Marick Press Manuscript Competition

Marick Press Poetry Prize

The First Annual Marick Press Poetry Prize Competition


The First Annual Marick Press Poetry Prize competition will open for
submissions on March 1, 2009. The award consists of a $1,000 cash
award and publication by Marick Press.

Manuscripts must be between 48 and 80 pages in length. Poems must be
original, but may have appeared in magazines, anthologies, or chapbooks.
Translations are not eligible for this competition. The competition is
open to all poets writing in English.

Manuscripts must be postmarked by October 15th. They must be typed and
should include a table of contents. The author's name, address, email
address, and telephone number should appear on the cover sheet only.
Manuscripts will not be returned and will be recycled at the end of
the competition. Please include a self-addressed, stamped,
business-size envelope with your submission if you wish to be notified of the
results.

Manuscripts must include a $15 entry, reading, and processing fee.
Checks should be made out to Marick Press. The manuscript, along with
a self-addressed, stamped postcard for notification that it has been
received, if so desired, should be sent to:

Marick Press Poetry Prize
P.O. Box 36253
Grosse Pointe Park, MI 48236

If you send the manuscript via express mail services, the manuscript
should be sent to:
Marick Press Poetry Prize
1342 Three Mile Drive, Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan 48230

Manuscripts are screened by the editorial staff, and the Marick Press
Poetry Prize 2009 will be judged by Alicia Ostriker. The winner of the
Marick Press Poetry Prize will be announced March 15, 2010.

Seattle Poet Populist

Hello all!
Sorry I missed you all for beer today; I hope it was festive. I want to share an article (and reader comments) about the Seattle Poet Populist program. Many interesting viewpoints are shared...

November 25, 2008 Feature: It Gets Verse
Why Does Seattle Promote Dumb, Bad Poetry?
By PAUL CONSTANT
Read the whole article at http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=787677 »

GregBee

Raven Chronicles Announces Submission Deadlines for 2009:

Volume 14. No 2.:
Theme: Architecture In Literature: Doors, Windows & Walls.
Deadline: November 1-January 1, 2009

Volume 15. No 1: Theme: Travel, Wish you were here. The Raven Chronicles wants to hear your travel stories, real and imagined. Fiction, poetry, translations, criticism, poetics, food & culture, reviews.

Deadlines: April 1-July 1, 2009. There will be a cash competition for this issue. Stay tuned for details.

We are always looking for work that fits in these categories (ongoing features in each issue):

Spoken Word; Poetics (essays or interviews); Memorials;
Literary Recipes; Odes to Persons, Places & Things;
Mapping the Terrain/Beyond Borders (essays and translations);
Cultural Geography; Food & Culture;
The Northwest; Nature Writing; Rants, Raves & Reviews.

2009 Editors:
Poetry, Elizabeth Myhr
Fiction: Kathleen Alcala
Non-Fiction: Anna Balint
Food & Culture: Thomas Hubbard
Reviews: Stephanie Lawyer

Call for Submissions: New American Press (chapbook contest)

New American Press is pleased to announce its fall/winter chapbook contest.

Winner receives $250 and 25 copies. Final judge is Crab Orchard Review editor and award-winning poet Allison Joseph. Deadline is January 1, 2009.

To submit, send 20-30 pages of your best writing (poetry or prose) to:

New American Press Chapbook Contest
2707 Trenton Way
Fort Collins, CO 80526

Please include $12 reading fee and SASE for contest results. The
committee reads blind, so restrict your name and other contact
information to a separate cover sheet only.

For further information, please visit http://www.newamericanpress.com.

Best,
David Bowen
Editor/Publisher

newamericanpress@gmail.com

Call for Submissions: Big Bridge

HTTP://BIGBRIDGE.ORG

The online poetry journal Big Bridge seeks essays, poems, visual art, performance documentation, eco-criticism, creative writing pedagogy, and other material that addresses or explores issues generated by conversations initiated last summer over Slow Poetry. Arguments, moreover, that offer critical perspectives on Slow Poetry are welcome.

Since Slow Poetry is strictly a descriptive platform, feel free to contribute new ideas, arguments, and issues that may be useful for the ongoing development of a slow poetics. Some critical reflections on Slow Poetry are available at http://possumego.blogspot.com.

Send work that explores definitions, theories, and practices of Slow Poetry to Big Bridge contributing editor Dale Smith (dmsmith@mail.utexas.edu) in word or pdf files by December 31, 2008.

Reading: Untitled [Intersection] (November 21)

MICKEY OCONNOR reading

BETH GRACZYK dance

ANGELINA BALDOZ trumpet

NICO VASSILAKIS reading

+ + +

UNTITLED [INTERSECTION]
Friday 21 November 2008, 7p
at
Phinney Neighborhood Center in Greenwood
6532 Phinney Ave. N

Call for submissions: CRATE

CRATE the magazine of the MFA department of UCR is sending out a call for submissions of poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction. Maximum 5 poems or 8,000 words depending on the medium. For more information please see the attached link.

Please enclose a SASE a cover letter with a brief bio. All submissions should be 12 pt font, double spaced (poetry excepted) with the author's name on every page. More information can be found at http://crate.ucr.edu/

CRATE will close to submissions MARCH 1, 2009

Sincerely,
Adam Gallari
Editor-in-Chief
CRATE
adam.gallari@email.ucr.edu

Bi-weekly gathering of Seattle poets (#18)

The next gathering takes place at 2pm on Sunday, November 23 at Feierabend (www.feierabendseattle.com), located just a few blocks from the South Lake Union REI.

We're currently alternating between Feierabend and Brouwer's in Fremont.

Feel free to invite whomever you like. I hope to see you there!

Date/time: November 23, 2008, 2:00pm
Place: Feierabend (422 Yale Avenue North, Seattle, WA)

Call for submissions: Monday Night

Monday Night, a journal of literature and art, is now accepting submissions for Issue 8 (Summer 2009). We publish quality prose and poetry from new and emerging writers from across the country and around the world. Monday Night is distributed at independent bookstores and sold on our website.

For more information and to view past issues, visit our website: http://www.mondaynightlit.com

*DEADLINE: December 15, 2008*

GUIDELINES: Please follow our guidelines carefully. You can also find them on our website. If you still have questions, write to: editors@mondaynightlit.com.

POETRY: Send up to five poems. All styles and lengths are welcome.

PROSE: Fiction, nonfiction, and essays up to 5,000 words. Send up to three pieces of prose.

Translations are welcome in all genres.

PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED WORK:
NO. We accept unpublished work only. This includes online publications. If you have published the piece in any online or print journal, do not submit it to Monday Night. We do an internet search for all pieces that we accept for publication, to make sure they do not appear anywhere else. Please be honest and respect our parameters.

SIMULTANEOUS SUBMISSIONS:
YES. We do accept simultaneous submissions, but please inform us if your work is accepted elsewhere, so we can remove it from consideration.

HOW TO SUBMIT:
Email submissions to editors@mondaynightlit.com. Send one doc, rtf, or pdf file attached to your email. Please title or label all your work clearly within the document. Your name and contact info should also appear on your submission. Your email message should include your name, contact info, the titles of your submissions and whether they are fiction, poetry or non-fiction.

We do not confirm receipt of submissions.

RESPONSE TIME: We will respond to all submissions by February 2009.

PAYMENT: Each published writer will receive two copies of the issue in which their work appears.

Bent Writing Institute Showcase

Howdy Poets,
It was great to meet some of you yesterday!

Coming up this Friday and Saturday (Nov 14 & 15) is the annual student showcase for Bent Writing Institute. Bent is the nation's only queer writing organization and the showcase will include readings/performances by Bent students as well as an extended feature by Kate Bornstein. I'll be the MC for the show both nights and can tell you that it's an amazing night of voices not often heard.

Details about the Showcase: www.bentwriting.com
Details about Kate Bornstein, the feature: www.katebornstein.com

GregB

Call for Submissions: Cervena Barva Press Chapbook Contest

Poetry and Fiction Chapbook Contest
Accepting manuscripts November 1, 2008-January 31, 2009
Manuscripts postmarked after January 31st will not be read. No manuscripts will be returned.

For Poetry:

24 pages of poetry. 8 pages will be added automatically to the winning chapbook, which will make the total 32 pages.

Include the following:
Title page with contact info
Title page with just the title
SASE for the announcement of the winning chapbook. Size 10 envelope only.
Send no cover letter or bio
E-mail address for receipt of manuscript
OK if poems have been published in literary journals. Don't include acknowledgments.


Winner announced March 15. 2009
Winner receives 25 copies and $100.00
$11.00 entry fee/check or money order to:
Cervena Barva Press
P.O. Box 440357
W. Somerville, MA 02144-3222

Event: Reading by Jody Zorgdrager

The Backwaters Press
is pleased to invite you to attend
an evening of poetry by
Jody A. Zorgdrager
in celebration of the publication of her book,
Of Consequence.

Friday, November 7, 2008
7:30 PM
University Heights Community Center,
2nd Floor Auditorium,
5031 University Way NE,
Seattle, Washington.

Complimentary parking is available at the
Community Center parking lot;
there is also street parking nearby.

Books will be available at the reading
($15.00 cash or check only, please.).
A book signing and dessert refreshments
will be provided..

This event is free and open to the public.
Feel welcome to invite a guest.

Please call with questions (425-483-9659).

Call for Submissions: Poetic Responses to the 2008 American Elections

While the He/art Pants: Poetic Responses to the 2008 American Elections

Call for Submissions

Artistic representations, responses, and interrogations of electoral events are very important expressions of the endless conversation between art and historical experience. The 2008 American elections stimulated a lot of artistic responses and there were, in the campaign discourses, some subtle invocations of the postures of presidential aspirants to literature and cultural productions generally. What, as a poet (defined broadly), is the meaning of this whole experience of the 2008 elections? Send us your previously unpublished works (poems, paintings, manipulated photographs, etc) about the 2008 US elections for inclusion in an online anthology: While the He/Art Pants (a title derived from Walt Whitman's poem reproduced below), to soon appear on the Poet's Corner, Fiera Lingue. Images should be in jpeg format. As this promises to be a very interesting project, we request that you send up to five of the most uncompromising and stylistically surprising of your works and a short bio. Other works that do not necessarily focus on the 2008 US elections but are relevant to the dialogue between art and democratic politics will be considered.

Submissions are to be made electronically to:
Obododimma Oha (Guest Editor)
obodooha@gmail.com
udude@full-moon.com

OR

Anny Ballardini (Editor, The Poet's Corner)
anny.ballardini@gmail.com

Link to the main index of the site:
http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=3DContent

Bi-weekly gathering of Seattle poets (#17)

The next gathering takes place at 2pm on Sunday, November 9 at Brouwer's (http://www.brouwerscafe.com), located across the street from the Theo Chocolate factory in Fremont.

As usual, feel free to invite whomever you like. I hope to see you there!


Date/time: November 9, 2008, 2:00pm
Place: Brouwer's (400 North 35th Street, Seattle, WA)

Furniture Press Poetry Prize

Deadline: June 30, 2009

Judges: tba

The 1st annual Furniture Press Poetry Prize will be awarded to the writer that best exemplifies the poetics and particularities of Furniture Press editors and judges.

Two judges will be invited to determine a manuscript's pressability and will work with anonymous, unidentified texts. Only the editor of Furniture Press will know the true identity of the applicants and their work. Each text will be assigned a number and distributed to the judges.

After the first round of readings the judges will assign three finalists. The winner of the Prize will receive a publishing contract in which the winning manuscript will be published as a chapbook. S/he will also receive 25 copies of the chapbook. The remaining finalists will have samples of their work published in an issue of Ambit: Journal of Poetry & Poetics. All applicants will receive a copy of the chapbook.

Please follow these guidelines when submitting an application:

1. Send 1 unpublished manuscript per entry. It must be between 20-50 pages in length of poetry and its derivatives.

2. Send a $10 fee per manuscript submitted. 100% of the cash goes to the pressing and publishing of the winning chapbooks. Editors and judges do not get kickbacks. Please send checks or money orders only, made out to Furniture Press.

3. Send manuscripts to Furniture Press Poetry Prize c/o Towson Arts Collective, 406 York Road, Towson, MD 21204.

We strongly encourage you to send us work - it's also a very good way to catch the attention of the editors who may want to publish your work in the future, despite if or not you win the prize.

Poetry in Translation

October 12th and 13th, there'll be a miniature festival of literary translation at Gallery 1412 - foregrounding the translators themselves, the surprises and evils of the practice, the conversation between the worlds here at play - nearly everyone represented in the festival is a poet-translator, though there are many further surprises as well

Both nights start at 7PM, and are free (though donation is encouraged). There'll be snacks throughout and a discussion after the readings. And doubtless lots of beautiful books as a two of the translators are also small press editors/printmakers/those-that-make-books-by-hand.

Sunday:
Paul Manfredi
Sam Lohmann
Matvei Yankelevich

Monday:
Deborah Woodard
Maged Zaher
Don Mee Choi
Simon Wickham-Smith

Call for submissions: Bombay Gin

September 1 - March 1

Please submit 1-8 pages of previously unpublished poetry, prose, translation, artwork, interviews, hybrid work, or otherwise. Submissions will be considered for the fall and spring issues of Bombay Gin as time and space allow.

For TRANSLATIONS, please include both the original language and English versions; it is the writer's responsibility to receive publication rights for the original piece.

ARTWORK should be submitted on a CD as a PDF or jpg, with minimum 720DPI; all artwork will be published as grayscale. Unsolicited manuscripts are read anonymously, so include your name and contact information only on the cover letter. Please include an S.A.S.E. so the board can respond to you once selections have been made.

Bombay Gin accepts electronic submissions at bgin@naropa.edu. Visit our website at www.naropa.edu/bombaygin.

Submissions also accepted at the Writing and Poetics Department in the Arapahoe House or mailed to:

Naropa University
Bombay Gin
Writing and Poetics Department
2130 Arapahoe Avenue
Boulder, CO 80302

Bi-Weekly Gathering of Seattle Poets (#15)

The next gathering takes place at 2pm on Sunday, October 12 at Brouwer's (http://www.brouwerscafe.com), located across the street from the Theo Chocolate factory in Fremont.

The later October gathering will be at Feierabend again.

As usual, feel free to invite whomever you like. I hope to see you there!

Jeff Encke


Date/time: October 12, 2008, 2:00pm
Place: Brouwer's (400 North 35th Street, Seattle, WA)

Call for submissions: Versal

Versal wants your poetry, prose, and art for its seventh issue due out in May, 2009. Internationally acclaimed literary annual published in Amsterdam; perfect bound, 100 pages of the urgent, involved, and unexpected. See website for guidelines and to submit: http://versal.wordsinhere.com. We only accept submissions through our(easy-to-use) online submission manager. Inquiries (only) can be directed to: versal@wordsinhere.com. Deadline: January 15, 2009.

Submission guidelines: http://www.wordsinhere.com/guidelines.html

Centrum Workshop: Ilya Kaminsky

On Oct 9 - 12 at Centrum(details at: http://www.centrum.org/writing/autumn-writers-intensive.html,or call 360.385.3102, x114 for more info.) Ilya Kaminsky will be teaching a poetry workshop and Rebecca Brown will be teaching Fiction workshop at the same time and we expect lots of great overlap of energy, creativity, conversation and other good stuff. Tuition, room and board $595.

Call for sound poetry: aslongasittakes

“How long is a poem? As long as it takes to perform it.” --Bob Cobbing

a s l o n g a s i t t a k e s, a sound poetry magazine published by the Atlanta Poets Group, is seeking submissions. We are looking for sound poetry, scores for sound poetry and essays on sound poetry. “What is ‘sound poetry’?” you ask. Good question. It’s one of those know it when you see (hear) it kind of things. It’s probably not music (thanks Dick Higgins). It might be noise. If you think about a spectrum of possible noise made by the human body (or simulations thereof or substitutions therefor), and at one end of the spectrum is a person reading her poem and at the other end is abstract noise, we’re looking for works that fall towards he latter end. We are looking for works in/of/against the tradition(s) of Ball, Schwitters, Dûfrène, Henri Chopin, Jandl, Cobbing, The Four Horsemen, Fylkingen Group, Öyvind Fahlström. . . hopefully by now you get the idea. We’re looking for stuff that will push/redefine the limits. The magazine is Web-based.

Please send submissions to aslongasittakes@comcast.net in one of the following formats: .mp3, .wav, .wma, or flac. Please query before sending in other formats. If you can’t get us the work via email, just send an email and let us know, and we can find another way. We don’t know how long it will take to get back to you on your submissions, just be cool. We can’t pay you anything for your work. All work that appears in the magazine will be available for download from the magazine’s site under the Creative Commons’ /Attribution Non-commercial Share Alike/ license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/); if you are not comfortable with making your work available in that way, let us know and we can probably work something out.

Call for submissions: miscproj

http://miscproj.blogspot.com/

miscproj is a blogmag; it is a continuation of the hard-copy poetry magazine Misc. Proj., which was published in Atlanta in the late 1990s. Work accepted will be published within a few weeks of acceptance. We're very interested in seeing submissions of poems. But we are also quite open to essays on poetics, and book reviews. Like the initial paper mag, the current version of miscproj will feature miscellaneous projects relating to poetry: interviews, essays, comments on the poetry scene, debates.

A blogmag follows the logic of the blog software: we do not publish issues, but rather post work in a continuing stream. Items in a blogmag relate to each other without the mediation of larger "issue" groupings.

Please visit the blogmag for your reading pleasure. Before submitting you should become familiar with the material there, especially the overall range of poetics mapped out by the first five issues, which have been mounted in online facsimile form and my be viewed at the blogmag.

send all submissions to:

katradem@gmail.com


thanx,
Mark Prejsnar
Katra DeMill
Sally Traub

editorial committee


James Sanders
John Lowther

technical editors

Call for submissions: Monday Night

Monday Night, a journal of literature and art, is now accepting submissions for Issue 8 (Summer 2009). We publish quality prose and poetry from new and emerging writers from across the country and around the world. Monday Night is distributed at independent bookstores and sold on our website. For more information and to view past issues, visit our website: http://www.mondaynightlit.com

Read from our contents page to see if your work would be a good fit, or better yet, order a copy for yourself and for each of your friends. Reading an issue will give you the best picture of our highly inconsistent and unpredictable tastes.

GUIDELINES
Please follow our guidelines carefully. You can also find them on our website. If you still have questions, write to the editors at mondaynightlit@yahoo.com.

POETRY: Send up to five poems. All styles are welcome.

PROSE: Fiction, nonfiction, and essays up to 5,000 words. Send up to 3 pieces of prose.

Translations are welcome in all genres.

NO PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED WORK:
We accept unpublished work only. This includes online publications. If you have published the piece in any online or print journal, do not submit it to Monday Night. We do an internet search for all pieces that we accept for publication, to make sure they do not appear anywhere else. Please respect our parameters.

SIMULTANEOUS SUBMISSIONS:
YES. We do accept simultaneous submissions, but please inform us if your work is accepted elsewhere, so we can remove it from consideration.

HOW TO SUBMIT:
Email submissions to mondaynightlit@yahoo.com. Send one doc, rtf, or pdf file attached to your email. Please title or label all your work clearly within the document. Your name and contact info should also appear on your submission. Your email message should include your name, contact info, the titles of your submissions and whether they are fiction, poetry or non-fiction.

We do not confirm receipt of submissions.

DEADLINE: December 15, 2008

RESPONSE TIME: We will respond to all submissions by February 2009.

PAYMENT: Each published writer will receive two copies of the issue in which their work appears.

Call for submissions: Poetry Sz

Poetry Sz: demystifying mental illness is calling for submissions to its 27th issue.

We are calling for original, previously unpublished poetry written by people who have experienced mental illness. Poems of all topics and styles are welcome.

http://poetrysz.blogspot.com

Send 4-6 poems and a short bio in the body of your email to poetrysz@yahoo.com

Thank you.


regards

J Chan
editor

Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prizes for 2008

These prizes have been established by Marvin Rosenberg in memory of his late wife, Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg. The intent is to encourage the work of new, young poets. Several prizes varying from $1,000 up to as much as $25,000 will be awarded for the finest lyric poems celebrating the spirit of life.

The competition is open to any writer under the age of 40 on November 6, 2008. All poets, published or unpublished, are welcome to enter, but only previously unpublished poems are eligible for the competition.

Each entrant may submit one to three separate poems. Submissions must be in English, the original work of the entrant, and previously unpublished. Poems should express the personal experience of the entrant, so please no translations! Brevity will be appreciated: if more than one poem is submitted, only one of the submitted poems may be more than thirty lines in length.

Entries must be received no later than October 18, the third Saturday in October, 2008. Entries should be submitted by mail to:

Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prizes
PO Box 2306
Orinda, California 94563

Each poem must be printed on a separate sheet. Please submit two copies of each poem, with your name and address clearly marked on each page of one copy only. Please include an index card with your name and address, phone number, e-mail address and the title(s) of your poem(s). Poems submitted will not be returned. An entry fee of 10 dollars is required for submissions mailed in the United States: Checks should please be made out to Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Memorial Fund. Foreign entries are exempted from the entry fee because of the hassles of international payments.

This website (www.DorothyPrizes.org) has been prepared to share information about the Competition. Dorothy’s poems inspired the competition's emphasis on lyric poems celebrating the spirit of life. Further information concerning the Prizes may be posted here as the deadline approaches. Results will be announced on the website February 5th, 2009, and winners will be contacted shortly before that time.

The Times Literary Supplement Poetry Competition 2008

To be judged by readers of the TLS

First prize: £2,000
Runners-up prizes: £750, £500 and £250

(Closing date: September 12th 2008.) NOTE: They have extended the deadline to September 30.

Mick Imlah, Poetry Editor of the TLS, and Alice Quinn, Executive Director of the Poetry Society of America and formerly Poetry Editor of the New Yorker, will prepare a shortlist of best poems entered, which will be printed in the TLS on October 24th. Readers may then vote for the poem of their choice. The winners of the poll will be announced in the TLS on November 28th 2008.

Poems may be in any style, on any subject, and printed on one side of A4 paper. The competition is open to all.

Entry fee: £5 for first poem, £3 for each additional poem, to a maximum of five per entrant.


Click here to download an entry form if you are based in the UK, Europe or the rest of the world, excluding the US and Canada.

Click here to download an entry form if you are based in US or Canada.

Virginia Woolf’s Middle Novels: Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse

With her fourth and fifth novels, Virginia Woolf came into her own, fully embracing the time-condensing, introverted, stream of consciousness style that brought her narratives comparisons with James Joyce’s Ulysses. The novels also featured Woolf’s trademark realism from a woman’s point of view, which made her a canonical figure of the second wave feminist movement of the 1960s. Michael Cunningham’s Pulitzer-winning novel The Hours (1998) borrows Woolf’s style to tell the story of three generations of women whose lives were affected by Mrs. Dalloway. In 1997, the Oscar-winning Dutch filmmaker Marleen Gorris shot a film version of Mrs. Dalloway starring Vanessa Redgrave. The author’s accomplishments and historical influence were immense; these two novels are among the most recognized and loved of her works.

Instructor: Jeff Encke
Meets: Saturday, October 11, 2008 - Saturday, November 15, 2008
Saturdays , 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Min: 5 Max: 15
General: $215.00
Members: $193.50

REGISTER through Hugo House.

About the Instructor

Jeff Encke taught writing and literature at Columbia University for several years, serving as writer-in-residence for the Program in Narrative Medicine while completing his Ph.D. in English in 2002. His criticism has appeared in Post-War Literatures in English, The Journal of American Studies, and A Companion to 20th Century American Poetry, as well as on the Academy of American Poets Web site. His poems have appeared in or are forthcoming from American Poetry Review, Barrow Street, Bat City Review, Black Warrior Review, Colorado Review, Fence, Octopus, Salt Hill, Tarpaulin Sky, and others. In 2004, he published Most Wanted: A Gamble in Verse, a book of playing cards featuring excerpts of love poems to Saddam Hussein and other Iraqi war criminals.

Bi-weekly gathering of Seattle poets (#13)

The next gathering takes place at 2pm on Sunday, September 14 at Brouwer's (http://www.brouwerscafe.com), located across the street from the Theo Chocolate factory in Fremont.

The later September gathering will be at Feierabend again, and we’ll continue to alternate between the two venues for a while.

As usual, feel free to invite whomever you like. I hope to see you there!

Jeff Encke


Date/time: September 14, 2008, 2:00pm
Place: Brouwer's (400 North 35th Street, Seattle, WA)

Slope (call for submissions)

Submission Info

We are invested in you as poets and as people, but we do not care about your credentials, and neither do your poems. Please do not include a bio. Your poems should be the events through which we come to know you.

Submissions are read anonymously by the editors. All identifying marks are stripped from the poems prior to their being read.

Send us as few or as many poems as you find necessary. We would rather read one significant poem than five poems illustrating a passing or partial commitment to the form, or to life. Send us the poem you feel most strongly about—i.e. your NEXT poem.

Poems should either enhance the conversation that already exists, or start a new one. They should become conversation. Make us reassess our understanding of the contemporary.

We believe in pure encounter. Reading past issues of Slope will not give you any particular sense of what we are going to publish next.

If your poem is accepted elsewhere, please let us know, so we may find it and read it. Just because a poem is accepted by another journal, does not mean that we do not still want to be a part of its life.

Submit only during the month of September to: slope.editors@gmail.com. Include the word "SUBMISSION" in the subject line. The only contact information that we require is your email address—additional information will be requested upon acceptance of your work.

Future issues of Slope may include critical, audio, video and visual work. If you want to propose a particular project, please query the editors at: slope.editors@gmail.com. Please include the word "INQUIRY" in the subject line.

Reading and Publication Party (from Beth Myhr)

Join us to celebrate Raven Chronicles' Vol 14, #, The Legacies Issue.

The issue pays homage to the likes of Alexander "Sandy" Taylor, the late publisher/editor of ground-breaking Curbstone Press, Abe Osheroff, Bob Reed and Dutch Schultz, Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, Roslyn Zinn, late wife of historian Howard Zinn, and Charles Potts, 2008 WPA lifetime award winner, among others.

Contributors/readers for the evening:

Thomas Hubbard, Priscilla Long, Donna Miscolta,

Larry Laurence, Kathleen Alcala, Paul Nelson,

Michael Hureaux, Anna Balint, Jesse Minkert,

Gary Greaves, Carolyne Wright, Trudy Mercer,

Paul Hunter, John Olson, Larry Matsuda



NEW DATE: September 26, Friday, 7 p.m.



Jack Straw Foundation Building

4261 Roosevelt Way N.E. (Corner of 43rd & Roosevelt, in the U. District)

Info: 206-364-2045

Snacks will be shared.

Frank Stanford Festival Sponsorship (from Greg Bachar)

August 30, 2008

To Whom It May Concern,

From Friday, October 17, to Sunday, October 19, 2008, poets and scholars from across the country will be in Fayetteville, Arkansas, celebrating the Frank Stanford Literary Festival. The festival will be the first dedicated both to Stanford’s creative works and to the proliferating scholarship on his astounding body of poems, fiction, essays, and letters.

Lost Roads Publishers, Typo, Fascicle, and The Burning Chair Readings, small press literary publishers with strong ties to Fayetteville, have joined together to organize the festival. Along with a celebratory reading spanning Stanford’s prolific publishing career, the weekend will feature panel discussions on Stanford’s life and growing influence on American poetry, a screening of Irving Broughton’s Stanford biopic It Wasn’t a Dream it Was a Flood (winner of a Judge’s Award at the 1975 Northwest Film & Video Festival), a marathon reading of Stanford’s epic The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You, and a Small Press Reading featuring the works of poets whom Stanford has inspired. The festival will occur at various locations in Fayetteville, with main events held in the Walker Community Room at the Fayetteville Public Library.

As we would like to keep the events free or at minimal cost to the public, we seek sponsors to help cover our promotional and venue costs. Additionally, we hope to compensate some of our poets and panelists, many of whom are distinguished professors, poets, and friends of Stanford traveling from afar. Charitable sponsorships start at $100, tax deductible through Lost Roads Publishers, a non-profit organization, founded by Frank Stanford in Fayetteville in 1976. Sponsors of $300 or more will be recognized for helping to bring figures of historical literary significance to the event. Sponsors will be recognized in printed and electronic promotional material and websites, as well as verbally at each event during the festival. We will also recognize sponsors in a commemorative festival program designed by Cannibal Books, a book arts literary publisher, and will give as thanks a commemorative letterpressed broadside of Frank Stanford’s poem “Indeed,” a collaborative effort between Lost Roads Publishers, Cannibal Books, and Effing Press (of Austn, Texas).

If you would like to sponsor, seek further information, or offer alternative services, contact Matthew Henriksen at 917-478-5682 or frankstanfordfest@gmail.com. Checks are payable to “Lost Roads Publishers” and should be mailed to event coordinator Matthew Henriksen at the address provided at the top of this letter. Include a mailing and/or email address for tax exemption identification number.

The festival will surely be a momentous occasion that unites an energized creative writing and publishing community with the unique local businesses and natural beauty of Fayetteville. We thank you for your time and consideration of our efforts.

Sincerely,





Matthew Henriksen
The Burning Chair Readings