#2: 1/6/21 Poems
Open from January 7, 2021, to March 31, 2021. Accepted poems were published from February 1, 2021, through April 1, 2021.
ASSIGNMENT PURPOSE
The purpose of this assignment is to write a poem in response to the people, places, events, and consequences of January 6, 2021, including the Congressional debate and certification of the 2020 Presidential election and the domestic terrorist attack on the US Capitol Building and Congress.
We are well-acquainted with the power of poetry to express our hopes and heartaches related to all matters of personal and public life. For this assignment, we would like to receive submissions that communicate in the special language, craft, logic, and emotion of poetry work that remembers and comments upon this day in our lives, in our country, and around the world.
Additionally, we encourage you to consider a range of choices you might take in narrative perspective, setting, audience, and form.
Read the poems here.
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 form and content 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.
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 call was open from January 7, 2021, to March 31, 2021. Accepted poems were published from February 1, 2021 through April 1, 2021.
READING
Texas Poetry Assignment will also host a reading of selected poems from this assignment. Date and time to be announced.
PUBLICATION RIGHTS
Writers will retain all rights to their work published on this site.
