Post by moira on Jun 1, 2017 9:39:46 GMT 2
Wompo Publishers, Bloggers and Teachers Newspaper
News this week:
1. B. Morrison, Monday Morning Book Blog
2. Recent posts to Judith Laura's blog, where she writes as "Medusa"
3. Submissions open for a special issue of Beltway Poetry Quarterly, the Sterling A. Brown Tribute Issue
4. Ellen Moody's blogs
(back issues of the newspaper are archived at the Wompo
festival of women's poetry here: http://wompherence.proboards.com).
1. B. Morrison, Monday Morning Book Blog
www.bmorrison.com/blog/
- A Forest of Kings: The Untold Story of the Ancient Maya, by Linda Schele and David Freidel
2. Recent posts to Judith Laura's blog, where she writes as "Medusa" http://medusacoils.blogspot.com:
"New Book by Danielle Dulsky: Woman Most Wild"--Review/Author Interview of Woman Most Wild: Three Keys to Liberating the Witch Within (contains poetry among the mostly prose)
medusacoils.blogspot.com/2017/05/new-book-by-danielle-dulsky-woman-most.html
"New Issue of Goddess Pages Published"--Notice about e-journal that includes poetry and chapter from one of my books.
medusacoils.blogspot.com/2017/05/new-issue-of-goddess-pages-published.html
"Beltane Meditation" : One of my meditations from material published as both an audiobook (I narrate) and ebook.
medusacoils.blogspot.com/2017/05/beltane-meditation.html
3. Join us for a special issue of Beltway Poetry Quarterly, the Sterling A. Brown Tribute Issue, to be published in October 2017. Our submissions period is NOW OPEN!
We seek poems written about Brown, for Brown, or poems that address the subjects closest to his heart: music (particularly jazz, blues, work songs, and spirituals), racial identity, and folklore. Sterling Stuckey praised Brown’s ability to find “almost boundless artistic possibilities for exploring the human condition.” Folk poems that come from any tradition would be welcome.
Sterling A. Brown (May 1, 1901 – January 13, 1989) served as the first Poet Laureate of Washington, DC from 1984 to 1989. He authored three books of poems: Southern Road (1932), The Last Ride of Wild Bill (1975), and The Collected Poems of Sterling A. Brown (published posthumously in 1989, edited by Michael S. Harper). He also co-edited the landmark anthology, The Negro Caravan, in 1941 (with Arthur P. Davis and Ulysses Lee), edited Negro Poetry and Drama (1938) and served as Editor on Negro Affairs for the Federal Writers Project during the Depression.
Brown dedicated his life to education and was born, fittingly, on the campus of Howard University. His father, a former slave, was a prominent minister and professor in the Howard Divinity School. His mother taught in the DC Public Schools for over 50 years. Brown was educated at Dunbar High School in DC, Williams College, and Harvard University. He had early teaching jobs at Virginia Theological Seminary, Lincoln University, and Fisk University, then moved back to DC in 1929 to teach at Howard for the next 40 years, until his retirement in 1969. Renowned as an inspiring teacher, and for developing some of the first college-level African American literature courses, his students included Toni Morrison, Amiri Baraka, Ossie Davis, and Stokely Carmichael.
To read more about Brown, see: www.beltwaypoetry.com/poetry/poets/names/brown-sterling/
Please submit up to 5 poems in a single Word or Google document, through our online submissions system (see link below). Poets who live or work in DC, MD, VA, WV or DE are eligible to submit. The editors will consider previously published poems provided they do not appear anywhere else in print online (including blogs and list serves), and copyright has reverted back to the author. All submissions must be received during the month of June.
www.beltwaypoetry.com/about-us/submissions/
4. Ellen Moody's blogs
4.1. Aging: Kaleidoscope, Lear and Cranford Chronicles -- return to Gaskell:
ellenandjim.wordpress.com/2017/05/27/aging-kaleidoscope-lear-cranford-chroniclesreturntogaskell/
4.2. An important book and interview: Timothy Synder on tyranny spreading through the US:
misssylviadrake.livejournal.com/153458.html
News this week:
1. B. Morrison, Monday Morning Book Blog
2. Recent posts to Judith Laura's blog, where she writes as "Medusa"
3. Submissions open for a special issue of Beltway Poetry Quarterly, the Sterling A. Brown Tribute Issue
4. Ellen Moody's blogs
(back issues of the newspaper are archived at the Wompo
festival of women's poetry here: http://wompherence.proboards.com).
1. B. Morrison, Monday Morning Book Blog
www.bmorrison.com/blog/
- A Forest of Kings: The Untold Story of the Ancient Maya, by Linda Schele and David Freidel
2. Recent posts to Judith Laura's blog, where she writes as "Medusa" http://medusacoils.blogspot.com:
"New Book by Danielle Dulsky: Woman Most Wild"--Review/Author Interview of Woman Most Wild: Three Keys to Liberating the Witch Within (contains poetry among the mostly prose)
medusacoils.blogspot.com/2017/05/new-book-by-danielle-dulsky-woman-most.html
"New Issue of Goddess Pages Published"--Notice about e-journal that includes poetry and chapter from one of my books.
medusacoils.blogspot.com/2017/05/new-issue-of-goddess-pages-published.html
"Beltane Meditation" : One of my meditations from material published as both an audiobook (I narrate) and ebook.
medusacoils.blogspot.com/2017/05/beltane-meditation.html
3. Join us for a special issue of Beltway Poetry Quarterly, the Sterling A. Brown Tribute Issue, to be published in October 2017. Our submissions period is NOW OPEN!
We seek poems written about Brown, for Brown, or poems that address the subjects closest to his heart: music (particularly jazz, blues, work songs, and spirituals), racial identity, and folklore. Sterling Stuckey praised Brown’s ability to find “almost boundless artistic possibilities for exploring the human condition.” Folk poems that come from any tradition would be welcome.
Sterling A. Brown (May 1, 1901 – January 13, 1989) served as the first Poet Laureate of Washington, DC from 1984 to 1989. He authored three books of poems: Southern Road (1932), The Last Ride of Wild Bill (1975), and The Collected Poems of Sterling A. Brown (published posthumously in 1989, edited by Michael S. Harper). He also co-edited the landmark anthology, The Negro Caravan, in 1941 (with Arthur P. Davis and Ulysses Lee), edited Negro Poetry and Drama (1938) and served as Editor on Negro Affairs for the Federal Writers Project during the Depression.
Brown dedicated his life to education and was born, fittingly, on the campus of Howard University. His father, a former slave, was a prominent minister and professor in the Howard Divinity School. His mother taught in the DC Public Schools for over 50 years. Brown was educated at Dunbar High School in DC, Williams College, and Harvard University. He had early teaching jobs at Virginia Theological Seminary, Lincoln University, and Fisk University, then moved back to DC in 1929 to teach at Howard for the next 40 years, until his retirement in 1969. Renowned as an inspiring teacher, and for developing some of the first college-level African American literature courses, his students included Toni Morrison, Amiri Baraka, Ossie Davis, and Stokely Carmichael.
To read more about Brown, see: www.beltwaypoetry.com/poetry/poets/names/brown-sterling/
Please submit up to 5 poems in a single Word or Google document, through our online submissions system (see link below). Poets who live or work in DC, MD, VA, WV or DE are eligible to submit. The editors will consider previously published poems provided they do not appear anywhere else in print online (including blogs and list serves), and copyright has reverted back to the author. All submissions must be received during the month of June.
www.beltwaypoetry.com/about-us/submissions/
4. Ellen Moody's blogs
4.1. Aging: Kaleidoscope, Lear and Cranford Chronicles -- return to Gaskell:
ellenandjim.wordpress.com/2017/05/27/aging-kaleidoscope-lear-cranford-chroniclesreturntogaskell/
4.2. An important book and interview: Timothy Synder on tyranny spreading through the US:
misssylviadrake.livejournal.com/153458.html