CALLING FOR ARTICLES | STATES OF CONTEMPORARY POETRY | v. 31, n. 69, 2026

STATES OF CONTEMPORARY POETRY

What is the current state of poetry? What have its writing, its logophagic imprint –or
even its silence– expressed in its utterance: in the streets through slam poetry, in
classrooms around the world, in micro-, small-, medium-, or large-scale publications, in
terms of the creative and critical resources mobilized by poetic subjects? Are they still
lyrical subjects, or have they become anti-lyrical ones? Between rhetoric and politics,
we can reflect on the relationship between poetry and the logos. Yet in this
contemporary moment, marked by helplessness and meaninglessness, the poet reveals,
through creation, a form of (dis)organization of the world. To some extent, then, poetry
is the world –and its in-versions. Indeed, this dossier aims to explore how contemporary
poetry production gravitates toward anarchic procedures –sometimes invoking an
operativity of fragmentation, collage, and nonsense; at other times, embodying anarchic
figurations that enact the devouring of the logos as a rejection of the authority of
meaning or dominant ideologies. If, as Túa Blesa proposes, “Initiated in silence, [the
poets] returned from the crypt of shadows with a mysterious halo in their writing, now
legible and illegible. Having brought risk into their writing, each of these pages is
written as a tribute,” then what might be—or is there—a relationship between poetic
anarchy and filiation? This dossier seeks to gather articles that examine the state of
contemporary poetry; the updates and deconstructions of the poetic subject; the forms of
mundus inversus as critique of political and social reality; the roles of laughter, the
grotesque, and satire in the inversion of values; and even the gesturality of inversion and
(dis)appropriation as an (aesth)etics of displacement.

Keywords: contemporary poetry; poetics; politics.

The deadline for submissions is October 30, 2025.