A current chance for Immigrant Poets in the United States
If you are a poet, if you
are an immigrant in the United States, if you would like to submit your
works and to publish them, now it’s essayer. Until next April 15, 2013,
you can send your works to Black Lawrence Press. Jazz up! Don’t miss
this chance.
Others Will Enter the Gates: Immigrant Poets on Poetry, Influences, and Writing in America.
No two immigrant poets are the same.
Even those from the same country don’t necessarily answer to the same
poetics or, for that matter, speak to the same concerns. How, then, do
immigrant poets in America define themselves? How do they see and
position themselves within the landscape of American poetry or the
poetic traditions of their own country? Who might they consider their
influences? Answers to these questions are complex, individual, and
varied, as seen with the essays we hope to include in this anthology.
Black Lawrence Press is now accepting submissions for an anthology of essays by immigrant poets in America, celebrating their contributions to the landscape of American poetry.
Immigrant poets living in the United
States are invited to submit essays of between 700-5000 words for the
anthology. Poets can address one of four themes in their essays:
1) Influence(s)
2) How the poet’s work fits within the American poetic tradition
3) How the poet’s work fits within the poetic tradition of his/her home country and4) What it means to be a poet in America.
Essays can be creative or academic. However, essays need to be accessible since the anthology is also for a general audience.
Abayomi Animashaun, Nigerian émigré and author of The Giving of Pears, will serve as editor. Questions? You may contact him at abayo.animashaun@gmail.com.
Others Will Enter the Gates: Immigrant Poets on Poetry, Influences, and Writing in America.
More: https://blacklawrencepress.submittable.com/submit
