The November Third Club, a new online journal for politically inclined poets
Monday June 6, 2005
from our old friend & former Museletter correspondent, Victor Infante:
The November Third Club -- Call for Submissions
“The November Third Club, an online literary journal seeking to ‘up the ante’ of literary political writing, is seeking poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction that resonates with a political message and rises above the mere rhetoric and rant. The emphasis will be on political literature, will be unabashedly left-wing in nature, and will be looking at literature written from a liberal, green, anarchist or libertarian perspective. Biases up front.
“The November Third Club is edited by Victor D. Infante, fiction editor; Richard Beban & Ray McNiece, poetry editors; Carlye Archibeque, nonfiction editor and Sam Hamill, contributing editor. We are also currently seeking fiction and nonfiction editors, so if you’re interested, drop us a line at nov3rdsubmissions@yahoo.com, and put ‘editor query’ in the subject line.
“Some of the ideas we are interested in exploring from a literary perspective include reclaiming church and state, electoral fraud and reform, race and identity, censorship, individual liberty and of course, ‘The War on Terror,’ but we’re open to new ideas, particularly innovative ones. Don’t just rehash tired old knee-jerk anti-Bush propaganda and give us your commentary on Associated Press news stories. We want something that pushes the envelope of political writing. We’re open to styles and genres; we just want the writing to be good and the message to resonate.
“Politics have permeated through literature as long as people have been writing. For a rough idea of what we like and are looking for, consider the work of such writers as George Orwell, Phillip K. Dick, Hunter S. Thompson, Norman Mailer, Tony Hoagland, Wanda Coleman, Barbara Kingsolver, Sherman Alexie, Philip Levine, Marge Piercy, Studs Terkel, Jonathan Swift, Thomas Paine, Ralph Ellison, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Aldous Huxley, Amiri Baraka, John Steinbeck, Charles Simic and Adrienne Rich, to give a small sampling. Seriously, we’re open. But don’t just imitate these greats, give us something new and unique.
“The simple idea is that no amount of facts and statistics makes a political message real to most people, but stories and symbolism can.”
Related articles:
Victor has contributed a number of articles to About Poetry on the connections between politics & poetry:
“Raising Their Voices: Poets speak out against the war with Iraq”
“Poetry in Times Like These,” a meditation on poetry’s place and the debt of our art in the post-9.11.01 time of war & crisis
“The Center Cannot Hold: Slam, Academia & the Battle for America’s Bourgeoisie,” an essay on the generational cycles of poets & poetic institutions, class & politics in American poetry, slam poetry’s evolution into a new establishment.
“The Beat Goes On: Lawrence Ferlinghetti Is Still a Rebel,” an interview with Ferlinghetti on the Poet as Outsider
“Stranded: Poet Mark Strand Preaches Political Indifference at UCI,” a response to the effort to divorce poetry from politics
Read on for The November Third Club’s submission guidelines...
Guidelines for submissions to The November Third Club:
Sincerely,
The November Third Club
The November Third Club -- Call for Submissions
“The November Third Club, an online literary journal seeking to ‘up the ante’ of literary political writing, is seeking poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction that resonates with a political message and rises above the mere rhetoric and rant. The emphasis will be on political literature, will be unabashedly left-wing in nature, and will be looking at literature written from a liberal, green, anarchist or libertarian perspective. Biases up front.
“The November Third Club is edited by Victor D. Infante, fiction editor; Richard Beban & Ray McNiece, poetry editors; Carlye Archibeque, nonfiction editor and Sam Hamill, contributing editor. We are also currently seeking fiction and nonfiction editors, so if you’re interested, drop us a line at nov3rdsubmissions@yahoo.com, and put ‘editor query’ in the subject line.
“Some of the ideas we are interested in exploring from a literary perspective include reclaiming church and state, electoral fraud and reform, race and identity, censorship, individual liberty and of course, ‘The War on Terror,’ but we’re open to new ideas, particularly innovative ones. Don’t just rehash tired old knee-jerk anti-Bush propaganda and give us your commentary on Associated Press news stories. We want something that pushes the envelope of political writing. We’re open to styles and genres; we just want the writing to be good and the message to resonate.
“Politics have permeated through literature as long as people have been writing. For a rough idea of what we like and are looking for, consider the work of such writers as George Orwell, Phillip K. Dick, Hunter S. Thompson, Norman Mailer, Tony Hoagland, Wanda Coleman, Barbara Kingsolver, Sherman Alexie, Philip Levine, Marge Piercy, Studs Terkel, Jonathan Swift, Thomas Paine, Ralph Ellison, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Aldous Huxley, Amiri Baraka, John Steinbeck, Charles Simic and Adrienne Rich, to give a small sampling. Seriously, we’re open. But don’t just imitate these greats, give us something new and unique.
“The simple idea is that no amount of facts and statistics makes a political message real to most people, but stories and symbolism can.”
Related articles:
Victor has contributed a number of articles to About Poetry on the connections between politics & poetry:
“Raising Their Voices: Poets speak out against the war with Iraq”
“Poetry in Times Like These,” a meditation on poetry’s place and the debt of our art in the post-9.11.01 time of war & crisis
“The Center Cannot Hold: Slam, Academia & the Battle for America’s Bourgeoisie,” an essay on the generational cycles of poets & poetic institutions, class & politics in American poetry, slam poetry’s evolution into a new establishment.
“The Beat Goes On: Lawrence Ferlinghetti Is Still a Rebel,” an interview with Ferlinghetti on the Poet as Outsider
“Stranded: Poet Mark Strand Preaches Political Indifference at UCI,” a response to the effort to divorce poetry from politics
Read on for The November Third Club’s submission guidelines...
Guidelines for submissions to The November Third Club:
- Previously published material is fine, as long as the original publisher is acknowledged and the author retains the copyright. All copyright reverts to the author upon publication. Please acknowledge The November Third Club if material it published first is reprinted elsewhere.
- Unsolicited submissions will only be accepted via email. Our email address is nov3rdsubmissions@yahoo.com.
- Please note whether the submission is poetry, fiction or creative nonfiction in the subject line of the email. Unmarked submissions may be deleted unread.
- Please submit no more than three to five poems, or ten pages of prose.
- Please put your name and email address in the body of the email. Please also include a short bio, no more than 200 words, in the body of the email.
- The submissions themselves can be either in the body of the email or in an attached Word file. No other formats will be considered.
- The deadline for the first quarterly issue is August 1, 2005.
- We cannot pay anyone for their work as of this time.
- We think it should go without saying, but please, please, please proofread your work before sending it to us. Our staff is still small, and has better things to do than to fix your typos.
Sincerely,
The November Third Club
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