Considering for some reason I thought it was Friday today, I’m actually doing better with my Lit World Interview blog responsibilities than I thought. But that site is primarily about Authors of Novels. Yes, it is called Lit World but I wanted to share something here that is a big part of my personal blog, my home, RonovanWrites.

The following is originally posted on Sundress Publications and you may click the link to go to that site. And you definitely should to see everything they have.

Sundress Publications

Sundress Publications Seeking
Political Poetry for Anthology

In September 2014, NPR writer and critic Juan Vidal wrote an essay whose titular question, “Where Have All the Poets Gone?” provided a platform for various musings regarding the political state of contemporary American poetics. According to Vidal, “For centuries, poets were the mouthpieces railing loudly against injustice. They gave voice to the hardships and evils facing people everywhere… What has happened?” He further suggested that poets writing today have failed to create work that carries the same “weight” as the poems written by their literary forefathers.

Should American poets still be trying to write “Howl”? Are Neruda, Kerouac, Baraka, and the rest of the Beat Generation the only viable prototypes for political literary expression in American culture? How does the influx of identities, voices, and life experiences that are now expressed in mainstream American letters potentially create and communicate new political vision(s) — vision that may sound or appear different from Ginsberg’s poetic/political tour de force, but is no less necessary, compelling, challenging, or iconoclastic? What do we even mean when we talk about the weight of a political work? How is that weight both carried and expressed by poetry today?

To address these questions, Sundress Publications is now accepting poetry submissions for a new anthology on the politics of identity, to showcase the substantial amount of political writing that is being done today. This print anthology, edited by Fox Frazier-Foley and Erin Elizabeth Smith, will include multimedia features: we are open to submissions in audio/visual media (e.g., video files of ASL poetry, audio files of spoken word poetry, etc).

This anthology is looking for submissions that contemplate ideas about race, gender, sexuality, religion, disability, socioeconomic status, educational background, different life experiences, etc. and how our identities shape and complicate how we see ourselves in the world.

To submit, please send 3-5 poems and a bio (no longer than 75 words) to anthology@sundresspublications.com. Previously published work will be considered. If you send previously published work, please note where it first appeared.

Submissions for this project are rolling.
Deadline: December 31, 2014, at 12:00 midnight PST.

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Well that’s it. A poetry Anthology for all you poets to sink your teeth into. If you enter, comment below so we can all cheer you on. You don’t have to comment, but I can always send me a reply in that comment form on my About Me page and I’ll pray for you to do your best. Doesn’t mean you will be guaranteed selection but I will pray for your best work to be done.

So all you poetically minded folk out there, get started.

Much  Respect

Ronovan

 

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