www.aaanet.org/sections/sha/2009Poetry.pdf

The Society for Humanistic Anthropology announces our annual poetry competition as a means to encourage scholars to use alternative literary genres to explore anthropological concerns. These concerns may be any of those associated with the fields of anthropology: Archaeological, Biological, Linguistic, Sociocultural and Applied.

Winning entries and honorable mentions will be recognized at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association in Fall 2009, and will be published in the Society’s journal, Anthropology and Humanism. The winner(s) will receive a certificate and award of $100. All entries will be considered for publication in the journal.

*** There is no entry fee for members of the American Anthropological Association. ***
*** If you are not a member, there is a $10 fee. ***

Judges will be Misha Cahnmann Taylor, Kent Maynard, and Dorine Jennette.

Submissions must be unpublished and include:

* one copy of a cover letter, with home and institutional addresses & a short bio,
* three copies of no more than three poems, of any length totaling no more than 10 pages in all (please do not include your name/address on the poems)
* a self-addressed stamped envelope, for contest results, to be posted by Fall 2009, and
* proof of AAA membership, or a $10 check made to the Society for Humanistic Anthropology. Send unpublished poems only.

Electronic or faxed submissions will not be accepted except by request from ethnographic poets working outside the U.S. and Canada. Submissions and inquiries should be directed to: Dr. Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor, Department of Language and Literacy Education, 125 Aderhold Hall, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602; (office) (706) 583-8127; email: cahnmann@uga.edu

The deadline for RECEIPT of submissions is 1 May 2009.