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P – Sprout: an eco-urban poetry journal Seeks Submissions on the Theme of: Care
issue 4: care
“Care is a species activity that includes everything we do to maintain, continue and repair our ‘world’ so that we can live in it as well as possible. That world includes our bodies, our selves, and our environment, all of which we seek to interweave in a complex, life-sustaining web.”1
- communities of care;
- care as a practice (and action);
- ethics of care.
We are curious to see poets exploring how various methodologies of care manifest in ourselves, in others, and in both urban and natural spaces. The editors invite contributors to respond expansively and thoughtfully to this activated sense of care, specifically calling for reflections on how care and stewardship of nature in urban environments can (or does) inform our sense of place and place-making. From the perspective of affect, what does care look like or feel like? What modes of being does it summon? Is care instantiative or prospective?
As a journal, we at SPROUT embrace literary experimentation in form and find ourselves inclined to publish works that play with both language and poetic expression. We encourage contributors to read our first three issues and acquaint themselves with the journal’s vision and mandate. As we are a creative project of The Nature of Cities, we work towards thinking about greener cities for people. We publish work that speaks to these concerns and particularly welcomes image-text submissions and concrete poetry for this issue.
Poets whose work is selected for publication, will receive a small honorarium in USD.
submitting your work
Submission Guidelines:
- Submit 1 poem of no more than 50 lines each per submission (please note we will not consider manuscript submissions). You may submit as many single works as you like. Each poem should be a separate submission, please do not put two poems in the same submission.
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Submit via this form before March 22, 2024.
- Submissions must relate to the call’s theme: CARE.
If you have any questions about the submission guidelines, please email the managing editor, Emmalee Barnett, sprout@thenatureofcities.com.
The Fine Print:
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Submissions to SPROUT must not be previously published, including self-published work (this includes publication on blogs or social media). SPROUT should be the first publication of the work, copyright under TNOC. SPROUT retains no rights to the individual pieces and is not due royalties for the republication of contributor’s works. We kindly ask that any republished work mention SPROUT as the place of first publication.
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We are happy to consider simultaneous submissions, but please let us know if your work has been accepted elsewhere. All decisions regarding submissions to SPROUT will be sent by the beginning of April 2024.
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Please send us your best work. Your acceptance into the issue is subject to the editors’ discretion. Editors’ decisions are final. Editors cannot provide editorial feedback.