[Julie Steiner]

Given the passionate participation in music discussions on General Talk, I thought the following call at Poet Lore might be of interest.

https://www.poetlore.com/guest-edito...r-submissions/

Submissions to Hanif Abdurraqib’s Guest Edited Folio on Pop Culture and Response Open June 16th – June 30th

For our Summer/Fall 2025 issue, Guest Editor Hanif Abdurraqib will curate a folio of poems centered on pop culture ekphrasis.

From Hanif Abdurraqib: I spend a lot of time thinking on the John Murillo poem “Upon Reading That Eric Dolphy Transcribed Even the Calls of Certain Species of Birds,” which is firmly a work of ekphrasis, of taking an existing artwork, and then repurposing it to serve the self, the heart, the mind. So much ekphrasis is rooted in visual art, but many poems are, like Murillo’s, poems of witness and consumption and re-formatting that which has been witnessed. I am eager to build a portfolio of poems inspired by and drawing from songs, and films, sounds, old magazine photos, moments from sports, anything from under the broad umbrella of popular culture.