Please send submissions for books we haven't covered:
I Chronicles, II Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, Jeremiah, Amos, Obadiah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Haggai, Malachi, I Corinthians, II Corinthians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, I Thessalonians, II Thessalonians, Titus, Philemon I Peter, II Peter, I John, II John and III John.
It's unlikely that we'll add another poems for any of the following books:
Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, II Samuel, II Kings, Judith, Esther, Job, Psalms, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon, Isaiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel, Daniel, Hosea, Jonah, Zephaniah, Zechariah, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John (we will probably not accept any more poems about Jesus), Acts, Romans, Galatians, James, and Revelations.
We have a lot of persona poems right now. While we're still happy to include them, we would like more variety of device.
PROMPTS:
Employ a well-known Biblical verse form in a context that is relevant to you (Lamentations, Song of Songs, Psalms, Job, the begats in Genesis)
Use a Bible story as an extended metaphor for a present-day phenomenon.
Focus on a specific moment. What did it sound like, feel like?
Resurrect a character in your city. How do they react? How do people treat them?
Put two characters or events in conversation with each other. In some cases, we might take a Biblical character in conversation with a non-Biblical character.
Write a haiku death match between two Biblical rivals.
Come up with a scientific narrative to explain supernatural events.
It is important that you provide a new interpretation of the story. Don't just retell; reimagine.
I Chronicles, II Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, Jeremiah, Amos, Obadiah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Haggai, Malachi, I Corinthians, II Corinthians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, I Thessalonians, II Thessalonians, Titus, Philemon I Peter, II Peter, I John, II John and III John.
It's unlikely that we'll add another poems for any of the following books:
Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, II Samuel, II Kings, Judith, Esther, Job, Psalms, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon, Isaiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel, Daniel, Hosea, Jonah, Zephaniah, Zechariah, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John (we will probably not accept any more poems about Jesus), Acts, Romans, Galatians, James, and Revelations.
We have a lot of persona poems right now. While we're still happy to include them, we would like more variety of device.
PROMPTS:
Employ a well-known Biblical verse form in a context that is relevant to you (Lamentations, Song of Songs, Psalms, Job, the begats in Genesis)
Use a Bible story as an extended metaphor for a present-day phenomenon.
Focus on a specific moment. What did it sound like, feel like?
Resurrect a character in your city. How do they react? How do people treat them?
Put two characters or events in conversation with each other. In some cases, we might take a Biblical character in conversation with a non-Biblical character.
Write a haiku death match between two Biblical rivals.
Come up with a scientific narrative to explain supernatural events.
It is important that you provide a new interpretation of the story. Don't just retell; reimagine.
