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Watch Your Head is excited to share the cover of Watch Your Head: Writers & Artists Respond to the Climate Crisis forthcoming from Coach House books in October 2020. You can pre-order the Watch Your Head print anthology from Coach House Books: https://chbooks.com/Books/W/Watch-Your-Head Proceeds from the book will be donated to RAVEN Trust . About RAVEN: https://raventrust.com/about/ Selections for the print anthology have been made. However if you submitted work, but haven't heard back from us then your work is still in consideration for the website which is an ongoing project and will be updated regularly. We received hundreds of submissions and had to make some very difficult choices. We will respond as soon as we can! We're grateful to everyone who shared their work with us. The anthology editors include The anthology editors include Madhur Anand, Stephen Collis, Jennifer Dorner, Catherine Graham, Elena Johnson, Canisia Lubrin, Kim Mannix, Kathryn Mockler, June Pak, Sina Queyras, Shazia Hafiz Ramji, Rasiqra Revulva, Yusuf Saadi, Sanchari Sur, and Jacqueline Valencia. Cover design by Ingrid Paulson  Steven W. Beattie writes about WATCH YOUR HEAD on That Shakespearean Rag! “The planet’s on fucking fire.” That’s how popular scientist Bill Nye described the Earth’s existential dilemma on a recent episode of the HBO satirical news show This Week Tonight with John Oliver. Where the current, ongoing, global climate emergency is concerned, Nye is certainly not the only figure to express alarm. In a furious speech to the United Nations in New York City on September 23, sixteen-year-old Swedish activist Greta Thunberg denounced world leaders who are sitting on their hands as rising temperatures threaten the future of human life on the planet: “This is all wrong. I shouldn’t be up here. I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean. Yet you all come to us young people for hope. How dare you! You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words.” Notwithstanding the increasing sense of urgency on the part of an ever larger segment of the worldwide population, entrenched special interests wielding power and – not incidentally – enormous tranches of wealth continue to ensure that the political will to enact legislation capable of curtailing the climate catastrophe remains untapped. Read More “I’ve long been compelled toward environmental issues including their intersection with class and structural racism,” [Hoa] Nguyen says. ... Nguyen also sees the project as a way to tap into a community of artists and enable a sense of purpose through unity: “Poetry is a practice that includes organizing and collaborating with other poets, including ways to celebrate and activate poetry that impact beyond the page and reader, time or place.” That Shakespearean Rag, October 7, 2019 Check out Steven W. Beattie's piece about WATCH YOUR HEAD in the Quill & Quire, which you can read here if you are a subscriber.  ... on the horizon is a print anthology to be published by Coach House Books next year. “While it might seem counterintuitive to produce a book about climate change, I believe in a book’s power to concretize and galvanize,” says Coach House editorial director Alana Wilcox. “A critical mass of smart, articulate voices – whether they be angry poems, imploring non-fiction, slyly political stories, or whatever might come our way – can serve to rally support and keep the conversation about this emergency front and centre.” A call for submissions will go out toward the end of October and all proceeds from the book will be donated to a climate justice charity." Quill & Quire, October 7, 2019 |
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