#24 Dialogue Poems

ASSIGNMENT PURPOSE

The purpose of this assignment is to invite poets to compose poems that contain a dialogue or conversation or interview between two voices, personified, fictional or real. The poem may also be a combination of voices, such as a dialogue between the poet and a historical or fictional figure, or a conversation with or between personified objects or concepts, or even a conversation with or between two aspects of the same person, real or imagined. Overhead dialogue between two people known or unknown is also a possibility.

EXAMPLES

Poems published so far in this series.

FORMAL INTERESTS

We are specifically interested in poems that demonstrate careful attention to the elements of shape, line, music, comparison, and balance, and especially how those choices contribute to the cooperative harmony of structure and sentiment in the poem.

Poems that do not meet these interests may be declined. For more on this perspective, see the five formal causes of beauty in poetry.

We also challenge you to consider new choices you might take in audience and poetic form as it pertains to aspects of narrative perspective, shape, sound, repetition, and enjambment.

HOW TO SUBMIT

Poetry submissions should be saved in Microsoft Word document format and composed in Times New Roman, 12 point font. They should be attached to an email to editor@texaspoetryassignment.org and include within the body of the email a brief cover letter and a 50-word biography.

ACCEPTANCE AND PUBLICATION

This brief call is open through April 24, 2022. Accepted poems will be published upon acceptance. A reading dedicated to this assignment will be scheduled for the same date.

PUBLICATION RIGHTS

Writers will retain all rights to their work published on this site.