mermaid / alison schulnik
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posthumanpoetry:
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Unbecoming: An Anthology of Posthuman Poetry
In the twenty-first century poetry interfaces with animal-machine. The “human” is not a given concept, but rather is one that is made in an ongoing technological and anthropological process. We hope to publish an anthology of poetry that participates in technological, biological, representational, sexual, political and theoretical post-humanisms. We’re looking for poetry that engages with or is written by animals, beasts, monsters, creatures, aliens, cyborgs, etc. How do bodies that are misunderstood, misfitting, ugly, failures, etc., challenge western, enlightenment figurations of the “self” and “human”? What are the poetics of rhetorical bodies that exceed definition? Any contemporary work in English (domestic or translated) that addresses the post-human is welcome. Please send up to 20 pages of poetry, in standard format (*.doc, *.docx, *.rtf, *.pdf) to Aaron Apps & Feng Sun Chen via [submishmash]. Previously published work is welcome; please include acknowledgements (if any) and a brief bio with your submission. Deadline: January 1stIf you have any questions please contact us at posthumanpoetry[at]gmail.com Please feel free to forward this call via your e-mail, blog, facebook, tumblr, twitter, etc. We look forward to reading your work.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4c3y6IpN11rwvp77o1_500.jpg)
Unbecoming: An Anthology of Posthuman Poetry
In the twenty-first century poetry interfaces with animal-machine. The “human” is not a given concept, but rather is one that is made in an ongoing technological and anthropological process. We hope to publish an anthology of poetry that participates in technological, biological, representational, sexual, political and theoretical post-humanisms. We’re looking for poetry that engages with or is written by animals, beasts, monsters, creatures, aliens, cyborgs, etc. How do bodies that are misunderstood, misfitting, ugly, failures, etc., challenge western, enlightenment figurations of the “self” and “human”? What are the poetics of rhetorical bodies that exceed definition?
Any contemporary work in English (domestic or translated) that addresses the post-human is welcome. Please send up to 20 pages of poetry, in standard format (*.doc, *.docx, *.rtf, *.pdf) to Aaron Apps & Feng Sun Chen via [submishmash].
Previously published work is welcome; please include acknowledgements (if any) and a brief bio with your submission.
Deadline: January 1st
If you have any questions please contact us at posthumanpoetry[at]gmail.com
Please feel free to forward this call via your e-mail, blog, facebook, tumblr, twitter, etc. We look forward to reading your work.
coming soon to kickstarter & submittable…
"Now i am a jaybird.
i live among the copies
behind my life is violets"
Jared Joseph (Harvey?)
"I’ve never seen compassion as an abstract noun. If you accept that we’re all composed largely of other people we’ve known, then compassion becomes a form of self-love. Compassion, composition. Awkwardness and grace live side by side."
Kraus, Chris and Selah Saterstrom (Interviewer). “Interview.” in: N Sky. Vol. 4, No. 2, August 2006. (English).
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“in Fancy Dress as a Side of Bacon[.]”
This little Peggy got married.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m41pa3Q8lz1rnw5qjo1_400.jpg)
screenshots from my book tumblr
on the velveteen rabbit and velve-teens
(caption from source):
Riva London stars as the velveteen rabbit in Ballet Theatre San Luis Obispo’s holiday production.PHOTO BY BARRY GOYETTE
lost and cold: cheek column #2
- Seeker: I'm lost and cold and the voices won't leave me alone. Can I hide inside your cheek?
- Cheek1: Yes. A cheek is a stretchable and warm substance. I am compassionate, moist and slightly bumpy on the inside. I bleed once a month, but with you inside, I will stop bleeding for at least three months, up to nine months. You can hide inside my cheek, a cheek within a cheek within a cheek, if you shall be my egg.
cheex in the city advice column #1
I’m starting an advice column with some cheeks. Please ask questions. We provide serious answers, as well as serial answers. (but really, when appropriate, we will actually give “advice”)
Alex: yes i’m sorry. i need to get you to advice me on burger choices
me: well, first of all, you need to consider your life goals, and your authentic appetite
your authentic appetite depends on the structure innate and spiritual of your stomach, which you can feel by lying down and probing with your fingers
if your stomach is shaped like a star, then I recommend getting a softer burger
Alex: i do not use fingers to probe my stomach. my stomach probes itself through my fingers
me: if it is shaped like a hand, then you should probably get a turkey burger
ah I see
in this case, I would recommend feeling the texture of the burger before choosing it
Alex: what if my stomach is, itself, shaped like a soft burger
me: if it is shaped like a soft burger, then you must first accept cannibalism
Alex: can we really accept cannibalism? i thought cannibalism was the one in charge
me: it is very difficult
but it is possible
Alex: ok
me: thanks for your question
Alex: i have eaten off my own face
What happens to the world when a body is a bag of stuff you can empty out of it.
Errors, musculatures.
Can I empty language out of me.
What difference does it make how a thing dies. Consciousness. Nobody knows
what that is.
-ariana reines~ ~book: The Cow
(Source: cunteaqueen, via ojaymorgan)
my statue of liberty costume
looks way different
than yours
foamghast—my second e-chapbook of poems—will be released by NAP this month.
i <3 pc who is not pc
(via jaredjosephharvey)
ariana reines: Medicine, magic, and religion are abstract-terms, each of which...
Medicine, magic, and religion are abstract-terms, each of which connotes a large group of social processes, processes by means of which mankind has come to regulate his behaviour towards the world around him. Among ourselves these three groups of processes are more or less sharply marked off from…
