#77 Texas Poetry Ballots 2024
ASSIGNMENT PURPOSE
Well-acquainted with the power of poetry to express our hopes and heartaches related to all matters of personal and public life, Texas Poetry Assignment requests new poems that communicate in the special language of poetry what a simple ballot or vote cannot do alone. We are interested in what Texas poets will say about why they vote, what their ballot means to them or is responding to, who they dedicate their vote to, as well as their struggles with and faith in the promise of democracy itself. Other matters of concern and feeling are also possible of course.
Poems will be published as accepted here.
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ACCEPTANCE AND PUBLICATION
Upon acceptance, poems will be published on the first Sunday of the month.
PUBLICATION RIGHTS
Writers will retain all rights to their work published on this site.
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 the audience and poetic form as they pertain to aspects of narrative perspective, shape, sound, repetition, and enjambment.
Matthew Arnold - Jerry Bradley - Paola Brinkley - Hal C. Clark - Sherry Craven - Margo Davis - Jesse Doiron - Chris Ellery - Casey Ford - Christian Garduno - Lyman Grant - Renae Brumbaugh Green - Jean Hackett - Katherine Hoerth - Gretchen Johnson - Kathryn Jones - Ulf Kirchdorfer - Christopher L. Morrow - Tom Murphy - Meg Oldman - Juan Manuel Pérez - Moumin Quazi - Carol Coffee Reposa - Marilyn Robitaille - Sumera Saleem - Jan Seale - Herman Sutter - Jeffrey L. Taylor - Loretta Diane Walker - Nate Wilbert - Donald Mace Williams - Steve Wilson - Antoinette F. Winstead
