Ani Gjika was born in Albania and came of age just after the fall of Communism, a time in which everyone had a secret to keep and young women were afraid to walk down the street alone. When her family immigrates to America, Gjika finds herself far from the grandmother …
Wade through the pleasures and pains of the flesh with us in the BODIES issue! We're seeking poetry about touch and isolation, trans and queer embodiment, fat liberation, chronic illness and disability, brutality, sensuality, and other meditations on the bones and muscles you inhabit every day. What words live in the …
Applications for 2024 COURAGE to WRITE grants open January 7, 2024 The de Groot Foundation will award thirty COURAGE to WRITE unrestricted grants to writers in 2024. Ten COURAGE to WRITE grants of $7000 each and twenty Writer of Note grants of $1500 each. These grants are meant to encourage and …
The Polyglot is thrilled to partner with the Philippine Edmonton Events and Arts Society (PHIDEAS) for a joint issue dedicated to featuring the many languages and diverse arts in the Philippines. Deadline: January 15, 2024. Please use this form to submit. Honorarium: $100 CAD Guest Editor: Mila Bongco-Philipzig Open to: …
Don Mee Choi is a markedly influential figure in contemporary experimental poetry, combining the visual, the documentary, and the lyrical in her highly acclaimed books. Choi’s Kor-Us Trilogy (Hardly War, DMZ Colony, and the forthcoming Mirror Nation) intertwines her family history with the troubled and complex modern history of South Korea and its long entanglement with …