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TAB Submissions Open

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Post date February 2, 2020

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TAB: The Journal of Poetry & Poetics is now open for submissions, and we’re now using Submittable. We consider poetry, scholarly and creative essays that address poetry, interviews with poets, poetry-artwork hybrids, and other cool stuff. We don’t charge a fee to submit, and we consider simultaneous submissions.

Before you submit, we recommend that you do two things.

First, read around in the Archives. We’ve spent the last year making the archives more accessible and moving them to this website platform. Sorting through all the wonderful work we’ve published since 2013 has reinvigorated us and deepened our gratitude for the writers who’ve shared their work as part of TAB.

Second, read the submission guidelines. And share them with other writers who might be interested in what we’re doing at TAB.

Our staff looks forward to a pool of submissions that will make for some tough decisions.

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Exciting News

TAB Musings and more…

Post author By TABJournal
Post date January 31, 2020

TAB Graduate Assistant Jason Thornberry wrote a fantastic article about the re-launch of TAB: The Journal of Poetry & Poetics for Chapman University’s blog. He focuses especially on the “accessible principles” that now underpin the decisions of the Editor (Anna Leahy) and Creative Director (Claudine Jaenichen). We hope you’ll read Jason’s article and also the Design Statement for the new print issue to better understand our approach to poetry-meets-design.

We’ve set up a way for readers to subscribe to TAB Musings, our blog to share new issues, calls for submissions, and ideas about poetry. Please take a moment to subscribe. You’ll need to check your email to confirm your opt-in.

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Exciting News

TAB 2020 Print Issue

Post author By TABJournal
Post date January 29, 2020

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Copies of the amazing new print issue of TAB are going out into the world! You can read about this year’s innovative design on the Current Issue page.

TAB will be at the AWP Bookfair in San Antonio in March will FREE copies for writers and readers who stop by Booth #1543. And we’re happy to send a batch to teachers and librarians who contact us with a request. Plus, submissions are now open

You can keep up with all the news (including submissions info) by signing up for our Musings Blog. Just enter your email address in the form at the bottom of any TAB website page.

Contributor Grant Hier (who is Poet Laureate of Anaheim, California) shared his experience of opening this year’s print issue with a video on Facebook. And then he built a fantastic sculpture out of the issue’s notched cards. We look forward to hearing more about readers’ experiences in the weeks to come.

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TAB re-launches in 2020

Post author By TABJournal
Post date December 7, 2019

In January 2020, TAB is re-launching with this new website, newly accessible issue archives, and a Submittable portal.

TAB: The Journal of Poetry & Poetics started in 2013 as a collaboration between poet and essayist Anna Leahy and informational designer Claudine Jaenichen. You can find out more about the project and the staff on the About pages of the website.

The relationship of design and text has driven this project from the get-go and continues to shape how TAB creates a distinctive reading experience. We recognize that print and online formats work differently.

In our print issues, we have consciously used design to make readers aware of the materiality of text and the challenges of access. Our January 2020 print issue, however, explores issues of accessibility. In addition, the TAB archives have been updated for increased accessibility. The new TAB website (using an accessibility-ready theme) will change the look and feel of our online issues. TAB welcomes new design constraints and opportunities, for reading is always a designed experience. We urge you to read more about how design drives TAB in our Design Statement.

On December 9, 2019, Tabula Poetica celebrated its 10th anniversary with a reading by more than a dozen poets at Chapman University. Read more about this events at the Los Angeles Times. The Tabula Poetica reading series occurs every fall, with talks and readings by visiting poets and a reading by MFA in Creative Writing students. We look forward to the next decade of varied poetic voices and perspectives as part of the Chapman Experience.