The International Conference “The Modernist Long Poem and its Discontents” was organized by Richard Aldersley (NYU-Paris), Samantha Lemeunier (ENS-Ulm) and Mantra Mukim (CYU-Paris) and took place on September 19-20 at the École Normale Supérieure and New York University Paris. The gathering was made possible under the auspices of the Société d’Études Modernistes, the Modern and Contemporary Colloquium, and the CNRS. The participants, coming from different corners of the globe, shared a variety of perspectives and innovative reassessments of the classical conception of the “Long Poem” within the canonical modernist landscape. The idea of the long poem’s “fixity” was tackled during these two enriching days, and through thirty diverse artistic and critical approaches. These talks ranged from textual analyses of poems from precursors of modernist versification all the way to contemporary readings that assimilated those past acclaimed works. The content developed across the presentations allowed for a wider understanding of not only the evolving contexts and techniques of the long poem’s unfolding, which typically consisted of “formatting” a sizable set of verses into specific “lengths,” but also toward an unrestrained vision of that practice well past the end of the twentieth century, into our present-day world. As a result, the renewed poetic appreciations that each panel proposed were the background for the sometimes difficult, at times restless, but mostly thought-provoking accounts that contested the frontiers of an otherwise well-established compositional method.