GUIDELINES. DEADLINE: MAY 2OTH, 2018.
Many poets have been drawn to the artwork of these two Netherlandish painters. Our anthology will include poems by Auden, Czeslaw Milosz, Robert Hass, Sylvia Plath, Lewis Levin, Sandra M. Gilbert, and others. But we also want to include your poetic responses. No limit on type of poem. Submit up to three.
All poems should refer to at least one specific piece of artwork by Bosch. Send in the body of your email, and attach as an RTF file. Include a short bio. If this is a reprint, please provide original publication information, and permission to reprint. All rights revert to the author upon publication. We expect to have the anthology published in 2018. Unfortunately we cannot provide monetary compensation for the authors, but copies of the anthology will be available at a discount. Please email queries to dasulliv1@gmail.com.
DEATH AND THE MISER IS A HIERONYMUS BOSCH PAINTING. IT IS CURRENTLY IN THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART IN WASHINGTON, D.C. THE PAINTING IS THE INSIDE OF THE RIGHT PANEL OF A DIVIDED TRIPTYCH. THE OTHER EXISTING PORTIONS OF THE TRIPTYCH ARE THE SHIP OF FOOLS AND ALLEGORY OF GLUTTONY AND LUST, WHILE THE WAYFARER WAS PAINTED ON THE EXTERNAL RIGHT PANEL.
SAINT WILGEFORTIS, A SAINT VENERATED IN WESTERN EUROPE SINCE THE LATE MIDDLE AGES, WHEN SHE WAS CONSIGNED TO A MARRIAGE BY HER FATHER SHE PRAYED FOR DELIVERANCE AND WAS GIVEN A BEARD BY GOD.
BUTT MUSIC DETAIL FROM A PAINTING BY HIERONYMUS BOSCH, THE GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS, HELL PANEL. ONLINE YOU CAN LISTEN TO NUMEROUS MUSICAL TRANSCRIPTIONS OF THIS MUSIC.
SOME SUGGESTED PAINTINGS...
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THE NATIONAL GALLERY, LONDON; CHRIST CROWNED WITH THORNS
PAINTING BY HIERONYMUS BOSCH, 1500
SHIP OF FOOLS IS A PAINTING BY HIERONYMUS BOSCH, NOW ON DISPLAY IN THE MUSÉE DU LOUVRE, PARIS. THE SURVIVING PAINTING IS A FRAGMENT OF A TRIPTYCH THAT WAS CUT INTO SEVERAL PARTS.
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David Allen Sullivan is the author of the poetry collections Strong-Armed Angels, Every Seed of the Pomegranate, and Black Ice. His chapbook Take Wing won the Mary Ballard Poetry Chapbook Prize. He teaches at Cabrillo College, where he edits the Porter Gulch Review. He is editing a collection of poems about the paintings of Bosch and Bruegel with his art historian mother.
Margaret Sullivan specializes in the study of Netherlandish art of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, with an emphasis on the art of Bruegel the Elder and Hieronymus Bosch. Her books include: Bruegel's Peasants: Art and Audience in the Northern Renaissance, and Bruegel and the Creative Process, 1559-1563. Please send poems or queries to dasulliv1@gmail.com
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We have two poems about the Bruegel painting below but would welcome more. The Triumph of Death c. 1562. Located in the Prado museum, Madrid.
UNLESS YOU'VE ALREADY BEEN ASKED, SUBMISSIONS FOR THE ANTHOLOGY ARE CLOSED
The editors will be informing contributors whether their work was accepted or not very soon. Thank you for your participation, and your patience.
