Sunday night's Red Sky reading celebrates the late Irene Drennan, active in It's About Time since its beginnings, 1989
Please join us
Sunday, March 1, 2009
A Tribute to Irene Drennan with Esther Altshul Helfgott, Priscilla Long, Denise Calvetti-Michaels, Anne Sweet and Diane Westergaard
PLUS Open Mic!
Sign up at 6:30
Reading starts at 7:00
Richard Hugo House
1634 11th Street
Feb 26, 2009
It's About Time Writers - March 12, 2009
Please join us for our 235th reading
6:00 - 7:45 p.m.
Ballard Branch Seattle Public Library
5614 22nd Ave. N.W.Seattle , WA 98107
206-684-4089
http://itsaboutimewriters.homestead.com/
Darby Ringer, Moreah Vestan, Anne Sweet and Roberta Feins on the Writer's Craft
Roberta Feins lives in Seattle, and works as a computer consultant. She received her MFA in poetry from New England College in 2007. Her poems have been published in Tea Party, Floating Bridge Review, and The Lyric, and are forthcoming in Five AM and Antioch Review. She edits the e-zine Switched On Gutenberg http://www.switched-ongutenberg.org/
Moreah Vestan is a Life Coach, a Compassionate Communication trainer, a landlady, and a grandma. She’s author of Pleasures and Ponderings: From Nun to Nudist to Now, a book of 77 essays, and Diving Right In: Reflecting on Life's Adventures, a book of poetry and vignettes.
Darby Ringer’s poems have appeared in Pontoon #1, switched-ongutenberg.org, Poetry and Art on the Buses, 2001, among others. She has received bachelor’s degrees from the University of Washington in French and Landscape Architecture. She is a landscape designer and lives in Seattle, Washington.
M. Anne Sweet is a poet and artist. She has a full length poetry collection entitled Nailed to the Sky. Her poetry has appeared in many print and online literary journals. She reads and performs throughout the Pacific Northwest and is a past winner of the Bart Baxter Poetry in Performance Award. Please visit www.quillonline.com.
6:00 - 7:45 p.m.
Ballard Branch Seattle Public Library
5614 22nd Ave. N.W.Seattle , WA 98107
206-684-4089
http://itsaboutimewriters.homestead.com/
Darby Ringer, Moreah Vestan, Anne Sweet and Roberta Feins on the Writer's Craft
Roberta Feins lives in Seattle, and works as a computer consultant. She received her MFA in poetry from New England College in 2007. Her poems have been published in Tea Party, Floating Bridge Review, and The Lyric, and are forthcoming in Five AM and Antioch Review. She edits the e-zine Switched On Gutenberg http://www.switched-ongutenberg.org/
Moreah Vestan is a Life Coach, a Compassionate Communication trainer, a landlady, and a grandma. She’s author of Pleasures and Ponderings: From Nun to Nudist to Now, a book of 77 essays, and Diving Right In: Reflecting on Life's Adventures, a book of poetry and vignettes.
Darby Ringer’s poems have appeared in Pontoon #1, switched-ongutenberg.org, Poetry and Art on the Buses, 2001, among others. She has received bachelor’s degrees from the University of Washington in French and Landscape Architecture. She is a landscape designer and lives in Seattle, Washington.
M. Anne Sweet is a poet and artist. She has a full length poetry collection entitled Nailed to the Sky. Her poetry has appeared in many print and online literary journals. She reads and performs throughout the Pacific Northwest and is a past winner of the Bart Baxter Poetry in Performance Award. Please visit www.quillonline.com.
Feb 5, 2009
Next meeting, new venue
The next gathering takes place at 2pm on Sunday, February 15 at Grey Gallery & Lounge (www.greygalleryandlounge.com) down the street from Richard Hugo House on Capitol Hill.
We've decided to discontinue use of Feierabend as a meeting place, but we will continue to alternate meetings at Brouwer's. Come check out Grey and let me know what you think -- and thanks to Noel for the suggestion!
Date/time: February 15, 2009, 2:00pm
Place: Grey Gallery & Lounge (1512 11th Avenue, Seattle, WA)
We've decided to discontinue use of Feierabend as a meeting place, but we will continue to alternate meetings at Brouwer's. Come check out Grey and let me know what you think -- and thanks to Noel for the suggestion!
Date/time: February 15, 2009, 2:00pm
Place: Grey Gallery & Lounge (1512 11th Avenue, Seattle, WA)
Jan 27, 2009
It's About Time Writers Feb 12 '09
Please join us!
Thurs. Feb 12, 2009 # 234 Sherry Reniker, Jack Remick, Elizabeth Austin + Joannie Stangeland on The Writer's Craft
6:00 - 7:45 p.m.
Ballard Branch Seattle Public Library
5614 22nd Ave. N.W.
Seattle , WA 98107
206-684-4089
http://itsaboutimewriters.homestead.com/
Elizabeth Austen was the Washington state “roadshow” poet for 2007. She provides weekly poetry commentary on KUOW, 94.9, public radio, and has poems forthcoming in Bellingham Review and Crab Creek Review. Her audio CD, skin prayers, is available at elizabethausten.org. She makes her living as a communications specialist at Seattle Children’s Hospital.
Sherry Reniker is a poet, editor, and college instructor of writing. She spent 15 years in Tokyo where she edited World's Edge, an anthology of poetry and photography, and published her first short collection, Geo Frictions. As a poet, she has been compared to Mina Loy.
Joannie Kervran Stangeland’s chapbook Weathered Steps was published by Rose Alley Press. A Steady Longing for Flight won the Floating Bridge Press Chapbook Award. In 2003, Joannie was a Jack Straw artist-in-residence. More recently, her work has appeared in Illya’s Honey, Pinyon, and Pontoon.
JACK REMICK is a writer, teacher, and editor. His publications include Terminal Weird, short stories; The Stolen House, a novel, and The Seattle Five Plus One, an anthology of poetry. Fction includes three California novels: Pacific Coast Highway; The Deification of Jack Kerouac; and Berkeley ‘71: Book of the Dead.
Thurs. Feb 12, 2009 # 234 Sherry Reniker, Jack Remick, Elizabeth Austin + Joannie Stangeland on The Writer's Craft
6:00 - 7:45 p.m.
Ballard Branch Seattle Public Library
5614 22nd Ave. N.W.
Seattle , WA 98107
206-684-4089
http://itsaboutimewriters.homestead.com/
Elizabeth Austen was the Washington state “roadshow” poet for 2007. She provides weekly poetry commentary on KUOW, 94.9, public radio, and has poems forthcoming in Bellingham Review and Crab Creek Review. Her audio CD, skin prayers, is available at elizabethausten.org. She makes her living as a communications specialist at Seattle Children’s Hospital.
Sherry Reniker is a poet, editor, and college instructor of writing. She spent 15 years in Tokyo where she edited World's Edge, an anthology of poetry and photography, and published her first short collection, Geo Frictions. As a poet, she has been compared to Mina Loy.
Joannie Kervran Stangeland’s chapbook Weathered Steps was published by Rose Alley Press. A Steady Longing for Flight won the Floating Bridge Press Chapbook Award. In 2003, Joannie was a Jack Straw artist-in-residence. More recently, her work has appeared in Illya’s Honey, Pinyon, and Pontoon.
JACK REMICK is a writer, teacher, and editor. His publications include Terminal Weird, short stories; The Stolen House, a novel, and The Seattle Five Plus One, an anthology of poetry. Fction includes three California novels: Pacific Coast Highway; The Deification of Jack Kerouac; and Berkeley ‘71: Book of the Dead.
Jan 4, 2009
Canon fodder for thought
You don't like being pigeon-holed as a gay man, Greg? Weird! :P
Can't say I agree with the gist of the article that printed poetry's a dead art form (obviously), but I do agree with your own sentiment that people misconstrue performed poetry as dumbed-down.
It's funny. In academia, literature PhD profs/students (critics) often make the same claim of MFA profs/students -- that they're writing, but it's not the "real thing" like Shakespeare, Keats, Dickinson, etc. -- while MFA profs/students make the corresponding claim -- that literature PhD students are muddling around with dead language. Hell, Socrates (through Plato) was the first to make that claim.
The truth is, we're all in bed together, and the "real" poets know it. I remember meeting Bob Holman at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe in the mid-1990s, back when he used to MC. Bob asked me where I was studying at the time; I told him Columbia. He'd spent his undergrad years at Columbia, which is notorious for its bootcamp core courses on classical western topics. His response: "Oh, yeah? I was shot out of that canon!"
Thanks for sharing, Greg!
Can't say I agree with the gist of the article that printed poetry's a dead art form (obviously), but I do agree with your own sentiment that people misconstrue performed poetry as dumbed-down.
It's funny. In academia, literature PhD profs/students (critics) often make the same claim of MFA profs/students -- that they're writing, but it's not the "real thing" like Shakespeare, Keats, Dickinson, etc. -- while MFA profs/students make the corresponding claim -- that literature PhD students are muddling around with dead language. Hell, Socrates (through Plato) was the first to make that claim.
The truth is, we're all in bed together, and the "real" poets know it. I remember meeting Bob Holman at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe in the mid-1990s, back when he used to MC. Bob asked me where I was studying at the time; I told him Columbia. He'd spent his undergrad years at Columbia, which is notorious for its bootcamp core courses on classical western topics. His response: "Oh, yeah? I was shot out of that canon!"
Thanks for sharing, Greg!
Jan 1, 2009
Spoken Word Poetry article in the Weekly
Hey all,
There’s an article in the Seattle Weekly this week about Spoken Word poetry that I thought I’d share. Two things I’m not wild about in the article:
· Instead of “a 43 year old gay man”, why couldn’t I have been a “43 year old poet”?
· I’m SURE I said “…excluding people from my work” instead of “…secluding people from my work”.
http://www.seattleweekly.com/2008-12-31/music/spoken-world/
GregBee
There’s an article in the Seattle Weekly this week about Spoken Word poetry that I thought I’d share. Two things I’m not wild about in the article:
· Instead of “a 43 year old gay man”, why couldn’t I have been a “43 year old poet”?
· I’m SURE I said “…excluding people from my work” instead of “…secluding people from my work”.
http://www.seattleweekly.com/2008-12-31/music/spoken-world/
GregBee
Dec 2, 2008
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.
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.
Nov 30, 2008
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
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
Nov 26, 2008
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
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
Nov 22, 2008
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
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
Nov 20, 2008
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.
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
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
Nov 14, 2008
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
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
Nov 13, 2008
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)
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)
Nov 11, 2008
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.
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.
Nov 10, 2008
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
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
Nov 7, 2008
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
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
Nov 6, 2008
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).
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
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
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Oct 31, 2008
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)
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)
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