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Lumn

Do not submit here! This project is believed to be defunct. (March 2015)

About

Beginning in spring 2013, Lumn will publish biennial issues of gorgeous, arresting poetry. Poetry that charms, delights, and compels; poetry that lingers. Poetry you’ll want to share with everyone you know. Poetry you’d like to wake up with and mull over in the morning. Not that beauty can be defined; Lumn makes no such claim. Admitting that it’s elusive, admitting that both the term and the thing itself are open to abuse, admitting that none of us will ever quite agree on what beauty is, this magazine still declares itself a home for the beautiful. This isn’t about how poetry can or can’t communicate, or its salutary personal or political potential. It isn’t even about experiment. Lumn is open to poetry that communicates and poetry that doesn’t, poetry that saves us and that which unhinges us entirely from salvation, poetry like none ever written and poetry that makes a new excellence of its tradition. What we’re after here is poetry that, as Dickinson was supposed to have said, makes you feel like the top of your head’s been taken off, in a good way. Beauty, after all, has its own ways of making us newly vulnerable and newly powerful. Lumn suggests that we’re due. Interested?

Country of Publication

United States

Publication Media & Frequency

Electronic Publication Electronic PublicationPublished 2 x per year.
Print Publication Print PublicationPublished 2 x per year.

Poetry Believed Defunct

Audience:
Unknown
Genres:
General General
Poetry Forms:
Open to all/most Forms, including: Experimental poetry, Lyric poetry. Excluding: Light verse.
Styles:
Open to all/most Styles, including: Literary.
Topics:
Unknown
Types/Lengths:
TypeLength Details
Poem PoemNo line limits known; Up to 5 pieces.
Payscale:
We list broad pay categories rather than payment specifics. Check with the publisher for details.
No monetary payment No monetary payment.
Submissions:
ElectronicPostalReprintsSimultaneousMedia
OK No No OKText format submissions
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Dates

Last Updated: 27 Apr 2020
Date Added: 17 Dec 2012

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