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Wompo Publishers Newspaper
News this week:
1. Ann E Michael's blog
2. Lesley Wheeler discusses...
3. B. Morrison, Monday Morning Book Blog
4. Indies Unlimited
5. Lingerpost: an online journal
6. Beltway Poetry Quarterly
7. The Lesbian Poetry Archives
(back issues of the newspaper are archived at the Wompo festival of women's poetry here:
wompherence.proboards.com ).
1. Ann E Michael's blog posts on kindred spirits, hope, & meaning (in the poetry-sense and otherwise) are up at: annemichael.wordpress.com.
2. In “Undead T. S. Eliot,” Lesley Wheeler discusses “The Waste Land” as horror fiction and asks where his influence shows in contemporary poetry.
thecavethehive.wordpress.com/
3. B. Morrison, Monday Morning Book Blog
www.bmorrison.com/blog/
- The Door, by Margaret Atwood
4. Indies Unlimited celebrates independent authors; helps them build their followings; provides a platform for members of the independent author community to share and exchange ideas, knowledge, expertise and frustrations; exposes readers and reviewers to the amazing depth and array of talent in the indie community.
Read our latest interview with author, Pat Valdata:
www.indiesunlimited.com/2012/02/23/meet-the-author-pat-valdata/
5. Lingerpost: an online journal
Edited by Kara Dorris, Lingerpost seeks to publish poetry and fiction that, as Emily Dickinson said, lingers and "makes [the] whole body so cold no fire can ever warm [it]."
Lingerpost Issue # 3 is live featuring fantastic poetry by Carol Berg, Deirdre Regan Briggs, Meghan Brinson, Todd Fredson, Heather Frankland, Jamila Wimberly, Juliet Cook, Joe H. Gallagher, Leslie Morris, Mary Stone Dockery, Connie A. Lopez-Hood, Catherine Bailey, Joaquin de Feo, Nathan Logan, Miriam N. Kotzin, Theresa Williams, Skylaar Amann, and Allison Layfield…
And an amazing collaborative poem by Sheila Black, Tanaya Winder, Mary Stone Dockery, Adam Crittenden, Natalie Day, and Elizabeth Brasher.
lingerpost.org
Lingerpost reads submissions year around.
6. Call for Entries
Beltway Poetry Quarterly
www.beltwaypoetry.com
Beltway Poetry Quarterly seeks poems for a special Poets in Federal Government Issue, Volume 13:3, to be published July 2012. We will be accepting submissions online during the month of March 2012.
Any poet who is a current or past employee of the Federal Government of the United States is eligible. Contractors are not eligible, but part-time or seasonal employees are. Poets may live anywhere in the world.
We seek poems on the theme of government work. Poems may address: borders, bureaucracy, colleagues, commuting, conflicts of interest, the coast guard, cubicles, efficiency, evaluations, flagpoles, fluorescent lights, the forest service, hierarchy, income, infrastructure, the military, national parks, office equipment, paperwork, per diems, public service, the law, requisitions, security, sick leave, taxes, water coolers, welfare, or other related topics.
Submit from one to five poems in the body of a single email, along with full contact information, and a one-paragraph bio that includes your federal job experience. No attachments will be read. Poems may be previously published, but only if copyright has reverted to the writer, and the poems do not appear anywhere else on the web (including on blogs and list serves). The deadline is March 31 at 11:59 and 59 seconds. Poems submitted outside the March reading period will not be considered. Submit to: beltwaypoetryquarterly@gmail.com.
Poets will be notified of editorial decisions by that all-important federal date of April 15. This special issue will be compiled by Kim Roberts, with guest co-editor Michael Gushue, publisher of Beothuk Books and Vrzhu Books, co-director of Poetry Mutual, author of Conrad and Gathering Down Women, and a member of the federal workforce for 28 years.
7. The Lesbian Poetry Archives is pleased to announce the publication of Two Chapbooks by Stephania Byrd.
Stephania Byrd published two chapbooks, 25 Years of Malcontent (Boston, MA: Good Gay Poets, 1976) and A Distant Footstep on the Plain (1981). Both are now out of print. These two chapbooks represent a vibrant part of the history of lesbian print culture. The Lesbian Poetry Archive is pleased to present a new electronic edition of both of these books, available for free to all readers with an internet connection.
In her new afterword, Byrd writes, "Black lesbian identity is political and will remain political as long as corrective rape is practiced on black lesbian women who live on the African continent. Therefore it is incumbent upon me to publish my poetry because a poem will find its way to my sister soldiers as they lie quietly waiting for danger to pass. It has the capacity to buoy one when she thinks she may perish; it gives her strength to move on."
In an introduction to the collection, Lesbian Poetry Archive curator Julie R. Enszer writes, "25 Years of Malcontent and A Distant Footstep on the Plain are wonderfully engaging collections of poetry that situate Byrd as a vibrant American poet worthy of more attention."
Readers can download and share 25 Years of Malcontent/A Distant Footstep on the Plain at the Lesbian Poetry Archive, www.LesbianPoetryArchive.org. Click on ebooks at www.LesbianPoetryArchive.org or direct your browser to www.lesbianpoetryarchive.org/node/300
This publication was also featured on the Ms. Magazine Blog here: msmagazine.com/blog/blog/2012/02/24/black-herstory-a-poetic-call-to-justice-from-lesbian-feminists/
News this week:
1. Ann E Michael's blog
2. Lesley Wheeler discusses...
3. B. Morrison, Monday Morning Book Blog
4. Indies Unlimited
5. Lingerpost: an online journal
6. Beltway Poetry Quarterly
7. The Lesbian Poetry Archives
(back issues of the newspaper are archived at the Wompo festival of women's poetry here:
wompherence.proboards.com ).
1. Ann E Michael's blog posts on kindred spirits, hope, & meaning (in the poetry-sense and otherwise) are up at: annemichael.wordpress.com.
2. In “Undead T. S. Eliot,” Lesley Wheeler discusses “The Waste Land” as horror fiction and asks where his influence shows in contemporary poetry.
thecavethehive.wordpress.com/
3. B. Morrison, Monday Morning Book Blog
www.bmorrison.com/blog/
- The Door, by Margaret Atwood
4. Indies Unlimited celebrates independent authors; helps them build their followings; provides a platform for members of the independent author community to share and exchange ideas, knowledge, expertise and frustrations; exposes readers and reviewers to the amazing depth and array of talent in the indie community.
Read our latest interview with author, Pat Valdata:
www.indiesunlimited.com/2012/02/23/meet-the-author-pat-valdata/
5. Lingerpost: an online journal
Edited by Kara Dorris, Lingerpost seeks to publish poetry and fiction that, as Emily Dickinson said, lingers and "makes [the] whole body so cold no fire can ever warm [it]."
Lingerpost Issue # 3 is live featuring fantastic poetry by Carol Berg, Deirdre Regan Briggs, Meghan Brinson, Todd Fredson, Heather Frankland, Jamila Wimberly, Juliet Cook, Joe H. Gallagher, Leslie Morris, Mary Stone Dockery, Connie A. Lopez-Hood, Catherine Bailey, Joaquin de Feo, Nathan Logan, Miriam N. Kotzin, Theresa Williams, Skylaar Amann, and Allison Layfield…
And an amazing collaborative poem by Sheila Black, Tanaya Winder, Mary Stone Dockery, Adam Crittenden, Natalie Day, and Elizabeth Brasher.
lingerpost.org
Lingerpost reads submissions year around.
6. Call for Entries
Beltway Poetry Quarterly
www.beltwaypoetry.com
Beltway Poetry Quarterly seeks poems for a special Poets in Federal Government Issue, Volume 13:3, to be published July 2012. We will be accepting submissions online during the month of March 2012.
Any poet who is a current or past employee of the Federal Government of the United States is eligible. Contractors are not eligible, but part-time or seasonal employees are. Poets may live anywhere in the world.
We seek poems on the theme of government work. Poems may address: borders, bureaucracy, colleagues, commuting, conflicts of interest, the coast guard, cubicles, efficiency, evaluations, flagpoles, fluorescent lights, the forest service, hierarchy, income, infrastructure, the military, national parks, office equipment, paperwork, per diems, public service, the law, requisitions, security, sick leave, taxes, water coolers, welfare, or other related topics.
Submit from one to five poems in the body of a single email, along with full contact information, and a one-paragraph bio that includes your federal job experience. No attachments will be read. Poems may be previously published, but only if copyright has reverted to the writer, and the poems do not appear anywhere else on the web (including on blogs and list serves). The deadline is March 31 at 11:59 and 59 seconds. Poems submitted outside the March reading period will not be considered. Submit to: beltwaypoetryquarterly@gmail.com.
Poets will be notified of editorial decisions by that all-important federal date of April 15. This special issue will be compiled by Kim Roberts, with guest co-editor Michael Gushue, publisher of Beothuk Books and Vrzhu Books, co-director of Poetry Mutual, author of Conrad and Gathering Down Women, and a member of the federal workforce for 28 years.
7. The Lesbian Poetry Archives is pleased to announce the publication of Two Chapbooks by Stephania Byrd.
Stephania Byrd published two chapbooks, 25 Years of Malcontent (Boston, MA: Good Gay Poets, 1976) and A Distant Footstep on the Plain (1981). Both are now out of print. These two chapbooks represent a vibrant part of the history of lesbian print culture. The Lesbian Poetry Archive is pleased to present a new electronic edition of both of these books, available for free to all readers with an internet connection.
In her new afterword, Byrd writes, "Black lesbian identity is political and will remain political as long as corrective rape is practiced on black lesbian women who live on the African continent. Therefore it is incumbent upon me to publish my poetry because a poem will find its way to my sister soldiers as they lie quietly waiting for danger to pass. It has the capacity to buoy one when she thinks she may perish; it gives her strength to move on."
In an introduction to the collection, Lesbian Poetry Archive curator Julie R. Enszer writes, "25 Years of Malcontent and A Distant Footstep on the Plain are wonderfully engaging collections of poetry that situate Byrd as a vibrant American poet worthy of more attention."
Readers can download and share 25 Years of Malcontent/A Distant Footstep on the Plain at the Lesbian Poetry Archive, www.LesbianPoetryArchive.org. Click on ebooks at www.LesbianPoetryArchive.org or direct your browser to www.lesbianpoetryarchive.org/node/300
This publication was also featured on the Ms. Magazine Blog here: msmagazine.com/blog/blog/2012/02/24/black-herstory-a-poetic-call-to-justice-from-lesbian-feminists/