DISSONANCE

hello again, dear friends and readers. it is with delight that we return to you this autumn to announce our ninth (!) issue, DISSONANCE.

 

here at the madrigal, as many of you know, we pride ourselves on publishing work that is “delicate, emotive, and sincere.” our issues are in constant communication with each other – verity and poesis, epiphany and ensemble, metamorphosis and reminiscence. with that in mind, we wanted to consider what it would be to break from this tradition entirely; and so, DISSONANCE was born.

 

cognitive, sonic, personal, political. DISSONANCE is discord and disagreement, a gap between what should be and what is. for this issue, we are looking for poems that embody this notion wholeheartedly, with vigor: work that experiments with form and spacing, work that subverts ideas of voice and address, work that is both irreverent and profound in its mastering of the contemporary. be bold, be brave, be subversive – we want what is uncomfortable, what is new to you, what is outside the boundaries of your writing. this issue is about experimentation and discord, a disconnect between the new and the traditional. send us cantos that are corrupted, sonnets that aren’t sonnets, messy metaphors and poems that dissolve when you look too closely. 

submissions will remain open for the month of november, and will close promptly at 11:59pm on the 30th. send all work to THEMADRIGALPRESS@GMAIL.COM – as always, we cannot wait to read your work!

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this issue will also have the honour of being guest edited by my dear friend, gale aitken. with that in mind, we have complied a reading list of work we feel is indicative of this theme: peruse at your leisure, and enjoy!

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Obligations 2 by Layli Long Soldier

Interview by Jordan Kapono Nakamura

Noah's Nameless Wife Takes Inventory by C. T. Salazar

TURING TEST_PROBLEM SOLVING by Franny Choi

I Saw a Dead Road on the Road by Ahlam Bsharat

Double S Double S by Kim Hyesoon

Fricatives by Eric Yip

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as ever, 

helen & gale

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