Boor Soirée: Essays and Interviews

Stepping out from behind the shadow cast by literary hubs and their creative tastes, Boor Soirée serves as cultural ethnography of the often neglected voices working in rural spaces. The digital project is an archive, community, and shape for the future of craft in rural literatures, shining light on the inventions and interventions that project a cultural response to the social, political, and economic realities of the landscapes writers of rural America create within and from. 

FOR ESSAYS: 

Boor Soirée is accepting pitches for craft and pedagogy essays and lesson plans which engage the intersection of rurality and poetry or rurality as poetic craft. Specifically, articles should engage with how rural spaces impact either one’s writing craft or their pedagogy when teaching poetry. We are interested in essays that engage directly with experiences and examples as opposed to discussing these ideas conceptually without application. For craft essays, this includes referencing specific poems; for pedagogical approaches, this includes in-classroom examples.  We are interested in lesson plans that help create access to rural poetics for higher education learners. Articles should remain between the length of 500-1,500 words. 

FOR INTERVIEWS:

Boor Soirée is accepting completed interviews of no more than 6,000 words, with an introduction paragraph to the interview for forthcoming or newly released book and chapbooks of poetry written by poets who consider themselves to be part of rural American poetry, or write about rurality in their work. 

FOR WRITERS SEEKING TO HAVE THEIR BOOK CONSIDER FOR AN INTERVIEW: 

Please have the publisher reach out to us directly with a digital ARC and contact information for the poet. Though we cannot guarantee a feature to every forthcoming title, we make our best effort to showcase a wide variety of titles from various presses.  Send pitches to boorsoiree@gasherpress.com​