Call For Poems: PUDDING MAGAZINE IS LOOKING FOR SUBMISSIONS FOR A SPECIAL EDITION OF ECOPOETRY.

Editorial Focus

Website: puddingmagazine.com

Pudding Magazine is a print journal that focuses on publishing eclectic, sophisticated, poetry that appeals to our conscience through bold and exacting language conjuring powerful imagery.  Together with our sponsor EPOC (EcoPoetry of Ohio Center), we focus in this special issue on work that has vision, passion, and compels the reader to act rather than to indulge or resign – a call to arms – a joining forces – in defense of our natural world: experiment, provoke, innovate, compel, and lament!

This special poetry edition 2012, focuses on a fusion of popular culture and social justice with environmental topics such as fracking, mercury contamination, coal burning, pesticides, threats to clean water, clean air, soil pollution, excess consume, overfishing, whaling, global warming, aerial hunting, trapping, sharkfinning, sealing, poaching, factory farming, plastic bags; GMOs, loss of wildlife habitat etc.  Our collection of EcoPoetry is intended as a tangible means for dialogue to the often disparate contributors and audiences in the fields of ecology, science, ethics, and not-for-profits.  Here, fine poetry meets documentary similar to the interdisciplinary agit-prop art forms in the 1960s.  Such poetic range of motion is sure to capture the landscape of contemporary poetry and our current environment.

Submittal Guidelines:

Genre Published:

                EcoPoetry

                New work solicited; we may consider a reprint

Submission Fee:

                $10 Check (for up to 3 poems)

Payment:

                one free copy of the special edition

Format:

                Chapbook

Reading Fees:

                No

Submission Deadline:

                April 30, 2012

Electronic Submissions:

                Only

                connie@puddingmagazine.com or hanseatin@columbus.rr.com

Simultaneous Submissions:

                No

Format:

                Attachment of word document(s)

                up to 3 poems, any style or length

                Include your name, address, and email contact

                Send a brief bio with your submission

Rights revert to authors upon publication.

Pudding Magazine retains permission to reprint or anthologize.