Contemporary Practice 1 

edited by Michael Cross, Thom Donovan & Kyle Schlesinger 

Taylor Brady, Brandon Brown, CAConrad, Jason Christie, Michael Cross, Thom Donovan, Eli Drabman, Rob Halpern, Jen Hofer, Alan Gilbert, Brenda Iijima, Andrew Levy, Edric Mesmer, Sawako Nakayasu, Tenney Nathanson, Richard Owens, Tim Peterson, Andrew Rippeon, Kyle Schlesinger, Jonathan Skinner, Dale Smith,  Suzanne Stein, Ali Warren, Katie Yeats 

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Arakawa/Gins, Taylor Brady, CAConrad, Michael Cross, Beverly Dahlen, Michael deBeyer, Mark Dickinson, kari edwards, DJ/Rupture, Thom Donovan, Belle Gironda, Brenda Iijima, CJ Martin, Emily McVarish, Yedda Morrison, Hoa Nguyen, Sawako Nakayasu, Julie Patton, Lauren Shufran, Suzanne Stein, Dana Ward, Ali Warren    

ON Contemporary Practice gathers writing about the practices or poetics of one’s contemporaries. While these writings may be highly anti-categorical or “hybrid,” they are ultimately for the cultivation and extension of critical discourse. If you would like to submit to ON please write the editors at oncontemporaries@gmail.com, or michaelthomascross at hotmail dot com, thom_donovan at yahoo dot com, and kyleschlesinger at gmail dot com. ON welcomes all unsolicited materials which pursue the below guidelines. For more about ON’s editorial positions, please see the first issue’s editorial, “For a Discourse”.

guidelines:

ON primarily publishes essays on contemporaries that investigate a poetics or practice. It does not publish reviews of individual poems, chapbooks, performances, etc. It also does not publish poems. ON’s editors will consider all submissions but will not provide extensive editorial feedback toward publication.

purchasing: 

Small Press Distribution
1341 Seventh Street
Berkeley, CA 94710-1409
Tel. (800) 869-7553
www.spdbooks.org

published by:

Cuneiform Press
214 N. Henry Street
Brooklyn, NY 11222
www.cuneiformpress.com

Copies are available for $12.00. Free shipping in the US for all orders placed through the publisher. Send checks to Kyle Schlesinger at the address above, or paypal kyleschlesinger [at] gmail [dot] com.

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 1^st. 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