{"id":1854,"date":"2010-10-02T09:39:25","date_gmt":"2010-10-02T16:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.peakepro.com\/?p=1854"},"modified":"2013-12-05T21:30:59","modified_gmt":"2013-12-05T21:30:59","slug":"senior-poetry-editor-silk-road-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/archives\/1854-senior-poetry-editor-silk-road-review.html","title":{"rendered":"Senior Poetry Editor, Silk Road Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1855\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1855\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/silkroad.pacificu.edu\/Subscribe.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1855  \" style=\"margin-top: 0px;border: 0pt none\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/files\/2010\/10\/sr-200x3001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1855\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Subscribe now for great poetry of place<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I am excited to announce that I have accepted the position of Senior Poetry Editor for <a href=\"\/archives\/465-Poem-in-Silk-Road.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Silk Road Review<\/em><\/a>, a publication of <a href=\"\/tag\/pacific-university\">Pacific University<\/a>. I will be editing content for two volumes of this excellent literary journal in the 2010-2011 academic year, taking over from <a href=\"\/tag\/Abby-Murray\">Abby Murray<\/a>. Hers are big shoes to fill; platform shoes with glitter and plastic sunflowers on them, if I know Abby. I only hope I can bring half as much style to the job.<\/p>\n<p>In all seriousness, it is an honor to accept responsibility for continuing this publication&#8217;s tradition of both celebrating established poets and introducing new, up-and-coming voices into the ongoing conversation of poetry. The magazine focuses on place as a touchstone for the work it solicits and features. My poem &#8220;<a href=\"\/archives\/465-Poem-in-Silk-Road.html\">How Can a Boy Hate Fishing?<\/a>,&#8221; for example, featured in Vol. 4 last year, is set in the desert farming community on the U.S.-Mexico border where I grew up. The <a href=\"http:\/\/silkroad.pacificu.edu\/Vol51.html\" target=\"_blank\">current issue<\/a> takes you to an inherited condo in Florida, a jeepney in the Philippines, a house trailer in rural Michigan, a fire escape in New York, and the Chinese Himalayas. By <a href=\"http:\/\/silkroad.pacificu.edu\/Subscribe.html\" target=\"_blank\">subscribing now<\/a>, you will receive both this issue, and the next issue, which will be assembled under my editorship.<\/p>\n<p>I look forward to writing about my experience on the other side of the publication process, as I sift through poems with a talented team of cohorts, panning for those nuggets of earned transcendence. <a href=\"http:\/\/silkroad.pacificu.edu\/Submit.html\" target=\"_blank\">Submissions are currently being accepted<\/a> through the journal&#8217;s online submission manager. Here&#8217;s to a year of saying &#8220;yes&#8221; to great poetry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am excited to announce that I have accepted the position of Senior Poetry Editor for Silk Road Review, a publication of Pacific University. I will be editing content for two volumes of this excellent literary journal in the 2010-2011 academic year, taking over from Abby Murray. Hers are big shoes to fill; platform shoes &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/archives\/1854-senior-poetry-editor-silk-road-review.html\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Senior Poetry Editor, Silk Road Review<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1855,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1268,5],"tags":[653],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1854"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}