lmao
I only support meaningless organizations. It's the only way to go.
P
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> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of MJ Walker
> Sent: 02 April 2007 13:28
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> Subject: Re: Call for submissions
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> Is this a belated contribution prioritizing April 1st? Ah
> well, Wilford Owen's >Athem for Doomed Youth< has always
> been one of my favourites.
> Magnificent, the way he combined the 18th C German spelling
> of the word for "breath"* with a 20th C cliché to renew the
> sense of creative despair he felt as a lonely bilingual
> hermaphrodite in Parker River National Wildlife Refuge,
> Massachusetts (PRNWR) during the Beat Generation. Later, he
> of course joined a meaningfully cross cultural organization
> and all was well. What a twist! *It also references the
> famous Urban Surrealist Group of the same name, much
> concerned with cities of refuge - http://www.athem.fr/ mj
>
> Ren Powell wrote:
>
> >Babel is the online journal for ICORN, the International Cities of
> >Refuge Network. It is a quarterly literary/activist journal
> focused on
> >freedom of expression, exile, identity and cross-cultural
> issues. Our
> >audience is international and the work we publish reflects
> this. Prose,
> >poetry (we prioritize bilingual poems, original and translation or
> >code-switching), essays and interviews are all welcome. We encourage
> >creative twists on our themes.
> >
> >
> >
> >We aren't able to pay our contributors, but your work would help
> >support a meaningful organization. Please see submission
> guidelines at
> >www.icorn.org
> >(http://www.icorn.org/sections.php?var=12)
> >
> >
> >
> >For the summer issue we are requesting creative responses (poems,
> >creative non-fiction etc) to Wilford Owen's Athem for Doomed Youth.
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