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THE SUNDAY POESY: Opportunities, Events and Other Information and News
CALLS FOR SUBMISSIONS
Opportunity Knocks
GLASS: A JOURNAL OF POETRY, poetry that enacts the artistic and creative purity of glass, was Founded in Toledo, Ohio, the Glass City, by Holly Burnside and Anthony Frame, Glass: A Journal of Poetry (ISSN 1941-4137) was published online twice a year (June and December) from 2008 until 2014 by Glass Poetry Press. Beginning in 2016, it became a weekly online publication. Currently the editors have a call out for submissions for a special feature in response to the June 12 shooting at the Pluse Nightclub in Orland, Florida. Details HERE. Submissions close on July 15.
RALEIGH REVIEW LITERARY & ARTS MAGAZINE “is a national non-profit magazine of poetry, fiction, and art. We believe that great literature inspires empathy by allowing us to see the world through the eyes of our neighbors, whether across the street or across the globe. Our mission is to foster the creation and availability of accessible yet provocative contemporary literature.[The editors] are looking for poetry, flash fiction, and short fiction that is emotionally and intellectually complex. We read every piece for its intrinsic value, so new/emerging voices are often published along nationally recognized, award-winning authors. Details HERE.
INDIANOLA REVIEW has a reading period from April 15 – December 15. It accepts fiction, nonfiction and “poetry: 3 – 5 pieces in one Word Document. We want our poetry to matter. We want to invest ourselves in the voice of the narrator. We welcome all forms, but generally speaking: if you make it a point to impress us with your format alone without investing yourself in the content, we’ll know. Of course, if you can break these rules and break them elegantly, we want your work.” Details HERE.
CREATIVE NONFICTION, True Stories, Well Told says: “Unlike many magazines, Creative Nonfiction draws heavily from unsolicited submissions. Our editors believe that providing a platform for emerging writers and helping them find readers is an essential role of literary magazines, and it’s been our privilege to work with many fine writers early in their careers. A typical issue of CNF contains at least one essay by a previously unpublished writer.” Details HERE.
BRAIN MILL PRESS “is a small, innovative publisher actively dedicated to producing a catalog of human experiences of love — all kinds of love — with a story-first approach in multiple genres. We have open submission calls a few times a year, and we host the Driftless Unsolicited novella contest in the late spring. At other times, submission is via invitation only. We are particularly interested in submissions from people of color, LGBTQIA+ writers, and women.” DETAILS HERE
Brian Mill Press was founded “in 2014 by two bestselling authors with over twenty years’ experience in the publishing industry, Brain Mill Press is a midsize independent publisher of “love books for humans.” Our goal is to build a catalog of radically authentic stories and poetry about all facets of the human experience with love, understood as broadly as possible.”
BLUE LYRA REVIEW, A Literary Journal of Diverse Voices publishes “poetry (short, longish, free, narrative, lyric or prose), creative nonfiction, translations, art, fiction, and book reviews. Second, what we are looking for is simple: something that burns us, moves us, and makes us want to reread it. However, we are not looking for horror or erotica or western or something that will be offensive (use your judgment!). Every editor says it but this should be your goal: leave us desiring more. Send us your very best!” Details HERE. Pay attention to their reading periods and submission deadlines. Details HERE.
HEEB MAGAZINE has a sense of humor and is a Jewish magazine born in Brooklyn, NY with straight forward, no fuss guidelines. It’s editors welcome “your submissions, but we can’t promise to love everything. For best results: Keep it short and sweet. Aim for 500. The MAX is 1000 words! Your submissions should fit into one of these categories: News, Culture, Israel, Food, Urban Kvetch, Shtick Write for the universal reader. Heeb is to Jews, as ketchup is to hot dogs. We’re not interested in feeding hot dog(ma) to anyone. Don’t upload photos you don’t have the rights to. If you’re using a Creative Commons image, make sure to provide us with the photographer’s name and the original source. Thanks!” View and Submit HERE.
AMERICA MAGAZINE, The National Catholic Review accepts submissions including poetry. Details HERE.
THE BeZINE, a publication of The Bardo Group Bequines is currently reviewing submissions – including poetry – for its July issue. The theme is “Faith: In things seen and unseen.” Submission guidelines are HERE.
EVENTS
CLMP, Community of Literary Magazines and Presses announces its “Chinese Food Under the Manhattan Bridge: a fall gala” scheduled for November 2nd. Details and tickets HERE.
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FIRST SATURDAY POETRY IN BAY SHORE, LI, NY hosted by Matt Pasca and Terri Muuss – food, fun — OPEN MIC — bring your instruments and your poems. Saturday, July 9 at 7 PM – 10 PM Locations: Cyrus Chai & Coffee Company, 1 Railroad Plz, Bay Shore, New York
RESOURCES
POETRY MAGAZINES “contains Poetry Library’s free access non-profit-making online archive of English 20th and 21st century poetry magazines which is part of the library’s ongoing digitisation project funded by the Arts Council England. The Poetry Library launched in 2003. It aims to reach new audiences and preserve the magazines for the future. It already holds more than 6,000 poems published in over 50 different magazines, with work by Fleur Adcock, Jen Hadfield, Seamus Heaney, Michael Horovitz, Jackie Kay, Edwin Morgan, Paul Muldoon, Les Murray, Sheenagh Pugh, Owen Sheers, Fiona Sampson, Penelope Shuttle and many more. The website has been selected by the British Library to be archived by its digital heritage web archiving project, the UK Web Archive.”
THE LONG ISLAND WRITERS HOUSE, established in Huntington in 2014, announced its transition to the Karen Rae Levine Foundation, a 501c3 nonprofit. The goal is to foster literacy, creativity and creative writing, and to encourage literary, performing and visual arts. Our concentration will be on the underserved. As an alternative to the a commercial space in Huntington (Long Island, New York), the foundation will connect Long Island’s talented artists with each other and with the community with programs across Long Island and through social media such as a Facebook group, a blog and YouTube productions. If you know of a community in need or if you’re an author or artist with insights to share, email Karen@liwriters.org. Support the arts on Long Island! Membership rates will be announced shortly. Donations can be made on the website or sent by check, payable to Karen Rae Levine Foundation, PO Box 2011, Huntington, NY 11743. Thank you!
Karen writes, “l started the Long Island Writers House on a wing and a prayer. I missed the camaraderie I shared with other writers while going to school in Manhattan for my MFA in Creative Writing. Back home, I recognized that Manhattan was not an easy trek and that was no center on Long Island where writers could learn and network. There were many places for visual and performing artists to congregate, but none for those who created their art with words. I started the Writers House at my home, offering seminars and readings. I combined genres by including performing and visual artists and explored learning methods like Yoga and writing. There were no celebrities and no red pens. My philosophy was and is that we are all in this together. When I saw interest grow, I moved it to a commercial space in Huntington. So many people walked into the space, excited and grateful. But excitement and gratitude couldn’t pay the rent. Meanwhile, I had applied for nonprofit status. With the 501c3 Karen Rae Levine Foundation, I shifted the idea of a physical meeting space to cyberspace. Writers and other artists could still network online, blog, and share their insights on YouTube productions. An as funds grow, I can reach out across this big Island, connecting experts I’ve come to know and respect to aspiring wordsmiths at any level, in their own community.”
BOOK LAUNCH
CONGRATULATIONS TO MYRA SCHNEIDER on the publication of her twelfth collection, Persephone in Finsbury Park (Enitharmon Press, 2015). More news to come and apologies that I could only download the back cover.
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CELEBRATING AMERICAN SHE-POETS (21): Alice Walker, on the way to being daffodils
Speaking of death
and decay
It hardly matters
Which
Since both are on the
way, maybe –
to being daffodils.excerpt from Exercises on Themes from Life in Once: Poems (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1968)
This celebration is a rain-drop next to the ocean of ongoing world-wide applause for Alice Walker (Alice Walker’s Garden). Her roots are in Putnam Country, Georgia where her family subsisted financially on earnings from sharecropping, dairy-farming and her mother’s part-time employment as a maid. Ms. Walker seems to come by her spunk and savvy honestly. When a white plantation owner told her mother that black people had “no need for education,” she replied …
“‘You might have some black children somewhere, but they don’t live in this house. Don’t you ever come around here again talking about how my children don’t need to learn how to read and write.’ Her mother enrolled Alice in first grade when the girl was four years old.” Evelyn C White in Alice Walker: A Life (W.W. Norton, 2004)
Alice Walker is perhaps most well-known to some for her fiction especially The Color Purple, The Temple of My Familiar and Possessing the Secret of Joy (Open Road Media, 2012 – Kindle edition). The Color Purple won her the National Book Award and The Pulitzer Prize. It was adapted for theater, both screen and as a musical stage play. The latter won the 2016 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical and the 2016 Drama League Award for Outstanding Revival of a Musical. Alice Walker was the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer for fiction. (Gwendolyn Brooks was the first African-American woman to win it for poetry.)
Once:Poems was Alice Walker’s debut poetry collection, written during a 1965 trip to East Africa and her senior year at Sarah Lawrence College. The book established her as an A-list poet and Muriel Rukeyser (among many others) gave it a thumbs-up saying, “Brief slashing poems – Young, and in the sun.”
In Kampala
the young king
goes often to Church
the young girls here
are
so pious.excerpt from African Images, Glimpses from a Tiger’s Back in Once:Poems
Her other collections include: Hard Times Require Furious Dancing: New Poems (2013); The World Will Follow Joy: Turning Madness into Flowers (2013); Her Blue Body Everything We Know: earthling Poems 1965-1990 (2004); and Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth: New Poems (2004).
No celebration of Alice Walker’s work would be complete without acknowledging her ceaseless efforts on behalf of the poor and marginalized. She is an advocate for peace and understanding. She was initially inspired by Martin Luther King, Jr. and worked in the civil rights movement and by Howard Zin. She dedicated Once:Poems to Mr. Zin. Wherever people are oppressed in this world, you will find Alice Walker fighting the compassionate fight.
If you are viewing this from an email subscription, you’ll have to link through to the site to view this video of Alice Walker in Palestine in August 2010.
Ms. Walker regularly posts new poetry at her site Alice Walker’s Garden along with opinion pieces and updates on her own work and that of others. Her Amazon page is HERE.
portrait © Virginia Bolt under CC BY-SA 2.0; Ms. cover © Ms. Magazine under CC BY-SA 2.0.
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THE SUNDAY POESY: Opportunities, Events and Other Information and News
CALLS FOR SUBMISSION
Opportunity Knocks
THE REMEMBERED ARTS JOURNAL, Modern Life, Awakened Art accepts poetry submissions and creative writing, essays, performing arts, crafts and visual arts. “In the competitive, compartmentalized, modern world, it can be easy to neglect the creative impulses that make us human. We put aside our sketching and scribbling to pay our bills, raise our children, serve our communities, and pursue our ambitions. The Remembered Arts Journal is a forum for reviving almost forgotten artistry. Its purpose is to encourage readers and contributors rediscover the joy of creating and sharing works of art.” A lovely fledgling publication, they’ve produced two issues to date and it looks like they’re working on monthly publication. The deadline for the July issue is past, so just watch for their announcement for August. Details HERE.
THE OFFBEAT, affiliated with the Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures at Michigan State University, reads year round. It’s published twice-yearly and accepts submission of “unique” works of poetry, fiction and nonfiction, and sequential art. Consistent with its name, the editors are looking for “writing that falls off the beaten path in an intriguing way.” Details HERE.
THREE-PENNY REVIEW, a literary magazine, accepts submissions of poetry, fiction and articles for their quarterly. Details HERE.
BY&BY POETRY, another fledgling publication (2015) accepts submissions year round for its “eclectic online showcase or both established and up-and-coming poets.” Details HERE.
THE COSSAC REVIEW accepts submissions of poetry, fiction, nonfiction and translation year round. Details HERE.
NUMINOUS MAGAZINE accepts submissions of poems “of a spiritual nature written in any style. Details HERE.
ENCHANTED CONVERSATION, a Fairy Tale Magazine accepts submissions of poetry and stories six times a year. Be sure to adhere to themes and deadlines. This is an online publication of Kate Wolord, a freelance writer, editor, blogger and anthologist. Details HERE.
COMPETITIONS/CONTESTS
Opportunity Knocks
OFFBEAT is accepting submissions for its first annual nonfiction writing contest. Word limit 4,000 words. There’s a $12 entry fee and the deadline is August 15. Details HERE.
BOOK PUBLICATION
Kudos
Life in Suspension (Salmon Poetry, 2016), the latest collection of poet, actor and translator, HÉLÈNE CARDONA, debuted with stellar reviews.
Hélène co-edits Fulcrum: An Antholgy of Poetry and Aesthetics, is Co-International Editor of Plume, essay contributor to The London Magazine, and co-producer of the documentary Pablo Neruda: the Poet’s Calling. She writes children stories and co-wrote with John FitzGerald the screenplay Primate, based on his novel. She is fluent in English, French, Spanish, German, Italian and Greek and has received fellowships from the Goethe-Institut, in Bremen, Germany, and the University of Andalucía, Spain. This collection was written in English and translated into French. Both versions are included in the book.
Hélène Cardona keenly understands poetry’s insistence that we slow down, downshifting into a more measured and conscious pace. Her powerful poems are written line by certain line, which is how her readers gratefully experience them.” —Billy Collins, former U.S. Poet Laureate
Look for an intimate interview with Hélène coming to THE POET BY DAY, Celebrating American She-Poets series soon.
TIDBIT
Introducing poet and artist, Marlene McNew, also know as “The Ski Poet.” Marlene is an accomplished artist as well as a poet. She writes of skiing, Parkinson’s Disease, struggle, hope and victory.
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