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 web poetry journal that appears twice a year in spring and fall.
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.
Submission Period for Spiral Orb Six
Spiral Orb Five will be a featured issue on the Poetic Inventory of Saguaro National Park. Leading up to the 2011 U.S. National Park Service and National Geographic Society BioBlitz at Saguaro National Park, Tucson poet, naturalist, and editor of Spiral Orb Eric Magrane gathered close to one hundred poets and prose writers to contribute pieces based on species in the park. Work written for that project will be featured in Spiral Orb Five in April 2012. A Poetic Inventory reading and Spiral Orb launch will take place at The University of Arizona Poetry Center on April 16, 2012.
The next open submission period will be for Spiral Orb Six: Submit between July 1, 2012 and September 1, 2012. Expect a response by the end of September.
How to submit: Email submissions to Eric Magrane at editor@spiralorb.net. Put “Spiral Orb Submission: (your name)” 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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