[New-Poetry] Fw: Call for Work: Imaginary Syllabi

[Anny Ballardini]

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From: Jane Sprague 
To: Palm Press 
Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2007 2:55 AM
Subject: Call for Work: Imaginary Syllabi


Dear Friends:



Please consider sending some of your work to Palm Press for this project. Feel free to forward this call for contributions to others who might be interested. 



Many thanks,

Jane



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Imaginary Syllabi: 

CALL FOR WORK

 

Imaginary Syllabi, a book-length project of contributions by multiple authors, aims to collect writings which investigate, uncover, examine, complicate, question, spoof, spark, incite, meditate, mediate, mix, sample, nettle, navigate, question, provoke, and otherwise (essentially) challenge pedagogical strategies pursuant to the work of teaching writing and other disciplines. Or, writings which dream up, concoct and explore fabulist fantasy syllabi for potential imagined or real classroom endeavors: Educational projects undertaken and employed (deployed) in and outside of official as well as mongrel "schools." Official spaces might harbor (or cultivate) the mongrel & vice versa.

 

MATERIAL:

--Sample syllabi which have been implemented or might/could be implemented  AND the opposite of this condition: wholly fantastical stuff more suited to investigations in outer space and other socio-cultural vacuums.

 

--Syllabi composed entirely of images or text or some combination of both. Syllabi may be scattered or comprehensive lists of pertinent, esoteric, weird or terribly useful URLs. 

 

--Documents from classroom practices which were successful, compelling, disturbing etc. and which their authors wish to share, distribute, make known.

 

--Essays/Syllabi which mention other teachers and communities of teachers &/or documents, critiques, etc. &/or explore and extend the work of other teachers and communities of teachers, theorists, scholars, activist, revolutionaries, radicals, & intellectual insurgents.... There is no intended fixed, predetermined or official meaning attached in this CFW to the word "teacher"; "A thing which shows or points something out."; teachers are sometimes not necessarily human organisms. 

 

--Writings which disclose, assay, weigh the idea of the "syllabus" itself.

 

--Unimagined documents for unimagined learners among whom we would also group teachers / professors / instructors / mentors / advisors / and so on.

 

READING PERIOD:

October 1, 2007-December 31, 2007.

 

PUBLICATION:

--Summer 2008. Each contributor will receive 2 copies of the published book and additional copies at minimal cost. 

 

QUESTIONS? 

--The intent of this CFW is to spur and develop a sense of critical inquiry, partnership, collaboration, critique and rebellion which the final book object also aims to cultivate among and within its readers. 

 

Points to Consider:

Imaginary Syllabi is primarily (though not exclusively) concerned with work undertaken by students and teachers who are working as writers in some capacity: as documentarians, compositionists, art critics, journalists, performance artists, poets and others. 

 

INTERESTED?

--Send queries, manuscripts, proposals and questions to:

 

Imaginary Syllabi

Editor, Jane Sprague

Palm Press

143 Ravenna Drive

Long Beach, CA 90803

 

Or contact by email:

palmpress[at]gmail[dot]com

www.palmpress.org
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