Artists and creative community members are encouraged to visit the 2019 Art on the Trails outdoor exhibition, Marking Territory. The exhibition, juried by Shana Dumont Garr, curator at Fruitlands Museum, has been installed in the Beals Preserve, Southborough, Massachusetts and will remain there until September 22, 2019. Poets and others are encouraged to visit and write poetry in response to the art. See the submission form below.
Ekphrasis
“Description” in Greek. An ekphrastic poem is a vivid description of a scene or, more commonly, a work of art. Through the imaginative act of narrating and reflecting on the “action” of a painting or sculpture, the poet may amplify and expand its meaning.
Come
Walk in the woods at Beals preserve this summer, and experience the art on exhibit there. Regular free guided tours are being offered at the Preserve. Please visit our website for dates and times: www.artonthetrails.com. OR visit the Art on the Trails website listed above, and view photos of the work at Beals Preserve.
Respond
Choose a piece of art that speaks to you, and respond to it in poetry. We welcome all forms of poetry, and poems of any length, although ideally, each poem will be no longer than one hundred lines.
Submit
Send us your work to be considered for publication in our 2019 chapbook to be published in September by Route 7 Press. Those selected for publication will also be invited to read their work at the closing event on Sunday, September 22, 2019 at Beals Preserve in Southborough, MA.
Guidelines
Please submit your original, previously unpublished poems, written in response to the Art on the Trails: Marking New Territory exhibit currently being shown at Beals Preserve in Southborough, MA.
- We are reading these submissions blind! Your POEM/S and FILENAME must not have any identifying information on it nor a cover letter attached within the file. If any identifying information is left on the poetry or in the filename, we will return it for removal and your work could possibly be disqualified.
- Please only include a cover letter in the Comments Section area on Submittable. In the cover letter please provide the title(s) and the corresponding page numbers (for poetry). We will request a bio upon acceptance.
- All submissions are FREE. Please send us your very best work!
- Upon acceptance of your work, you agree to grant Art on the Trails: Marking Territory First Electronic Publication Rights, Non-exclusive print-on-demand rights to the work in the 2019 Art on the Trails: Marking Territory chapbook, and Archival rights only in the form the work first appears in the chapbook, with the copyright reverting back to the author upon publication. Should a piece first published in Art on the Trails: Marking Territory be reprinted in another work, we request the later publication include an acknowledgment of Art on the Trails.
