Imagination & Place Press
Mission: To publish works of literature which are grounded in place and soar with imagination.
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
The Imagination & Place Press seeks poetry, fiction, essays, and images for the first book in a new series to be published annually. This first book will be titled, "Imagination & Place: An Anthology". We encourage writers and artists to think, feel, dream, and imagine place in complex and innovative ways. Submit no more than five poems, fiction and essays of no more than 7000 words, and images in JPG format to laciandppress@sunflower.com . Include a cover letter with a brief biography. If submitting hard copy manuscripts or images, mail to Imagination & Place Press, Lawrence Arts Center, 940 New Hampshire, Lawrence, KS 66044; enclose a cover letter with a brief biography and a self-addressed, stamped envelope for reply; no more than ten images, if sent in an envelope. No manuscripts or images will be returned without proper postage and packaging materials. No previously published works are acceptable, although we will take simultaneous submissions with the clear understanding that if work sent to us is accepted elsewhere, we will be notified immediately. Deadline: August 1, 2008.
- "The Wakarusa Wetlands in Word & Image", 2005
- Edited by Denise Low, Images edited by Rick Mitchell; with works by 29 national and local writers and 13 visual artists celebrating the area also known as Haskell-Baker Wetlands, located on the edge of Lawrence, Kansas.
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From The Wakarusa Wetlands in Word & Image:
Terry Tempest Williams: "How do we speak on behalf of the peace of wild things? It's going to take every angle. We all know it takes a legal angle. We know that it takes an angle of education. It takes an angle of vigilance. It takes an angle of love. And biology. And I think more than anything, it takes an angle of reverence-reverence for life, defined by our understanding, recognizing our own limitations as human beings."
George W. Brown, 1856: "The descent into the Wakarusa is quite precipitous on the east side, and the waters were high. I know considerable time was spent in crossing, and getting out into the timber which skirted its western bank for a considerable distance. Finally we emerged into the prairie, known as the Wakarusa Bottoms."
Denise Low: "When Williams suggested a volume such as this book, I understood her concept to be a celebration of the Wakarusa (Haskell-Baker) Wetlands. This collection opens with a remembrance of this generous writer's visit, with excerpts relevant to the Wetlands from her 2003 talks in Lawrence, Kansas. The call for submissions reached both national and Lawrence area writers and artists-many talented people of vision."
Rick Mitchell: "Images can transform thinking. Familiar places that go scarcely noticed on a day-to-day basis can attain new status through quality of attention-the kind paid by artists to subjects they love. These thirteen artists lend us their sharpened vision, heightened awareness, and perfected craft for the purpose of enhancing and transforming our thinking about the subtle, beautiful, fecund, yet fragile Wakarusa Wetlands."
The Wakarusa Wetlands in Word & Image includes works by writers Kelly Barth, Wendell Berry, Kirsten Bosnak, George W. Brown, Michael Caron, Brian Daldorph, Jimm GoodTracks, Sue Halpern, Suzan Shown Harjo, Nancy Hubble, Becky Kasenberg, W.P. Kincaid, Patrice Regier Krause, Kenneth Lassman, Denise Low, Jim McCrary, Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg, Michael Poage, Judith Roitman, Richard Schoeck, Elizabeth Schultz, Steve Semken, Robert Stewart, Amber Tucker, Laurie Turrell Ward, T.F. Pecore Weso, and Terry Tempest Williams; interviews with N. Scott Momaday and Luci Tapahonso; and images from artists Jon Blumb, Wally Emerson, D.W. Gates, Kyle Gerstner, Lisa Grossman, Maril Hazlett, Kathleen J. Hird, Paul Hotvedt, Tom Mersmann, Rick Mitchell, Jerry Sipe, Thomas Soetaert, and Mary Tuven. Published as a community project of the Committee on Imagination & Place.
Renowned author and environmental activist Terry Tempest Williams writes:
Congratulations! The Wakarusa Wetlands in Word & Image is absolutely beautiful and deeply moving. Please give my love and gratitude to everyone involved. I am so honored to be associated with it. You were far too generous.
The other night I sat down and read the entire book. By the end, I was weeping. It is such a powerful expression of love and concern in the name of community--through Beauty.
You have given the Wetlands a collective story through translations--Eternal presence on the page. Now may they continue to flourish in Peace.
Please thank Denise for including my words.
- *Imagination & Place: Artists and Writers Portfolio, 2004*
- Colette Bangert, Kelly Barth, Lisa Grossman, Paul Hotvedt, John Louder, Denise Low, Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg, Rick Mitchell, Richard J. Schoeck, and Elizabeth Schultz, $75.00.
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- "Cottonwood 59/60: Kansas Conference on Imagination & Place" , Spring, 2002
- Edward Casey, Denis Cosgrove, Cecil Giscombe, Robert Kelly, Soren Larsen, Denise Low, Richard J. Schoeck, Barbara Tedlock, and more, $25.00
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