Friends, Poets and Journeymen Lend me your verse.

[colin stewart jones]

Friends, Poets and Journeymen Lend me your verse.
Call for submissions

Hi all some figures for you: Notes from the Gean has over 400 members on its Facebook page; the Gean Tree Press page has 200 likes; and there are over 300 in our email contacts—yet subs are down 80% on previous months.
We seem to have the "members" but very few are sending in poetry submissions.
A monthly publication does rely more on the support of its submitters/readers than a quarterly and we need your support if we are to continue. You are obviously out there. Australia, for example, where are you? I have pissed off a few Aussies in my time, but an entire continent? Why is Gean getting no subs from Australia?
Gean encourages new writers and talent is not elitist in any way but Gean is a small volume and will remain so, (no more than 50 pages) however, we do not want to simply publish the same names all the time.
If you are in any of our groups or contacts list and read this I would encourage you to send in some submissions and help keep Gean thriving.

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  Mission Statement:
  
  We seek to encourage excellence, experimentation and education within haiku and its related genres. We believe this is best accomplished by example and not imitation. Our aim is for authenticity above all else. We therefore solicit your finest examples of haiku, tanka, haiga, haibun, renga/renku and micro-poetry so that we may "hear" your voices speak.
  
  
  
  Philosophy:
  
  Within English-language haiku (ELH) the debate is becoming increasingly polarised; with both editors and writers advocating either this style of writing or that. It is my belief that whilst we owe a massive debt to Japan, ELH should and must now grow into full maturity and no longer look over its shoulder. We could all continue to write pretty images about cherry trees or we could reach deeper into our own experience and produce works which are both authentic and relevant for a wider reading public and our literary peers. I believe that if we do not do this then we are all in danger of settling for a formulaic comfort zone in ELH and it will not develop into the fullness of what it can be.
  
  As a writer I try to give voice to my own experience and as an editor I aim to allow other writers the same opportunity. It is not my job to proscribe any style or restrict writers, but rather give them a platform for their voice to be heard and let the writers take ELH to wherever it may go.
  
  Colin Stewart Jones
  Editor
  
  http://www.geantreepress.com/Submissions.html