FreeWrights Peer Review™

Announcing the Wrestling Poetry Project.

For you good poets, editors, publishers, illustrators and/or, yes, wrestlers, here are the pertinent links:

At Babilu: Wrestling Poetry Project Guidelines and Discussion

At Clattery MacHinery on Poetry: The Wrestling Poetry Project

Submission guidelines for artwork and poems are unique and progressive.

This submission call is going out to the poets on Facebook, because some of the best in the world have FB accounts, through the finer online poetry forums, and to wrestling forums around the USA. So this is unique and progressive in how it brings different communities together to work on a project.

The Wrestling Poetry Project is also unique and progressive in that I am inviting editors and publishers to look into this project as it progresses, in order to find poetry to publish before November, when the poems will be displayed at Clattery MacHinery. Thus, publishers of periodicals and anthologies can scoop the finest poems produced through the project, and receive due credit.

Yours,
Rus

Wrestling With Rilke, Homer, & God


This is for the Wrestling Poetry Project (which I speedily add has nothing to do with big time wrestling, nothing whatsoever).

I am calling for and giving the tools for fresh translations of wrestling poems written in languages other than English.

These three are on my "must have" list:

1.

The wrestling in The Iliad. I've posted tools for this at Calling for Translation of Homer, tools supplied.

2.

Thanks to Coach J, I am calling for a translation of the poem Robert Bly rendered as "The Man Watching the Storm Approaching." Here is the original in German: Calling for translation of Rilke's "The Man Watching", original in German supplied.

3.

Of course, Genesis 32:21-31, in which Jacob wrestles with God or the angel. Different versions of Genesis will help you if you cannot read the Hebrew.

I drafted a translation myself, and posted it in the Wrestling Poetry Workshop for constructive feedback. Please do one too, workshop it if you like, and submit it for the project.