Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Conduit

Conduit is an interesting publication. They seem to like to blend lots of different areas of thought, as is evidenced by their "about us" statement: "Conduit is a biannual literary journal that is at once direct, playful, inventive, irreverent, and darkly beautiful. Despite common sense and the laws of economics, Conduit has been thwarting good taste, progress, and consensus for over ten years. Conduit publishes distinctive voices of literary merit—experimental to accessible, established to emerging—in snazzy volumes, featuring work that demonstrates originality, intelligence, courage, and humanity. Conduit champions a fresh mix of writers. If that isn't enough, Conduit reaches beyond the literary by interviewing astronomers, ethno- botanists, artists, graphic artists, and historians, et cetera, believing a vigorous imagination is one that is cross- pollinated by diverse areas of human inquiry.

They have a website: http://www.conduit.org/#

Their submission policy is as follows: Conduit is looking for previously unpublished poetry, prose, artwork  and photography (b/w) that demonstrates originality, intelligence, courage, irreverence, and  humanity. Please send 3-5  poems or 1 prose piece (up to 3500 words). Do not send original artwork. Include a self-addressed stamped  envelope. Reporting time is 9 weeks to 9 months. Payment  in copies. Future issues include Failing Famously (Risk and Invention) and Bad Connections (Fun of Forgetting). These titles are primarily for our own amusement. Submissions are evaluated at the nexus of their merit and our taste, rather than whether or not they match any theme. If you haven't seen or read Conduit before, we recommend you sample our mad concoction before submitting.

This seems like an interesting place to publish. There's a lot of mixed media stuff, as well as "experimental" poetry. One of the poems that I looked at had a diagram in it. Given their aptitude for mixed areas of thought, those poems using your favorite vocabularies seem to be the kind of thing this publisher goes for.

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