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P – Call for Submisions to Rabbit: a journal for nonfiction poetry. Theme: Extinction
Rabbit is currently accepting submissions for Issue 40: the EXTINCTION Issue.
The sixth mass extinction bears the marks of centuries of capitalist accumulation. While the science of climate catastrophe is well documented and broadly accepted, ways of preventing extinction are far from settled. Poetry has engaged with the destructive nature of capitalism and imperial expansion since early English industrialisation, and contemporary poetry confronts these questions with aesthetic curiosity and force. If it feels impossible to imagine a future, poetry offers itself as a site to do just that.
EXTINCTION asks for poetry inspired by science and ecology, geopolitical/materialist writing, writing from avant-garde or prophetic traditions, and human–nonhuman relations.
EXTINCTION considers the social and economic inequalities produced by capitalism’s climate catastrophes, its effects on gender, social relations, and the dialectic of classes and nations. It demands we look at what is possible beyond what has already been.
We’re especially interested in non-Western poetic forms, and work that explores non-Western perspectives on relations between empire, colony and production.
We invite poets to send up to 3 poems in one document through Rabbit’s Submittable site. Please include in the cover letter of your submission:
• full contact details (postal address, email)
• 50-word max. bio
• a short (50-word max.) response to the following: “What is the role of the poem in an era of decline?”