OFF THE PAGE CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS / PAPERS (Montreal)
installations by artist jung lee
OFF THE PAGE CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Public Access Poetry was a short-lived TV program recorded in 1977 and 1978. There are only forty-six open-reel recordings of this project, consisting of short, simple snippets of poets performing into the camera. Each episode brought poetry out of its text and into a live cultural moment. If we investigate this phenomena now, what does it mean for poetry to engage with the public? Whose public and what public? Television was the medium in the late 70s, when Public Access Poetry first aired. Does the onslaught of recent technologies make the relationship between poetry and the public easier, more problematic, more political, less so? How do online archives of sound and image impact the way we understand contemporary and historical literary arts? Does poetry’s interaction with accessible public mediums change what we qualify as poetry? Off The Page, partnered with Public Poetics, is looking for engaging, dynamic work that examines the relationship of poetics to the public to be featured at an event at Montreal’s VAV Gallery as well as in the Concordia English department this April 2013.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Poetry: 5 poems max.
Fiction, Essay and Non-Fiction: 1500 words max.
DEADLINE: March 21st, 2013
We prefer online submissions. Please send to: offthepageconcordia@gmail.com with the header “submission” and the type of genre you’ll be working with. For more information visit www.publicpoetics.ca as well as www.poeticevent.wordpress.com.
Note that we are looking to excerpt approximately 10 minutes of your submission for reading.
OFF THE PAGE CALL FOR PAPERS
Public Access Poetry was a short-lived TV program recorded in 1977 and 1978. There are only forty-six open-reel recordings of this project, consisting of short, simple snippets of poets performing into the camera. Each episode brought poetry out of its text and into a live cultural moment. If we investigate this phenomena now, what does it mean for poetry to engage with the public? Whose public and what public? Television was the medium in the late 70s, when Public Access Poetry first aired. Does the onslaught of recent technologies make the relationship between poetry and the public easier, more problematic, more political, less so? How do online archives of sound and image impact the way we understand contemporary and historical literary arts? Does poetry’s interaction with accessible public mediums change what we qualify as poetry?
Public Poetics, partnered with Off The Page, is looking for engaging, dynamic papers that examine the relationship of poetics to the public to be presented at Montreal’s Public Poetics Conference in the Concordia English department on April 3rd, 2013.
The presentation should be between 15-20 minutes in length. A poetry reading will follow the panels. Feature panelists include: Erin Mouré, Michael Nardone, Sue Sinclair and Kate Eichhorn.
Proposals should be no more than 250 words and should be accompanied by a 100-word abstract and a 50-word biographical note. Please send proposals to publicpoetics@mta.ca by March 21st, 2013. For more information visit www.publicpoetics.ca as well www.poeticevent.wordpress.com
