This panel invites proposals that explore the transnational field of experimental women’s poetry in the 21st century. We are especially interested in papers that explore the legacy of Alice Notley and her circle. With the recent passing of Notley in May 2025, this is a vital moment to reflect on her profound impact on poetic practice and to examine how her spirit of formal innovation, feminist commitment, and radical imagination continues to resonate in contemporary poetics both in the US and abroad. 

From the New York School’s downtown ferment and the St. Mark’s Poetry Project, through Notley’s transformative Paris years, to the current global network of women poets reshaping what the poem can do, this panel seeks to chart the wide, unruly, and generative terrain of feminist experimental poetry writing. We welcome papers that engage with poetic form, transgression, collectivity, resistance, performance, and the politics of language—as well as works that consider how poetry confronts contemporary urgencies, including war, ecological collapse, gender violence, racial injustice, and the technological and digital conditions of writing.

Key Areas of Interest Include (but are not limited to):

• Alice Notley’s influence on contemporary women’s poetics
• Reassessing the role of the second and third generations of the New York School and St Mark’s Poetry Project and their long-term impact on feminist and experimental poetics.
• Notley’s collaborations and affinities: Anne Waldman, Bernadette Mayer, Maureen Owen, Eileen Myles, Susie Timmons
• Global continuities and divergences with Notley’s poetics
• The role of translation, exile, and multilingualism in women’s writing
• Cross-cultural feminist poetics and literary resistance
• Poetry and performance
• The digital poem and networked text
• The resurgence of seriality, epic & fragment
• Intersectional feminist, queer, and decolonial poetics

Notable poets to consider include (in no particular order, not limited to):

Lisa Robertson, Erin Mouré, Denise Riley, Maggie O’Sullivan, Caroline Bergvall, Vahni Capildeo, Michèle Métail, Anne Portugal, Cecilia Vicuña, Marília Garcia, Chus Pato, Miriam Reyes, Iman Mersal, Koleka Putuma, Warsan Shire, Meena Kandasamy, Sawako Nakayasu, Tsveta Sofronieva, Bhanu Kapil, Solmaz Sharif, Layli Long Soldier, Myung Mi Kim, Daniela Catrileo, Krystyna Dąbrowska, and more.