Teesta Review: a Journal of Poetry
Call for submission Volume 4 Number 1
Call for Submissions for May 2021 Issue
Teesta Review: a Journal of Poetry seeks to promote contemporary poetry and non-fiction that evokes the best of creative writing. Conceptualized as a unique national resource centre for poetry Teesta Review boasts of a pan Indian outlook and aspires to become a veritable home of creative minds of the world—to bring people and poems together internationally and forge lasting ties with the international writing community, thus building a worldwide audience for poetry.
Teesta Review is now
inviting poems, translations of poems (preferably accompanied by the original
text), essays/articles, interviews, book reviews (books published in 2018-21)
by established and emerging writers.
Volume 4 No 1
Theme: Legacy
What echoes from the past do we inherit? What will we, in turn, leave for those who come after us? Poetry is one of humanity’s most powerful means of transmitting story from one generation to the next. It helps connect us to the past and enables us to make new shapes, new stories, new songs for our time.
As American poet
Alice Notley writes in her book Disobedience: ‘Each poem quivers as I do
and then flows forward’. Poems ripple the atmosphere around them. Even the
smallest movement made by words has an impact. Poetry leaves a legacy that may
be about the content of the poem, the voice of the poet, the community a poem
speaks from or indeed, the way that poetry itself evolves as a form, as Notley
writes towards the end of her book:
Have I fed anyone.
Have I changed Your image of what a poem might be
and so, in some part, changed “reality.”
In considering
legacy, poets can both speak to their past and reckon with the present, as with
the book length exchange between white Australian poet John Kinsella and
Indigenous Yamaji woman Charmaine
Papertalk Green titled False Claims of Colonial Thieves:
My grandmother was a mining town child –
Kookynie
where her father was foreman
of
the South Champion Mine.
JK
My
grandmother washed
White
town fella’s clothes
To
feed her kids and survive
I
don’t think mining would have
Meant
much to her when
Trying
to survive
CPG
This issue of Teesta Review asks poets to activate legacy. To reflect on it; be in argument with it; provoke it; wonder and worry about it.
Teesta Review invites original and unpublished poems on the theme of Legacy.
How to Submit:
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Poetry – Poems should be free from copyright
issues. Poems should be written in English. Maximum 5, New Times Roman, Line
space 1.5, alignment left. Poems should be attached as word document with a
separate attachment in the same mail carrying a photograph and a brief bio
of the poet. The subject of the mail should be clearly mentioned as: “Poetry For
Teesta Review : Volume 4 No. 1 ”. The name of the poet should be
mentioned clearly under her/ his work. Poetry submissions should be e-mailed to emiliecollyer@gmail.com with cc to teestajournal@gmail.com
Essay / article submission – The journal invites essays and articles on:
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Lines
of legacy in poetry and literature – what have you inherited and do you use it
or adapt it
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Reflections
on literature / film / theatre / art where legacy is a key theme
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How
legacy is being shaped now by urgent topics such as climate, pandemic and
migration
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Quiet
legacies – those under-acknowledged who have made big impacts in any area of
life
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Stories
of legacy in family and community
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Shifting
legacy – when changing what is traditionally accepted becomes urgent
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How
the future might look – what legacy are we leaving to those yet to come
Articles should be
attached as word documents with separate attachment within the
mail accompanying a photograph and a brief bio of the author. The subject of
the mail should be clearly mentioned as: “Articles / Essays for
Teesta Review: Volume 4 No. 1”. The name of the author should be
mentioned clearly under her/ his work. We suggest that submissions be formatted with 12 pt. Times New Roman
type, MLA, and be within 2000- 2500 words. Articles should be e-mailed to emiliecollyer@gmail.com with cc to teestajournal@gmail.com
Deadline: 30th April 2021
Teesta Review Volume 4 No 1 will be edited
by Emilie Collyer
Please check our Guidelines for Submission.
Poetry Translations – Poetry translations should be accompanied by permission from
poets. Poems should be attached as separate word document. A separate
attachment in the same mail must carry a photograph and a brief bio of
the poet and the translator. The subject of the mail should be clearly
mentioned as: “Translations for Teesta Review : Volume 4 No 1” . The name
of the poet and the translator should be mentioned clearly under her/ his
work. Poetry Translations should be e-mailed to sumana001@gmail.com with cc to teestajournal@gmail.com
Art : Teesta Review invites art, sketches, paintings, photography that
fulfils the theme of the issue. Art should be attached as jpeg. images with
separate word document within the mail accompanying a photograph and a brief
bio of the photographer /artist. The subject of the mail should be clearly
mentioned as: “Art/photograph for Teesta Review : Volume 4 No 1”. The name of
the artist should be mentioned clearly under her/ his work/attachment.
Submissions for this section should be e-mailed to maarangburu@gmail.com with cc to teestajournal@gmail.com
Interviews: Interviews may be related but is not limited to the theme of the
issue. Interviews should be attached as separate word document. A separate
attachment in the same mail must accompany a photograph and a brief bio of the
interviewer and the interviewee. The subject of the mail should be
clearly mentioned as: “ Interview for Teesta Review : Volume 1 No. 1”.
Submissions to this section must be e-mailed to mawarmarzuki01@gmail.com with cc to teestajournal@gmail.com
Book Reviews: Reviews of books not more than four years in
publication are invited. We suggest that submissions be formatted with 12 pt.
Times New Roman type, MLA ,Word limit 1800-2000 words. Book reviews are to be
e-mailed to pankajamkottarath@gmail.com with cc to teestajournal@gmail.com
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For general
inquiries, requests and concerns, contact us at teestajournal@gmail.com
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The decision of the
board is final.
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While we are
generally responsive, please give us 30 days to respond to your submission(s).
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We are not a paying
market at the moment.
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We ask for
exclusive rights to published pieces for a period of two weeks. Republishing
pieces after that period with attribution is welcome.
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Opinions and other
statements expressed by contributors are theirs alone and not opinions of
Teesta Review.
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Content created by
any contributor is the sole responsibility of the contributor and its accuracy
and completeness are not guaranteed by the editorial board of Teesta Review.
Thank you for honouring us with your
work — we’re excited to see what you have for us.
Let us flow like the river -
-Team, TEESTA REVIEW
A Journal of Poetry (Online)