just wanted to let folks know we are looking for work for issue 2 of
aslongasittakes--- submissions are rolling, but we hope to have issue 2
out in the next month and half or so-- the official call for work is below
thanks,
james sanders
"How long is a poem? As long as it takes to perform it." --Bob Cobbing
a s l o n g a s i t t a k e s, a sound poetry magazine published by the
Atlanta Poets Group, is seeking submissions. We are looking for sound
poetry, scores for sound poetry and essays on sound poetry. "What is
'sound poetry'?" you ask. Good question. It's one of those know it when
you see (hear) it kind of things. It's probably not music (thanks Dick
Higgins). It might be noise. If you think about a spectrum of possible
noise made by the human body (or simulations thereof or substitutions
therefor), and at one end of the spectrum is a person reading her poem
and at the other end is abstract noise, we're looking for works that
fall towards the latter end. We are looking for works in/of/against the
tradition(s) of Ball, Schwitters, Dûfrène, Henri Chopin, Jandl, Cobbing,
The Four Horsemen, Fylkingen Group, Öyvind Fahlström. . . hopefully by
now you get the idea. We're looking for stuff that will push/redefine
the limits. The magazine is Web-based.
Please send submissions to aslongasittakes@comcast.net
<mailto:aslongasittakes@comcast.net> in one of the following formats:
.mp3, .wav, .wma, or flac. Please query before sending in other formats.
If you can't get us the work via email, just send an email and let us
know, and we can find another way. We don't know how long it will take
to get back to you on your submissions, just be cool. We can't pay you
anything for your work. All work that appears in the magazine will be
available for download from the magazine's site under the Creative
Commons' /Attribution Non-commercial Share Alike/ license
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/); if you are not
comfortable with making your work available in that way, let us know and
we can probably work something out.