"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

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Friday Call for Submissions Love! New Journal: Mockingheart Review

 

MockingHeart Review

Deadline: December 1, 2015

Call for Inaugural Issue: Submissions for the inaugural issue of MockingHeart Review open November 1, 2015 and close December 1, 2015. We favor poems that express the complexities of the human heart in clear, precise, and lyrical language. Poems should call out to us, not let us sleep or turn away. Bring us poems that gleam and palpitate with intimacy. We seek visionary works that are visceral and that will leave us emotionally undone. We encourage poems that speak to the personal and political inasmuch as the political relates to the person/a. We accept poetry only. Prose poems are welcome.

Guidelines:

We accept poetry only. Prose poems are welcome.
Works that require extensive special formatting are discouraged.  Our apologies in advance.

Here is a .pdf of Frequently Asked Questions for submitting poetry that generally apply:  How to Submit Poetry

We seek works of the highest literary quality. We expect your best work in its final form.

We favor poems that express the complexities of the human heart in clear, precise, and lyrical language. We want poems that call out to us, that won’t let us sleep or turn away. Bring us poems that gleam and palpitate with intimacy. We hope for visionary works that are visceral and that will leave us emotionally undone. We encourage poems that speak to the personal and political inasmuch as the political relates to the person/a.

We believe metaphors. Entrance us with imagery that transforms. We are especially intrigued by imaginative language which melds the real to the surreal, and are pleased when this is done well through artful craft. We question reality. So should your poems.

We do not like poems that utilize clichés or are not finely wrought. We shy away from experimental verse, unless it appeals to our aesthetic and succeeds in moving us. We want works that convey meaning and possess emotional impact, or convince us there is no meaning to be understood.

We favor poems of shorter length, generally of a line length of 30. There is room for flexibility regarding this.

If you are unsure if your work falls within these guidelines, send it to us anyway. We will respond during the selection process and may be able to help to further clarify through conversation.

Your publishing history does not matter, but the quality of the work does.

Our issues will showcase only the best selected works. We will publish issues (3) three times a year.

Unpublished poems only. Simultaneous submissions okay, if the Editor is notified immediately of publication elsewhere. Expect to hear from us in less than (4) four weeks’ time.

Submissions outside of reading periods, unless solicited, will be ignored. If your work has been accepted for an issue, please wait six months before submitting again, within an open submission period. Also, please wait to hear from us regarding a submission before sending more work.

MockingHeart Review cannot pay our contributors at this time.  Rights revert to author upon publication, although MockingHeart Review reserves the right to anthologize, in printed or electronic format, material originally published here. If work that has appeared in this journal subsequently appears elsewhere, the editor requests MockingHeart Review be acknowledged as the place of first publication.

Submissions for the Inaugural Issue will open November 1, 2015 and close at midnight December 1, 2015.

Website: mockingheartreview.com.

Email: mockingheartreview@gmail.com

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Daily Prompt: Trauma & Becoming

Daily Prompt
 
I am not who I was 5 years ago.
 
Make art about the Becoming after trauma.trauma
 
#writingprompt #art #poetry #fiction #nonfiction #wordsmatter #trauma #ptsd

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Monday Must Read! Alexis Fancher: How I Lost My Virginity to Michael Cohen and Other Heart Stab Poems

 

Monday Must Read! 

Photo Credit: BAZ HERE

Photo Credit: BAZ HERE

This week meet Alexis Rhone Fancher, author of How I Lost My Virginity To Michael Cohen and Other Heart Stab Poems, from Sybaritic Press, 2014. Find her work in Rattle, The MacGuffin, Slipstream, The Chiron Review, and elsewhere. Her poems have been published in over twenty American and international anthologies. Her photos have been published worldwide. Since 2013 Alexis has been nominated for three Pushcart Prizes and a Best of The Net award. She is photography editor of Fine Linen, and poetry editor of Cultural Weekly, where she also publishes The Poet’s Eye, a monthly photo essay about her ongoing love affair with Los Angeles.

Alexis’ website: www.alexisrhonefancher.com

Buy Alexis’ fabulous book!

 http://www.amazon.com/How-Lost-Virginity-Michael-Cohen/dp/1495123197/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1438633881&sr=1-1&keywords=alexis+rhone+fancher

Read more from Alexis online:

Rattle

“over it”

Cultural Weekly

“Black & White Noir”

“Molten”

“On The Street”

“L.A.’s Long Legged Lovelies”

“Subterranean Lovesick Clues”

“Polaroid SX-70 Land Camera”

“L.A.’s Long Legged Lovelies”

“Black and White Noir”

QUAINT MAGAZINE

Daddy’s Friend Stan

PATRIA LETTERATURA

This Is Not A Poem

Walk All Over You

White Flag

Reviews of Alexis’ book:

ENTROPY

Review of How I Lost My Virginity To Michael Cohen and Other Heart Stab Poems

Black and White Gets Read

Review of How I Lost My Virginity To Michael Cohen and Other Heart Stab Poems

Interviews:

Alexis Rhone Fancher: Poetic Rhythms: LA poet / photographer Alexis Rhone Fancher talks about the progressive line between music and poetry

http://blues.gr/profiles/blogs/la-poet-photographer-alexis-rhone-fancher-talks-about-the

WICN

Radio Interview on Inquiry: WICN’s Mark Lynch interviews Alexis.

WORDS AT NINE

Interview with Anna Grace: “Alexis Next Door”

PUNK GLOBE

Author Interview

Find more of Alexisa online here: http://alexisrhonefancher.com/links.html

 

Happy Reading!

xo

Mary

 

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Friday Call for Submissions Love! Twisted Vine

 

 Friday Call for Submissions Love!

Twisted Vine

Open for Fall Submissions

Deadline: November 15, 2015

Produced by graduate students in the Interdisciplinary Studies Department at Western New Mexico University, Twisted Vine Literary Arts Journal is a multidisciplinary focused arts journal currently seeking literary fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, interviews, drama, cross-genre, and visual art for fall 2015. While we love prose with a strong narrative voice and poetry that highlights concrete images, we also appreciate non-linear and experimental work. Issues are published biannually online at the end of each semester. Please visit www.twistedvine.org for more information. We look forward to reading your work.

Guidelines

Twisted Vine Literary Arts Journal is committed to showcasing undiscovered talent in the literary and visual arts. Twisted Vine seeks to publish an eclectic mix of ideas and values. We are open to all genres, though we have a special affinity for hybrid works that transcend traditional genres. The editors of Twisted Vine strongly encourage submissions that are interdisciplinary in nature (poetry about math is one example), progressive, and unexpected.

All written material submitted should be in Arial or Times New Roman 12 point font, double spaced, and adhere to basic guidelines of grammar and spelling (with obvious exceptions for creative license).

Twisted Vine reads blind, so we ask that you do not include any identifying information within your submission.  

Once a submission is selected for publication, the contributor’s name will be revealed to the staff, and additional information may be requested. We make every attempt to respond to all submissions within 2 months. Editors may provide specific feedback on works submitted but there is no guarantee.

Please limit submissions to one document, video, or collection of images per genre category at one time. If you are submitting poetry, please include no more than six (6) poems in a single document. If your submission includes more than one file, please use one ZIP file before submitting. Once you have received a response from us, you are welcome to submit again. We are looking for quality over quantity.

Twisted Vine is not interested in gratuitous sex or violence. Please keep all submissions “PG-13.”

We only accept original, unpublished material. We consider any work that is available for public viewing on social media, personal websites/blogs, or any other open source to be previously published.

If your submission is accepted elsewhere please notify us immediately by adding a note to your submission in Submittable.

Fiction Guidelines

Please limit short fiction to 4,500-5,000 words. Fiction genre includes but is not limited to romance, fantasy, science fiction, mystery, etc. We are looking to compile a diverse and eclectic body of work that represents the interdisciplinary theme of our journal. Stories should have strong narration, character development, plot, and so forth.

Creative Non-Fiction Guidelines

Creative non-fiction submissions are limited to 4,500 words. We are looking for eclectic submissions in this genre that compliment our cross-disciplinary focus. We are open to a broad range of material, however your submission must remain literary in essence.

Poetry Guidelines

Twisted Vine accepts both traditional and experimental poetry. We do not adhere to any specific guidelines for style or content and only ask that your poems reflect artistic excellence. We highly encourage poems that represent interdisciplinary themes.

Please submit no more than six (6) poems per document. Along with the written version of the poem, contributors are welcome to submit audio or video readings of their poetry for consideration on our website as well.

Art Guidelines

We accept original graphic art, photography, paintings/drawings, cartoons and all others forms of visual art in .jpg or .jpeg format. We are not genre specific, but will give preference to pieces that capture the spirit of our interdisciplinary theme.

You may submit up to six (6) images that represent a cohesive collection. If submitting more than one image, please title each image file with the same name and corresponding numbers (example: Carnival1, Carnival2, Carnival3, etc) and submit as a ZIP file. Editors reserve the right to publish any part or all of a collection submitted.

Interview Guidelines



Twisted Vine accepts audio, video, and transcribed interviews. Please limit all audio and video submissions to 10 minutes or less in length and all transcribed interviews to 4,500 words or less. Stylistically, we want interviews that discuss cross-disciplinary studies, literature, and, the arts at large. The edgier the better, but keep it above the belt.


Video Guidelines



We are looking for short, experimental videos with an interdisciplinary approach to artistic and literary subject matter. We are open to a wide range of possibilities in this category and will know what we like when we see it. We prefer videos under 5 minutes and definitely no longer than 10 minutes in length. Please polish your work as needed (before submitting) so that you are exhibiting the best of what you have to offer. Please, no unsolicited series, newsreels, or readings of unoriginal work.

For more on what we’re looking for, please check out our editor’s interview with Jim Harrington on Six Questions For…

Twisted Vine is currently a non-paying market.

Twisted Vine website: http://www.twistedvine.org/

Editor/General Questions:  twistedvine.ce1@gmail.com

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Daily Prompt Catch-Up :-)

Daily Prompt Catch-Up 🙂 

10/15/2015
I have one dog who thinks she’s Houdini, constantly coming up with magic ways to get out of my fenced yard. Make art about escape.

10/16/2015
“The sky hangs up its starry pictures: a swan, a crab, a horse”~Barbara Crooker Make art inspired by constellations.

10/17/2015
I’m conducting a workshop this weekend on Writing Prayer. Write your own prayer, or chant, or gratitude letter. Make art that is prayer.

10/18/2015
Nighttime & Dreams Daily Prompt
Last night I dreamt my beautiful friend Beth and I were escorting a huge group–hundreds–of people on some kind of trek to safety through a beautiful wild desert-like landscape. Beth walked in the front of the long long line of people, and I covered the back, making sure we lost no one. I carried a small child, a little boy with outrageously blue eyes, on my hip, We had planned for years for the time when we would have to do this, and so we knew what we had to do to get them where we were taking them safely. It felt good and strong and somehow celebratory, despite knowing it was a rescue and there was so much that had to be done. I was very glad to have Beth there with me.
Make art about rescue.

10/19/2015
First frost of the fall 🙂  My cold frames are keeping the winter garden safe. Make art about protecting something from the cold.

10/20/2015
Today included seriously the most amazing nap 🙂  Make art about naps.

10/21/2015
Thinkin on Call & Response. Call and response is a form of “spontaneous verbal non-verbal interaction between speaker and listener in which all of the statements (‘calls’) are punctuated by expressions (‘responses’) from the listener.” Make art using a call & response exchange.

call & response

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Monday Must Read! Susan Lewis, How To Be Another

 

susan lewis author photoMonday Must Read! 

This week meet Susan Lewis, the author of six chapbooks and two full-length poetry collections, This Visit (BlazeVOX [books], 2015), and How to be Another (Červená Barva Press, 2014). Her poetry and flash fiction has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize several times and published in such journals as The Awl, Berkeley Poetry Review, Boston Review, The Brooklyn Rail, Cimarron Review, Connotation Press, EOAGH, Fact-Simile, Fourteen Hills, Gargoyle, The Journal, Luna Luna, The New Orleans Review, Phoebe, Ping Pong, Pool, Prelude, Propeller, Raritan, Seneca Review, So To Speak, Verse Daily, Word For/Word and Yew. She lives in New York City and edits Posit (www.positjournal.com).

Get Susan’s most recent books here:

http://www.spdbooks.org/Search/Default.aspx?AuthorName=Susan+Lewis

Read more from Susan online:

http://www.susanlewis.net/poetry-online/

Read reviews, interviews, blurbs, etc.:

www.susanlewis.net

 

 

 

 

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Monday Must Read! Natasha Kochicheril Moni, The Cardiologist’s Daughter

 

Monday Must Read! 

Natasha Moni Poets in ParkNatasha Kochicheril Moni is a first-generation American of Dutch and Indian descent. Born in the North and raised in the South, she finds home in the Pacific Northwest. Natasha’s first full-length poetry collection, The Cardiologist’s Daughter, was released by Two Sylvias Press in late 2014. Her poetry, fiction, essays, and reviews have been published in fifty journals including: Verse, DIAGRAM, [PANK], Hobart, Rattle, Indiana Review, and Fourteen Hills. In 2015, it was acknowledged on Straight Forward Press’s The Poetry Shopping List: Your Next Must Read.

She holds a BA in Child Development from Tufts University, received her Post-baccalaureate pre-medical certificate from Mills College, and is in her fourth year of naturopathic medical school at Bastyr University.

Website: http://www.natashamoni.com/

Natasha’s Poetry:

DIAGRAM

Hobart 

LunaLuna

Rattle

Toasted Cheese Literary Journal

Support your local WA State bookstores/poet by buying a copy of The Cardiologist’s Daughter at one of the following locations:

Washington State
Edmonds

Edmonds Bookshop

Port Townsend

The Writers’Workshoppe/Imprint Books

Seattle

Elliott Bay Book Co. 
Open Books 
Third Place Books (Lake Forest Park)

Tacoma

The Nearsighted Narwhal 

Or purchase a paperback or Kindle version online through Amazon

Reviews of The Cardiologist’s Daughter:

Amazon

Good Reads

ThePedestal Magazine

 

Happy Reading!

xo

Mary

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Monday Must Read: Jeannine Hall Gailey, The Robot Scientist’s Daughter

 

Monday Must Read!

JeannineInternetHeadshotThis week meet Jeannine Hall Gailey She is the author of four books of poetry: Becoming the Villainess,She Returns to the Floating World, Unexplained Fevers, and The Robot Scientist’s Daughter, new in 2015 from Mayapple Press. Her work has been featured on NPR’s The Writer’s Almanac, Verse Daily, and in The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror. Her poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, The Iowa Review and Prairie Schooner. Jeannine recently served as the second Poet Laureate of Redmond, Washington.

Visit Jeannine’s web site: www.webbish6.com

Follow Jeannine on Twitter! @webbish6

Find Jeannine’s beautiful books!

The Robot Scientist’s Daughter:

http://mayapplepress.com/the-robot-scientists-daughter-jeannine-hall-gailey/

“Dazzling in its descriptions of a natural world imperiled by the hidden dangers of our nuclear past, this book presents a girl in search of the secrets of survival. In The Robot Scientist’s Daughter, Jeannine Hall Gailey creates for us a world of radioactive wasps, cesium in the sunflowers, and robotic daughters. She conjures the intricate menace of the nuclear family and nuclear history, juxtaposing surreal cyborgs, mad scientists from fifties horror flicks and languid scenes of rural childhood. Mining her experience growing up in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, the writer allows the stories of the creation of the first atomic bomb, the unintended consequences of scientific discovery, and building nests for birds in the crooks of maple trees to weave together a reality at once terrifying and beautiful.The Robot Scientist’s Daughter reveals the underside of the Manhattan Project from a personal angle, and charts a woman’s – and America’s – journey towards reinvention.”

Becoming the Villainess:

http://www.steeltoebooks.com/books/3-books/books/44-becoming-the-villainess

Unexplained Fevers:

http://webbish6.com/books/unexplained-fevers/

She Returns to the Floating World:

http://webbish6.com/books/she-returns-to-the-floating-world/

 

Praise for Jeannine Hall Gailey’s work:

In The Robot Scientist’s Daughter, Jeannine Hall Gailey charts the dangerous secrets in a nuclear family as well as a nuclear research facility. Her ecofeminist approach to the making of bombs, celebrates our fragile natural world. Full of flowers and computers, this riveting poetry captures the undeniable compromises and complexities of our times.— Denise Duhamel

What is her story? “In this story,” Jeannine Gailey tells us, “a girl grows up in a field of nuclear reactors. She gives us lessons in poison. And as we watch this heroine appear from various angles, in multiple lights we realize that just like this girl who “made birds’ nests / with mud and twigs, hoping that birds would / come live in them.” Gailey makes an archetype for a contemporary American woman whom she sees as beautiful — and damaged — and proud — and unafraid. And the Scientist? He “lives alone in a house made of snow. / If he makes music, no one hears it.” America? It builds barbed wire “to keep enemies out of its dream” – but we all are surrounded by these barbed wires of a country whose “towns melt into sunsets, into dust clouds, into faces.” In subtle, playful, courageous poems, we are witnessing a brilliant performance.— Ilya Kaminsky

More from Jeannine online!

Rattle: http://www.rattle.com/poetry/elemental-by-jeannine-hall-gailey

2River: http://www.2river.org/2RView/10_4/poems/gailey.html

Atticus Review: http://atticusreview.org/featuring-jeannine-hall-gailey/

Verse Daily! http://www.versedaily.org/2015/aboutjeanninehallgailey.shtml

Interview:

http://jackstraw.org/blog/?p=578

Hear Jeannine Read:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZ0mCEbCQ-M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wu5j7BjnorU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxwncJ7KACg

 

Happy Reading!

xo

Mary

 

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Sometimes the Prompt is Detailed in the Instructions :-)

Daily Prompt

I’ll give y’all the prompt I gave my Baby Poets last night 🙂

Write a How To piece (poem, story, essay), building something creative and beautiful out of a set of instructions.

I told them if they would send me titles, I’d write one too, using one of their titles, so today, I’ll be writing either How To Walk a Dog or How To Walk Down Stairs.

how to

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Monday Must Read! Pam Uschuk, Crazy Love and Blood Flower

 

Monday Must Read! Pam Uschuk

pam publicity photoThis week meet Pam Uschuk. Political activist and wilderness advocate, Pam Uschuk has howled out six books of poems, including Crazy Love, winner of a 2010 American Book Award, and Wild In The Plaza Of Memory. A new collection of poems, Blood Flower, was released in February 2015.

Translated into more than dozen languages, Pam’s work appears in over three hundred journals and anthologies worldwide, including Poetry, Ploughshares, Agni Review, etc. Uschuk has been awarded the 2011 War Poetry Prize from WINNING WRITERS, 2010 New Millenium Poetry Prize, 2010 Best of the Web, the Struga International Poetry Prize (for a theme poem), the Dorothy Daniels Writing Award from the National League of American PEN Women, the King’s English Poetry Prize and prizes from Ascent, Iris, and Amnesty International.

Editor-In-Chief of Cutthroat, A Journal Of The Arts, Uschuk lives in Bayfield, Colorado. Uschuk is often a featured writer at the Prague Summer Programs, teaches occasional workshops for the University of Arizona’s Poetry Center, and was the 2011 John C. Hodges Visiting Writer at University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She’s working on a multi-genre book called The Book of Healers Healing: An Odyssey Through Ovarian Cancer.

Buy Pam’s Beautiful Books!

Blood Flower: http://wingspress.com/book.cfm?book_ID=193

Crazy Love: http://www.wingspress.com/book.cfm?book_ID=104

Wild in the Plaza of Memory: http://www.wingspress.com/book.cfm?book_ID=141

More of Pam’s books here!

http://www.wingspress.com/author.cfm?author_ID=24

Read More from Pam online:

http://www.coloradopoetscenter.org/poets/uschuk_pamela/

http://www.thedrunkenboat.com/uschuk.html

http://www.terrain.org/poetry/24/uschuk.htm

Hear Pam Read: https://vimeo.com/74141138

Praise for Pam’s Work!

“Like Lorca, Uschuk is a poet of the duende, that mystical Spanish conception; she views the poem as a vehicle for fierce engagement with the body and its social realities, often with a metaphysical awareness that transcends and extends the corporeal into the natural world. Working a poetics rare for a North American writer, Uschuk has crafted a poetry equally steeped in nature and political resistance. This is an ecological poetics of engagement, a mythic poetry—part Lorca, part Rachel Carson.”–Sean Thomas Dougherty, RAIN TAXI, 2012

“American Book Award–winner Uschuk’s new collection of meditative, delectably powerful poems offers a steady and generous solace that serves as a platform for thought-provoking glimpses into spirit, family, and feeling. She has written of a tethered reality, commonplace secrets, and emotional rescue. And she is political. Among the more than 40 poems, “Red Menace” (“After all of these years / it’s clear what it was / those teachers couldn’t name— / not just the consonants but the roots, / the skin drums”) and “Black Swan” (“Grandfather, what purpose can you discern / now your entitled eyes are soil, / your heart going to anthracite?”) are standouts. In the same vein as her contemporaries Patricia Smith and Joy Harjo, Uschuk is strong in metaphor, urgent in language, and powerful in vivisection.” — Mark Eleveld

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