To commemorate both the twentieth-anniversary edition of Richard Siken’s Crush and the upcoming release of his third collection, Papaya Press will be producing a poetry anthology celebrating and reflecting on Siken’s work. Tell Me About the Dream: Poetry Inspired by the Work of Richard Siken will feature poets that have been impacted by Siken’s work as they critique and illuminate his writing from new perspectives.
The anthology will be edited by Amanda Larson, author of Gut, which won the 2020 Omnidawn 1st/2nd Book Prize (selected by Jericho Brown) and the 2022 Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America. The publication will appear in a limited edition made by hand at Papaya Press.
Poets working in any form or genre are welcome to submit.
Submission guidelines:
Submissions are free. However, a $5-$10 donation is recommended to help cover production costs. To donate, please Venmo @sjortega (Sandro J. Ortega-Riek) with “Siken book donation” in the note. You can also support the project by following @papayapressla on Instagram and sharing it with your friends and colleagues.
Contributors will receive one copy of Tell Me About the Dream upon publication. As of now, contributors unfortunately can’t be otherwise compensated.
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Note: If you would like to participate in the production of Tell Me About the Dream by contributing criticism, visual art, or some other creative take on the prompt, please reach out to papayapress@duck.com with your ideas.
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Contributors: By submitting, you agree that your work is original, may be distributed in a print format, and may be archived in a digital format. Papaya Press asks for first publishing rights and the right to reprint the work in potential subsequent editions.