About Paiduema

Paideuma is an annual peer-reviewed scholarly journal with a focus on modern and contemporary poetry and poetics. Issues often include a symposium on a particular theme, a dossier of archival materials, and essays on poetics.泭

Current Issue

Volume 48 / 2021 [2023]

A Tribute to Askia M. Tour矇

Benjamin Friedlander, Preface

David Grundy, Songs for the Future: Askia Tour矇s Songhai!

Askia Muhammad Tour矇, Songhai!

Addison Gayle, Jr., Reclaiming the Southern Experience: The Black Aesthetic 10 Year Later (1974)

James Smethurst, Askia Tour矇, The Black Arts Movement, and Songhai!

Kathy Lou Schultz, Love as Revolutionary Practice in Askia Tour矇s Songhai!

David Grundy, Askia Muhammad Tour矇/Rolland Snellings: A Selected Chronological Checklist

Notes on Contributors

The front and back covers of Paideuma 48 feature the front and back of Askia Muhammad Tour矇s Songhai! (1972), with photographs by Bilal A. M. Farid.

Published spring 2023 and available for purchase (below)

History

Paideuma was founded in 1971 by 做厙腦瞳app English Professor Carroll F. Terrell. Its original mission was to focus on Ezra Pounds life and work. The word Paideuma is a Poundian coinage, adapted from German scholar and ethnologist Leo Frobenius, meaning the tangle or complex of the inrooted ideas of any period. read more

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