Poetry. "The poems in Jared Schickling's SUBMISSIONS explore the dislocations between self, community, and our desiccated political and ecological landscapes. The pressures of such disasters may be a point of departure for these poems, but they move toward a promise of habitation found in the shared spaces within both animal and human kingdoms.The entrances to these charged spaces are awkward, partial, and sometimes painful, but the scope and pull of these potential commons can curve our isolated selves into more adaptable shapes. In doing so, these poems bring the news that while our individual messages invariably split into lonely factions, we can still find common ground in a language that is 'on loan and full of intentions'"--Jonathan Minton.

Author City: FORT COLLINS, CO USA

Jared Schickling's poetry, criticism, translation, interview, review, collaboration, has been published or is forthcoming in The Argotist, BOMBAY GIN, Big Bridge, The Cafe Review, ECOPOETICS, EXQUISITE CORPSE, Interim, Jacket, Knock (2006 Ecolit/Green Art prize), Literary Imagination, Little Red Leaves, Matter Journal, Otoliths, Sous les Paves, Borderlands: The Texas Poetry Review, unarmed, Word For/Word, the anthology 1000 Views of "Girl Singing" and elsewhere. He has five books—AURORA, SUBMISSIONS, O, ZERO'S BLOOMING EXCURSION, and T&U& LASH YOUR NIPPLES TO A POST HISTORY IS GORGEOUS (BlazeVOX [books] 2007, 08, 09, 10, 11)—and is an editor at Delete Press (letterpress chapbooks), Eccolinguistics (mimeo), and Reconfigurations: A Journal for Poetics and Poetry / Literature and Culture (online).