[stylist] call for poets

[Jacobson, Shawn D]

Kris

Are they looking for disability themed poetry or any poetry by disabled writers?

Shawn

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Hello,

 

 

 

Hello everyone!



Now that I'm half recovered from AWP, I'd like to take this opportunity to personally encourage all poets with disabilities to submit work to POETRY magazine. Don Share, the editor, wants to see more disability poetry.

At the panel Jennifer Bartlett, Jim Ferris, Jillian Weise, and I did, Don said he did not want to do a special issue or an installment of disability poems. He's not interested in "ghettoizing" our poetry. He wants our poetry in the magazine proper, and he emphasized POETRY's Open Door policy.

In the past year, POETRY magazine has done the following:

Published poems by Sheila Black

Published the "Disability and Poetry" roundtable

Published a feature on Larry Eigner, along with additional online material, including a podcast

Proposed and sponsored a panel for this year's AWP, "Poetry and Disability"

Published poems by Jillian Weise

Sponsored the creation of an accessible, 3D poem by Weise, which included Braille, that was displayed at AWP

And will soon publish some translations of ASL poetry

After all these, do you know what he said?  "I hope this is only the beginning." The people at POETRY are serious about continuing with disability poetry and serious about not putting it aside.

So send your unpublished poems their way. This very instant. You can find their submissions page here:

 <http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/submissions>
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/submissions

I know that Submittable is not accessible to everyone. We're working on it.
If it's a barrier to your submission, email me at <mailto:jlc at johnleeclark.com> jlc at johnleeclark.com, and I will connect you directly to an editor.

Also: Prose pieces are welcome-criticism, memoir related to poetry in some way, reviews, etc. And, sure, they could be interested in special installments that are more specific, such as, to use only two imaginary examples, poems from a workshop of brain injury survivors or a feature on Braille-based poetries. If you have any such ideas, pitch them to POETRY!

Do forward this to all of the poets you know, including students-my first appearance in the magazine was from when I was a sophomore in college, so you never know . . .

Submit away!

John

I'm passing along a letter I got from a friend who just returned from the AWP Conference. 

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