Contribute your writing to an anthology? YES
… to benefit Venue on 35th St. in Norfolk
757 Perspectives Vol.IV: Our Decameron Days
Please do not consider this strictly a volume of poetry, it will be so much more and will be carefully stitched together to make much more of an experience. Ostensibly the deadline will be September 15, 2020, but may be extended if the possibility of a resurgence appears in the fall.
These are but ideas, wheel greasers or provocations;
– Any poetry or stories or lyrics written during this period that you think would entertain, esp. during poetry month (April)
– Comedy observations or routines about CoVID-19 or life under lockdown, or things seen during
the time.
– Poems about the disease itself, spreading the disease, steps to not spread the disease, finding a cure, being at war with the disease, being in lockdown
– Family and friend’s tales of being locked down, discussion of the “new normal” any tales that might draw similarities to life during wartime being similar?
– Stories written during lockdown
– What are some things you thought you’d never see or have to do?
– if you write about someone who suffered from or died of COVID please let it be the story of a family member or CLOSE association and please let it be tastefully done – this is a chance to offer the latter a kind memorial or renown over the toils and survival of the former.
To submit to this please attach what you have created to an email named Decameron to
HRACandWPP@outlook.com . Contributions to Our Decameron Days are seen as donations and
cost the donor nothing except permission to publish their work. Submitting implies consent. It was suggested that ODD consider including weblinks, but it is a print book. ALL THE SAME, if an artist wishes to contribute a brief comedy routine or song that matches the themes of this volume they may store it on the web and provide a short link to it (but please include some text, like lyrics, that can stand by the link.) Long links can be reduced by going to TinyURL.com. If you do provide such a link please also assure us that it will be online and maintained for at least 4 years from submission date, the web is such a fluid place, but print on paper is intended for forever. Please consider 4 pages typed a good limit – though slightly larger may be considered.
The title owes its origins to the 1300s outbreak of the Bubonic Plague in Europe. BY this, the 3rd
eruption of the plague, each round of which killed about 1/3 of the total population of Europe, many
had figured out that living in close proximity in cities had something to do with the spread of the
plague. SO those with means decided to get out of Dodge in little clusters of friends and
accomplices, go to the countryside, move into old, abandoned villas, churches, abbeys or castles, and
generally hole-up for awhile. Some left for days, some for months: Separating themselves together.
Similarly we have been advised to separate ourselves, more completely in the physical sense, but with
our technology to keep us aware of each other. One or a few of these 1300s pods of humanity wrote
and told each other tales on un-busied nights to keep their sanity and their spirits up, these were
recorded by Boccaccio into a book called the Decameron. Let us do that!
757 Perspectives Vol.IV: Our Decameron Days
Please do not consider this strictly a volume of poetry, it will be so much more and will be carefully stitched together to make much more of an experience. Ostensibly the deadline will be September 15, 2020, but may be extended if the possibility of a resurgence appears in the fall.
These are but ideas, wheel greasers or provocations;
– Any poetry or stories or lyrics written during this period that you think would entertain, esp. during poetry month (April)
– Comedy observations or routines about CoVID-19 or life under lockdown, or things seen during
the time.
– Poems about the disease itself, spreading the disease, steps to not spread the disease, finding a cure, being at war with the disease, being in lockdown
– Family and friend’s tales of being locked down, discussion of the “new normal” any tales that might draw similarities to life during wartime being similar?
– Stories written during lockdown
– What are some things you thought you’d never see or have to do?
– if you write about someone who suffered from or died of COVID please let it be the story of a family member or CLOSE association and please let it be tastefully done – this is a chance to offer the latter a kind memorial or renown over the toils and survival of the former.
To submit to this please attach what you have created to an email named Decameron to
HRACandWPP@outlook.com . Contributions to Our Decameron Days are seen as donations and
cost the donor nothing except permission to publish their work. Submitting implies consent. It was suggested that ODD consider including weblinks, but it is a print book. ALL THE SAME, if an artist wishes to contribute a brief comedy routine or song that matches the themes of this volume they may store it on the web and provide a short link to it (but please include some text, like lyrics, that can stand by the link.) Long links can be reduced by going to TinyURL.com. If you do provide such a link please also assure us that it will be online and maintained for at least 4 years from submission date, the web is such a fluid place, but print on paper is intended for forever. Please consider 4 pages typed a good limit – though slightly larger may be considered.
The title owes its origins to the 1300s outbreak of the Bubonic Plague in Europe. BY this, the 3rd
eruption of the plague, each round of which killed about 1/3 of the total population of Europe, many
had figured out that living in close proximity in cities had something to do with the spread of the
plague. SO those with means decided to get out of Dodge in little clusters of friends and
accomplices, go to the countryside, move into old, abandoned villas, churches, abbeys or castles, and
generally hole-up for awhile. Some left for days, some for months: Separating themselves together.
Similarly we have been advised to separate ourselves, more completely in the physical sense, but with
our technology to keep us aware of each other. One or a few of these 1300s pods of humanity wrote
and told each other tales on un-busied nights to keep their sanity and their spirits up, these were
recorded by Boccaccio into a book called the Decameron. Let us do that!
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