With its Fall 1997 issue, Seneca Review began to publish what we've chosen to call the lyric essay. The recent burgeoning of creative nonfiction and the personal essay has yielded a fascinating sub-genre that straddles the essay and the lyric poem.
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Read Article →Once the term “lyric essay” became institutionalized by journals like Seneca Review, a writer could sit down and intend to write a lyric essay. Maybe she’d already been doing so, with or without the term in mind, but now she could write with more clarity about her aims and audience. She might know how to “market” her essay, and to whom.
Read Article →Anne Carson, in her essay on the lyric, 'Why Did I Awake Lonely Among the Sleepers' (Published in Seneca Review Vol. XXVII, no. 2) quotes Paul Celan. What he says of the poem could well be said of the lyric essay: The poem holds its ground on its own margin. The poem is lonely. It is lonely and en route.
Read Article →The Hobart and William Smith Colleges literary journal, Seneca Review, recently released a special anthology, We Might As Well Call It The Lyric Essay, edited by John D’Agata ’95, associate professor of English at the University of Iowa.
Read Article →I’m also going to shamelessly steal from those more expert than I and point to Seneca Review’s Fall 2007 issue dedicated to the lyric essay. Deborah Tall describes it as “(a) kind of essay propelled not by its information, but rather by the possibility for transformative experience,” and Philip Lopate notes the form’s “attention to the movements and undulations of language as a.
Deborah Tall and John D'Agata, “Seneca Review on Lyric Essay,” Seneca Review. The 1997 issue of Seneca Review put a label on a sub-genre that had been brewing in its pages and elsewhere for sometime. Editors Deborah Tall and John D'Agata beautifully both show and tell the endless limits of the lyric essay in this essay. As the supporters of the lyric essay as a thing on its own, this piece.
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Lyric Essay is a contemporary creative nonfiction form which combines qualities of poetry, essay, memoir, and research writing, while also breaking the boundaries of the traditional five-paragraph essay. As a genre unto itself, the lyric essay tends to combine conventions of many different genres. Proponents of the lyric essay classification insist it differs from prose poetry in its reliance.
The problem with the term “lyric essay,” for me, is that I think it’s proven to be easy to misunderstand—its face-value proposition (essay with lyrical sentences?) is easier and less interesting, to me, than the possibilities Tall and D’Agata set out in the Seneca Review years ago: “The lyric essay partakes of the poem in its density and shapeliness, its distillation of ideas and.
Read Article →Poetry: The Scores publishes all forms of poetry, from formal verse to prose poems, experimental forms, and poetry translated into English. Please submit up to five pages of poems (one poem per page unless longer than a page) in a single document (.doc, .docx, .pdf). Please indicate in the title field if your work is a translation and include a copy of the original work (note that rights for.
Read Article →Submissions. Guidelines for Submitting to River Teeth. River Teeth invites submissions of creative nonfiction, including narrative reportage, essays, and memoirs, as well as critical essays that examine the emerging genre and that explore the impact of nonfiction narrative on the lives of its writers, subjects, and readers. River Teeth uses Submittable to read and track your submissions.
Read Article →Erica Trabold. Erica Trabold is the author of Five Plots (Seneca Review Books, 2018), winner of the inaugural Deborah Tall Lyric Essay Book Prize and a 2019 Nebraska Book Award. Her work appears in Brevity, Literary Hub, The Rumpus, Passages North, The Collagist, Essay Daily, and elsewhere.She is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Sweet Briar College in central Virginia.
Read Article →The Lindenwood Review: a journal of literary prose accepts submissions of original, previously unpublished work from July 1 through October 1 via Submittable (no fee). Beginning with issue 11, our journal will be fully online. We publish short stories, flash fiction, personal essays, lyric essays, flash nonfiction, and prose poems (block format). Submissions are welcome from both emerging and.
Suke also served on the editorial committee for the Seneca Review anthology We Might as Well Call It the Lyric Essay, and produced a stage show of her collection of performance essays Love, Sex, Shoes.