With its migration and re-emergence on a new (and improved) server, it’s a good time for this blog to diversify and transubstantiate, like water into a good Mediterranean wine.
To that end, Immanence seeks a poetry editor, someone to collect and/or produce textual and visual poetry as an accompaniment and countercurrent to what appears on the blog already. Contributors in general are also welcome: writers, textual poachers, and creative artists interested in the interfaces between ecology, culture, philosophy, and media. (See the Categories up above for a more complete list of the content areas. “Poetry” can and should be added to it. The blog’s mission statement is here, but it can evolve, as all good things do.)
I’ll be taking some release time from the blog in the near future, and I’d be thrilled to have guest contributors and/or co-editors. If you’ve liked what you’ve read here and would like to join the conversation, as a contributor and not just a commenter, please write me to let me know.
As for what’s in it for you… A new audience? Joy? The irrepressible lightness of being immanent?
Hello,
I would be interested in the poetry editor position. Could you email me and let me know details and such. Thanks a bunch!
Dorina Pena
Hi Dorina (and anyone else interested) – The details are these:
(1) The poetry editor would have the right (via editorial password) and responsibility to upload textual and/or visual poetry to the blog on a fairly regular basis. (I’m thinking that a rhythm averaging once or twice a week would be nice, though it needn’t be as frequent as that, and there could be occasional flurries of greater activity. It’s a volunteer thing, after all.) Any material shared would follow the Creative Commons license of the blog (see here; I haven’t added this link to the new blog home page yet, but it is the license the blog has always followed). Any material that belongs to anyone else would be appropriately credited (e.g., with a named credit, a link, etc.).
(2) That person’s editorial activity would show an appreciation for the “sense” or “gist” of the blog (see the links under “About” in the right-hand column, and the Categories above). Their judgment in poetry, art, etc., would jibe with the qualities of the blog (i.e. they would do “good work”; but of course I’m very open to different ideas of what that means). And they would participate in the evolution of the blog, if they wished.
(3) That person would not be paid (though ideas about the evolution of the blog, including potential low-key advertising revenue sources, might be entertained; I haven’t thought much about that yet).
If you’re interested, let me know by email, along with any ideas you may have, a relevant writing/creative sample, etc.