The H.D. International Society will sponsor one session at the 2026 annual conference of the American Literature Association (link opens in new window), May 20-23, 2026, at the Palmer House in Chicago, IL. CFP: H.D. Across Worlds: Ecologies, Spiritual Landscapes, Queer Histories, and Classical Reimaginations H.D.’s…
Sometimes it is right to judge a book by its cover. The cover of Susan McCabe’s I Woke a Lake (UP Colorado, 2025) is a deep blue celebration of jellyfish, evoking the jellyfish experience that plays such an important role in H.D.’s life and work.…
In 1934, Bryher published a private edition of The Usual Star for H.D., using the same Darantiere press that had published many works by Contact Press. The stories of The Moment were never published intact, though H.D. planned and discussed them as a collection in…
The H.D. International Society will sponsor one session at the 2025 annual conference of the American Literature Association, May 21-24, 2025, at the Westin Copley Place in Boston, MA. In the past year, H.D. scholars gathered in Greece for the Emerging Perspectives in H.D.’s Hellenic Modernity…
Victoria Papa’s rich, multimedia exploration of horoscopes, natal charts, and a zodiac wheel is set within the deep and lasting friendship between H.D. and Silvia Dobson. The article enhances our biographical understanding of H.D. while adding to the critical study of H.D. and the occult.…
Decades ago, Adelaide Morris and Donna Krolik Hollenberg traced the history of H.D.’s “disk-work,” creating audio recordings of the early drafts of Helen in Egypt in 1955. H.D.’s voice can now be heard in the Penn Sound archives at the Center for Programs in Contemporary…
International Symposium (hybrid) co-organized by Aristotle University, Thessaloniki (Greece), Athens College (Greece), & University of Alberta (Canada) Date: 25-26 May, 2024 Venue: Amphitheater I – Research Dissemination Centre AUTH The writings, travels, and all forms of pilgrimage or periegetic homage of early twentieth century Modernist…
Graham Borland’s Open Access article in Notes and Queries, “Signets Reborn” offers a valuable gloss on the source of H.D.’s serpent and thistle motif that plays an important role in Tribute to Freud. The article highlights signet rings from the catalogs of the Louvre and…
The H.D. International Society will sponsor one session at the 2023 annual conference of the American Literature Association, May 25-28, 2023, at the Westin Copley Place in Boston, MA. In the past year, both Winged Words by Donna Hollenberg and H.D. and Bryher: An Untold Love…
The H.D. International Society will sponsor one session at the 2022 annual conference of the American Literature Association, May 26-29, 2022, at the Palmer House Hilton in Chicago, IL. At present, this conference is planned as a fully face-to-face event with no virtual presentations. Any updates…