Hey ladies
Where are the girls at? The first issue I did of Spell contained only boys. This was not by design; I didn't say "submit to Spell only if you have a penis". Allow me to make a sincere plea to the female poets and artists: please submit your work for inclusion in Spell magazine #2. I really loved the work that comprised the first issue, but it would be great if I could include at least one female in this next issue. This is partly my fault, I haven't made a lot of connections and correspondence with female poets and artists, and I need to do better with that. So if you'd like to possibly be a part of this issue, please send your work along to eric.unger@gmail.com (and guys, keep sending your work along too). Thanks.
posted by House Press at 6:01 PM
6 Comments:
yeah... i don't know how to help you with that.
i don't have any new work right now.
also, like, what do you mean when you say you ant spell to be a place to experiment?
i think i write experimental poetry
but i don't really experiment
i have a few methods that i use but none of them are experiments *to me* you know? maybe ask lorraine if she has something, or t.a. noonan.
I'm not necessarily speaking of experimental poetry per se. I want spell to be a resource where people can feel free to step outside of their usual modes of process and challenge themselves to tackle new and different areas. Or work that is in process: emerging. I say resource because sometimes when you see your own work in print, next to others who are working from a similar starting point, it may help you to view your work in a fresh way. Of course I also want Spell to be read by others, and maybe they will find it useful or enjoyable or challenging. But I am not speaking of experimental poetry. I guess I wanted to do Spell in the first place because there was a feeling I had that there weren't enough places to go (in print) for artists and writers to deal with there own processes. I forget now the name of the magazine, but back in the 50's there was a monthly journal for a community of poets to print their work in process. It was solely for that purpose, there was a very limited number of each issue made. Spell is a different thing, because I want to include 'visual' artists, I want it to be read not only by contributors, and not all of the work has to be in process.
maybe you're talking about Spicer's Open Space?
John, yes that's exactly it. I knew that Spicer was intregally involved. Thanks
I still have no idea what spell wants, but I'm going to try
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