Call For: Collections, Fetishes, & Obsessions (one final call for submissions)
It has been a long time since I have heard anything from my dear friend Eduardo (as in Mr. E. C. Corral, if you please) … but that has more to do with the fact I have not been keeping up with other people's poetry blog for months and months. So today I clicked over to Lorcaloca and found this (which I rudely stole and am sharing with you) … I am so jealous!
We are looking for five or six more poets for our anthology tentatively titled Collections, Fetishes, & Obsessions. This anthology will be a showcase of poets who often return to the same themes, subject matter, or imagery across a body of work. We have already accepted a large number of outstanding poets from an overwhelming response to our first call for work late last year. Right now as we finish the manuscript and begin sending off proposals to publishers, we are interested in finding five or six additional poets whose writing focuses on one or more of the following categories:
1) a specific actor or actress
2) a specific singer or song
3) a specific writer or artist, or a specific text or artistic work by a writer or artist
4) a specific name-brand item
5) a specific place
6) a specific televison show or movie
7) a specific fictional character
8) a particular kind of foodPlease do NOT send us poems about lost or unrequited love, death, motherhood, lust, sex, racism, feminism, home, the environment, the moon, animals, or alcoholism (unless they somehow relate to the eight categories listed above). These were the most popular topics we received in response to our first call for submissions, and we've got those bases covered. The quirkier, funnier, more bizarre, or more specific your particular obsession in your work, the better your chances of being included in our project.
Please also remember that we are most interested in a things that appear over and over again across a wide body of work. We don't necessarily want to see the only 3 poems you've ever written about Archie Bunker. Poets who are accepted will be asked later to also contribute a 300-500 word essay that discusses why their poetic obsession is important to them, their work, and the larger context of contemporary American poetry.
Please send 5-7 of your best poems in one attached document (.doc, .rtf, and .txt formats are fine — please do NOT copy and paste your work in the body of an e-mail, as this makes printing more difficult), along with a short note about yourself, to Stephen Powers & Michalene Mogensen at: . (E-mail submissions only this time, unless you query first for a postal address. The postal address listed in last year's call for submissions is no longer valid.)
DEADLINE: August 1st.