Submissions of poetry translations, already-published and new articles, book chapters, book reviews, events or class descriptions, visuals, ideas for contributions or new features, and other materials are welcome. Reprints should be accompanied by a permissions letter from the original publisher. Please consult me about permissions and other contractual issues if you are not sure how to proceed with republishing something you have written. Suggestions are also welcome of scholars or writers to contact and for materials to consider reprinting as part of this site. Please hold off for now on Hebrew poems and articles.
Interested contributors and other individuals should email or mail/ship queries or actual submissions, accompanied by a cv/resume.
Submissions from scholars, students, poets/writers, and general readers are welcome. As a long-time poet, I especially welcome imaginative responses to medieval Hebrew poetry, and as a long-time acquisitions editor, I have always been receptive to submissions that are well written and relevant, with credentials often of secondary importance. Although ideally I like to match credentials with projects, I am a very pragmatic editor and like giving new authors, “junior” scholars, and generalists their “day in court,” so I am open to a range of possibilities. The most moving “piece” on Yehudah Halevi I ever encountered came from an African-American undergraduate music major who was even Jewish—she set one of Halevi’s poems to music and sang it while playing the piano. So, while I want to attract top scholars and translators, please do not be afraid to submit an article, poem, or idea even if you do not have a Ph.D. or have never before published.
I will try to reply to everyone who contacts me, but can return mailed or shipped materials only if accompanied by a self-addressed, stamped envelope. If you mail or ship materials, please do not send them via any sort of service that requires a signature or trip to the post office, unless I ask you to do this for your protection, e.g., with photographs or artwork.
All contributions remain the property of the original copyright holder and will be credited appropriately. Some materials may be displayed on the web site as regular text, and some may be displayed as a scanned image or perhaps even as a link to a .pdf file. The site will be copyrighted as a whole, and you will retain the rights to your material, but this site, like most, is not copy-protected.
My philosophy about intellectual property on the Web is this: There is a tradeoff between making such property accessible to more and different people from those who might read a scholarly article, and making such property more accessible to people (in the case of material of the kind displayed on this site, often professors making copies for classroom use or lectures) freely using such property. Since medieval Hebrew poetry is a rather esoteric subject, I tend to think the benefits of more widely disseminating information greatly outweigh the disadvantages.
Submit queries or materials to:
Henry Rasof
(303) 664 0183
admin@medievalhebrewpoetry.org
Thank you.