformed by influences such as hymns and country songs, Hymnagism is a worldwide movement with deep Kentucky roots--over the past decade, for example, many Hymnagistes poets have read their works at Kentucky Writers Day Celebrations. This new volume includes poems by descendants of the original Imagists (e.g. Pound's daughter Mary de Rachewiltz and Richard Aldington's daughter Catherine Aldington),Valerie Hemingway, as well as the work of the well-known Kentucky poet H. R. Stoneback and other rising young Hymnagiste poets. Along with Stoneback, several other contributors to the volume--A.B., William Boyle, Brad McDuffie, Matthew Nickel, Alex Shakespeare--will read at the 2010 Kentucky Writers Day, Sunday, April 25th at 2 PM, at Penn's Store. All of these Hymnagiste poets will be in Kentucky for their annual pilgrimage to the Elizabeth Madox Roberts Conference at St. Catharine College in Springfield (April 24-26). And they claim Roberts, Kentucky's great novelist, as an Imagiste, a proto-Hymnagiste.

The American Premiere and Hymnagiste Readings are scheduled for 2:00pm until 3:30pm, April 25 during the 2010 KENTUCKY WRITERS DAY CELEBRATIONS at Historic Penn's Store. Penn's Store is located at 257 Penn's Store Road, off KY HWY 243 3 miles SE of Gravel Switch, Kentucky.

The Sparrow Memorial Award and the Terry Ward Memorial Grant

2010-01-30T20:16:00.000-08:00

In August 2008 the Roberts Society Executive Board established two memorial awards in the names of two of our most cherished charter members—Sparrow Stoneback and Terry Ward. These awards, to be presented at our annual April conference, were designed to encourage participation in our conferences by 1) first-time presenters and 2) presenters with no institutional funding support. A call for donations to the awards fund went out in the summer of 2008 and thereafter. The Roberts Society expresses its deep gratitude to all contributors.
Donations to sustain the Memorial Awards program may be made at any time. Contact Tina Iraca, EMRS Treasurer at tinair@hotmail.com, or send a check made out to Tina Iraca, with notation of amounts to be applied to the Sparrow Memorial Award and the Terry Ward Memorial Grant to: Tina Iraca, 16 Montgomery Street, Tivoli, NY 12583.

CFP EMR 2010

2010-01-16T10:14:00.000-08:00

Call for Papers: EMR 2010

The XII Annual Elizabeth Madox Roberts Conference will be held April 24-26, 2010, at St. Catharine College (Springfield, KY) and the Beaumont Inn (Harrodsburg, KY).

Conference directors welcome papers on any aspect of Elizabeth Madox Roberts’ life and work. Papers may deal intertextually with Roberts and other writers; Roberts in the context of the Southern Renascence; Roberts viewed from regional and historical perspectives; Roberts and Modernism; Roberts and architecture, etc. First time reader response papers or essays of discovery and celebration from new readers of Roberts are also strongly encouraged.

Titles and abstracts are due January 15, 2010.

Papers should be no more than 15 minutes in oral presentation. Academic paper sessions will be held at St. Catharine College, Springfield. The conference headquarters is the lovely and legendary Beaumont Inn, Harrodsburg.

Email title and abstract to:
Alex Shakespeare (Boston College), Program Chair, at shakespe@bc.edu.

Please send a copy also to at least one other member of the Program Committee:

Brad McDuffie (Nyack College) bigtwoheartedriver@earthlink.net, or Amanda Boyle (SUNY New Paltz) boyle687@newpaltz.edu.

Direct all other conference inquiries to the Conference Director: H. R. Stoneback, Dept. of English, SUNY New Paltz, 75 S. Manheim Blvd., New Paltz, NY 12561 (Stoney_Sparrow@webtv.net).

Questions about Kentucky Writer’s Day should be directed to Gregg Neikirk (Westfield State College) gneikirk@wsc.ma.edu.

See the Roberts Society website (www.emrsociety.com) for further information, archived newsletters, and recent critical studies of Roberts.

Roberts CFP's--ALA & SAMLA

2009-02-20T16:28:00.000-08:00

As many of you know, the Roberts Society is growing rapidly this year. There are several Roberts panels at various conferences in the coming year:

CFP: ALA Symposium in Savannah, Georgia, October 8-10, 2009.
Conference Director Olivia Carr Edenfield has requested a special panel on the work of Elizabeth Madox Roberts at this year’s fiction symposium to be held in Savannah, Georgia, in the fall. Please submit paper proposals (length: 15 to 20 minutes, depending on number of presenters) for this panel to Steve Florczyk, panel chair, at sflorczyk@msn.com before June 1, 2009. Roberts Society Honorary President H. R. Stoneback will deliver the keynote address at this year’s conference. Details: Sessions run Friday and Saturday, October 9-10. On Friday, October 9, there will be a special luncheon as well as an evening reception including the keynote address by H. R. Stoneback. On Saturday, October 10, the luncheon keynote will be delivered by Kirk Curnutt. A final celebration will take place that evening.

CFP: SAMLA Convention in Atlanta, Georgia, November 2009.
The Elizabeth Madox Roberts Society will hold two special sessions at SAMLA in 2009 in Atlanta, Georgia:

Session one, “Elizabeth Madox Roberts as Children’s Literature,” will be chaired by Jane Dionne. This session will explore the importance of using Elizabeth Madox Roberts’ poems with students across all the grades. Suggested topics include but are not limited to: 1) In what ways Roberts’ poems in Under the Tree affect children in the classroom; 2) children’s responses to Roberts’ poetry based on their age and experience; 3) techniques for teaching Roberts to a variety of children and special needs students; 4) how Roberts’ poetry may encourage more poetry to be taught across the curriculum; 5) how Roberts’ poetry, presumably for children, fits into the genres of Children’s Literature and/or Modernism. Papers may focus on one or more levels, from elementary to college. Papers should be fifteen minutes long. Please submit title and brief abstract by April 15, 2009 to Jane Dionne at janedionne@yahoo.com.

Session two, “Elizabeth Madox Roberts and the Influence of Philosophy,” will be chaired by Amanda Boyle. This session will examine the influence of philosophy in the life and writings of Elizabeth Madox Roberts. Some suggested paper topics include, but are not limited to: 1) direct philosophical influences on Roberts’ work (Bishop Berkley, Plato, etc.); 2) analysis of how philosophy may influence and be exemplified through literature, with a focus on Roberts’ writing; 3) the philosophy of existence in relation to the works of Elizabeth Madox Roberts. Papers should be fifteen minutes long. Please submit title and a brief abstract by April 15, 2009 to Amanda Boyle at Boyle687@newpaltz.edu.

Elizabeth Madox Roberts Conference

2008-10-26T20:03:00.000-07:00

XI ANNUAL ELIZABETH MADOX ROBERTS CONFERENCE

APRIL 18-20, 2009

Harrodsburg and Springfield (Roberts’ hometown), KY

The XI Annual Elizabeth Madox Roberts Conference will be held April 18-20, 2009, at St. Catharine College (Springfield, KY) and the Beaumont Inn (Harrodsburg, KY).

Conference directors welcome papers on any aspect of Elizabeth Madox Roberts’ life and work. Papers may also deal intertextually with Roberts and other writers; Roberts in the context of the Southern Renascence; Roberts viewed from regional and historical perspectives; Roberts and Modernism; stylistic studies, etc. First time reader response papers or essays of discovery and celebration from new readers of Roberts are strongly encouraged.

Titles and abstracts are due January 10, 2009. Papers should be no more than 15 minutes in oral presentation. Academic paper sessions will be held at St. Catharine College, Springfield. The conference headquarters is the lovely and legendary Beaumont Inn, Harrodsburg.

Email title and abstract to:
Nicole McDaniel (Texas A&M), Program Chair, at nicolemcdc@tamu.edu.

Please send a copy also to at least one other member of the Program Committee:
Goretti Vianney-Benca (SUNY New Paltz) at vianneyg@aol.com; Vicki Barker (Carson-Newman College) at vbarker@cn.edu; William Boyle (University of Mississippi) at williamboyle4444@yahoo.com; Matthew Nickel (University of Louisiana-Lafayette) at sapling805@yahoo.com; Alex Shakespeare (Boston College) at alexandriesse@yahoo.com; Natalie Khoury (University of Georgia) at nkhoury@uga.edu; or Gisele Sigal (Universite de Pau, France) at gisele.sigal@iutbayonne.univ-pau.fr.

Direct all other conference inquiries to the Conference Co-directors: Brad McDuffie, Dept. of English, Nyack College (bigtwoheartedriver@earthlink.net) and H. R. Stoneback, Dept. of English, SUNY New Paltz, 75 S. Manheim Blvd., New Paltz, NY 12561 (Stoney_Sparrow@webtv.net).

See the Roberts Society website (emrsociety.com) for further information, archived newsletters, and recent critical studies of Roberts.

Elizabeth Madox Roberts: Essays of Discovery and Recovery

2008-07-31T04:26:00.000-07:00

Elizabeth Madox Roberts: Essays of Discovery and Recovery

Edited by H. R. Stoneback, Nicole Camastra, and Steven Florczyk

"This volume is the second of the two books devoted to Elizabeth Madox Roberts to be published in the same year--annus mirabilis! Before the appearance of these two volumes, more than four decades had elapsed since the last book-length critical study of Roberts was published. In many ways, this book serves as a companion piece to its immediate predecessor, Elizabeth Madox Roberts: Essays of Reassessment and Reclamation (edited by H. R. Stoneback and Steven Florczyk). We will not repeat what was said in the introduction to that volume regarding the history of the Elizabeth Madox Roberts Society, from whose annual conferences most of the essays in the present study emanate. It will suffice here to note that the publication of both these landmark volumes signals the celebration, in 2008, of the tenth anniversary of the Roberts Society." (from the Introduction)

This new book of critical essays on Elizabeth Madox Roberts is available for sale at $20 (includes shipping and handling). Included in this book is new fiction by Roberts (fragments from Sallie May, "The Prophet" and notes On Poetry), and critical essays by H. R. Stoneback, William H. Slavick, Wade Hall, Vicki Barker, William Boyle, Nicole Camastra, Damian Carpenter, Steven Florczyk, Angela Green, Tina Iraca, Emily Kane, Brad McDuffie, Jennings Mace, Gregg Neikirk, Matthew Nickel, Erin Presley, Katy Shores, Nicole Boucher Spottke and Nicole Valentino, James Stamant, John Weatherford, and Gerald Preher.

Anyone interested in purchasing a copy, please send a check (for $20 made out to H.R. Stoneback) to:

H.R. Stoneback
Elizabeth Madox Roberts Society
Department of English
SUNY New Paltz
New Paltz, NY 12561

Illumination & Praise: Poems for Elizabeth Madox Roberts and Kentucky

2008-04-28T04:58:00.000-07:00

Des Hymnagistes Press is proud to announce its most recent publication of Illumination & Praise: Poems for Elizabeth Madox Roberts and Kentucky. This volume, edited by Matthew Nickel, contains poets: H. R. Stoneback, Charlie Hughes, Ron Whitehead, Charles Semones, Lynn Behrendt, Ed Butler, William Boyle, Alex Andriesse Shakespeare, Brad McDuffie, James Stamant, Gregg Neikirk, Michael Beilfuss, Damian Carpenter, Steven Florczyk, and Matthew Nickel. This past weekend at Penn's Store outside Gravel Switch, KY, the Elizabeth Madox Roberts Society members included in the book read their poems in dedication to the writer and her native soil of Kentucky. There are still a few copies available for sale (1 book for $12 or 2 books for $20). Please contact deshymnagistes@gmail.com for further information.

Roberts Sessions at SAMLA, November 7-9, 2008 in Louisville, KY

2008-04-01T14:17:00.000-07:00

Papers may deal with all aspects of Roberts’s work and life. Suggested topics include but are not limited to: Roberts in the context of Southern literature, Roberts and other writers (i.e. Roberts and Faulkner, Roberts and Yeats, Roberts and James Still, Roberts and Wendell Berry, Roberts and John Burroughs), Roberts and Southern Agrarianism, Roberts’s literary and stylistic influences (i.e. Synge, Hardy, Joyce, Homer, Hopkins, Beethoven), Roberts and nature writing, Roberts and Modernism, Roberts and the novel, Roberts as poet, Roberts as writer of short fiction, Roberts and regionalism, Roberts and the politics of literary reputation, Roberts and feminism, Roberts and Kentucky. Papers should run between fifteen and twenty minutes long. Please submit a title and 250 word abstract to Steven Florczyk (florczyk@uga.edu) or Goretti Vianney-Benca (VianneyG@aol.com). The deadline for proposals is May 15, 2008.

Robert Penn Warren Circle Seeking Papers on Roberts/Warren Connection

2008-04-01T09:58:00.000-07:00

Robert Penn Warren Circle CFP's--SAMLA 2008

Warren’s was a critical voice that either explicitly or implicitly provided analysis of and approbation for women writers such as Caroline Gordon, Elizabeth Madox Roberts, Eudora Welty, and Katherine Anne Porter, among many others; on the other hand, Warren himself admitted the influence of more than one woman’s expertise in writing on his own. This panel seeks to examine the sources, outcomes, and/or significances of Warren’s critical or artistic appreciations of such women writers as revealed through his personal, critical, or artistic relationships with any or all of the women whose writing careers overlapped with or intersected his own. By email only, send proposals of 250-500 words, suitable for 15-20 minute presentations, to Pat Bradley, , by 12 May 2008. Questions on the topic may also be directed to that email address.

Elizabeth Madox Roberts: Essays of Reassessment & Reclamation

2008-04-01T03:42:00.000-07:00

Elizabeth Madox Roberts: Essays of Reassessment & Reclamation, edited by H.R. Stoneback and Steven Florczyk, may be purchased from your local bookstore, on-line vendors such as Amazon or Barnes & Noble, or directly from the publisher.

Elizabeth Madox Roberts: Essays of Reassessment & Reclamation (2008), 335 pages. ISBN 978-1-893239-77-7 $20.00

Wind Publications
600 Overbrook Dr
Nicholasville, KY 40356

This volume is the first book-length collection of critical essays to deal with the life and work of Elizabeth Madox Roberts. It is also the first book of any kind, in many years, to be devoted to the study of Roberts, and it is the hope of the editors and the many contributors here that this book will serve to redress the neglect of a writer whom we believe to be one of the most important Kentucky — and Southern and American — writers.

This publication coincides with the tenth anniversary of the Elizabeth Madox Roberts Society, which holds its annual spring conferences at Saint Catharine College (and in Harrodsburg and Springfield, Kentucky). The work of this society has been, as the title of this volume indicates, to reassess and to reclaim a writer who, though widely known and well-regarded by her contemporaries, is little known today.

When her first novel, The Time of Man, appeared in 1926, it was hailed by a national — indeed international — chorus of writers and critics as one of the finest American novels ever. Remarkably, such critical esteem was echoed by great popular success. While neither critical favor nor fame ensures any writer’s canonical endurance, the way that Roberts has fallen off the literary map since her death in 1941 presents a curious case to ponder. It is to be hoped that this volume will contribute to a new cartography, a redrawn map of twentieth-century American literature with Roberts securely placed and located.

EMR T-shirts & Call for Photos

2008-03-18T12:09:00.000-07:00

Hello everyone,

We have made a T-shirt for the 10th Anniversary of the EMR Conference.

To simplify things we have put it up on Cafe Press so that people could just order one at their own convenience.

On the other hand, they are a bit pricey (+20 with s/h) and so we want to put a bulk order in to offset the cost.

If you want to get in on the bulk order then send me a check for $14 and your t-shirt size.

Also, we are trying to get a Roberts 10th Anniversary DVD and would love to include your pictures, if you have any, from past Roberts Conferences. If you have more than five I would ask that you send them on a CD to the address below.

I hope I've covered everything.

If you are going to order a shirt or send pictures they need to be sent within the next week so that everything is ready before the conference.

Oh, you can check the T-shirt out here:
http://www.cafepress.com/m_a_s_t.56926452

Thanks.
Look forward to seeing everyone in Kentucky,

Brad McDuffie
172 Phillies Bridge Rd.
New Paltz, NY. 12561

EMR Call For Papers Deadline Extension

2008-01-22T09:13:00.000-08:00

Please take note that the deadline for submissions has been extended to:

February 4, 2008.

Elizabeth Madox Roberts Society
Call for Papers

10th Annual Conference
April 19-21, 2008
Springfield and Harrodsburg, Kentucky

The Elizabeth Madox Roberts Society, now celebrating its 10th year, is issuing a call for papers on all aspects of Roberts's work and life. Papers may deal intertextually with Roberts and other writers, Roberts in the context of the Southern Renaissance, Roberts viewed from regional and historical perspectives, Roberts and Modernism, stylistic studies, etc.

Suggested topics include but are not limited to:
--Roberts in the context of Southern literature
--Roberts and other writers (i.e. Roberts and Faulkner, Roberts and Yeats, Roberts and James Still, Roberts and Wendell Berry, Roberts and John Burroughs)
--Roberts and Southern Agrarianism
--Roberts's literary and stylistic influences (i.e. Synge, Hardy, Joyce, Homer, Hopkins, Beethoven)
--Roberts and nature writing
--Roberts and Modernism
--Roberts and the novel
--Roberts and regionalism
--Roberts and the politics of literary reputation
--Roberts and feminism
--Roberts and Kentucky

Papers should be approximately fifteen minutes long. Please submit title and brief abstract to Jamie Stamant(stam202@tamu.edu). Deadline: February 4, 2008.

EMRS Newsletter: Call for Submissions

2008-01-17T11:53:00.000-08:00

The Elizabeth Madox Roberts Society Newsletter is accepting submissions. Please send any items of interest, whether related to Roberts's life or work, to sflorczyk@msn.com.

Call for Papers: 2008 EMR Society Conference

2008-01-15T13:40:00.001-08:00

To all Roberts Society Members:
Please note that the Elizabeth Madox Roberts Society has issued its
call for papers. Spring of 2008 will mark the 10th anniversary of the
Roberts Society's annual conference, being held April 19-21, 2008. The
conference will be held in Harrodsburg and Springfield, Kentucky. The
conference headquarters is the historic Beaumont Inn in Harrodsburg.
Academic paper sessions will be held at St. Catherine College and may deal
with all aspects of Roberts's work and life.

Suggested topics include but are not limited to:
--Roberts in the context of Southern literature
--Roberts and other writers (i.e. Roberts and Faulkner, Roberts and
Yeats,
Roberts and James Still, Roberts and Wendell Berry, Roberts and John Burroughs)
--Roberts and Southern Agrarianism
--Roberts's literary and stylistic influences (i.e. Synge, Hardy,
Joyce, Homer, Hopkins, Beethoven)
--Roberts and nature writing
--Roberts and Modernism
--Roberts and the novel
--Roberts and regionalism
--Roberts and the politics of literary reputation
--Roberts and feminism
--Roberts and Kentucky

Papers should be approximately fifteen minutes long. Please submit
title and brief abstract to James Stamant (stam202@tamu.edu) Deadline:
January 15, 2008.
Direct all other inquiries to the Conference Co-Directors, Gregg
Neikirk, Dept. of English, Westfield State College, Westfield, MA 01085 and
H. R. Stoneback, Dept. of English, SUNY-New Paltz, New Paltz, NY 12561.
Conference lodging and registration information will be e-mailed in January to everyone on the list.

Countries of the Heart

2007-07-25T12:47:00.000-07:00

Mother-River-Flows-Two-Ways Press has just published Countries of the Heart: For Stoney and Sparrow. The collection of poems and stories, edited by Matthew Nickel, is dedicated to H.R. and Sparrow Stoneback and features contributions from Roberts Society members Gregg Neikirk, Steven Florczyk, Matthew Nickel, Brad McDuffie, James Stamant, Goretti Vianney-Benca, Alex Andriesse, William Boyle, Jenica Lyons, Edward Butler, and Damian Carpenter. The cost of the book, including shipping, is $13 (or 2 for $20).

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H.R. Stoneback on "One-to-One"

2007-07-11T05:17:00.000-07:00

Click here to watch H. R. Stoneback discussing The Time of Man on Bill Goodman's "One-to-One" show. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on "Watch One-to-One". The Stoneback on Roberts interview is also available as a DVD from Kentucky Educational Television.

Elizabeth Madox Roberts Society Honorary President H. R. Stoneback's New Book

2007-05-12T10:48:00.000-07:00

Reading Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises by H. R. Stoneback. $24.95. ISBN 978-0-87338--867-2. Paper. Available now from Kent State University Press www.kentstateuniversitypress.com

Advance praise:

"Stoneback's inaugural volume in the most important and extensive Hemingway publication project of the 21st century sets the bar very high for future volumes in the Reading Hemingway Series."

"The ultimate guidebook and commentary on one of the most important novels of the 20th century, Stoneback's dazzling volume has much to offer all readers--Hemingway scholars, teachers, students at every level, and the general reader."

"Ideal for classroom use."

"Brilliant! Breathtaking!"

H. R. Stoneback is Distinguished Professor of English, The State University of New York. (For announcement of ALA booksigning in Boston, image and further description of book, see below).

ANNOUNCEMENT
H. R. Stoneback will be signing his new book (pictured here) at the American Literature Association Conference in Boston May 24-26. The book-launch party is Friday May 25, from 3-5 pm at the Westin Copley Square Hotel. All are welcome--Look for the Kent State University Press exhibit. (The book is now available for order)

http://upress.kent.edu/books/Stoneback_H.htm

KET - One-on-one

2007-04-28T05:49:00.000-07:00

EMRS Members:
On Tuesday morning after the conference ended I stopped in off the road at Kentucky Educational TV and taped a half hour program on Roberts for Bill Goodman's "One-on-One" show. (Those who watched the live studio feed said it was a good show--I wouldn't know yet. And even if all that TV makeup was irritating, I suppose it was useful as cover for the visible [?] exhaustion of another great conference.) Note that KET lists the broadcast times here; and they also say that it will be available online.

HRS

Note:
Click on "Kentucky Educational TV" under links on this site for more info.

EMR Graveside Reading: a poem by Brad McDuffie

2007-04-27T11:07:00.000-07:00

Being Low, My God, Hawks Rise

(Inspired by Elizabeth Madox Roberts’s A Buried Treasure)

“For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also”
--Luke 12:34

She longs to set her heart against the earth, hear-
ing, whole, where God still speaks from seeds of wheat, gold
in its origins.

There will your heart be also, on vast oceans,
In your forty-days of rain, which gives forth rem-
nants of Holy Sonnets,

Echoes of the world in its becoming– pat-
terning themselves there upon your heart, buried under deltas
of blood beating Time.

There will your heart be also when the crow brings death
to grain and the Western Wind beats drought upon the land;
Being low, My God, Hawks

Rise as lightning from the ash. Hymns of blest
Springs bury October Rain in songs that tremble–
Dawn being a shadow

Of blood and the trumpet of sins last remission.
And there will your heart be also when the earth
gives up its ghost, dying,

At last, with death’s dominion.
Mystery unfolding in mystery
To eyes for all of Time.