"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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Call for Submissions Love <3 Print-Oriented Bastards

PRINT-ORIENTED BASTARDS

A quarterly online literary magazine that features emerging writers and artists. All genres are welcome, including literary comics, interviews, reviews, and cross-genre work. Simultaneous submissions accepted year-round. Response time is typically 1 month. For guidelines and the latest issue, visit www.printorientedbastards.com.

Complete Guidelines Here: http://www.printorientedbastards.com/submit.html

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Monday Must Read! Jonathan Moody: Olympic Butter Gold

iv_jonathanmoody_headshotThis week meet Jonathan Moody. Jonathan holds an MFA from the University of Pittsburgh and a BS degree in Psychology from Xavier University of Louisiana. Author of The Doomy Poems (Six Gallery Press, 2012) and Olympic Butter Gold (Northwestern University Press, 2015), winner of the 2014 Cave Canem Northwestern University Press Poetry Prize, his poetry has appeared in such publications as African American Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Borderlands, Boston Review, The Common, and Harvard Review Online. He lives in Fresno, Texas, with his wife and son.

Buy Jonathan Moody’s Books

Olympic Butter Gold

http://www.nupress.northwestern.edu/content/olympic-butter-gold

Jonathan Moody grew up during the Golden Ages of hip-hop and listened to rap that was as adventurous and diverse as his military upbringing. When rap’s Golden Ages expired, the music’s innovativeness and variety diminished. Moody’s second book, Olympic Butter Gold, winner of the 2014 Cave Canem Northwestern University Press Poetry Prize, responds to Chuck D’s claim that “if there was a HIP-HOP or Rap Olympics, I really don’t think the United States would get Gold, Silver or Brass.” From the poem “Opening Ceremony,” in the voice of a heroin addict struggling to use Lady Liberty’s torch to cook “The American Dream,” to “Dear 2Pac,” an autobiographical account of teaching Tupac Shakur’s poetry to engage high school students indifferent to literature, Moody shares a worldview that is simultaneously apocalyptic and promising.

The Doomy Poems

https://www.amazon.com/Doomy-Poems-Jonathan-Moody/dp/1926616448

“The Doomy Poems challenges the notion that the blues embodies resignation: a self-imposed suffering in which one chooses to remain stuck at the crossroads of nostalgia and obsession. Through persona poems written in the voices of three characters, Jonathan Moody illustrates that in both the South (Houston) and the North (Pittsburgh) the roads to love and integrity, although freshly paved, are strewn with nails and shards of glass.”

Read More From Jonathan Online

http://harvardreview.fas.harvard.edu/?q=features/poetry/inefficiency-burning

https://www.bostonreview.net/poetry/npm15-jonathan-moody-aubade-the-son-rising

http://www.storysouth.com/poetry/2006/07/moody_three_poems.html

http://fplrefdesk.blogspot.com/2013/12/2-poems-by-featured-poet-jonathan-moody.html

Interviews

http://thecommononline.org/features/topical-poetry-interview-jonathan-moody

http://1839mag.com/profiles/observing-the-wider-universe-through-hip-hop-a-look-at-jonathan-moody/

http://thecommonmag.tumblr.com/post/109985371108/topical-poetry-an-interview-with-jonathan-moody

Hear Jonathan Read

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l10VqL4VSZ8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMJNpbW8W6Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4lkbkp4e1w

Happy Reading, y’all!

xo

Mary

 

 

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Friday Call for Submissions Love <3 Split This Rock

So so needed. 

Call for Poems that Speak Against Violence and for Embrace

If the back & arms you carry riddle with black

spots & marks made by birds who don’t want us here—

I will remind you: There are people who did this before us,

brown & black-spotted, yellow, with rattails,

born from what others did not want & loathed & aimed

to never let belong, & so, we are here today—

the field is wide. We make saliva from root & light.

Our spikelets grow, & do you feel the wind?

       – Joe Jiménez, Smutgrass

Orlando. Dhaka. Istanbul. Baghdad. Medina. The killings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, and the murder of police officers in Dallas. This summer, terrible bigotry and violence have rent our global community. The killings must end, and we in the poetry community must contribute in any way we can. As we search for answers to these horrors and for ways to combat hatred and prejudice, we are reminded of poetry’s capacity to respond to violence, to help us regenerate, like spikelets sprouting in a contested field, claiming our public spaces for everyone.

In solidarity with all those targeted at home and abroad, from the LGBT community in the United States to devastated families of Baghdad, Split This Rock is offering its blog as a Virtual Open Mic. Over the next couple of weeks, from July 14 to 28, we are requesting poems in response to and against violence toward marginalized communities:

  • Poems will be accepted until July 28, 2016. 
  • Send us your poems in response to this violent summer, and we will publish them on Split This Rock’s blog, Blog This Rock (blogthisrock.blogspot.com), to create a Virtual Open Mic. We welcome poems new and old, whether previously published or not. (Please include credit information for previously published work.) 
  • Thematically we are wide open: resistance, mourning, rage, celebration, love. We are especially open to poems focused on how we build again, how we heal, the places of light shining through the pain. 
  • Unfortunately, Split This Rock’s blog is not compatible with poems with complex formatting. Should we find that your poem can not be properly we will be in touch to request a different poem.
  • Send the poem(s) as email attachments (.doc or .docx only) with the subject line “A Call in Response to Violence” to info@splitthisrock.org. 
  • Please include the poem’s title and your full contact information in the body of the email. 
  • We invite one poem per person. 
  • From the open mic collection, we may occasionally choose poems to run as Poem of the Week in the weeks ahead. We will contact you directly if we decide to use your poem for Poem of the Week. 

After the Virtual Open Mic closes, we hope to print out and mail all of the poems to Congress and the National Rifle Association.

Split This Rock is also accepting poems for its 10th Annual Poetry Contest until November 1, 2016.

For submissions guidelines, visit Split This Rock’s website or Submittable.

 

 

 

 

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Call for Submissions Love In My Email This Morning :-)

Doorknobs & BodyPaint
Guidelines & Prompts
Issue 82, May, 2016
Off to Work We Go

Submission deadline:
Opens–March 15, 2015 / Closes–April 17, 2016
Publication date: May 2016

Send Submissions to:
doorknobsandbodypaint@gmail.com

Call for Submissions

Off to Work We Go.  For many of us work is a daily destination filled with demands on our time and endless routine.  There is little time left for our dreams.  But, we all have them.  And, for a moment, over a cup of coffee or sandwich from home, we imagine what it would be like to do something else.  Something more exciting.  Something with a little adventure in it. Write your story within the limits of our contest guidelines (hoops):

DOORKNOBS Kieron Devlin, editor
1. Maximum length: 250 words.
2. The sub-theme is: discipline.
3. The year is:  2004.
4. Within the story, you must use this text:  sticking to the rules.TAPAS  (tiny morsels) Joanne Faries, editor
1.  Maximum length:  250 words.
2.  The sub-theme is: vacation.
3. Within the story, you must use this bit of text:  an embellished resume.
4. Like seasoning, it is language that makes your story unique. Surprise us.

HAYWARD FAULT LINE (shake us up) Leila Rae, editor 
1. Maximum length: 450 words.
2. The sub-theme is: endurable.
3. The setting is: Milwaukee, WI.
4. Within the story, you must use this bit of text: without yielding.

DORSAL CONTEST:  Bara Swain, editor

In John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, two migrant workers, George and his mentally disabled life-long friend Lennie, have come to a ranch in the Salinas Valley to find work in the middle of the Great Depression. George speaks of saving their stake so that they can one day buy a little place of their own where they can live off the fat of the land. The possibility of realizing their dream dissolves entirely when Curley’s wife makes advances on the bear-like Lennie, and horrible consequences ensue. The tragedy reveals the power of friendship and how even the simplest dream can provide hope in the face of desperation.

George’s hands stopped working with the cards. His voice was growing warmer. “An’ we could have a few pigs. I could build a smoke house like the one gran’pa had, an’ when we kill a pig we can smoke the bacon and the hams, and make sausage an’ all like that. An’ when the salmon run up river we could catch a hundred of ‘em an’ salt ‘em down or smoke ‘em. We could have them for breakfast. They ain’t nothing so nice as smoked salmon. When the fruit come in we could can it—and tomatoes, they’re easy to can. Ever’ Sunday we’d kill a chicken or a rabbit. Maybe we’d have a cow or a goat, and the cream is so God damned thick you got to cut it with a knife and take it out with a spoon.”

Write a 450 word story on the theme of work where a dream provides a way to overcome desolation. (Please note word count correction.)CAIRO ROOM
The Cairo Room contains all non-contest and writer’s pool selections under 450 words. From the exotic to the post-modern to hypertext to first time writers, this room welcomes all writers.

General Guidelines: 
1. Send your submission by email, please include your name, mailing address, email address, and bio at the beginning of each story; paste your story into the body of your email and send it in rich text form.

2. If you send more than one story (four total), send each story as a separate email. 

3. This is important. Put the category DK (Doorknobs), HF (Hayward Fault), DO (Dorsal), TA (Tapas), PB (Planet Betty), CR (Cairo Room), the issue #, and your last name on the subject line. (example: DK, 61, Argure) We use a filter for all email; therefore, if you do not put this information in the subject line, your email will automatically go into trash.

4. Do not send your story in HTML format or as an attachment. If you send your story in HTML format or as an attachment, it will be discarded.

Contest Prizes for each section (Doorknobs, Hayward Fault Line, Dorsal, Tapas):

An opportunity to read at one of Pandemonium Press Presents reading series.
We do not pay money for publishing your work.
The writers retains all copyright to their work.

 

 

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Call for Submissions Love <3 Sun Star Review

SUN STAR REVIEW
Sun Star Review is currently open for submissions to their Fall 2016 issue.
“We are seeking prose (whether fiction, nonfiction, flash, long, or simply unclassifiable), poetry, visual art, and mixed media work. We love depth and emotional resonance. We appreciate risk taking and ambitiousness—so long as the ambition is earnest. We love work that blends the real and the fantastical. We love experiments with craft. Our journal is also committed to promoting diverse voices and points of view that aren’t well represented in the general literary scene. Thanks for your interest, and we look forward to reading your work!”
To submit, please visit sunstarlit.com

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Call for Submissions Love! Common Ground

Road trip tomorrow, so here’s some Call for Submissions Love before I go 🙂 

COMMON GROUND REVIEW seeks engaging, well-crafted poems that surprise and illuminate, amuse and inform. Creative non-fiction and short stories must be no more than 12 pages, double-spaced. Two publications a year (Spring/Summer and Fall/Winter), no reading fees. We accept year-round submissions at our website; see submission guidelines, use the Submittable link, or send snail mail. Excite us!

Common Ground Website

Submissions Guidelines

 

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Call for Submissions: HeartWood

Poets, please submit.
Also seeking fiction and creative nonfiction.
Reading now for the October issue.
 

HeartWood

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The Birds of Grief

This week I keep going back to a poem I wrote a couple of years ago, about grief, about sheer physicality of grief and loss. About feeling helpless. About how loss, no matter what, belongs to all of us. 

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I Want to Bring the Birds

inside, hold them in my hands, tuck them inside my shirt, claws and all, feel the sharp tic of each frightened beak, surround them with my fingers, cradle them against the cage of my ribs, whisper shh shh shh—until they each find and linger in their place: the titmice tatting nests into my hair, crested sparrows and juncos perched and singing from my feet, the jays who see me as so much meat, supplier of suet and otherwise foolish and useless, each take a shoulder, their alarm squawk sudden and hard as a couple of crows stand sentry on my back. The chickadees, those flying golf balls with their punk rock eyes and ebony mohawks, bossy and brazen, take my ears, letting me know just how they see this whole thing going, while the shy nuthatch hides, its cinnamon shadow disappearing under my shirt as it hops up my ribs and nuzzles in like a newborn near my heart. A pair of doves, and then another, their wings ash gray and spotted with apricot, nestle in on the soft give of my belly; I touch them with just the tips of my fingers, hoping, praying, they’ll teach me the tender songs only possible in the dark. One by one, they all settle in, on my limbs, my skin, feathering, resting, and maybe, so will I, settle for real, for the first time in years, as I hear and feel their heartbeats steady, slow, ease finally, into a companion rhythm with my own. Or mine to theirs? In my dreams, it doesn’t matter. In my dreams,we are the same.

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This poem is included in my collection The Night I Heard Everything from FutureCycle Press. 

birds of grief

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Friday Call for Submissions Love: Brand New Mag: Collateral

Collateral Literary Journal—New Military Themed Magazine
Submissions accepted year-round.

Collateral is a new online literary journal affiliated with the University of Washington, Tacoma. We showcase high quality creative writing and art that explores the impact of the military and military service on the lives of people beyond the active service person. These voices sometimes go unheard, and this journal captures the “collateral” impact of military service, whether it is from the perspective of the partner or child; parent or sibling; friend or co-worker; veteran, refugee, or protester. Our editorial vision is to be as inclusive as possible and ideologically diverse. We encourage submissions from professional and emerging writers.

From their About page: 

 

MISSION STATEMENT:
Collateral explores the perspectives of those whose lives are touched indirectly by the realities of military service. Numerous journals already showcase war literature, but we provide a creative platform that highlights the experiences of those who exist in the space around military personnel and the combat experience. We feel these voices sometimes go unheard, and this journal captures the “collateral” impact of military service, whether it is from the perspective of the partner or child; the parent or sibling; the friend or co-worker; or the elderly veteran, the refugee, or the protester. In any issue, you might find the haiku of a seven-year old girl whose father is in Afghanistan alongside the short story of an award-winning fiction writer. Or the first-person essay of a military spouse alongside the critical essay of an academic.

Our editorial vision is to be as inclusive as possible and ideologically diverse. We encourage submissions from professional and emerging writers alike. Regardless of authorship, we are committed to publishing high-quality fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and art that speaks authentically about the collateral impact of military service.

Collateral Website

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Midweek Call for Submissions: Chattahoochee Review: Off the Record

Call for Submissions: Off the Record

Deadline: September 15, 2016

 

Off the Record. Disappearing remarks. Invisible people. Music that isn’t there. Intuition. Gut. Unclaimed, unofficial, uncategorized. A record respects the broadest possible audience. Off the record, your audience awaits. What you don’t want to write. We want to read. Note the call in a cover letter.

Deadline September 15 or until the issue fills.

thechattahoocheereview.gpc.edu

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