Call for Submissions: Znine

Students: as mentioned in class today, Znine, UTA's online literary journal, is one good place for you to begin submitting your work (though of course, as with anything else this way, submitting work means it will be reviewed and may or may not be accepted). Znine's next issue deadline is 30 Nov, Tuesday of next week. So, then: put your finishing touches those poems and start sending them out!

2 Reading Assignments

Students:

Here are 2 final reading assignments, due on Monday 29 Nov.

1. Read this essay: "That Is Beginning: a Look at Recent Works of Hejinian, Sabina, and Others," written by Dale Smith, for his former column in Book Slut (which you should certainly bookmark if you are interested in contemporary writing). Dale Smith, of course, is one of the poets you heard read here two weeks ago in the Poetry_Heat series. With Hoa Nguyen, Dale edits the print poetry journal, Skanky Possum, and the independent press by the same name.

2. Read this article: "Why Is Modern Poetry So Difficult?" by John Tranter, editor of Jacket Magazine, one of the best resources on poetry today.

Writing Assignment: Chris Vitiello's Call for Big Red Rectangle Poems

Chris Vitiello's blog, The Delay, has a call for Big Red Rectangle poems. Students: try your hand at this--I think you'll have some fun, and along with that, you'll discover something about the semiotic movement of imagination through a dialectics of image and text, something we've been discussing all semester, though in more commonplace terms. Your poems are due on Monday, 29 Nov.

Remember that your chain poems are also due, this week.