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POET JESSICA GOODFELLOW TALKS ABOUT SOUND INTO SENSE, how to find interesting word connections by following sound

Jessic Goodfellow
Jessica  Goodfellow

I was listening to one of my favorite radio programs, NPR’s A Way with Words, and was introduced to a new (to me) poet, Jessica Goodfellow. I looked her up and found links to quite a few of her poems on her site and also landed on a review of her latest book, Mendaleev’s Mandala, in the The Japan Times which served to whet my appetite for more.

Jessica Goodfellow is originally from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, but lives in Japan now with her husband and sons.  Her first book of poetry, The Insomniac’s Weather Report (three candles press), won the Three Candles Press First Book Prize, and was reissued by Isobar Press in 2014. Her newest book Mendeleev’s Mandala is available from Mayapple Press (2015). She is also the author of a poetry chapbook, A Pilgrim’s Guide to Chaos in the Heartland (Concerete Wolf, 2006), winner of the Concrete Wolf Chapbook Competition. Her work has appeared in the anthology Best New Poets 2006, on the website Verse Daily, and has been featured by Garrison Keillor on NPR”s “The Writer’s Almanac.” Other honors include: the Chad Walsh Poetry Prize, the Linda Julian Essay Award, and the Sue Lile Inman Fiction Prize. Her work has appeared in Motionpoems Season 6.  [Adapted from Jessica’s website]

In the video below, Jessica Goodfellow discusses sound (onomatopoeia, alliteration, assonance, and homophones) as one possible means of connecting with meaning and with the unconscious, offering her own Chance of Precipitation and Crows, Reckoning as examples. Listen! Learn! Enjoy!

If you are viewing this post via email, you’ll likely need to click through to the site to get access to the video.

Read:
Chance of Percipitation (scroll to page 19)
Crows, Reckoning

© portrait, Jessica Goodfellow

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THE SUNDAY POESY: Opportunities, Events and other News and Information

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EVENTS:

WRITING WEST MIDLANDS (U.K.) needs haikus for their exchange at the International Dance Festival Birmingham in May 2016. DEADLINE: Thursday 21 April 2016 at 5pm Details HERE

JULIEN POIRIER poetry reading and talk celebrates the release of City Lights Spotlight No. 14, City Lights Books, San Francisco, April 19, 2016, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM Details HERE

NEW YORK CITY POETRY FESTIVAL will be held on Governors Island, “a 172 acre island in the heart of New York Harbor, is only 800 yards from Lower Manhattan, and even closer to Brooklyn. It is a world unto itself, unique and full of promise.” [Sounds like heaven to me! Also, this year is the 100th anniversary of Governors Island, so there might be some other fun events going on as well.]. July 30 & 31, 2016 Details HERE

QUEENSLAND POETRY FESTIVAL is scheduled for August 25-28, 2016. Their site is HERE, but they haven’t put any details up yet.

KALAMAZOO POETRY FESTIVAL is scheduled for April 15-16, 2016, Details HERE

THE 4TH CASCADE POETY FESTIVAL IN SEATTLE is scheduled for November 3-6, 2016. I believe they may still be looking for presenters. Details HERE

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS:

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SLINK CHUNK PRESS a new publication (on-line, four issues to date) looks like the folks there are doing some unusual things. In addition to poetry, they publish short fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, art and videos. Check it out HERE and see if it’s for you. 

WILLIAM PATERSON UNIVERSITY (N.J.), Map Literary Rachel Wetzsteon Chapbook Award is open for submissions. DEADLINE: July 30, 2016  Details HERE

32 POEMS is a print publication in its thirteenth year an publishes thirty-two short poems twice a year, May and November. They charge a reading fee ($3 at this writing). Submissions guidelines are HERE. 

THE HUDSON REVIEW founded in 1947 is a quarterly arts and literature magazine published in New York.  For poetry: DEADLINE: June 30, 2016 Details HERE

THE 3288 REVIEW is a quarterly publication of Caffeinated Press.  They accept poetry in “Any form, and up to 10 poems per submission. If you would like to submit more than ten, we invite you to consider bundling them and submitting to Caffeinated Press for publication as a book. Also note that we have strict design guidelines which may affect how we break long poems across multiple pages.” DEADLINE July 1, 2016. Details HERE

NATIONAL GUERRILLA POETRY MONTH: David Loret De Mola invites guerilla poets to take part in “Guerrilla” Poetry Month by sending in your videos.“Whether you rap or you slam ZFG invites you and yours to take part in Guerrilla Poetry Month 2016! Just film your piece and send links to ZFGpromotions@gmail.com or hit us @ZFGpromotions. Find out more at http://www.ZFGpromotions.com
We look forward to hearing from you!”

FELLOWSHIP:

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TIDBITS

REMINDERS FROM PAST WEEKS

  • KIBATEK (The Turkish Literary Foundation established in 1998 in Turkey) plans its 40th Literary Festival this year in Dubai, from 1st till 4th June 2016 Details HERE
  • LITERARY PUB OR PERISH Stickyz Rock N’ Roll Chicken Shack, Little Rock AR, Details HERE
  • Download a free copy of The Woven Tale Press Selected Works HERE
  • The April 15th issue of The BeZine will celebrate poetry month. Contributing Editor, Michael Dickel, is the lead for this issue.

THE POET BY DAY

Submit your event, book launch and other announcements at least fourteen days in advance to thepoetbyday@gmail.com. Publication is subject to editorial discretion.

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MAYA ANGELOU, Love Liberates

Maya Angelou (1928-2014)
Maya Angelou (1928-2014)

Maya Angelou  was an American poet, writer, and civil rights activist. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, and several books of poetry, and was credited with a list of plays, movies, and television shows.  She received dozens of awards and more than fifty honorary degrees.

Maya Angelou is best known for her series of seven autobiographies, which focus on her childhood and early adult experiences. The first, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969) published with the help of James Baldwin, tells of her life up to the age of seventeen. It brought her international recognition and acclaim. (Adapted from Wikipedia)

If you are viewing this post from email, you’ll likely have to click through to the site to view this wise and touching video presentation.

The photograph – Maya Angelou reading On the Pulse of Morning at the Clinton inauguration 1993 – is courtesy of The William J. Clinton Library and is in the public domain. 

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the gentleman of the bocce court, a poem

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that other time and other place are history –
and so too the gentleman of the bocce court

i am seven, this is part of my world

the men play bocce of an afternoon
while the women sip vin santo
and savor the nutty taste of a
biscotto before a nap, then time
to start dinner, set the table

my friend’s grandfather, Pop-Pop,
the yellow man, i think of him,
jaundiced skin, yellow teeth,
fingers stained with nicotine  . . .
he’s the neighborhood champ

and heat rising from the ground,
the grass growing as fulvous as
Pop-Pop, he throws the pallino –
it’s like summer always is here
heat, sweat, and bocce ball …

the one they call il Signore taunts,
mean and rude, he swears at Pop-Pop –
no matter, we know who is best,
better than anyone; yet little girls
say nothing, steering clear of
il Signore, a.k.a. Frankie Fists

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