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

[Anny Ballardini]

Much better, thanks James.

On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 2:33 AM, James Cervantes
<cervantes.james at gmail.com>wrote:

> Uh, the title?  How about Snowflakes Falling: A Wordless Conflict?
> - Jim
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> 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 previously unpublished works (poems, paintings, manipulated photographs,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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I Tell You: One must still have chaos in one to give birth to a dancing
star!
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