We’re in the process of building the spring issue of K’in and we’re so excited about it! That issue goes live May 1, 2019, and we’re honored to be sharing an amazing range of voices!
And now we’re reading for the November 2019 issue!
Send us your beautiful work!
Experimental, traditional, playful, prayerful, celebratory, challenging: human—try us. Show us a new way to tell one of the millions of stories under that glorious sun.
6 April 2019
Make art about birth, about rebirth, about what it feels like to reinvent, about one of the million miraculous ways of being reborn.
Image by Stefan Keller from Pixabay
Oyster River Pages Call for Submissions
Deadline: May 31, 2019
Oyster River Pages is a literary and artistic collective seeking submissions of fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and visual arts that stretch creative and social boundaries.
“We believe in the power of art to connect people to their own and others’ humanity. Because of this, we seek to feature artists whose voices have been historically decentered and marginalized.”
5 April 2019
” I learned my body like a blind child”–Darcy Cummings
Surgery on my eyes when I was a child resulted in my spending significant time without my vision. In the later years of her life, my mother went blind. The experience taught us both surprising things.
Make art about blindness, about being blind, about turning a blind eye, about what can be learned in the dark.
4 April 2019
“where stone has old stories”–Linda Hogan
Make art about the stories stones tell, the songs stones sing.
3 April 2019
Make art about the vulnerability of animals, about the absolute trust of a pet.
2 April 2019
“The music stopped playing years ago but we’re still dancing.”–Marcel Hernandez Castillo
Make art about the dance, about dancing.
Image by prabha karan from Pixabay
Larry D. Thacker is a Kentuckian poet, writer, and artist now hailing from Johnson City, Tennessee with his wife, Karin, and their cat, Abraham Lincoln. A five year veteran of the US army and having served fifteen years in the realm of student services in higher education, he finally paid heed to the voices of adventurous reason and will soon complete his poetry and fiction MFA at West Virginia Wesleyan College. He earned his bachelor of history, master of education in counseling, and education specialist degree from Lincoln Memorial University, home of the Mountain Heritage Literary Festival. Besides Drifting in Awe, he is the author of Mountain Mysteries: The Mystic Traditions of Appalachia (2007), and the chapbooks Voice Hunting (2011) and Memory Train (2015). His poems have appeared in over a hundred journals and magazines.
Keep up with what’s happening at http://www.larrydthacker.com
and on Instagram at: thackalachia
Also, keep an eye out for Larry’s forthcoming collection, Grave Robber Confessional, later this year, from one of my favorites, FutureCycle Press.
Praise for Drifting in Awe
The poems in this resonant book offer a strong, hands-on encounter with the world as it is, with the weather, geography, the trees, our fellow creatures. Attending to the muscular and physical realities of the local world, however, rightly leads these poems to the lesser-known and less-certain wonders of the metaphysical, to the apprehension, as far as the mind can reach, of a meaning beyond the limits of physical knowledge. What’s out there beyond the fog rising in a cove? What questions should we ask, only to voice them, knowing they have no ready answer? That strange little paradox is why we have poetry at all, and here is a fine book to prove that point, with elegance, and with elegant reserve.
—Maurice Manning
Larry Thacker writes of the natural world and what hovers on the edge of consciousness. Entities “seen in the corner of the eye” or “the sound of the sun” might manifest if one becomes still enough to see and hear. Drifting in Awe, gives us a manual for doing just that. In his first full length collection, Thacker invites us to be still and let that world come to us if we are brave enough.
—Jane Hicks
1 April 2019
Make art about the fool.
And visit the Better-Than-Black-Friday Writing Group on Facebook for 30 brand new prompts in celebration of National Poetry Month!
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