Deadline: 15 September 2011
Vaughan Rapatahana, guest editor for Issue #31 of Blackmail Press, is asking for submissions of original poems on the theme of marginalization, on being marginalized through one's ethnicity, gender, age and so on. Closing date for this issue is September 15, 2011. Please submit to editor@blackmailpress.com Blackmail Press is one of Aotearoa-New Zealand's leading online poetry journals.
On Being Marginalised:
The French postmodernist writer, Michel Foucault, wrote about ‘The Other’ as opposed to ‘The Self’. The Other are those on the margins of society – women, racial and religious and sexual minorities, the disabled and so on. They are precluded from The Self – the male, white, middle-class, Christian, bureaucratic – who in fact define them as this other grouping and as somehow inferior because of this. They are excluded from power/knowledge. Deliberately so. (Knowledge, as Foucault also noted, is Power.) Another way of describing these two groupings is Centre and Periphery.
One who is marginalized is alienated, all-too-often replete with ennui, anomie, the sickness-unto-death, fear and trembling, nausea. You name it. eh. Send us your poems reflecting your marginalization.
Send to editor@blackmailpress.com. Email Body text, MS Word, PDF and MP3's & You Tube Video formats can only be accepted.
Contact Information:
For inquiries: editor@blackmailpress.com
For submissions: editor@blackmailpress.com
Website: http://www.blackmailpress.com
Vaughan Rapatahana, guest editor for Issue #31 of Blackmail Press, is asking for submissions of original poems on the theme of marginalization, on being marginalized through one's ethnicity, gender, age and so on. Closing date for this issue is September 15, 2011. Please submit to editor@blackmailpress.com Blackmail Press is one of Aotearoa-New Zealand's leading online poetry journals.
On Being Marginalised:
The French postmodernist writer, Michel Foucault, wrote about ‘The Other’ as opposed to ‘The Self’. The Other are those on the margins of society – women, racial and religious and sexual minorities, the disabled and so on. They are precluded from The Self – the male, white, middle-class, Christian, bureaucratic – who in fact define them as this other grouping and as somehow inferior because of this. They are excluded from power/knowledge. Deliberately so. (Knowledge, as Foucault also noted, is Power.) Another way of describing these two groupings is Centre and Periphery.
One who is marginalized is alienated, all-too-often replete with ennui, anomie, the sickness-unto-death, fear and trembling, nausea. You name it. eh. Send us your poems reflecting your marginalization.
Send to editor@blackmailpress.com. Email Body text, MS Word, PDF and MP3's & You Tube Video formats can only be accepted.
Contact Information:
For inquiries: editor@blackmailpress.com
For submissions: editor@blackmailpress.com
Website: http://www.blackmailpress.com
