<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div>For those who qualify and are interested... and feel free to repost!<br>Gaby<br></div>
<div><br>Call for Poetry Submissions<br>"Spiraled Connections: 40 years of Indigenous Journeys at UCLA"<br><br><br>The American Indian Studies Center at UCLA is seeking poetry submissions for a fortieth-anniversary anthology commemorating its forty years of publishing books by and about Native peoples. We envision this anthology as a collection of materials by Indigenous poets directly connected to UCLA in the past forty years and those they have mentored or influenced.<br>
Our aim is to illustrate and celebrate the ways that Native people present at the core of the American Indian educational movement have radiated their innovation and empowerment out to the community in all directions. Submissions do not have to be education-oriented.<br>
<br>Deadline: February 1, 2009<br><br>WHO CAN SUBMIT: Indigenous poets (having origin in any of the original peoples of North America and who<br>maintain cultural identification through tribal affiliation or community recognition) connected in some way to<br>
UCLA (alumni, former/current professor/undergraduate/graduate/staff, folks previously published in AICRJ or<br>other American Indian Studies Center publications) and those they have mentored or influenced.<br><br>WHAT TO SUBMIT: Up to five poems (single spaced), not to exceed a total of ten typed pages. We are open to<br>
all poetic styles and forms. Poems in your Indigenous language will be considered but you must also provide<br>English translation with your submission. What have we become in these past forty years of American Indian<br>
scholarship, education, community, intellectual, creative and academic adventure? Who have we become, who<br>have we touched, how have we grown, transformed, helped each other, learned to negotiate the academy, our<br>multiple roles and lives? How can we, as poets, express this Indigenous journey?<br>
<br>SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: Please include name, email, phone, address, and a brief bio along with your submissions.<br>While unpublished pieces are preferred, previously published material will be considered. If something<br>
has been previously published, please let us know where and when it was published, and whether you have the<br>rights to your own material.<br><br>HOW TO SUBMIT: Inquiries can be directed to Deborah Miranda: <a href="mailto:mirandad@wlu.edu" target="_blank">mirandad@wlu.edu</a>. Deadline: February 1,<br>
2009. Please send submissions with an SASE for response to:<br><br>Deborah Miranda<br>English Department<br>Washington and Lee University<br>204 W. Washington St.<br>Lexington, VA 24450<br><br>ABOUT THE EDITOR: Deborah Miranda is an Esselen/Chumash poet and scholar, currently an associate<br>
professor of English at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia, where she teaches creative writing,<br>literature, and composition. She has published two poetry collections, Indian Cartography and The Zen of La<br>
Llorona; projects forthcoming are The Light from Carrisa Plains: A Tribal Memoir, and Written on the Bark of<br>Trees: Praise Poems.<br><br></div>
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