Call for Submissions: Poems That Explore Our Impact and Reliance on the Watershed

Below is a call for submissions shared here: http://caitlin-press.com/call-for-submissions-poems-that-explore-our-impact-and-reliance-on-the-watershed/

Call for book two in the Refugium Trilogy

Working title: Poems for the Watershed

Caitlin Press is currently accepting submissions from across Canada and beyond for an anthology of poems that explores our impact and reliance on the watershed.

Deadline for submissions is October 15, 2018.

A watershed is an area where water — the necessity of life second only to air — falls, filters and collects.

In Canada the watershed runs into the Pacific, Arctic, Hudson Bay and the Atlantic. This sweet water houses the aquatic ecosystems that feed and nurture not only the people, industries and animals on land but also drains into the world’s oceans. Industries, dams and pipelines threaten the very life force of living species and the land on this plant.

In this second book, following on Refugium: Poems for the Pacific Yvonne Blomer is calling on poets to find the metaphors and language for a new revolution, one that will travel into the thoughts of readers and create openings in them that could lead to change. Without change, poems, music and stories may be the only refugium of these waters and the creatures in them.

Please submit up to two poems to:

Yvonne Blomer
Poems for the Watershed
1101 Glenora Place Victoria BC V8P 2C2

Or email as pdf or word attachments or in the body of an email to

refugium.watersheds at gmail dot com

Please note the following:

1. contributors are invited to read Refugium: Poems for the Pacific, the original, for a better understanding of the poetic ecosystem the editor is creating in the trilogy;
2. the editor especially encourages Indigenous writers, writers of colour, writers from the LGBTQ2S community, writers with disabilities and women-identifying authors to submit their work for consideration;
3. contributors should ensure that their name, mailing address, citizenship, phone number and email are in the cover letter along with the titles of the poems;
4. contributors will receive some remuneration;
5. expected publication date: fall 2019 (not guaranteed);
6. previously unpublished poems preferred but published will also be accepted

Yvonne Blomer, Victoria’s poet laureate, will edit the anthology. Blomer has published three collections of poetry, most recently As if a Raven (Palimpsest Press) and a travel memoir titled Sugar Ride: Cycling from Hanoi to Kuala Lumpur. In 2017 she edited Refugium: Poems for the Pacific (Caitlin Press, 2017) and also co-edited in 2013 Poems from Planet Earth (Leaf Press).Her first book, a broken mirror, fallen leaf, was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. She won Leaf Press’s Overleaf Chapbook Contest in 2017 for her poems Elegies for Earth.