I have three ideas for web journals I'm considering launching, but, I wanted to get some sense of the potential author pool I might expect to be able to draw from.
Please take a moment to review the following proposals and reply directly to me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you already have suitable material, or, are interested enough to produce some new material appropriate to the focus of one or more of these. Thank you in advance for your time. 1) Close Readings -- Pick a poem, any poem, and go through it with a fine-toothed mental comb and share your understandings/observations/criticism. For an archetypal example of what I'd be looking for, please see Charles Alexander's close reading of Elizbeth Bishop posted to the SUNY-Buffalo Poetics list in April of this year at http://tinyurl.com/w3elu 2) Instantiation -- I'd be looking to publish statements of poetics, manifestos, mission statements, or even loosely structured goals for the pieces side-by-side with examples of poems which realize (or attempt to realize) the statements. 3) subgenre -- And for this one I'm not really looking for authors, I'm looking for editors willing to provide content in their chosen narrowed range. I am open to a nearly unlimited set of narrowed ranges--if what you do puts in you contact with a steady stream of some particular kind of poem and you feel you could manage to select one for featuring every month or so, then I'm looking for you. As a starting point, consider the following: concrete poetry, visual poetry, lyric poetry, formal poetry, haiku, doggerel, digital poetry, poetry in translation, language poetry. But do not be limited by these. Your ability to provide an example a month is sufficient to declare it a viable category. I have the resources to do all of the above if the interest is there. If the interest is not there, I'll cross these off my "would like to do" list and move on. There is no need to reply if you just want to express interest in being a reader of these journals--if they come to pass I'll make regular announcements to these lists. At this time I'm only looking for people interested in the possibilities of providing content. Please feel free to forward this email on to any people or lists you feel would be interested. Regards, Dan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.logolalia.com/
