Print Annual Four

Issue 76
No theme: Have at it!

Issue 77
Temptation: See image.

Issue 78
Pirates Redux: We had too much ribald fun with last year’s Pirates’ issue; the amount of work we received for the theme tells us we must pirate our own idea. So…to pilfer our own CFP: There are pirates among us, inexplicably, undeniably, unavoidably, e-v-e-r-y-w-h-e-r-e...the skull and crossbones the new Nike swoosh. Though they're often enigmatic they're inescapable; it takes a poet to know a pirate.
We'll consider poetry, fiction, and prose essays, as well as digital images, etc. on pirates: that includes (but is not limited to) real pirates, virtual pirates, fictional pirates, historical pirates; piracy -- from ocean marauding to hi-tech hacking to street-corner tape sales to terrorism to identity theft (of all kinds).
So, take this as an invitation to come as you aaarrrgh.

Issue 79
The Body: metaphysical, anatomical; political; the electric metaphor for what moves us, puzzles us, pleases us; site of inquiry and uncertainty; the paradox of science and mystery; the mechanics of motion; the poetics of meaning and knowledge; boundaries; intimacy; detachment.

From the carnival freakshow to the museum of natural history; from Rembrandt's "Anatomy Lesson" to Whitman's body sung electric; from tatoos to haikus, the body has been an object of fascination and repulsion, delight and desire, quotidian function and infinite mystery:

PBQ proposes a body of work on the body.

These issues will appear online in the above order, and in Print Annual 4, due out in early Spring of 2007.

For more details see submissions guidelines.