“I think that I shall never see
a poem as lovely as a tree…”
That poem has always bothered me.
It’s like comparing apples to oranges, though this sort of cross-domain thinking is the cruz of metaphor. Surely it’s not a trade-off; we can have both, and protecting forests, planting trees, and making more poetry would be a good set of resolutions to this new year. That’s my train of thought this morning when I read about VQR‘s new series. We can flood our social media networks with poems instead of pet-pictures in 2013, judged by one of my favorite writing bloggers. Here are the specifice:
As part of a poetry publishing experiment, VQR is launching an Instapoetry series, to which all poets are invited to submit poems for consideration. What is the Instapoetry series? Brief poems of 14 lines or fewer, designed to be shared and distributed across social networks such as Instagram, Flickr, and Pinterest. But you do not have to be an Instagram user to participate.
Here’s how it works.
1. You submit poems for consideration. 2. Selected poems are designed by VQR to be optimally viewed and shared through apps and sites such as Instagram. 3. VQR shares and distributes the poems every week through its own social media accounts, including Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook, and Twitter. 4. Everyone is invited to share and comment.
We are thrilled to have Robert Brewer, editor of Writer’s Market and Poet’s Market—and published poet—to be curator of the series.
Click here to view the full set of guidelines. We look forward to reviewing your submissions!
