Coming April 2012 the Chicago issue of PoetsArtists will feature artists and poets based in Chicago.
Painting of the Chicago skyline by Robert Forbes and painting title is “Increased Opulence”.
Courtesy of The Tullman Art Collection.
Poetry Editor: William Allegrezza
William Allegrezza edits the e-zine Moria and teaches at Indiana University Northwest. He co- founded Cracked Slab Books and edited if for five years. He also founded a reading series, Series A, in Chicago and curated it for four years. In addition, he occasionally posts his thoughts at allegrezza.blogspot.com. His books/ebooks include In the Weaver’s Valley, Ladders in July, Fragile Replacements, Collective Instant, Covering Over, temporal nomads, Densities, Apparitions, Aquinas and the Mississippi (co- written with Garin Cycholl, forthcoming), The City Visible: Chicago Poetry for the New Century (co- editor Ray Bianchi), La alteración del silencio: poesía norteamericana reciente (co-editor Galo Ghigliotto), and The Salt Companion to Charles Bernstein (forthcoming). He has also published many chapbooks, including Marquee, Filament Sense, Sonoluminescence (co-written with Simone Muench), and The Vicious Bunny Translations.
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Art Consultant: Howard Tullman
Howard A. Tullman serves as President /CEO of Tribeca Flashpoint Media Arts Academy and of HYDR>BOX, LLC. Mr. Tullman is the General Managing Partner for the Chicago High Tech Investors, LLC and a member of Mayor Emanuel’s Council of Technology Advisors and newly-formed Cultural Council, a member of Governor Quinn’s Illinois Innovation Council and Illinois Arts Council, an advisor to HighTower Associates, PrepMe LLC and uBID.COM and an Adjunct Professor at Northwestern’s Kellogg School as well as a regular guest lecturer at the Northwestern University School of Law. More information…
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Publisher/Editor-in-Chief: Didi Menendez
Cuban born American, Didi Menendez has been publishing poets and artists for over a decade. Her publications have been recognized by the Pushcart Prize, Best American Poetry and other literary anthologies.
Call to Visual Artists:
Visual artists interested in submitting work to the Chicago issue of PoetsArtists must reside/work in the Chicago area. Send a link of your online portfolio along with an introduction and short bio to didimenendez@hotmail.com. Place on subject line -the CHICAGO issue. If we are interested in featuring your artwork, we will respond with a list of materials requested to build the layout of your pages including photography needed and a short questionnaire. Only parties we are interested in featuring/publishing will receive a response from PoetsArtists
Call to Poets:
PoetsArtists invites poets and fiction writers who reside/work in the Chicago area to submit work to our Chicago issue. Send your work along with a short bio to William Allegrezza (wallegrezza@gmail.com), the guest editor for literary submissions. Please attach your work as a doc., .txt, .docx, or .rtf file and put CHICAGO in the subject line. If we are interested in publishing your work, we will contact you for a photograph of yourself and for you to approve the layout. (Please note that you do not need to write about Chicago, just live/work in the area.)
Please read the ABOUT page for further information regarding contributor copies, print and online venues.
