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Realize that Cosmoetica gets many submissions in many genres. There is not time enough to comment on every rejection, much less an individual poem or essay. If you hear nothing, assume the worst, for there is not the time enough to comment and argue about subpar work, especially since most criticisms are unappreciated anyway.
Poems
Poems will be accepted for both the Vers Magnifique page and the Neglected Poets pages. Generally, the Vers Magnifique page is for poets who are known to Cosmoetica and/or those of unpublished poets. The Neglected Poets pages are generally for quality poets who have had works published but have suffered critical neglect and appreciation for a variety of reasons. When submitting poems please give the name of the poet, where the work has appeared before (in book, magazine, or website form), and any brief biographical information about the poet and/or poems. Please send all submissions in the body of an email to cosmoeticapoems - at- gmail- dot- com. Please specify in the Subject Line of your email whether the poem is for the Vers Magnifique or Neglected Poets pages (see above for further information). If your poem(s) is (are) accepted, but there are formatting problems, you will be contacted to resend the piece in a standard word processing format (.doc, .txt, etc.).
Essays
Cosmoetica will accept essay submissions on any and every topic, if the writing is of the highest quality, and they are written in English. Vivacity and humor are always welcome. Cosmoetica will sooner post a well-written piece it disagrees vehemently with than a schlockily written piece it agrees with. There are no limits on the length of the essays, although book length pieces are likely too long. Please send all submissions in the body of an email to cosmoeticaessays - at- gmail- dot- com. Please specify in the Subject Line of your email whether the essay is a Byline, S&D, or This Old Poem (see below for further information). If your essay is accepted, but there are formatting problems, you will be contacted to resend the piece in a standard word processing format (.doc, .txt, etc.). Cosmoetica is loath to accept images, for this site is dedicated to the written word, thus its demonstrable lack of 'bells and whistles'. Cosmoetica cannot pay for contributions.
Accepted essays will be indexed and archived. They will be accepted or rejected in toto, appear unedited, and with date of first posting. Multiple and simultaneous submissions are fine. Many Cosmoetica works have appeared elsewhere first, or in venues after their debut in Cosmoetica. Authors, upon republication of a piece originally posted on Cosmoetica, are simply asked to credit Cosmoetica as the place the essay first appeared. Posted essays are copyrighted by the essayist. However, Cosmoetica reserves the right to reprint in full, or excerpt parts of, the essay at any time. Contributor biographies are not necessary, but the contributor will be listed on the contributors page. All posted essays represent the opinions of the essayist alone, not necessarily those of Cosmoetica; although Dan Schneider may add replies, rebuttals, or comments about the essays afterward.
Cosmoetica posts three different types of essays:
Bylines
Bylines are general essays about life, politics, philosophy, and other things.
S&D (Seek & Destroy)
S&Ds are essays about poetica: poems, poets, critics, movements (-isms), theory, etc.
Essays that are positive toward their subject matter will be classified as Seek essays (as in seek this poem/poet/critic, etc. out). Those that are negative toward their subject matter will be classified as Destroy essays (no elaboration needed). Those that are neither positive nor negative will be considered gutless, wishy-washy pussy essays, and not considered for publication, because one of the chief posits of Cosmoetica is that not only is contemporary poetry (and literature in general) in abysmal shape, but it is in such a shape because of the willful and accidental failures of editors, publishers, and especially critics to discern bad poetry (and writing) from good, and propagate the publication and promotion of good works over bad. Here are some of the qualities a Seek & Destroy (S&D) essay should have:
a) Passion- no pussy-assed, 'I'm looking to make my niche in the academy', bland, barely-enthused, recommendations, or humbly apologetic, 'this could be a teensy bit better', rebuking reviews. The critic should advocate his/her position- be it negative or positive.
b) Intellect- do not rely on your heart, but your head. Have a working knowledge of the subject matter at hand. Too many essays that appear (be they in American Poetry Review, Ruminator Review, Rain Taxi, poetry magazines, zines, or websites) manifest their authors' barely having read the work. They are filled with an alarming cluelessness to the specific topic, as well poetry and its history in general.
c) Repetition- avoid it, if possible.
d) Concision- (see Repetition) not necessarily brevity itself, but a desire for pointedness and cogency. Essays about a poem on, say, The Brady Bunch, seem foolish when they devolve into rambling digressions about Marxism, sexually-transmitted diseases, or Joseph Campbellian pseudo-thought. Concision in criticism is as worthy a goal as it is in poetry. Too often critics get so rapt by their own wordplay or genius that the subject of the essay is lost.
e) Clichés- avoid them, as in poetry. You know the critical clichés I mean; the crap that says nothing save 'I hope I can fool some poetic ignorant into believing I know something they don't!' Stuff as: 'his/her poems reveal to us what it means to be socially inviolable in a post-industrial society', 'his/her lines convey, in luminous digressions, what it means for the artist to be true to a mission of life and its truth', or 'honesty shimmers through his/her poems like the first sunrise after Hiroshima.' Such pap will be rejected, ridiculed, and used as a defense in my trial when I seek out and beat you with things wet & rubbery.
f) Quoting- when you quote from a poem or other essay, try to pick appropriate examples, good or bad, and more than a single line. Too often quotes are taken out of context. Context can show why a seeming cliché is redeemed, or why a good image fails in a particular poem. I.e.- do not just say why something works or fails- show how!
Even though his essays are hit and miss, and he lacks knowledge in many areas, a fellow named Erich Vogel had a poetry website that had a flavor S&D essays have: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/4942/harshp.html.
TOP (This Old Poem)
TOPs essays about specific poems, and rewriting them to make them better, showing specific reasons for the poems' flaws and specific remedies for those flaws, all with a dash of humor.
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***This section of the code protects satire, criticism, & alot of other opinings! DAN
Cosmoetica noted in the New York Times: 'Cosmoetica (www.cosmoetica.com): As a poet, Dan Schneider is, by his own humble admission, ''better than Walt Whitman.'' In between writing the poems that will make him immortal, however -- and he's apparently got more than 10,000 of them -- Schneider has found time to offer a few helpful criticisms regarding his fellow poets and reviewers. If you were looking for someone willing to call T. S. Eliot ''1 of the most grossly overrated writers in the history of the world, & the English language,'' Schneider is your man. His site includes similarly jolly commentary on a large number of contemporary writers.'- 10/3/04, from ' The Widening Web Of Digital Lit', by David Orr
James Emanuel Interview (Nebraska Public Radio- with commentary by Dan Schneider)
Online Streaming Audio Interview Of Dan Schneider
Review of the Uptown Poetry Group
Dan Schneider's Blogcritics' Page: http://blogcritics.org/writer/dan_schneider
Official Criterion Collection Titles Reviewed: Vampyr, High And Low,
ARTISTIC BACKGROUND
I
am an internationally published poet and syndicated essayist with
dozens of published credits. I have participated in many
local and national reading and writing programs, as well
as contributing time & money to arts organizations.
ARTS
HISTORY
·
Participated in over 1500 poetry and arts-related events
through the years.
·
Founded and organized many arts events, including
proposal- and grant-writing and submissions.
· Works published in Cambridge University Press, Discover Magazine, Talking Points Memo, Monsters And Critics, La Prensa, City Pages, the UCLA Journal of the American Indian (now American Indian Cultural and Research Journal), Nimrod, Sentence, Argestes, Midwest Book Review, storySouth, Jacaranda Review, Chiron Review, Main Street Rag, Neo-Victorian, Curbside Review, Piedmont Journal, Taj Mahal Review, Unlikelystories.org, Dublin Quarterly, The Simon, The Moderate Voice, Subtle Tea, Boston.com, Cleveland.com, Houston Literary Review, Poligazette, They Shoot Pictures, Don't They?, Culture Vulture, Retort, Unlikely 2.0, New York Review, Yet Another Book Review, and others.
·
Regular Contributor: Blogcritics, Obsessed
With Film, Hackwriters.com, LauraHird.com,
Alternative Film Guide, Feel The Word.
·
Appeared on numerous TV and radio programs.
·
Online presence includes listings on websites of Academy
of American Poets, Who’s Who, and Google.
·
1988-1990- co-hosted poetry series at West Side YMCA in
Manhattan.
·
1989- organized Alliance Of Queens Artists summer
poetry reading series.
·
1994- a featured poet on Poetic Marmalade tv show.
·
1995-2003- founded Uptown Poetry Group, a critique
group that met bimonthly in the Uptown area of
Minneapolis, MN 200 consecutive times.
·
1997-1998- organizer and curator of the Poetry &
Performance Art Series of the annual Stone Arch
Festival Of The Arts, in Northeast Minneapolis, at
the Saint Anthony Main complex.
·
1997- founded THE LIST Of Artists, a
multi-disciplinary directory of Twin Cities area
artists.
·
1998- featured artist on an episode of Gallery 7
tv show.
·
1998- focus of article in Pre-Raphaelite Review.
·
1999- was cover story of Twin Cities tabloid City
Pages’ literature edition, which drew enormous
response.
·
2000- organized a Poetry Forum on what constitutes
great poetry.
·
2001- founded Cosmoetica, the largest
non-commercial and unaffiliated poetry and literature
website on the Internet. Cosmoetica has been
consistently in the top top 10,000 rankings of Ranking.com.
·
2003- founded and co-hosted with Arthur Durkee a
12-program season of Omniversica- an Internet
radio show on Sursumcorda.com. Guests included
poet James Emanuel, scientist Lynn Margulis, writer
Dorion Sagan, actor/writer George Dickerson, filmmaker
Josh Becker, astronomer Fiorella Terenzi,
parapsychologist Jeffrey Mishlove, author Leonard Shlain,
filmmaker Godfrey Reggio, and author Howard Bloom.
·
2003- subject of articles in Quarterly Literary Review
Singapore and Web Del Sol.
·
2003- co-hosted and produced cable tv special on poet
Walt Whitman.
·
2004- Cosmoetica profiled in 10/3/04 New York Times
Article The Widening Web of Digital Lit.
· 2006- featured in journal StorySouth. Cosmoetica a Time magazine Coolest Website Of The Year nominee, March. Short story Beyond Amber nominated for Million Writers Award, March.
· 2006- interviewed by Avishay Artsy for Nebraska Public Radio.
· 2007- film critic for Blogcritics, Books Editor (with wife Jessica Schneider) for Monsters And Critics. Co-founded The M&C Interview series of discussions with the best contemporary authors. Started the Dan Schneider Interview series at Cosmoetica.
· 2008- official reviewer for new The Criterion Collection DVD pre-releases. Extensive critical quotation in Contemporary Fiction: The Novel Since 1990, edited by Pamela Bickley, and published by Cambridge University Press, in regards to book review of Zadie Smith's novel White Teeth.
POETRY
CREDITS
·
1993- Jacaranda
Review; Caribou Review
·
1994- Chiron
Review; Piedmont Journal
·
1995- Ragshock;
Spout; Poems That Thump/Second Glance;
Neo-Victorian/Cochlea-
·
1996- Poetry
Motel; Green Hills Literary Lantern; Second
Glance; Golden Apple; The Santa Fe Sun;
Sherman Asher Press; New Digressions; Neo-Victorian/Cochlea;
The Slate
·
1997- Sunday
Suitor; Tucumcari Literary Review; Papyrus;
Dam Good.; South Ash Press; UCLA
Journal Of The American Indian
(now American Indian Cultural and Research
Journal); Barefoot Grass
Journal; Nimrod
·
1998- Smashing
Icons; Sentence; La Prensa (San
Salvador)
·
1999- Ariel
(Canada); Venerable Seed; Voices From The
Well; Arctos Press (Bears); Constal; Fresh
Ground; City Pages
·
2000- Feelings
Of The Heart; Argestes; Curbside Review
·
2001- Maryland
Review; Eureka
·
2002- Black
Water Journal; High Plains Review
·
2003- Oberon
Review
·
2004- Unlikely
Stories
·
2005- Pacific
Review; Wisconsin Academic Review
·
2006- Main
Street Rag; Steam Ticket; Interpoetry;
Scrivener Creative Review
· 2007- Taj Mahal Review, Tertullia Magazine
PHILOSOPHICAL DISPOSITION
Through
the years I have striven to create ways for people to
communicate and discourse more effectively via the arts-
which are the essence of communication, with poetry
being the highest of arts. Unlike most artists, I have
never replaced the primary goal of creating great art
with the temporal goals of political, religious, nor
philosophical action. While art (communication) is the
conveyance of ideas and information, it is also-
paradoxically- an end unto itself. This realization has
enabled me to achieve excellence in my fields. My art is
apolitical, irreligious, and aphilosophical. Put simply:
when it comes to art I walk the walk, whereas the vast
majority of others merely talk the talk.
MANUSCRIPTS
Poetry
The 49 Gallery
Omnisonnets 1-8
Le Bestiare 1-3
and many more
Memoirs
True Life 1-4
Show & Tell: A White Man's Antiphonal Primer On Race
Nonfiction
Five Film Masters: Thoughts On Antonioni, Bergman, Fellini, Herzog, And Ozu, Into The 21st Century
Short Stories
21 Conversations
21 More Conversations
American Lace
American Embroidery
Tales Of Notice
Domesticities In Eleven Cities
Ugly Girls
Thirteen Ways Of Selling The Self
A Little Book Of Dyings
Summer In A Dozen Days
Novels Of Place
Monarchs Of New York
Newtown
The Compass Rose Sabbath
Scenes From A City
Novels
The Trial Of Horacio Guzman
Tumbleweeds
The Enkidiad
Bit Of Golem
Onely
Jessica Schneider's Arts Résumé
Blog: http://www.jaschneider.blogspot.com/
Hear Jess on the Hirschfield & Kula radio show! (Segment 2)
Published
Essays/Fictio
Featured writer in online journal StorySouth, 2006, "Letters From Mercury"
Short
Story “Sandwiches
From Home” Published in Pittsburgh Quarterly,
Fall, 200
Short
Story “The Security Of Shared Recipes” Published in StickYourNeckOut.com,
Spring, 200
Short
Story “The Myth And The Mountain” Published in Hackwriters,
March, 2005
Short
Story “Apoptosis” Published in UnlikelyStories,
Summer, 2004
Short
Story “O For Art’s Sake!” Published in Manifest,
Spring, 2004
Essay
on Women Writers/Chick Lit Published in Hackwriters,
Winter, 2004
Published Poems
“Telling
the Nightingales” in Sidereality, Summer, 2003
“September”,
“Sister Ophelia” in Tryst, Summer, 2003
“Insomniac,”
“Chia” in Voices, Spring, 2003
“Over
Tree Roots, Wandering”, “Eleven A.M.” in Pierian
Springs, Winter, 2002.
“Ruth”
in Paumanok Review, Fall, 2002.
“Another
Woman”, “Lawrence”, “Lunar Sonnet”, and “The
Gesture of Seasons” in Stride Magazine, UK, Fall,
2002.
“In
Rivers” in Ache Magazine, 1st
Edition, 15,000 circulation in the Twin Cities area.
August, 2002.
“Dustina”,
“Labyrinth”, and “Orchid Abstract” in Eclectica,
July, 2002.
“From
the Box of the Zoo Fox”, “Of Una Jeffers”, and
“Remanent Theory of Asteroids” in Avatar Review,
Summer, 2001.
“And
God Only Lets Me Live To Sang About It”, “Gala and
the Cliff”, “In Time, Andree Rexroth”, “Una,
Instead”, “Extension
for Her” and other poems in Cosmoetica, Spring,
2001.
“Eleven AM” and “Wild Poppies” in Flash! Point, Summer, 1999.
Manuscripts
Poetry
WordShapes
Short Fiction
Orchids & Afterthoughts
This I You
Ghost Continents
Admissions & Uncertainties
The Salt & The Storm
Idiots & Morons
Novels
Spectacles
Real Plastic Rose
Quick With Flies
Rise The Magicians
Harlots & Starlets
High Earth
The Winky Tales
The Architecture Of Loss
Sum Of A Life
Sounds With Song
Comic Fantasia On A Loser
Drama
Les Fleurs D'Esprit
Open
Eight Days
Related Experience
Regular attendee of the Uptown Poetry Group, the longest running poetry group in the Twin Cities- October, 1999- October 2004.
Books Editor for Monsters And Critics.
Freelance book reviewer for the Philadelphia Inquirer, Blogcritics.
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