San Pedro Literary Review: Place
Theme: PLACE. Sometimes referred to as landscape or regionalist work. We seek a strong sense of Place that is integral to the poem’s existence, even when it simply means a room or a house, or the locale is not specifically identified. We don’t want inventories or mere geographical descriptions, but “geography wedded to its people,” as CD Wright put it. Sometimes this means painful identities, a marginality with what one identifies as "home" — potential dispossession. In sum, we seek poetic realization through human relations with place, home, landscape, or region. We like the concept of the flâneur and the fugueur wandering cityscapes alone. Workplaces also fall under this theme. Within the scope of Place, we will also consider environmental poems if they are not overtly preachy, or agenda-driven.
Send up to 3 poems per entry. Deadline: January 31, 2022.