www.critiphoria.org
A Journal of Poetry and Criticism
Edited by Stephen Paul Miller, Cecilia Wu, Dominick Casazza, Stephen Pasqualina, and Mary Ann Miller
Critiphoria is an online multimedia lab and locus for engaging hybridized critical-poetic textualities. Critiphoria seeks a wide variety of submissions including and concerning "poetry-criticism" (not limited to criticism of poetry) in all its forms. Having published its inaugural issue in February 2008, Critiphoria continues to interrogate how poetry and criticism mutually and dissymmetrically sustain and impel each other formally and conceptually. In Critiphoria, poetry and criticism invigorate each other so as to explore terms for their intersection within possibilities for a "third genre." We seek text, image, or multiform works of text, audio, video, or hybrid media, for our second issue forthcoming in February 2010. Historically we have published essays in poetic form, essays using poetic methodology, poems with critical content, poetry-criticism, statements about poetic production, pedagogical transcripts, and visual poetry. We encourage contributions which both challenge and dwell in a shared site of poetic and critical labor. We broadly support the cultivation of cultural experiments, based in language, which deterritorialize pre-existing modalities of genre. Critiphoria strives to break ground, but acknowledges precedents such as Charles Bernstein's "Artifice of Absorption," Stephen Paul Miller's poem essay/lectures, Lyn Hejinian's poetic nonfiction, the linguistic mysticism of David Shapiro, the autobiographical scholarship of Susan Howe, Zizek's psycho-political analyses, W.J.T. Mitchell's totemic digs, David Antin's talk poems, and a variety of dialogic critical-poetic objects. We enthusiastically welcome new models and trajectories, and encourage submissions to include a prefatory statement concerning how they work within the dynamic tensions among poetry, criticism, and other forms. In addition to its typical wide variety of work, the next issue of Critiphoria will contain a section concerning "Secular Jewish Culture/Radical Poetic Practice" and, among other concerns and subjects, work concerning this subject is particularly encouraged to accompany the criticism of the forthcoming RADICAL POETICS AND SECULAR JEWISH CULTURE, edited by Stephen Paul Miller and Daniel Morris, University of Alabama Press. Critiphoria appears at <http://www.critiphoria.org/>. The deadline for the second issue is December 31, 2009. PLEASE SEND SUBMISSIONS IN ATTACHMENTS. Email submissions or other correspondence to the editors at critiphoria@gmail.com.
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