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

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CALLS FOR SUBMISSIONS

Opportunity Knocks

THE FLEXIBLE PERSONA,  a literary magazine, has a call out for its Spring 2017 issue. Interest is in fiction, creative nonfiction and poetry. The magazine is published twice a year and has specified reading periods. Submission guidelines HERE.

THE BeZINE, a publication of The Bardo Group Beguines will review submissions for the December issue, themed The Healing Power of the Arts, beginning on December 1.  Submit poetry, essay, nonfiction, creative nonfiction, photography, music videos and art or photography by December 10 to bardogroup@gmail.com.  Please review the publication first and the submission guidelines.

FICTION SILICON VALLEY accepts submission throughout the year and pays six cents a word with a max of $100. Categories are: “fantastic fiction” and “perfect poetry.” After the first submission there is a reading fee. Details HERE.

WOMEN’S DAY MAGAZINE recently updated their submission guidelines for the digital WomensDay.com. The editors want “long-form narrative pieces about inspiring women who’ve overcome adversity, emerging trends for mothers and women in general, and health issues that directly or indirectly affect women in middle age: weight loss, sleep, menopause, mental illness, fibromyalgia, asthma, headaches, allergies, cancer, and Alzheimer’s disease. While we realize they can be heavy topics, we always want our stories to have a positive takeaway and a hopeful angle.”  Guidelines for Digital Writers are HERE.

EVENTS

THE NEW SALON: READING AND CONVERSATION sponsored by the Poetry Society of America and Co-Sponsored by the NYU Creative Writing Program. Patrick Rosal reading, with Laurin Macios Patrick Rosal is the author of Brooklyn Antediluvian (Persea Books, 2016), Boneshepherds (Persea, 2011), My American Kundiman (Persea, 2006), and Uprock Headspin Scramble and Dive (Persea, 2003). His collections have been honored with the Association of Asian American Studies Book Award, the Global Filipino Literary Award, and the Asian American Writers Workshop Members’ Choice Award. In 2009, he had a Fulbright Fellowship to the Philippines. He teaches at Rutgers University-Camden and lives in Philadelphia. Admission is free. Thursday, November 17, 7 p.m. at Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House, New York University, 58 West 10th Street, New York, NY 10003

AMERICAN POETRY OLD AND NEW hosted by Ver Poets Programme at 8:00 p.m. – 10 p.m., Fri, 18 Nov 2016. Location: St. Michael’s Parish Centre, St. Michael’s Street, St. Albans, Hertfordshire, St. Albans £4 non-members, £2 members, Poetry read by Robert Peake (Host of Transatlantic Poetry) and RA Villanueva to illustrate the development of American poetry. A film poem will be shown. Open Mic for poems on theme. Refreshments.

THE PSA READING at McNally Jackson: Joshua Bennett and Jennifer Kronovet. Joshua Bennett received his PhD in English from Princeton University and is a member of the Society of Fellows at Harvard University. He has received fellowships from the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop, the Hurston/Wright Foundation, and the Ford Foundation. His poems have been published or are forthcoming in Beloit Poetry Journal, Callaloo, Kenyon Review, New England Review, and elsewhere.
Jennifer Kronovet is the author of THE WUG TEST (Ecco Press), which was selected for the National Poetry Series. She is also the author of the poetry collection AWAYWARD. She co-translated THE ACROBAT, the selected poems of Yiddish writer Celia Dropkin. Under the name Jennifer Stern, she co-translated EMPTY CHAIRS, poetry by the Chinese writer Liu Xia.  Admission is free. McNally Jackson Books, 52 Prince Street, New York, NY 10012

TIMOTHY ADES’ poetry reading on Wed 24 Nov at The Wheatsheaf, 25 Rathbone Place, London W1, at 6.30 for 7pm, with poets Kate Miller, Isabel Bermudez, Philip Hancock, and Róisín Tierney. MC is Anne Stewart of the poetry pf website

CLASSES

SECOND LIGHT NETWORK OF WOMEN POETS offers remote (distant) workshops suitable for individual study or for group workshops. They’re reasonably priced. Details HERE.

KUDOS

IN HONOR

LEONARD COHEN (September 21, 1934 – November 7, 2016): Thank you! and Rest in Peace. ♥

Leonard Norman Cohen, CC GOQ was a Canadian singer, songwriter, poet and novelist. His work explored religion, politics, isolation, sexuality, and personal relationships. If you are viewing this post through an email subscription, it’s likely you’ll have to click through to the site to view it.

TIDBITS

The Poet by Day, Celebrating American She-Poets series that has been on hiatus will return on November 24 with Hélène Cardona and will continue but on the fourth Thursday each month, not weekly.  To see who has been featured, check the blogroll to your right.

In England and the U.S. you’re likely seeing a lot of people wearing Safety-pins. Here’s why:

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THE POET BY DAY SUNDAY POESY

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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THE SUNDAY POESY: opportunities, events, classes and other news for poets

PBD - blogrollCONTESTS/COMPETITIONS:

Opportunity Knocks:

  • The Lexi Rudnitsky/Editor’s Choice Award is an annual collaboration between Persea Books and The Lexi Rudnitsky Poetry Project. It is open to any poet who has previously published at least one full-length book of poems. The winner receives an advance of $1,000.00, publication of his/her collection by Persea, and a stipend of $1,000 for expenses related to the promotion of the collection (e.g. travel to and from readings). DEADLINE: 9 March 2016
  • The 2016 Pinch Literary Awards
    Sponsored by the Hohenberg Foundation
    December 15, 2015 – DEADLINE: 15 MARCH 2016
    1st Place in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry each receive $1000.
  • The Robinson Jeffers Tor House 2016 Prize for Poetry (Scroll down in newsletter for details) DEADLINE: 15 MARCH 2016The annual Tor House Prize for Poetry is a living memorial to American poet Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962)
    $2,000 for an original, unpublished poem not to exceed three pages in length. $200 for Honorable Mentions.
  • Main Street Rag Publishing Company: Cathy Smith Bowers Chapbook Contest, The inaugural Cathy Smith Bower Chapbook Contest will open in 2016. DETAILS TO BE ANNOUNCED
  • DEADLINE: May 6, 2016, Writer’s Digest Annual Writing Competition 85th Annual Writing Competition for a chance to win and have your work be seen by editors and agents. The winning entries of this writing contest will also be on display in the 85th Annual Writer’s Digest Competition Collection. Categories include rhyming and nonrhyming poems.

PUBLICATION POSSIBILITIES:

Opportunity Knocks:

  • HEADS-UP: Residents of Swindon UK

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

EVENTS:

logoJoin 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.

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  • POETRY UNBOUND:

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

shopfanfarePoet 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.