A new Greenboathouse initiative, Variant invites writers to respond in poetic, lyric or narrative form to a "trigger"; a passage from a book, poem, theoretical text (or billboard for that matter) posted on-line to which writers respond in whatever direction they're drawn.

The "trigger" for Round 3 was a quote from Steve McCaffery's Panopticon:

"Millions of things are the same as this."

Selected by assistant editor Aaron Peck, this round includes new poems by Sina Queyras, derek beaulieu, Jason Dewinetz, Ariel Gordon and Simon Spiechert.

And, in case you're feeling adventurous, here's the "trigger" for Round 4, from Lisa Robertson's The Weather:

"Now we are persons breaking open. The real is not enough to pleasure us."

Round 4 Submission Deadline: January 31, 2004
(for submission guidelines, please visit our site).
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