Eratosphere - Poetry Revolt call for Spring submissions

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- - Poetry Revolt call for Spring submissions (https://www.ablemuse.com/erato/showthread.php?t=4271)

The Poetry Revolt is looking for vivid, dramatic poems with intensity and rapid dynamic progression,. The journal is also seeking humorous and satiric poetry with bite (not labored and self-conscious irony) for our Spring, 2008 print issue. We welcome both formal poetry and organic forms.

Poems will appear online as well as in print. The Poetry Revolt currently has 650 unique visitors per month in 17 countries. Three poets from the Eratosphere appear in the Fall 2007 issue, and we welcome poets from the Sphere:
http://www.poetryrevolt.com/fallpdf.html

Please read our submission guidelines at
http://www.poetryrevolt.com

as they are the basis for our selecting or rejecting poems submitted.

Thanks so much to Sphere poets for your support, and looking forward to submissions,
Maryke Cramerus
Editor

Maryke: Please check PM here. Thanks, Jan

From the web site link:

Quote:

Today's poetics typically expresses allegiance to two conflicting sets of desiderata:

1) vividness, emotional expressiveness, poignancy,
a powerful impact on the mind and emotions of readers

2) a tone of uncertainty and confusion about what is happening, an ironical or pained or numbed distancing from the experience, a muting of emotional response, descriptions featuring blurred outlines and fleeting sensations, and insistent foregrounding of the instability, fragmentariness, and confusion of human experience.

I believe that allegiance to this second set makes achieving the first (emotional expressiveness and impact) almost impossible--as a survey of poetry journals of the last three decades shows all too clearly.

The Poetry Revolt wants the poems you have written that are not fragmentary, muted, confused, and baffled by the instability of human experience. We want the dramatic, intense ones --those with sharp focus, bite and power. Write anguished, bitter, exultant, rageful poems about intensely lived experience (exploding out from an initial repressed numbness if you like--let's not be rigid here) and send them to us.

Wow, what a novel idea -- allowing a poet to express emotion! This kind of expressive writing is frowned upon to an irritating degree which leaves a lot of poems inappropriately restrained (in my opinion). No wonder you call it Poetry REVOLT! No doubt, there's a niche for this kind of journal.

Anne