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News this week from Poets’ Quarterly, Drunken Boat, Delaware Poetry Review, Plan B Press (back issues of the newspaper are archived at the Wompo festival of women's poetry here: wompherence.proboards.com ).
1.
Call for Review Submissions:
Poets’ Quarterly is accepting reviews of new poetry books for the Summer Issue. The deadline is June 26, 2010; the guidelines for submission, including specific formatting requirements, are online at www.PoetsQuarterly.com. Reviews of full books, chapbooks, and multi-author collections published in 2009 or 2010 will be considered. Contact info@poetsquarterly.com with any questions.
2.
Drunken Boat - Call for Submissions: /Slant/Sex/
www.drunkenboat.com
Decades after Women’s Lib and Stonewall, in the time of queer theory, gurlesque and “girls gone wild,” there are still aspects of women and transgender people’s sexuality that are taboo or discounted (the sexuality of older women and women with disabilities, for example, or a joyful transgender sexual self). We are looking for poems, prose, and multimedia/interactive art that address these topics.
This is a call for bold, honest investigations of the sexual female/trans self that polite society has yet to fully embrace.
We particularly encourage submissions from women of color, older women, queer women, women with disabilities, and transgender/two-spirit/gender nonconforming folks.
Please submit through our online submissions manager. Submission accepted May 15 – September 15, 2010
Additionally, we are re-opening for non-theme poetry submissions on June 1. Visit www.drunkenboat.com.
3.
The Spring 2010 issue of the Delaware Poetry Review is now available online at www.depoetry.com.
Thirteen poets are featured, writing on subjects as diverse as migrating warblers, the cave paintings as Lascaux, a souvenir calendar of "hot priests," Hurricane Katrina, chickpeas, and barbed wire underwear. WOMPOs JoAnn Balingit and Pat Valdata are featured, along with Daniel Armstrong, Andrea Carter Brown, Sarah Browning, Carmen Calayayud, Hayes Davis, Frank Giampietro, Devon Miller-Duggan, John Perlman, Alan C. Reese, Scott Whitaker, and Pamela Murray Winters.
The Delaware Poetry Review, well known for featuring some of the most intriguing and distinctive poets of the Mid-Atlantic region, is published out of Lewes, DE, and is sponsored by the Cape Gazette newspaper. The journal is co-edited by a group of five, including WOMPO Kim Roberts, along with Michael Blaine, Dennis Forney, H.A. Maxson, and Richard Peabody. To read the latest issue, see www.depoetry.com.
4.
Plan B Press continues to get great reviews for the anthology Full Moon on K Street: Poems About Washington, DC, edited by WOMPO Kim Roberts. Here are three that came out in April and May. Please note that one quotes WOMPO Grace Cavalieri, and one was written by WOMPO Annie Finch.
There was a nice review in the The Baltimore City Paper, "Beltways and Memes" by Geoffrey Himes on May 12, 2010. Himes writes,
"It's a challenge to turn something as amorphous as a city into poetry—especially a city dominated by bureaucrats, curators, and lobbyists. But the poets in Full Moon appear determined to prove, as [Michael]Lally puts it in his poem 'DC,' that Washington 'doesn't have to be a museum in the pits! Spies! Ritual catalogue of dates!' How do you find the poetry, though, amid all that marble and concrete? 'Where did the earth go?' [Grace] Cavalieri writes in 'Mapping DC (1966-2007),' 'Into Sterling Brown's voice . . . into the whine of the guitar of Bill Harris at the "Pigfoot" club.'" www.citypaper.com/arts/story.asp?id=20201
Harriet, the blog of the Poetry Foundation, published a review by Annie Finch on April 26, "Place, Time, Consciousness: Three New Political Anthologies." Of Full Moon on K Street, Finch writes: "The book is full of surprise and humor and energy, from Michael Lally opening a poem, 'DC, do you wanna dance?' to Esther Iversen’s 'tribute' to Bush’s second inauguration... Fresh and memorable poems from a true range of voices. An additional unique charm is that each author bio ends with a sentence giving concrete information about DC evoked by that poet’s poem...All around, this is a fun and unique anthology and a great introduction to the very cool world of DC poetry." www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2010/04/place-time-consciousness-three-new-political-anthologies/
The Devil's Accountant published a review on April 19, 2010. They write: "Roberts has assembled...a landmark. This is important work, not just to the community of Washington, D.C., but to the nation at large. No doubt part of that national interest is born of the fact that this anthology deals with our nation's capital...From the founding role of D.C. artists in what eventually became transplanted and known as the Harlem Renaissance to the protest poetry of the Bush presidency, with many a sun-baked or moonlit edifice between, Full Moon On K Street is remarkable as much because of the city as the poets' individual talents." www.devilsaccountant.com/2010/04/front-list-back-list-full-moon-on-k.html
...And I recently heard that two university classes plan to adopt the anthology as a text in the Fall!
News this week from Poets’ Quarterly, Drunken Boat, Delaware Poetry Review, Plan B Press (back issues of the newspaper are archived at the Wompo festival of women's poetry here: wompherence.proboards.com ).
1.
Call for Review Submissions:
Poets’ Quarterly is accepting reviews of new poetry books for the Summer Issue. The deadline is June 26, 2010; the guidelines for submission, including specific formatting requirements, are online at www.PoetsQuarterly.com. Reviews of full books, chapbooks, and multi-author collections published in 2009 or 2010 will be considered. Contact info@poetsquarterly.com with any questions.
2.
Drunken Boat - Call for Submissions: /Slant/Sex/
www.drunkenboat.com
Decades after Women’s Lib and Stonewall, in the time of queer theory, gurlesque and “girls gone wild,” there are still aspects of women and transgender people’s sexuality that are taboo or discounted (the sexuality of older women and women with disabilities, for example, or a joyful transgender sexual self). We are looking for poems, prose, and multimedia/interactive art that address these topics.
This is a call for bold, honest investigations of the sexual female/trans self that polite society has yet to fully embrace.
We particularly encourage submissions from women of color, older women, queer women, women with disabilities, and transgender/two-spirit/gender nonconforming folks.
Please submit through our online submissions manager. Submission accepted May 15 – September 15, 2010
Additionally, we are re-opening for non-theme poetry submissions on June 1. Visit www.drunkenboat.com.
3.
The Spring 2010 issue of the Delaware Poetry Review is now available online at www.depoetry.com.
Thirteen poets are featured, writing on subjects as diverse as migrating warblers, the cave paintings as Lascaux, a souvenir calendar of "hot priests," Hurricane Katrina, chickpeas, and barbed wire underwear. WOMPOs JoAnn Balingit and Pat Valdata are featured, along with Daniel Armstrong, Andrea Carter Brown, Sarah Browning, Carmen Calayayud, Hayes Davis, Frank Giampietro, Devon Miller-Duggan, John Perlman, Alan C. Reese, Scott Whitaker, and Pamela Murray Winters.
The Delaware Poetry Review, well known for featuring some of the most intriguing and distinctive poets of the Mid-Atlantic region, is published out of Lewes, DE, and is sponsored by the Cape Gazette newspaper. The journal is co-edited by a group of five, including WOMPO Kim Roberts, along with Michael Blaine, Dennis Forney, H.A. Maxson, and Richard Peabody. To read the latest issue, see www.depoetry.com.
4.
Plan B Press continues to get great reviews for the anthology Full Moon on K Street: Poems About Washington, DC, edited by WOMPO Kim Roberts. Here are three that came out in April and May. Please note that one quotes WOMPO Grace Cavalieri, and one was written by WOMPO Annie Finch.
There was a nice review in the The Baltimore City Paper, "Beltways and Memes" by Geoffrey Himes on May 12, 2010. Himes writes,
"It's a challenge to turn something as amorphous as a city into poetry—especially a city dominated by bureaucrats, curators, and lobbyists. But the poets in Full Moon appear determined to prove, as [Michael]Lally puts it in his poem 'DC,' that Washington 'doesn't have to be a museum in the pits! Spies! Ritual catalogue of dates!' How do you find the poetry, though, amid all that marble and concrete? 'Where did the earth go?' [Grace] Cavalieri writes in 'Mapping DC (1966-2007),' 'Into Sterling Brown's voice . . . into the whine of the guitar of Bill Harris at the "Pigfoot" club.'" www.citypaper.com/arts/story.asp?id=20201
Harriet, the blog of the Poetry Foundation, published a review by Annie Finch on April 26, "Place, Time, Consciousness: Three New Political Anthologies." Of Full Moon on K Street, Finch writes: "The book is full of surprise and humor and energy, from Michael Lally opening a poem, 'DC, do you wanna dance?' to Esther Iversen’s 'tribute' to Bush’s second inauguration... Fresh and memorable poems from a true range of voices. An additional unique charm is that each author bio ends with a sentence giving concrete information about DC evoked by that poet’s poem...All around, this is a fun and unique anthology and a great introduction to the very cool world of DC poetry." www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2010/04/place-time-consciousness-three-new-political-anthologies/
The Devil's Accountant published a review on April 19, 2010. They write: "Roberts has assembled...a landmark. This is important work, not just to the community of Washington, D.C., but to the nation at large. No doubt part of that national interest is born of the fact that this anthology deals with our nation's capital...From the founding role of D.C. artists in what eventually became transplanted and known as the Harlem Renaissance to the protest poetry of the Bush presidency, with many a sun-baked or moonlit edifice between, Full Moon On K Street is remarkable as much because of the city as the poets' individual talents." www.devilsaccountant.com/2010/04/front-list-back-list-full-moon-on-k.html
...And I recently heard that two university classes plan to adopt the anthology as a text in the Fall!