The Dark Poetry Project–Please Spread The Word
Attention Goth, Surreal, Occult, Horror, Extreme, Absurd, Bizarre &
Experimental Poets.
A major print anthology is in the works to present the best of the midnight
explosion!!!!
Send 3-5 typed poems on A4 paper with a short (~200 word) biographical
statement before Dec. 31st, 2001 to:
Jesse Glass /D.P.P.
Meikai University
8 Akemi
Urayasu
Chiba 279-8550
Japan.
Include your e-mail address. No manuscripts will be returned, so keep
copies.
You may also submit via e-mail to [log in to unmask] (do not send to
gol.com account)
DO NOT SEND FILES! APPENDED FILES WILL NOT BE READ. Do not send links. Paste
your submission into the body of an e-mail. Put "d.p.p. submission" and your
name in the heading.
IF WE LIKE WHAT YOU SEND WE WILL CONTACT YOU. No correspondence will be
entered into regarding your poetry. No queries will be answered.. If you
haven’t heard from us within three months after the final deadline, assume
that you won’t.
What we are looking for:
Anything that excites us.
Things to avoid:
The trite and the sentimental. Archaic language, and the self-consciously
"poetic" (Thee, thou, thine, mine, ye, alas, Oh!, Alack! Alas!). Inverted
syntax. Rhyming, unless it’s done well. Political propaganda. Harlequin
romance. Song lyrics. Suicide notes. Kiddie Porn. Weltschmerz. Haiku.
Poetics We Recognize:
Modern & Post-Modern forms: i.e. Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, H.D.,
Mina Loy & after.
Guiding Stars of The Dark Poetry Project (If you haven’t read ‘em, do!):
Heraclitus, Yunmen, Dee & Kelly, de Sade, Potocki, Baudelaire, Lautreamont,
Rimbaud, Kleist, Nerval, Melville, Walt Whitman ("The Sleepers"), Emily
Dickinson, Nietzsche, Jarry, The Dadaists, The Surrealists, The Absurdists,
Artaud, Michaux, Maria Sabina, Helen Adam, William Burroughs, Jack Spicer,
Kathy Acker and other kick-ass writers & thinkers from many times and many
lands.
Memorable Quote:
"If your darkness does not come from within, it had better not come at
all." –Clapperclaw 8/12/200.
About Jesse Glass. How to order his books.
http://www.letterwriter.net/html/jesse-glass.html
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