the love letter collection

 Launched in 2001, The Love Letter Collection is an ongoing, edited collection of anonymous love letters. You can submit a letter to the collection using our anonymous form  (if the list of letters doesn't appear to the left, click here). Email loveATcollectiveexperience.org to be notified when new collections are posted, with "love letter list" as your subject.

08.01.08 Our new collection is currently being edited by Stacy Szymaszek.

Stacy was born in Milwaukee, WI, in 1969. Chapbooks include Mutual Aid (gong, 2004), Pasolini Poems (Cy Press, 2005) and There Were Hostilities (release, 2005). She is the author of Emptied of All Ships and the forthcoming Hyperglossia (both with Litmus Press). She is the editor of Gam, coeditor of Instance Press, and was one of the editors of the "Queering Language" issue of EOAGH. A new work, Stacy S: Autoportraits, featuring her self-portraits with accompanying texts by Renee Gladman, Lisa Jarnot, Kevin Killian, Anne Tardos, David Gatten and others is just out on OMG Press. She is currently the Artistic Director at the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church.

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submit

Your love letter can be a letter you've sent or received, or a letter you'd like to send but can't. The love can be a fantasy love, desperate love, unrequited love, impossible love, naive love, frustrated love, absurd love, obsessed love, new love, fleeting love or lost love.

Click here to submit a letter.

Email loveATcollectiveexperience.org to add your name to our email list, or to contact Cindy Loehr, the project director.

 

anonymity

theirs  Please replace names with underlined spaces, and remove identifying characteristics, such as place and dates, or they will be removed for you.

yours   The submission form on this site is anonymous. All letters are posted anonymously, regardless of how they are submitted. Identities will never be disclosed, even if they are revealed.

 

 


selection

 Depending on the volume of submissions, approximately 1/4 are accepted for the collection. Once selected, the editor will extract a title from your letter based on the content. Paragraphs may be split up for readability.

New collections are posted 2-3 times a year. The current collection is currently being edited, and will be posted in September 2008.

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The Love Letter Collection is a project by Cindy Loehr.