I’m delighted to be an Editor-at-Large for a new journal out of Northern California called En*trance. It can be pronounced two ways, which says something about the kind of wide aesthetic it seeks to represent. Here is the official announcement from Dion O’Reilly:
En•Trance Journal, with poems by Ellen Bass, Dorianne Laux, Jan Beatty, Jim Moore, and others, recently released its debut issue. The journal also features podcasts, including a reading and interview with Andrew Schelling by editor-at-large Paul Nelson. Submissions are now open for the winter issue! Go to entrancejournal.net to read all the poems and check out the submission guidelines.
As an Editor-at-Large, my role is to provide links to poems and poets that are part of my podcast project Cascadian Prophets. I would love if my participation led to a deep conversation about the role of poetry in our culture, how the current aesthetic in North American poetry favors what Eileen Myles called “an ad for comfort,” what role the prophetic plays in North American poetics and the composition strategies aimed at achieving that depth of gesture. We’ll see how that goes but I’m forever an optimist. Thank you Dion for including me.
How exciting! Did I miss the submission deadline in the guidelines on the website?
They are lucky to have you, congratulations Paul.