[New-Poetry] Call for Submissions: Poetic Responses to the 2008 American Elections

[James Cervantes]

Uh, the title?  How about Snowflakes Falling: A Wordless Conflict?
- Jim

On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 11:23 AM, Anny Ballardini
<anny.ballardini at gmail.com>wrote:

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> *While the He/art Pants:*
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> *Poetic Responses to the 2008 American Elections*
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> *Call for Submissions*
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> *Artistic representations, responses, and interrogations of electoral
> events are very important expressions of the endless conversation between
> art and historical experience. The 2008 American elections stimulated a lot
> of artistic responses and there were, in the campaign discourses, some
> subtle invocations of the postures of presidential aspirants to literature
> and cultural productions generally. What, as a poet (defined broadly), is
> the meaning of this whole experience of the 2008 elections? Send us your
> previously unpublished works (poems, paintings, manipulated photographs,
> etc) about the 2008 US elections for inclusion in an online anthology:While
> the He/Art Pants (a title derived from Walt Whitman's poem reproduced
> below), to soon appear on the Poet's Corner, Fiera Lingue. Images should
> be on Jpeg format. As this promises to be a very interesting project, we
> request that you send up to five of the most uncompromising and
> stylistically surprising of your works and a short bio. Other works that do
> not necessarily focus on the 2008 US elections but are relevant to the
> dialogue between art and democratic politics will be considered. *
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> *Submissions are to be made electronically to: Obododimma Oha (Guest
> Editor) obodooha at gmail.com , udude at full-moon.com *
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> *Anny Ballardini (Editor, The Poet's Corner)*
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> *anny.ballardini at gmail.com*
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> *Link to the main index of the site:*
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> *http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=Content*
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> *Election Day, November 1884* *from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman (1892)
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> If I should need to name, O Western World, your powerfulest scene and show,
> 'Twould not be you, Niagara—nor you, ye limitless prairies—nor your huge
> rifts of canyons, Colorado,
> Nor you, Yosemite—nor Yellowstone, with all its spasmic geyserloops
> ascending to the skies, appearing and disappearing,
> Nor Oregon's white cones—nor Huron's belt of mighty lakes—nor Mississippi's
> stream:
> —This seething hemisphere's humanity, as now, I'd name—the still small
> voice vibrating—America's choosing day,
> (The heart of it not in the chosen—the act itself the main, the quadrennial
> choosing,)
> The stretch of North and South arous'd-sea-board and inland-Texas to
> Maine—the Prairie States—Vermont, Virginia, California,
> The final ballot-shower from East to West—the paradox and conflict,
> The countless snow-flakes falling—(a swordless conflict,
> Yet more than all Rome's wars of old, or modern Napoleon's:) the peaceful
> choice of all,
> Or good or ill humanity—welcoming the darker odds, the dross:
> —Foams and ferments the wine? it serves to purify—while the heart pants,
> life glows:
> These stormy gusts and winds waft precious ships,
> Swell'd Washington's, Jefferson's, Lincoln's sails.
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> Anny Ballardini
> http://annyballardini.blogspot.com/
> http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=poetshome
> http://www.moriapoetry.com/ebooks.html
> I Tell You: One must still have chaos in one to give birth to a dancing
> star!
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