Queer Mojo Press announces a call for submissions for an anthology celebrating queer poetry:
PEOPLE ARE STARTING TO TALK ABOUT YOU:
A CELEBRATION OF NEW GAY POETRY
edited by Shane Allison
to be published in Fall 2011.
I am looking for poems that celebrate and question, meditate and intimate, argue and reconcile contemporary queer identity. Whether you write about coming out, sexuality, politics, growing up gay, civil rights, discrimination, love and relationships, same-sex marriages, erotica or serving in the military, I want to read about it and share it with others who want to read it as well.
I want everything from performance poetry to the academic, from traditional forms to the experimental.
I am open either to unpublished work, or work that was published since 2000 (this would include work originally published in a magazine or anthology before 2000, which was later collected in a book published after 2000).
I welcome queer voices from outside the US. This anthology is open to previously published work, but it is the poet’s responsibility to secure permission to reprint the poem.
I welcome work from transgender poets, so long as the content of the work is relevant to either gay or lesbian experience.
There is no limit to the number of poems which may be submitted, so long as queer content is relevant.
Submission instructions:
1) Title file with the initials of the anthology and author’s last name.
2) Include your name, your mailing address, your email address, and a bio.
3) Submit your work by email, as an attachment in .doc or .rtf format, to newqueerpoetry[at]gmail.com
Deadline: January 30, 2011.
Payment will be two copies of the anthology per contributor.
About the editors:
Shane Allison is the anthologist of nine books, including HOT COPS: GAY EROTIC STORIES, BACKDRAFT: FIREMAN EROTICA, COLLEGE BOYS: GAY EROTIC STORIES, BRIEF ENCOUNTERS, AFTERNOON PLEASURES: EROITC STORIES FOR GAY COUPLES and the author of a poetry collection SLUT MACHINE. His work has appeared in MISSISSIPPI REVIEW, NEW DELTA REVIEW, I DO/I DON’T: QUEERS ON MARRIAGE, GENTS, BADBOYS AND BARBARIANS 2 and the chapbook I WANT TO EAT CHINESE FOOD OFF YOUR ASS (Propaganda Press.)