Beyond Category: a call for cross- or multiple-media / -genre work

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In 1997, in the pages of Seneca Review, Deborah Tall and John D’Agata put words and a name to a self-creating form of thinking, a form that blurred the borders between poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. The phenomenon of the lyric essay drew its inspiration largely from the latitude and freedoms of poetry. Since then, the borders between genres of writing and between the arts themselves have become increasingly less distinct. Poets use cameras and bullhorns. Painters use letterpresses and exacto knives. Musicians use Flash and the sides of buildings. Essayists use microphones, algorithm programming, and viral videos. The results are made things/experiences that in many cases can’t be represented on the page alone.

We're looking for work that goes:

Beyond the lyric essay.            Beyond the prose poem.          Beyond just words. 

                          Beyond just images.                  Beyond category.

SR is expanding to allow for a broad range of digital and analog projects.

What we like: experimental typography, splicings, documentary poetics, visual-textual hybrids, multimedia essays, collage, live coding, new media, old media with new applications, audio, video, bio-art, book arts, etc. 25-page limit, please.

Send us outliers, anachronisms and protochronisms, oddball experiments—anything that resists a single genre or medium. If in doubt, send it!

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