Post by moira on Nov 4, 2010 8:41:00 GMT 2
Wompo Publishers Newspaper
News this week from Poets' Corner, Umbrella: A Journal of Poetry and Kindred Prose, Tilt-a-Whirl: A Poetry Sporadical of Repeating Forms, New Mirage Journal, Poetry International, Shearsman Books (back issues of the newspaper are archived at the Wompo festival of women's poetry here: wompherence.proboards.com ).
1. The new update of the Poets' Corner can be accessed here:
annyballardini.blogspot.com/2010/10/poets-corner-update.html
2. Editor Kate Bernadette Benedict announces the publication of the Fall-Winter 2010-2011 release of Umbrella: A Journal of Poetry and Kindred Prose, which, this time around, publishes in tandem with Tilt-a-Whirl: A Poetry Sporadical of Repeating Forms.
The zines include poems by Ruth E. Foley, Risa Desenberg, Mary Ann Mayer, Claire Keyes, Janice D. Soldering, Paul Hostovsky and others.
Umbrella's next submission period starts February 10; the Tilt's reading period is ongoing.
www.umbrellajournal.com
3. This is to announce that I, Georgia Ann Banks-Martin is the new editor of New Mirage Journal. New Mirage Journal is now open for submissions of poetry and book reviews of no more than three pages.
We read year round but please submit selections by Nov. 30, 2010 to ensure consideration for the new edition which will appear on Dec. 13, 2010. We are interested in reading work from around the world so long as it is written in English or has been translated into English.
New Mirage Journal is a quarterly journal interested in high quality work that dares to speak of race, the human condition, the "struggle", in fresh new ways.
Please submit no more than three previously unpublished poems and a 300 word bio in the body of an email and wait until you receive an acceptance or rejection notice before submitting again. In the subject line of your email please type: poetry submission or book review. All submissions are to be sent to our new email address: newmiragejournal@yahoo.com.
Also, note or new web address: newmiragejournal.com. Submissions that reach the editor via other means will not be accepted. In keeping with our tradition all contributors will receive a complementary chapbook version of the edition of New Mirage Journal in which their works appears.
4. Poetry International's second South African feature for 2010 appeared recently with an editorial by Liesl Jobson focusing on the current threat to media freedom. Poets featured are Adam Small, Angifi Dladla and Mafika Gwala.
5. Shira Dentz's book of poems, black seeds on a white dish, is out this month from Shearsman Books. These poems spring from the search for what is generated and discovered when loss and desire occupy the same space. But lamentation is not the primary focus-by destabilizing everything in its reach, loss disables rigidity. These poems shift widely in form and tone, and seeds invoke the creative germ that spurs the metamorphoses occupying them: "Nothing to do but let the form of things take over." Shapes themselves, including punctuation, become a language throughout.
Shira Dentz is the recipient of numerous awards including the Poetry Society of America's Lyric Poem Award, and her poems have appeared in many journals including The American Poetry Review, The Iowa Review, jubilat, Black Warrior Review, and Bombay Gin, as well as having been featured on Poetry Daily and National Public Radio.
"Paul Cézanne once quietly avowed I will astonish Paris with an apple. And now I may, with quite an equal confidence, announce that Shira Dentz will astonish us all with the the curve of a melon, a sunray diagonal and pumpkin seeds. Which is to say that here is a book to unstill all the still life images resting in our hearts. Shira Dentz is the most powerfully delicate poet I know." — Don Revell
"What does it mean to let the form of things take over? Shira Dentz is a poet of thrilling disorientations and courageous surrenders, a creature for whom the very letters of the alphabet are seeds of wonder, seeds of grief. Against all that is hollow, bland, and bare, she composes and exposes lush landscapes of sound and sight--punctuated by jagged flashes of irony, quirky comedy, and heartbreaking insight. I relish these poems, and celebrate the appearance of a collection that offers so much that is rare, artful, tender, urgent, unexpected, and true. And I am enthralled by a mind that gives voice to so many forms of desire in lines so freely expressing the shapes of our humanity: I want to say my life has / been a pipecleaner, beautifully twisted, / in tandem with others like it." —Phillis Levin
The book is available for purchase from Amazon and Shearsman Books:
www.amazon.com/Black-Seeds-White-Shira-Dentz/dp/1848611285/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1279747432&sr=1-3
www.shearsman.com/pages/books/catalog/2010/dentz.html
News this week from Poets' Corner, Umbrella: A Journal of Poetry and Kindred Prose, Tilt-a-Whirl: A Poetry Sporadical of Repeating Forms, New Mirage Journal, Poetry International, Shearsman Books (back issues of the newspaper are archived at the Wompo festival of women's poetry here: wompherence.proboards.com ).
1. The new update of the Poets' Corner can be accessed here:
annyballardini.blogspot.com/2010/10/poets-corner-update.html
2. Editor Kate Bernadette Benedict announces the publication of the Fall-Winter 2010-2011 release of Umbrella: A Journal of Poetry and Kindred Prose, which, this time around, publishes in tandem with Tilt-a-Whirl: A Poetry Sporadical of Repeating Forms.
The zines include poems by Ruth E. Foley, Risa Desenberg, Mary Ann Mayer, Claire Keyes, Janice D. Soldering, Paul Hostovsky and others.
Umbrella's next submission period starts February 10; the Tilt's reading period is ongoing.
www.umbrellajournal.com
3. This is to announce that I, Georgia Ann Banks-Martin is the new editor of New Mirage Journal. New Mirage Journal is now open for submissions of poetry and book reviews of no more than three pages.
We read year round but please submit selections by Nov. 30, 2010 to ensure consideration for the new edition which will appear on Dec. 13, 2010. We are interested in reading work from around the world so long as it is written in English or has been translated into English.
New Mirage Journal is a quarterly journal interested in high quality work that dares to speak of race, the human condition, the "struggle", in fresh new ways.
Please submit no more than three previously unpublished poems and a 300 word bio in the body of an email and wait until you receive an acceptance or rejection notice before submitting again. In the subject line of your email please type: poetry submission or book review. All submissions are to be sent to our new email address: newmiragejournal@yahoo.com.
Also, note or new web address: newmiragejournal.com. Submissions that reach the editor via other means will not be accepted. In keeping with our tradition all contributors will receive a complementary chapbook version of the edition of New Mirage Journal in which their works appears.
4. Poetry International's second South African feature for 2010 appeared recently with an editorial by Liesl Jobson focusing on the current threat to media freedom. Poets featured are Adam Small, Angifi Dladla and Mafika Gwala.
5. Shira Dentz's book of poems, black seeds on a white dish, is out this month from Shearsman Books. These poems spring from the search for what is generated and discovered when loss and desire occupy the same space. But lamentation is not the primary focus-by destabilizing everything in its reach, loss disables rigidity. These poems shift widely in form and tone, and seeds invoke the creative germ that spurs the metamorphoses occupying them: "Nothing to do but let the form of things take over." Shapes themselves, including punctuation, become a language throughout.
Shira Dentz is the recipient of numerous awards including the Poetry Society of America's Lyric Poem Award, and her poems have appeared in many journals including The American Poetry Review, The Iowa Review, jubilat, Black Warrior Review, and Bombay Gin, as well as having been featured on Poetry Daily and National Public Radio.
"Paul Cézanne once quietly avowed I will astonish Paris with an apple. And now I may, with quite an equal confidence, announce that Shira Dentz will astonish us all with the the curve of a melon, a sunray diagonal and pumpkin seeds. Which is to say that here is a book to unstill all the still life images resting in our hearts. Shira Dentz is the most powerfully delicate poet I know." — Don Revell
"What does it mean to let the form of things take over? Shira Dentz is a poet of thrilling disorientations and courageous surrenders, a creature for whom the very letters of the alphabet are seeds of wonder, seeds of grief. Against all that is hollow, bland, and bare, she composes and exposes lush landscapes of sound and sight--punctuated by jagged flashes of irony, quirky comedy, and heartbreaking insight. I relish these poems, and celebrate the appearance of a collection that offers so much that is rare, artful, tender, urgent, unexpected, and true. And I am enthralled by a mind that gives voice to so many forms of desire in lines so freely expressing the shapes of our humanity: I want to say my life has / been a pipecleaner, beautifully twisted, / in tandem with others like it." —Phillis Levin
The book is available for purchase from Amazon and Shearsman Books:
www.amazon.com/Black-Seeds-White-Shira-Dentz/dp/1848611285/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1279747432&sr=1-3
www.shearsman.com/pages/books/catalog/2010/dentz.html