Hi all
The Poetry Kit email forum out of Liverpool is publishing Gary Blankenship's cycle of poems inspired by Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself." The following announcement from Jim Bennett will put you into the picture. You are invited to help in the celebration.
A special challenge and a long and hard one this year. I have been quite taken by Gary's long sequence of poems based on Whitman's "Song of Myself". So much so that I asked Gary if we could use the poems written so far as the basis of a
Transparent Words special issue for Christmas. The draft of the magazine with Gary's poems can be seen at
http://www.poetrykit.org/pkl/tw10/tw4conte.htm
What I would like from you all are poems written in response to Gary's poems or sequence of poems. Poems about Whitman, anything which is on topic. Now I have a magazine to fill and get out by Christmas so this is an open call, share it amongst your friends, your writers groups anything you feel is appropriate and get those poems flooding back to me at
info@poetrykit.org please mark the subject as "Transparent Words". Please also include a short bio and make sure, that if it is in response to a poem, which one it is.
Due date is 12/20/2007.
Jim Bennett
Gary has added:
I would be honored if my friends would join me in my exploration of the Song, time and space and poetics...
Smiles.