CARIBBEAN EROTICA

I have two poems coming out in this. Yall think the Bahamas Christian Council have anything to submit?

bless,
cac


CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

EROTIQUE CARIBBEAN: An Anthology of Caribbean Erotica
Edited by Opal Palmer Adisa & Donna Weir-Soley

"There are frequent attempts to equate pornography and eroticism, two diametrically opposed uses of the sexual. Because of these attempts, it has become fashionable to separate the spiritual from the political, to see them as contradictory and antithetical….The dichotomy between the spiritual and the political is also false, resulting from an incomplete attention to our erotic knowledge. For the bridge which connects them is formed by the erotic--the sensual--those physical, emotional, and psychic expressions of what is deepest and strongest and richest within each of us, being shared…." Audre Lorde

Despite the proliferation of sexual images in popular cultural forms of the Caribbean, such as Calypso, Soca, and Dance Hall, historically there has been a noticeable lack of representations of sexuality in the literature that comes out of that region. More recently some works by Caribbean writers (male and female) have addressed sexuality and eroticism both explicitly and implicitly. How has enslavement and colonialism impacted Caribbean people's freedom to express sexuality and eroticism in literature? Can the erotic ever be considered a site for poetic discourse? As Caribbean people carve out a place for themselves in the 21st Century, are they more able to express pleasure and desire of the flesh?

This anthology seeks to provide a forum for Caribbean writers to get undressed in the literary genres and explore the full realm of the erotic.

We make a distinction between erotic and pornographic, the latter being gratuitous. We seek works that explore the interplay between sexuality and spirituality, sexuality and nature, sexuality as liberation and claiming one's own space.

Deadline: END OF SUMMER 2006
We are seeking poetry, prose, and creative essays.
Submit no more than five (5) poems; Prose should be twenty (20) pages or less.
We seek to publish work that has not been published elsewhere, but might consider some previously published prose excerpts.

SUBMISSIONS MUST BE IN ENGLISH TRANSLATION.
Include separate title page with name, address, email address and phone number.
Query: Opal Palmer Adisa at Opalwrites@sbcglobal.net
or Donna Weir-Soley at weirsole@fiu.edu

Please send submissions - 2 copies with SASE to:
Dr. Donna Weir-Soley, Department of English, Academic 1 350
Florida International University, 3000 NE 151 Street
North Miami, Fl 33181

Opal Palmer Adisa is the author of Caribbean Passion & It Begins With Tears. Her erotic poems and stories have been included in the following anthologies: Erotique Noire: Black Erotica; Eros;
Drum Voices; and The Best Black Women Erotica II. She is a Professor of literature and creative writing at California College of the Arts.

Donna Weir-Soley's poetry has appeared in MaComere, Moving Beyond Boundaries/Part One, The Caribbean Writer, Frontiers, and the online journal Gulf-streaming. She is an Assistant Professor of English at Florida International University.