ON
Contemporary Practice
You’re ON. We invite you to engage with the practice, poetry and poetics of one of your closest contemporaries. Guidelines:
1. Over 200 contributors have simultaneously received an invitation to engage with the work of one of their contemporaries; however, we’d like contributors to challenge the terms “engage” and “contemporary,” as we hope that different manifestations of these terms will contribute to an ongoing survey of contemporary practice.
2. ON encourages contributors to investigate a “poetics,” rather than a solitary poem, chapbook, performance, etc.
3. Since the undersigned are not editors, but facilitators, we will consider publishing whatever writing we receive by the deadline; however, we will not provide extensive editorial feedback.
4. Please feel free to share this solicitation with writers from your community who may have escaped our attention.
5. Formatting: Single-spaced 12 pt. Times New Roman Microsoft Word documents are preferred. If you have particular formatting requirements, please contact one of the editors. Hardcopies are not necessary, but please submit in PDF and/or Word formats.
The first edition of ON will survey the field ‘as it stands,’ written by and for those ‘we’ are reading and discussing, with the intention of bringing reflection to a discourse during a prodigious cultural moment.
Deadline for submissions: April 1st. ON will be available in both affordable print and digital online formats. Please send all submissions to the editors of ON at oncontemporaries@gmail.com. Feel free to e-mail your questions to any of the addresses below, and thank you in advance for being ON.
Cordially,
Michael Cross michaelthomascross [at] hotmail [dot] com
Kyle Schlesinger kyleschlesinger [at] gmail [dot] com
Thom Donovan thom_donovan [at] yahoo [dot] com
