PUBLICATION POSSIBILITIES:

Opportunity Knocks:

• The Bezine – Submission Guidelines and Mission Statement
• Boulevard is accepting submission through May 1 of this year. Details HERE.
• The deadline for submissions to ARTEMISpoetry, a publication of Second Light Network of Women Poets is November 2016 issue is 31 August 2016. Demographic restrictions.

• HEADS-UP: Residents of Swindon UK

Amaryllis is Poetry Swindon’s poetry blog and publishes a poem each week. HERE.

EVENTS:

• THE NEXUS CAFE™ – TODAY!

Join poet Natasha Head (The Tashtoo Parlour) and poet and “poetry champion,” Jamie Dedes (The Poet by Day and The BeZine) for a radio chat about online poetry connections and community … Also on the program are: poet and photographer, Roger Allan Baut (Chasing Tao), artist Matthew Hatt (Matthew Hatt and Calculated Kaos), poet Susie Clevenger (Butterly Poet, Blog 4 Peace, and Confessions of a Laundry Goddess) and others.

On 28 February 2016, Sunday, at 2:00 p.m. ET

3 p.m. AT – 1 p.m. CT – 12 p.m. MT – 11 p.m. PT

• POETRY UNBOUND:

HEADS-UP: Berkeley, CA and the San Francisco Bay Area
March 6, as below and poet bios are HERE.

• SEEING THE TRUTH ARRIVE:

HEADS-UP: Carmel CA, Monterey County 
Friday, March 11, 7:30
Seeing the Truth Arrive
A reading of the poetry of Muriel Rukeyser and Robinson Jeffers and their own work by Kathryn Petruccelli and Elliot Ruchowitz-Roberts
Carl Cherry Center for the Arts
Guadalupe and Fourth Carmel, Carmel
Admission: $15 Co-sponsored by the Carl Cherry Center for the Arts For reservations: 624-7491, info@carlcherrycenter.org. MORE

• Every Second Friday, James Street North Art Crawl, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada: visit, connect, be inspired.  If you don’t live in Hamilton, search out art crawls in your area. They’re good for the soul.
• March is Black History Month in the United States. To honor the month, the people and our shared history, The Poet by Day, will shine its light on a number of Black American poets.

PUBLICATIONS/BOOK LAUNCHS:

• interNational Poetry Month, A Celebration of The BeZine is in April, publication date April 15.
• The next issue of ARTEMISpoetry, a publication of Second Light Network of Women Poets, will come out in May.
• Matt Pasca’s Raven’s Wire launched yesterday. The book is now available on Amazon. Link HERE to The Poet by Day book review and interview with Matt
• Grabbing the Apple (JBStillwater, 2016), an anthology of poems by New York Women Writers, editors Terri Muuss and Mary Jane Tenerelli, will launch in March.

KUDOS:

• American-Isreali poet, Michael Dickel (Fragments of Michael Dickel and War Surrounds Us, Is a Rose Press, 2015) made .Kred’s “Most Influenctial Bloggers” list. Michael is also a member of The BeZine core team and the lead for The BeZine, 100,000 Poets for Change project.
• Cannoness to The Bardo Group Bequines (publishers of The BeZine), Terri Stewart (Beguine Again) completed the final interviews and gained a recommendation to become an ordained elder in full connection within the United Methodist Church. Look for news in May when the final vote of the full Board of Ordained Ministry affirms the recommendation.

DISTANCE LEARNING CLASSES

Poet and founder of Second Light Network of Women Poets (SLN), Dilys Wood, announced the launch of the second in the Series of Second Light ‘Remote’ Workshops. Dilys says these are suitable for individuals at home or for working in groups. As with their first series (based on our 2014 anthology Her Wings of Glass), this Series has eight workshops, based on SLN’s 2015 anthology Fanfare.