CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Sammy Re-CAHN-sidered

for a proposed anthology of new short works commemorating the centenary of the lyricist’s birth

Sammy Cahn (1913-1993), the Academy- and Emmy-Award-winning lyricist of many of the standards commonly referred to as the “Great American Songbook,” as well as the writer who “put more words into Frank Sinatra’s mouth than any other,” was very vocal in his disagreement with the policy that writers are not able to copyright the titles of their compositions.

In honor of the upcoming centenary of his birth, and with a loving wink at his titular annoyance, the editor is soliciting new poems, flash fiction, flash non-fiction, and micro-dramas, each with the same title as one of his song lyrics. The new pieces need not refer to the songwriter’s lyrics nor be similar in theme or style to the originals; the editor only seeks a variety of poetic approaches toward – and treatments of – Cahn’s titles.

Sammy Cahn’s songs include:

All the Way Bei Mir Bist du Schoen Be My Love Call Me Irresponsible
The Christmas Waltz Come Dance with Me Come Fly with Me Day By Day
Five Minutes More Guess I’ll Hang My Tears Out to Dry High Hopes I Should Care I’ll Walk Alone It’s Been a Long, Long Time I’ve Heard That Song Before
Let it Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow Love and Marriage My Kind of Town
Please Be Kind Pocketful of Miracles Rhythm is Our Business
Saturday Night (Is the Loneliest Night of the Week) Teach Me Tonight
(Love is) The Tender Trap The Things We Did Last Summer Thoroughly Modern Millie Three Coins in the Fountain Time After Time To Love and Be Loved
Until the Real Thing Comes Along Walking Happy
and MANY MANY MORE

Please send your submission by 1 July 2010 to:

gigliotti(at) ccsu.edu (replace (at) with @)

or

Dr. Gilbert L. Gigliotti
Department of English
Central Connecticut State U
1615 Stanley Street
New Britain, CT 06050

Gilbert L. Gigliotti is a Professor of English at Central Connecticut State University and the editor of a pair of anthologies published by Entasis Press of Washington, DC, Sinatra: But Buddy I’m a Kind of Poem (2008) and the forthcoming Ava Gardner: Touches of Venus (2010).