Submission Period for Spiral Orb Two
When to submit: Submit between July 1, 2010 and September 1, 2010. Expect a response by the end of September.
How to submit: Email submissions to Eric Magrane at editor@spiralorb.net. Put “Spiral Orb Submission” as the subject of the email. Submit one to three poems of no more than eighty lines each as Word or PDF attachments to an email. (Do not include the poems in the body of the email.) Include a short (one to three sentence) bio in the body of the email. If your work is selected for publication, this is the bio that will appear in Spiral Orb. Spiral Orb publishes work by both established and new poets. Submit your best work.
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What Is Spiral Orb
A spiral orb is the type of web that spiders from the family of Araneidae weave.
Spiral Orb is also the title of a new web poetry journal with its first issue launched April 13, 2010.
How systems (a poem-system, an eco-system, a human-construct-system like a state or a country, a solar-system, a web-system, a circulatory system, etc.) organize themselves (and are organized) is of great interest. This systems focus may be considered a permaculture poetics. The lyric cross-pollinates the experimental.
Sections (words, phrases, lines) of each poem published in Spiral Orb are embedded with hyperlinks to other poems in Spiral Orb. A composite poem including a fragment from each piece in Spiral Orb serves as the entry piece and table of contents. Hence, Spiral Orb is an experiment in juxtaposition, interrelationships, and intertextuality. Each poem stands on its own, but is also illuminated by its links. Anticipate the poems making contact with one another in an odd and perfect manner.