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call for submissions
AFTERWORDS: POEMS THAT CONTINUE THE STORIES
Thanks to Homer, we know how Odysseus’ adventures ended: how he finally reached home in Ithaca, slew the suitors, and resumed the management of his kingdom. But what happened then? Odysseus was still relatively young when he restored himself to his throne. Luckily, we have Tennyson’s great poem, “Ulysses” to fill in the later years of the hero’s biography and conjure him up in old age. In a similar vein, Richard Howard picks up the narrative thread of Browning’s “My Last Duchess” in his marvelous dramatic monologue, “Nikolaus Mardruz to his Master Ferdinand, Count of Tyrol, 1565.”
What we propose is an anthology of poems that imagine the later experiences-- the afterlife, as it were--of famous characters from literature, myth, and folktale: what happened to Prufrock after the tea party? To Ishmael when he finally made it back to terra firma? To Cinderella and Prince Charming after ten years of marriage? To the speaker and neighbor in Frost’s “Mending Wall” after they finish the job? You get the idea.
Poems can be in any form, length, or style. They can be told (like the Tennyson and Browning examples) from the point of view of either the protagonist or a secondary character. Or in any other way you want, as long as they are sequels and continue some famous, known episode.
Please submit original poems or published poems for which you hold copyright. We would also like to know about poems from any century that would work for this anthology. And please feel free to pass this call for submissions on to any poet you may know who may be interested.
All submissions must be received by September 1, 2008. We would prefer that you email them to HYPERLINK "mailto:kurtbrown1@mac.com" kurtbrown1@mac.com rather than sending hard copies, as that will make the job of compiling much easier. If you must send hardcopy, send it to Kurt Brown at 122 Washington Place, New York, NY 10014.
Thank you, Kurt Brown & Harold Schechter
NOTE: We are not looking for poems that take the form of telling a famous story from a different, off-center point of view. Essentially, we’re looking for sequels, not alternate takes. Also: If you choose to write a new poem about a character from literature, myth or legend, please do not choose Icarus, Ulysses, or Helen of Troy. We have enough of those. But do choose a character whose story everyone knows. And no real historical characters, please, like Robert E. Lee after the Civil War or what Red Grange. “The Galloping Ghost,” did after he retired from football.
Thanks to Homer, we know how Odysseus’ adventures ended: how he finally reached home in Ithaca, slew the suitors, and resumed the management of his kingdom. But what happened then? Odysseus was still relatively young when he restored himself to his throne. Luckily, we have Tennyson’s great poem, “Ulysses” to fill in the later years of the hero’s biography and conjure him up in old age. In a similar vein, Richard Howard picks up the narrative thread of Browning’s “My Last Duchess” in his marvelous dramatic monologue, “Nikolaus Mardruz to his Master Ferdinand, Count of Tyrol, 1565.”
What we propose is an anthology of poems that imagine the later experiences-- the afterlife, as it were--of famous characters from literature, myth, and folktale: what happened to Prufrock after the tea party? To Ishmael when he finally made it back to terra firma? To Cinderella and Prince Charming after ten years of marriage? To the speaker and neighbor in Frost’s “Mending Wall” after they finish the job? You get the idea.
Poems can be in any form, length, or style. They can be told (like the Tennyson and Browning examples) from the point of view of either the protagonist or a secondary character. Or in any other way you want, as long as they are sequels and continue some famous, known episode.
Please submit original poems or published poems for which you hold copyright. We would also like to know about poems from any century that would work for this anthology. And please feel free to pass this call for submissions on to any poet you may know who may be interested.
All submissions must be received by September 1, 2008. We would prefer that you email them to HYPERLINK "mailto:kurtbrown1@mac.com" kurtbrown1@mac.com rather than sending hard copies, as that will make the job of compiling much easier. If you must send hardcopy, send it to Kurt Brown at 122 Washington Place, New York, NY 10014.
Thank you, Kurt Brown & Harold Schechter
NOTE: We are not looking for poems that take the form of telling a famous story from a different, off-center point of view. Essentially, we’re looking for sequels, not alternate takes. Also: If you choose to write a new poem about a character from literature, myth or legend, please do not choose Icarus, Ulysses, or Helen of Troy. We have enough of those. But do choose a character whose story everyone knows. And no real historical characters, please, like Robert E. Lee after the Civil War or what Red Grange. “The Galloping Ghost,” did after he retired from football.
