With the whole project in mind, I'd like to get at a rather unanswerable question (via Charles Ives's piece of the same name): "What was being American?" which could register as being for Americans of the past, or for the contemporary loss of "being American", or for future historians looking back at whatever happens to us. Perhaps too impressionist, not to mention naive. In practice, at the moment, it's just writing by people I care about, and the conceit in all of this is that merely curating good writing, we could get at an "ontology" a bit tongue in cheek.
“The writer is always the ghost of the writer he wants to be.”
- Édouard Glissant
1.Submit work that broadens the field of and makes more complex its particular discourse.2.Poetry and fiction are wonderful but not published here. So-called “hybrid” work is welcome, but must fit into one of the sections.3.Include your last name and indicate which section you are submitting to in the subject line of the email. Veterans get a pass to the top of the pile. Include “veteran” in subject line.4.Suggested lengths as follows:Features(3-10K)Academics (any word length of work by authors holding a PhD.)Collabs(2-3K)Obits(500-1500)On Location(500-1500)New Catechesisclosed for submission5.Send submissions to Rory at: email [AT] americanontology.com
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