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Teesta Review: a Journal of
Poetry
Call for submission Volume 2 Number 1
Call for Submissions for May 2019 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 2017-18)
by established and emerging writers.
Volume 2 No. 1
Theme: City
Excerpt from “Chicago”
And they tell me you are brutal and my
reply is: On the faces of women and children I have seen the marks of wanton
hunger.
And having answered so I turn once more to those who sneer at this my city, and I give them back the sneer and say to them:
Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning.
And having answered so I turn once more to those who sneer at this my city, and I give them back the sneer and say to them:
Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning.
Chicago Poems by Carl Sandbur
Do we make the city
that we live in or are we made up of the city that we live in? We travel
through many cities and make impressions of it and leave a little bit of us in
them. Are cities built with languages or people? Do cities have a soul? Do they
breathe, bail and betray us?The things that happen in a city everyday like the changing
traffic lights, the rushing people,the sensation of trees waving to hot
airare so mundane they can often go uncelebrated. Taken as a whole, this can be
overwhelming; but embraced intentionally, with a kind of poetic mindfulness;
these common threads of the urban experience can take on a whole new meaning.
Is your City an uncomfortable juxtaposition
of wealth and poverty or a meadow of slow moving birds and animals?Writing
about Cities we can find a space to either sing praises or expressfrustration .We
might be in one city, but our heart is in another. We stumble upon a memory
that throws us back to another place and time. We build homes in multiple
places; we are lost walking along the most familiar streets.
There is
this energy and aggression and speed in a city that lends itself to poetry
Tom Chivers
In
a modern world where hyper-connectivity often results in disconnection from our
urban lanscape creating the space to explore poetry can make us more
introspective and engaged citizens. With poetry, the city becomes a place where
we meander, both physically and mentally – or as Chernaik puts it, “be lifted
up to another world, even when we’re underground”.
This issue
of Teesta Review celebrates Cities that you have been a part
of or want to live in always.
Teesta Review invites
original and unpublished poems on the theme of City
Essay /article submission - The
journal invites and articles on:
·
Poetry on City or Cities
·
History of
Cities
·
Challenges and
living in a new City and trying to fit into the society
·
Hope and dreams for
the City you live in
·
An Ode to your
City
·
Homesickness
·
Experience of
war, immigration, industrial and agricultural revolution in a city
·
Importance of
Cities in Films/ Performing arts/Art/Photography
·
Architecture,
Urban designs, Landscapes, Civic depictions
Deadline: 15th May 2019
Teesta Review Volume 2
No 1 will be edited by Reshma Ramesh.
Please check our Guidelines for Submission.
How to Submit:
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 2 No.1 ”. The name of the poet should be mentioned
clearly under her/ his work. Poetry submissions should be
e-mailed to
poetryteesta@gmail.com with cc
to teestajournal@gmail.com
Essay /article
submission - The journal invites and articles on:
·
Poetry on City or Cities
·
History of
Cities
·
Challenges and
living in a new City and trying to fit into the
society
·
Hope and dreams for the City you live in
·
An Ode to your
City
·
Homesickness
·
Experience of
war, immigration, industrial and agricultural
revolution in a city
·
Importance of
Cities in Films/ Performing
arts/Art/Photography
·
Architecture,
Urban designs, Landscapes, Civic depictions
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 2 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 teestajournal@gmail.com
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 1 No.2”. The name of the poet and the
translator should be mentioned clearly under her/ his work.
Poetry Translations
should be emailed to teestajournal@gmail.com
Art :Teesta Review invites art, sketches, paintings, photography that fulfils
the theme of the issue. Art should be attached as jpej 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 2 No.1”
. The name of the artist should be mentioned clearly under her/ his
work/attachment. Submissions for this section should be 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.2” . Submissions
to this section must be e-mailed to
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 teestajournal@gmail.com
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For general
inquiries, requests and concerns, contact us at teestajournal@gmail.com
·
The decision of
the board is final.
·
While we are
generally responsive, please give us 30 days to respond to your submission(s).
·
We are not a
paying market at the moment.
·
We ask for
exclusive rights to published pieces for a period of two weeks. Republishing
pieces after that period with attribution is welcome.
·
Opinions and
other statements expressed by contributors are theirs alone and not opinions of
Teesta Review.
·
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
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