[Hardy-l] Clarification of Call for Poems--The Hardy Review

[Bill Morgan]

Dear New Poetry, Hardy Forum, and Hardy POTM listmembers-

                In response to a query I received about my Call for Poems
for The Hardy Review (reproduced below), I wanted to make clear that we are
casting a large net here.  We welcome poems with even the slimmest, most
distant connection with Hardy: our readers are prepared to exercise their
aesthetic imaginations.  It is by no means necessary that a poem be in
Hardy's style or be in response to a specific Hardy work  (though those are
welcome too).  I would call your attention to the clause below, asking for
poems "that might interest an audience of Hardy readers for some other
reason we haven't yet imagined."  You send me the high-quality poems, and I
and my fellow screeners will attempt to impersonate that imaginative
audience of Hardy readers!  Surprise me.

                I hope that's clearer.  

Cheers,

Bill Morgan

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The Hardy Review, an annual publication for Thomas Hardy scholars and
enthusiasts and published by the Thomas Hardy Association, welcomes
submissions of high-quality, original poems that may take Hardy as their
subject, that may mention him or his work, that may recall something about
him in their theme or technique, that may show his influence in subtle or
direct ways, or that might interest an audience of Hardy readers for some
other reason we haven't yet imagined.  

The Review is just now entering upon its 10th year.  It is edited by
Professor Rosemarie Morgan of Yale University and published in an
attractive, slick-paper format by Maney Publishing.  See a cover image and a
sample table of contents at the Thomas Hardy Association's main page:

http://www.yale.edu/hardysoc/Welcome/welcomet.htm

Postal submissions, including a brief cover letter, brief bio, and SASE
should be sent to:

Bill Morgan

603 N. School Street

Normal, IL  61761

Electronic submissions (with all the attendant formatting perils) may be
sent to wwmorgan at ilstu.edu

Cheers,

Bill Morgan

Poetry Editor, The Hardy Review

 

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