Discussion → ***WHAT I'M LOOKING FOR
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Anyone who knows me from my old literary magazine editor days knows that I like reading realistic, slice of life work. One of the problems with literature, these days, especially poetry, is that is is too "deep" and/or abstract.
I take the philosophy of Garrison Keillor in his Good Poems collections: a good poem (or any creative work, I say) is one that is memorable. To be memorable. I don't think people remember abstract concepts nearly as well as down-to-earth, accessible art.
I love Nicholson Baker, who takes slice-of-life fiction and illuminating the world's minutiae to the extreme, but you get the idea.
So for instance, I'm more drawn to a 20-line poem about grampa's hat than I am to a 20-line poem about all of grampa. See?
Happy writing!
Chris
Group Description
Published online and via print-on-demand, One Good Read is a new literary magazine with a simple premise:
Each issue will have one topic or theme, usually a word or a short phrase.
All works in the issue will be produced with the issue's theme in mind. The theme could be the title of the piece, the plot, a phrase used in it...whatever the creator sees fit so long as the work is somehow related to the issue's theme.
In addition, each issue will have only ONE of each of the following types of creative works:
One tweet
One poem
One list
One short story
One one-act play
One essay/creative non-fiction
One cartoon/comic strip
One photograph
One drawing/painting
One news story/editorial
Contributors will be paid. How much...not sure yet. Some $ and printed copies.
All submissions posted in the Fictionaut One Good Read Group forum.
Everything else: editor@onegoodread.org.
Chris Kubica
Editor
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