Call for Submissions - Lantern Volume 1 Issue 3

Spring ushered Lantern into the light and urged us to venture beyond its shadows. Summer brought our exploration of the world, a cognition of the circular nature of our place, our path, and our being. Now, settled in the reliable permanence of the soil of our being, we begin to explore its expressive product in Fall: our direction, our submission, our work. In this issue, we set Lantern to burn and work within its veil, inviting being into the steadiness of its shining.

The definition of work is that it is the product of force applied over a distance: a bird takes wing, a salmon flexes its body to thrust upstream, a horse strains against the friction of the plow through earth, the archer pulls back his bow. Its forms are as endless as the myriad forms of motion under the constraints of gravity. Work is nearly everything we do, and it routinely defines even who we are.

Fall evokes particular forms of work in the harvest, a time to gather in the stewardship of Summer and to prepare for the waiting of Winter. But the varied forms of work broaden the web of related expression. Thus, work can be reaping, kneading, stirring. It is also a  becoming, a bringing forth, a forging. Work can be waiting, fermenting, or practicing. At its best, perhaps, it is cultivation, a crafting, a caring. Work is thinking, transformation, and even reflection.

The physical nature of work is evident. We often wear proof of our most significant work somewhere on our hands or in our backs or knees. We wonder whether there are qualities of work that extend beyond physical force, whether genuine, effective, or valuable work requires something more from the mover.

We encourage you to submit your work to Lantern: architecture, poetry, short fiction, essays, images, music, academic pieces. We are interested in thought and expression and connection, and we don’t much care what forms those things come in. We will value your work for its strength of character and for its contribution to a whole that seeks something better. Please view the theme of work as you wish—creatively or destructively, literally or figuratively—and feel free to wander off from its center point as we venture beyond the lantern’s glow to the endarkened places where academic and other such publications stop.

Join us in a collaborative exploration of the full form of work that will build Volume I, Issue 3 of Lantern.

To submit visit: http://lanternjournal.org/category/submissions/

Editors of Lantern,
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