Poet Paul Muldoon has been appointed the new poetry editor of the New Yorker, taking over from Alice Quinn, who’s held the post for 20 years.  The Guardian writes:

He has no immediate plans to bring a sharp change of direction to one of the jobs that makes the poetical weather in the US, and hopes to remain open to the unexpected. But poets from across the pond should make sure that the New Yorker’s email for poetry submissions is in their address book.

“I wouldn’t be surprised to see a few more British and Irish poets in the pages,” suggested Muldoon, “as well as more poetry in translation.”

“I sincerely hope that every poem I publish there will have it in it to make a profound change in the reader,” he said. “That’s certainly my aim.”

Cory Doctorow of BoingBoing writes:

The whacky Viennese net-artists at Monochrom are planning a giant printed annual and they’re looking for your articles to include in it.

Monochrom is looking for:

…articles, essays, graphics, cartoons, cut-up stuff for the next multi-issue of our non-commercial yearbook series “monochrom”. We’ll publish the entire book in English, a fact that might be highly interesting for many monolingual Angloamerican folks.

There is no maximum or minimum length for articles or essays. There is no general topic whatsoever. You write about things you find interesting. Or boring. Your text could be about radical constructivism. Or fish and chips. Or hacking your toilet. Or blowing up Mercury. Or HTML. Or Mormon theology and Battlestar Galactica. You’ll find your topic!

Submissions deadline is September 15, 2007.

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