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Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Books / Nerd "My Human Torch Burns At Both Ends/He Cannot Last the Night..."

Posted by Paul Constant on Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 5:04 PM

f0fb/1246471296-batmanpoem.jpg These people want your poems about American superheroes.

We are currently seeking submissions for an anthology of superhero poetry, tentatively titled Between Saviors and Villains: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry Inspired by American Superheroes.

Send 3-6 poems and a cover letter including your contact information, comments on how your poems are meant to explore the concept of superheroes, and a brief bio to superheropoetryanthology@gmail.com. Please include all materials in one attached (.rtf) document. Simultaneous submissions are fine, as are poems previously published in magazines, chapbooks, and full-length poetry collections. Please note these credits in your bio.

There is, of course, a long history of superheroes and poetry colliding. For instance, X-Men Origins: Wolverine was adapted from a Shakespearean sonnet.

(Via Comics Alliance.)

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Green Hornet
Kato is his pet.

Black limo.
Lantern light.
Fedora.

Posted by IMMABE on July 1, 2009 at 5:16 PM

Jingle Bells
Batman Smells...

Stop me if you've heard the rest of this.

Posted by SF in SF on July 1, 2009 at 5:19 PM

"American superheroes..."

Wolverine's Canadian, ain't he?

Posted by Ackham on July 1, 2009 at 5:41 PM

Wow yes what a long history....a comic in which superhero and poetry is linked.

What a long, long view of literature.

could there ever have been any other time when heros and poetry was linked?

Gee....gilgamesh Beowulf Bagavad Gita Homer (2 poems ) Chanson of Roland Icelandic Sagas...hey wait a minute !!!!

ALL literature prior to invention of the novel linked heros and poetry!

Gee amazing how earlier literature copied what the comix do -- see how influential comix are?

Posted by PC on July 1, 2009 at 5:42 PM

I read an interview with Alan Moore a long time ago -- I think when Swamp Thing was coming out -- and he said that he had read a poem that inspired his whole approach. It had a line that went something like, "Blackhawk is committing suicide in the hangars of innocence," and Young Alan Moore thought, shit, why can't we have writing like that in comic books?

Posted by Superfrankenstein