themarbledsigh@gmail.com<\/a>.\u00a0Deadline: Dec. 1, 2024 EST<\/strong><\/p>\nThere are a variety of topics to consider for political poetry:<\/p>\n
Political Elections<\/p>\n
Roe v. Wade<\/p>\n
Climate Change Action\/Inaction<\/p>\n
War<\/p>\n
Genocide<\/p>\n
Terrorism<\/p>\n
BLM<\/p>\n
Gun Violence\/Arms Control<\/p>\n
Combating Drugs and Crime<\/p>\n
LGBTQIA+<\/p>\n
Racism<\/p>\n
Regional Conflicts<\/p>\n
Decolonization<\/p>\n
Democratization<\/p>\n
Human Rights<\/p>\n
Health<\/p>\n
Disability Issues<\/p>\n
Immigration\/Migration<\/p>\n
Whilst the editors live in the United States, poets are more than welcome to write and submit political poems about where they are in the world. For example, if you live in India, you can submit a political poem about Indian politics.<\/p>\n
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In the subject line of the email submission, write your first and last name\/pen name and the title of your first poem.<\/strong><\/p>\nEx: Maya Angelou- And Still I Rise<\/strong><\/p>\nSend all submissions to:\u00a0<\/strong>themarbledsigh@gmail.com<\/p>\nFurthermore,<\/strong>\u00a0please only submit if you are an emerging writer. We define emerging writers as anyone who has no more than one full-length book (this includes, poetry, fiction, nonfiction, comics, etc).<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/mark>If you are making a transition into another genre, please let us know in the cover letter. For instance, if you primarily write fiction and have fiction books published but no poetry books, let us know in the cover letter.<\/p>\nWe will not accept any previously published poems.<\/p>\n
Upon publication, a Zoom reading will be held to commemorate the new issue.\u00a0If you are published, we, as the editors, need you to confirm via email if you will be available to read the poem.\u00a0<\/mark><\/strong>If not, we will assume you are not available and your poem will not be read.<\/p>\nPlease note, acceptance for publication is not based on the poet\u2019s availability to read on Zoom, although we would appreciate you being part of the literary community.<\/p>\n
We will not accept any poems that promote homophobia, transphobia, racism, sexism, or anything that can be seen as hate speech.<\/p>\n
We will not accept any work produced by Artificial Intelligence (A.I.).<\/p>\n
All rights revert back to you, the author, after publication.<\/p>\n
We ask that in the event that your poems are published in a book or another journal, please mention us,\u00a0The Marbled Sigh<\/em>, in the acknowledgements.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Sample Cover Letters:<\/mark><\/strong><\/p>\nDear Nidhi and Jonathan,<\/p>\n
My name is Edgar Allan Poe and I am submitting X number of poems entitled,<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Raven,\u201d \u201cAnnabel Lee,\u201d \u201cThe Conqueror Worm\u201d etc for your consideration for Issue X.<\/p>\n
My brief bio is below.<\/p>\n
Best,<\/p>\n
Edgar Allan Poe<\/p>\n
Bio: Edgar Allan Poe is a writer and when you read his poems they will scare you with every fiber. Etc.<\/p>\n
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Dear Nidhi and Jonathan,<\/p>\n
My name is Rider Writer and I am submitting X poems entitled, \u201cLittle Red,\u201d \u201cA Motorcycle,\u201d \u201cTicket To\u201d \u2026<\/p>\n
My bio is below.<\/p>\n
Sincerely,<\/p>\n
Rider Writer<\/p>\n
Bio: Rider Writer is a writer from Riding Hood. Rider\u2019s work has been featured in\u00a0Rider Gazette<\/em>,\u00a0Rider Review<\/em>, and\u00a0The Rider<\/em>\u00a0Quarterly<\/em>. In his freetime, Rider co-runs a blog with his dog Ruff called \u201cRough Ride\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Whilst the editors live in the United States, poets are more than welcome to write and submit political poems about where they are in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":"","_tec_slr_enabled":"","_tec_slr_layout":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[2],"class_list":["post-6214","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","hentry","tribe_events_cat-call-for-submission","cat_call-for-submission"],"ticketed":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anovelapproach.ca\/submission_calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/6214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anovelapproach.ca\/submission_calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anovelapproach.ca\/submission_calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anovelapproach.ca\/submission_calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/anovelapproach.ca\/submission_calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/6214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6219,"href":"https:\/\/anovelapproach.ca\/submission_calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/6214\/revisions\/6219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anovelapproach.ca\/submission_calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anovelapproach.ca\/submission_calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6214"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anovelapproach.ca\/submission_calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=6214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}