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Boor Soirée: 
A Digital Poetry Project of Rural America.

Coming May 2026 

Boor Soirée is a center, an archive, a community. ​

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Stepping out from behind the shadow cast by literary hubs and their creative tastes, Boor Soirée serves as cultural ethnography of the often marginalized voices working in rural spaces. The digital project is an archive, community, and shape for the future of craft in rural literatures, shining light on the inventions and interventions that project a cultural response to the social, political, and economic realities of the landscapes writers of rural America create within and from. 

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Submitting to Boor Soirée
 

Boor Soirée is accepting pitches for craft and pedagogy essays and lesson plans which engage the intersection of rurality and poetry or rurality as poetic craft. Specifically, articles should engage with how rural spaces impact either one’s writing craft or their pedagogy when teaching poetry. We are interested in essays that engage directly with experiences and examples as opposed to discussing these ideas conceptually without application. For craft essays, this includes referencing specific poems; for pedagogical approaches, this includes in-classroom examples.  We are interested in lesson plans that help create access to rural poetics for higher education learners. 

 

In your pitch, please include a writer’s bio and a brief 150-300 word statement about your article and its exigence. If we are interested in the pitch, we will ask for a submission of a full article of 500-1000 words. Send pitches to boorsoiree@gasherpress.com​

For Publishers
 

We publish long-form book interviews and poet spotlight discussions with writers located in rural America who recently published or have forthcoming collections on any subject/theme. If you think you have a book that might be a good fit for one of these features, please send an ARC and contact information for the poet. Though we cannot guarantee a feature to every forthcoming title, we make our best effort to showcase a wide variety of titles from various presses.  Send pitches to boorsoiree@gasherpress.com​

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