Submissions of poetry are now being accepted for Issue 15: America // Being America, scheduled for publication on Summer Solstice 2023. For this special issue of Under a Warm Green Linden, guest editor Arden Levine is seeking poems that address topics in contemporary American public policy and political discourse. Themes may include housing instability and generational wealth complexity; state-imposed guidelines for educational achievement and material; the U.S.'s role in climate change; the American way of family debt and labor practices; the enshrinement and erosion of civil rights in federal law; and more. We are interested in a range of perspectives: those that critique, those that champion, those that clarify.
We take an expansive view of the definition of "American public policy," welcoming international citizens' and immigrant perspectives on, for example, government interventionism, asylum-seeking, and production offshoring.
We invite and encourage expressions from marginalized voices and bodies, including those who are incarcerated or justice-informed, and who have experienced war from a military or civilian vantage.
For examples of authors who have written on several of these topics, see Levine's book reviews: Jennifer Martelli’s The Queen of Queens, Indran Amirthanayagam’s The Migrant States & Ten Thousand Steps Against the Tyrant, Caroline M. Mar’s Special Education, and Cait O’Kane’s A Brief History of Burning.
Deadline: April 30.
Submit your work here.
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