call for submissions: Stark

Stark, a new yearly anthology of poetry and photography, invites you to submit work for our premiere issue, due out in 2012. This is a revival of a special project. With many of the originally accepted poets still interested in–and enthusiastic–about the project, we're seeking a few more poets who would like to be part of Stark to round out the first issue.

Because of time constraints, only poets residing in, or traveling to the greater New York City metropolitan area and/or New England in the spring should consider submitting to this first issue.

Website: http://starkanthology.wordpress.com/

Stark will be an art-quality production with black-and-white photos of the poets in addition to 2-3 poems. Each poet who submits to Stark does so with the understanding that, if selected, the poet will be asked to sit for a nude photography session with a professional photographer. One or two photos will be chosen by a committee of the editors, production manager, photographer, and the poet. Photographs will range from obscure–body parts, face only, back only–to full pose and must be agreed upon by all members of the selection committee.

Samples of the photographer's work can be seen at http://www.randylagana.net/

The editors seek a full representation of the range and diversity of contemporary poetry in style and subject matter. At the same time, we expect every issue to reflect our overall standards of literary excellence. We intend to accept unpublished work only, though there may be exceptions made for the poets that were considered previously.

If you are interested, please submit 4-6 poems through our submission manager at http://stark.submishmash.com/submit

Deadline is January 1, 2012.

At least two poems will have to be selected in order for you to be considered for Stark. In addition, each poet selected agrees to write a short piece about the photography experience for inclusion in Stark.

Questions? : <starkanthology(at)gmail.com> (replace (at) with @)