"This work is unlike any other, in its range of rich, conjuring imagery and its dexterity, its smart voice. Carroll-Hackett doesn’t spare us—but doesn’t save us—she draws a blueprint of power and class with her unflinching pivot: matter-of-fact and tender." —Jan Beatty

Archive for June, 2015

Monday Must Read! Diane Lockward, The Crafty Poet, and Temptation by Water

diane_lockwardThis week, meet Diane Lockward, author of The Crafty Poet: A Portable Workshop (Wind Publications, 2013) and three poetry books, most recently Temptation by Water. Her previous books are What Feeds Us, which received the 2006 Quentin R. Howard Poetry Prize, and Eve’s Red Dress. A new poetry collection, The Uneaten Carrots of Atonement, is scheduled for publication in 2015. She is also the author of two chapbooks, Against Perfection and Greatest Hits: 1997-2010. Her poems have been included in such anthologies as Poetry Daily: 360 Poems from the World’s Most Popular Poetry Website and Garrison Keillor’s Good Poems for Hard Times, and in such journals as Harvard Review, Southern Poetry Review, and Prairie Schooner. Her work has also been featured on Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, Gwarlingo, and The Writer’s Almanac. She is the Poet Laureate of West Caldwell, New Jersey, where she runs two annual poetry events: The West Caldwell Poetry Festival and Girl Talk. She publishes a free monthly e-mail Poetry Newsletter and is happy to have new subscribers.

She blogs at Blogalicious, http://www.dianelockward.blogspot, and keeps a website at www.dianelockward.com.

Crafty Link to Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/The-Crafty-Poet-Portable-Workshop/dp/193613862X%3FSubscriptionId%3DAKIAJBDF5XQBATGDX4VQ%26tag%3Dspea06-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D193613862X

For information about The Crafty Poet: A Portable Workshop

http://www.dianelockward.blogspot.com/p/the-crafty-poet-portable-workshop.html

Description: The Crafty Poet: A Portable Workshop is a poetry tutorial to inform and inspire poets. It contains model poems with prompts, writing tips, and interviews contributed by fifty-six poets, including thirteen former and current state Poets Laureate. An additional forty-five poets contributed sample poems. Geared for experienced poets and aspiring poets, this book is ideal for individual use at home or group use in the classroom or workshop.

Review by Lynn Domina

http://lynndomina.com/?p=162

Review by Christine Veladota

http://maybesopoetry.com/2014/12/20/the-crafty-poet-a-portable-workshop-by-diane-lockward/

Comments from readers:

I LOVE the poet interviews sprinkled in with the craft tips. These alone are worth the price of the book. I highly, highly recommend it to any poet writing today. It brings forth much fruit! Do go and secure a copy immediately. (C.A. LaRue)

Here is a must for teachers of poetry. . . a feast of poems and instructions. (Grace Cavalieri)

Sample Bonus Prompt

http://adelekenny.blogspot.com/2013/10/prompt-166-word-chain-poem-by-guest.html

Sample Prompt with model poem

http://adelekenny.blogspot.com/2014/11/prompt-210-loveliness-of-words-by-guest.html

Happy Reading—and Writing!

xo

Mary

 

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Friday Call for Submissions Bonus :-) Jellyfish Highway: Postindustrial Bioluminescence

 

Bonus Call for Submissions 🙂

Because I love that they want “postindustrial bioluminescence” 🙂

Jellyfish Highway is postindustrial bioluminescence, we’re abyssal gigantism. We are a press for work that floats and undulates and lingers and stings, literature that shines from the deepest blue.

We are on Twitter at @JHighwayPress. We will be announcing our first title soon. We are everywhere. We want all of your mind.

We want full-length books of fiction (novels, collections), poetry, or nonfiction. Also, we are looking for chapbook-like works to publish on an indeterminate schedule as ebooks and such.

Website: http://www.jellyfishhighway.com/

Submissions: http://www.jellyfishhighway.com/submissions/

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Friday Call for Submissions Love! Rhino: General Reading Period

Friday Call for Submissions Love!

Rhino

About

The Poetry Forum/RHINO Poetry is a non-profit literary organization, primarily devoted to the publication of RHINO Poetry, an annual high-quality print journal featuring well-crafted, diverse poetry, flash fiction, and translations. While remaining committed to our print journal, beginning with the 2014 issue, all poems will be placed online throughout the year. We also feature audio versions of our poems.

RHINO Poetry occupies a niche somewhere between academia and the emerging poetry scene – devoted to creative work that tells stories, provokes thought, and pushes the boundaries in form and feeling – while connecting with our readers and audience.

We invite traditional or experimental work reflecting passion, originality, artistic conviction, and a love affair with language.  We encourage emerging and established writers throughout the United States and around the world. Submissions are read by multiple editors with various tastes, all looking for quality work. Sometimes we call ourselves “eclectic” in the best sense of the word. We are proud of the content and variety of each issue we publish.

Guidelines

“We are reading for general submissions: April 1 – August 31.

Founders’ Prize submissions are accepted September 1 – October 31. Reading Fee: $10

We accept one submission per each reading period.

We strongly prefer online submissions.

Our diverse group of editors looks for the very best in contemporary writing, and we have created a dynamic process of soliciting and reading new work by local, national, and international writers. We read for previously unpublished poems, translations, and flash-fiction.

We welcome all styles of poems, and look for work which is well-crafted, reflects passion, originality, engagement with contemporary culture, and a love affair with language. All entries considered for the Editors’ Prize.

Our basic editorial principle, however, is unwavering—we’re looking to publish the best work we can find.”

Rhino’s full detailed guidelines here: http://rhinopoetry.org/submit/guidelines/

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Monday Must Read! Melissa Eleftherion, Pigtail Duty

melissa eletherionThis week, meet Melissa Eleftherion, the author of huminsect (dancing girl press, 2013), prism maps (dusie kollektiv, 2014), Pigtail Duty (dancing girl press, 2015), and several other chapbooks and fragments. Melissa grew up in Brooklyn.

Recent work appears or is forthcoming in Bone Bouquet, Bukowski Erasure Poetry Anthology, Delirious Hem, Dusie, Entropy, Finery, Manifesting the Female Epic, Mom Egg Review, Open Letters Monthly, Poet as Radio, So to Speak, & TRUCK.

She works as a librarian with Mendocino County Libraries, and created, developed, and currently manages the Poetry Center Chapbook Exchange.

Melissa’s website: www.apoetlibrarian.wordpress.com

Follow Melissa on Twitter! @apoetlibrarian

Where to find Melissa’s books:

Pigtail Duty

http://dulcetshop.myshopify.com/collections/frontpage/products/pigtail-duty-melissa-eleftherion

Huminsect

https://dulcetshop.myshopify.com/products/huminsect-melissa-eleftherion

 

Check out this very cool project!

Poetry Center Chapbook Exchange: http://poetrychapbooks.omeka.net/

 

Happy Reading!

xo

Mary

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Friday Call for Submissions Love! Profane, A Print and Audio Journal

Friday Call for Submissions Love! 

Profane

About 

Profane is an annual print and audio journal featuring an eclectic mix of poetry, creative non-fiction, and fiction where they also record every poem and piece of prose they publish in the author’s own voice. We publish in the winter.

“We’re keen on celebrating writers who present us with challenging material. Writing that’s surprising or difficult, emotionally and/or intellectually, in even small, subtle ways, has the potential to leave readers different as a result. To possess that potential is our definition of “good writing.” And ultimately, good writing, whatever form it takes, is what we publish.”

Guidelines

Profane reads submissions year round through our submissions manager, and we read for free from March to August. Now open for submissions.

We don’t accept work that has been printed elsewhere. We do accept simultaneous submissions, but ask that you alert us promptly should your work be accepted in another journal.

One of the things that makes our journal unique is the focus we place on audio. All submissions should be text only. However, if we accept your work, we’ll record you reading your work aloud, and briefly interview you about it and your writing at large (5 to 10 minutes). This will be conducted in our studio over the phone, at your convenience.

Despite the audio feature, we only accept work that stands up to scrutiny on the page. We feel the audio adds texture to our journal, and that it makes for an even more exciting product for our contributors and readers to share. It also makes it easier to ingest and digest an entire issue in the midst of hectic schedules.

It may be helpful to you, before submitting, to check out our previous issues (back digital issues are free).

We acquire only first North American printing rights, and all other rights stay with the author.

We strive to have a quick turnaround time, responding inside a month, often much quicker.

While we cannot offer monetary payment at this time, all contributors will receive a contributor’s copy of the print edition, the audio edition, and the digital edition.

Website

http://www.profanejournal.com/

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Sometimes the Day Is the Poem

May God bless and keep you always. May your wishes all come true. ❤

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Monday Must Read! Jessica Goodfellow, Mendeleev’s Mandala

Monday Must Read!

16757_10152358444066238_732481883340469962_nThis week, meet Jessica Goodfellow, author of Mendeleev’s Mandala (Mayapple Press, 2015) and The Insomniac’s Weather Report (Isobar Press, 2014).

Her chapbook, A Pilgrim’s Guide to Chaos in the Heartland, won the 2006 Concrete Wolf Chapbook Competition.

Her work has appeared in Best New Poets, Verse Daily, and NPR’s The Writer’s Almanac. Jessica received the Chad Walsh Poetry Prize from the Beloit Poetry Journal, as well as the Linda Julian Essay Award and the Sue Lile Inman Fiction Prize, both from the Emrys Foundation. Her work was made into a short film by Motionpoems (May 2015) and screened at the Minneapolis/St Paul International Film Festival and AWP 2015. Jessica has graduate degrees from Caltech and the University of New England. She lives and works in Japan.

Praise for Jessica Goodfellow “Here is a poet who has boldly refused to abide to the expectations of genre—but instead, pushes language and form as a means of asking the most urgent questions. The result is a courageous and kaleidoscopic, at times tender and vulnerable, exploration of motherhood and family—set against the backdrops of science, history, religion, myths, and mathematics. When a poet embarks on a book as myriad and borderless as this one, we are gifted the rare chance to stand at the threshold of a formidable human storm. And from here, it is clear that Goodfellow’s Mendeleev’s Mandala is an electric book. But its lines are not limited to lightning. They move more like thunder, startling, resonant, and suddenly everywhere in the mind at once. –Ocean Vuong, author of Night Sky With Exit Wounds

Jessica Goodfellow has a joyous intelligence and electric tongue. Reading this book a first time, my only regret was that I couldn’t read it a second first time. But then I read it a first second time and a first third. You see what I’m doing? I’m reading this book over and over, without ever completely taking it in. I think you will too. And like me, want only one thing from Jessica Goodfellow – more. – Bob Hicok

Jessica’s website: http://www.jessicagoodfellow.com/

Links to some poems from Mendeleev’s Mandala: http://www.diodepoetry.com/v6n2/content/goodfellow_j.html http://www.versedaily.org/2007/roadtrip.shtml http://www.thrushpoetryjournal.com/march-2012-jessica-goodfellow.html

Happy Reading!

xo

Mary

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