Fall 2014 Themed Issue: WOMEN AND NATURE
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In honor of the 35th year since the publication of Susan Griffin's
eco-feminist classic Woman and Nature: the Roaring Inside Her, The
Fourth River announces a 2014 themed issue on Women and Nature. We are
looking for poetry and creative nonfiction, written by women, inspired
by the natural world or addressing environmental concerns. Although we
will accept lined poems and traditional essays, we are most interested
in seeing prose poetry or lyric essays.
In the words of Adrienne Rich, who reviewed Griffin's book, we are
looking for any work that "demands of us activity, not passivity; which
enlarges our sense of female presence in the world; . . . which uses
language and sensual imagery to impart a new vision of reality, from a
woman-centered location; . . . which expands our sense of the
connections among us in the bonds of history; . . . which drives us
wild, that is, helps us break out from tameness and repetition into new
trajectories of our own." — Adrienne Rich, New Woman's Times Feminist
Review.
Submission period is May 15-Dec 15. All submissions should come through
our Submittable page. We will also be accepting material for a general
issue so please make sure that you identify your submission as for the
"Women and Nature" issue.
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