“Atmospheres of Poiesis /Poetic Atmospheres,” panel CFP for the 2025 Biennial Conference: Collective Atmospheres, to be held July 8-11, 2025, at the University of Maryland.

Can thinking through atmospheres bring ecological resonance to our poetry?

As the layer of gases, including oxygen, that surround the planet, atmosphere serves a protective function, enables respiration, and houses the liquidity and wind [motion/disturbance?] that can coalesce as weather. By enabling both breath and perception, the atmosphere is a node of connection between the global and the individual. Since …