(Michigan Quarterly Review is ranked 14th in our List of Best Poetry Journals, and 12th overall.)
The Inland Sea: The Great Lakes Past, Present, and Future
While much of the world suffers from a lack of fresh water, here in the middle of North America we are surrounded by twenty percent of the world's entire supply, still in relatively clean condition. Perhaps the enormity of the Great Lakes and the abundance of the water they contain have made us complacent, have allowed us to relegate concern for the lakes to a circle of advocates, scientists, and policy makers to whom we turn only when we feel our water and our landscape threatened. The editors of Michigan Quarterly Review are convinced that the demands on the Great Lakes will only grow in this century, as sprawl, agricultural runoff, and infestations of nonnative plants and wildlife continue to threaten them, while the effects of global warming will make their waters rarer and more valuable.
This moment seems like the right time to look back on our cultural relationship with the Great Lakes, to gain some sense of the environmental pressures on them, and to reflect on policies that could or should influence that relationship in the future. To this end we hope, in a special issue of our journal, to explore how environmental advocates and philosophers, scientists and policy makers, photographers and visual artists, poets, essayists, and novelists are thinking about the lakes, to discover the ways they are reimagining our common future that might capture once again, in a new moment, our sense of their beauty and our respect for their fragility.
All work should be submitted in hard copy (with a self-addressed, stamped envelope) by September 1, 2010, to Michigan Quarterly Review, attn: Great Lakes Issue, 0576 Rackham Bldg., 915 E. Washington St., Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1070.
More information here.
The Inland Sea: The Great Lakes Past, Present, and Future
While much of the world suffers from a lack of fresh water, here in the middle of North America we are surrounded by twenty percent of the world's entire supply, still in relatively clean condition. Perhaps the enormity of the Great Lakes and the abundance of the water they contain have made us complacent, have allowed us to relegate concern for the lakes to a circle of advocates, scientists, and policy makers to whom we turn only when we feel our water and our landscape threatened. The editors of Michigan Quarterly Review are convinced that the demands on the Great Lakes will only grow in this century, as sprawl, agricultural runoff, and infestations of nonnative plants and wildlife continue to threaten them, while the effects of global warming will make their waters rarer and more valuable.
This moment seems like the right time to look back on our cultural relationship with the Great Lakes, to gain some sense of the environmental pressures on them, and to reflect on policies that could or should influence that relationship in the future. To this end we hope, in a special issue of our journal, to explore how environmental advocates and philosophers, scientists and policy makers, photographers and visual artists, poets, essayists, and novelists are thinking about the lakes, to discover the ways they are reimagining our common future that might capture once again, in a new moment, our sense of their beauty and our respect for their fragility.
All work should be submitted in hard copy (with a self-addressed, stamped envelope) by September 1, 2010, to Michigan Quarterly Review, attn: Great Lakes Issue, 0576 Rackham Bldg., 915 E. Washington St., Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1070.
More information here.
