World Class Poetry Blog

Call For Submissions
30 October 2008, the poet @ 7:44 am

Hyperbole and World Class Poetry is inviting guest writers to submit their original articles on poetry and poetics. No poetry, please. We are just taking submissions for articles, interviews, reviews, and discussions on poetics.

If you read the Hyperbole Submission Guidelines then you’ll get a pretty good idea of what I’m looking for. If you need further elaboration, leave me a comment here on this post and I’ll answer your questions to the utmost of my ability. With regard to poetics, I will say that I’m not looking for anything in particular, but it must be forward-looking, not reminiscences of the past. What I likely won’t publish:

• Odes to Ezra Pound’s greatness
• Lessons from the Beats (although I love the Beats)
• The virtues of minimalism
• How Language Poetry has changed poetics
• Why poetry is best suited to Formalistic constraints

You can find these discussions somewhere else. I’m not looking to rehash old discussions. What I will welcome are discussions regarding how different schools of thought can be borrowed from to create poetry today or how new developments in poetics will lead to new forms and modes of expression in the future. Hyperbole is not about the greatness of the past as much as it is about the greatness of the future, but I understand that the future is great because of the work that poets of the past have accomplished. I’d like to see your works fit into that broad discussion.

For a better feel for my own poetics (and you by no means have to agree with me), read my Millennial Poetics series of blog posts. The tenth column can be found here.

For further reading and some examples of types of discussions that I find interesting, try these:

• Modern, Postmodern & Post-Postmodern: Why Poetry Is No Longer In Disintegration Mode
• Why Rhyme Is Back In
• Critique Group Ethics: How Should Poets Help Each Other?

These examples are not exhaustive of the type of discussions I want to have, but they do serve as examples of discussions that fit in to Hyperbole’s directional focus. Qualities I admire in poetic philosophers:

• Intelligence
• Passion
• Deep Knowledge (either broadly speaking or within a specific niche)
• Wit
• Clever Use Of Language
• Ability To Communicate Clearly and Concisely
• Inquisitive Nature
• Exploratory Imagination
• Unafraid To Approach The Controversial
• Innovative Personality

And various and sundry related qualities. All of this can be summed up to say that I like and admire uniqueness. Where Ezra Pound said “Make it new”, I say make it new, but make it worthy of reading twice.

Submit your best work to Hyperbole. I’m looking forward to your submissions.

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