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

[Anny Ballardini]

I am forwarding to James Cervantes and to those who would like to comment,
from Obododimma Oha:

What do you think about the title suggested by Cervantes? *Snowfalkes
Falling* sounds like a thrust in the Romantic Tradition. Moreover, it is too
close to Gabriel Okara's "Snowflakes Sail Gently Down." Can you think of an
alternative title? And could you express my gratitude to Cervantes?



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
>
> 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 previously unpublished works (poems, paintings, manipulated photographs,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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>> *OR *
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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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