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Wompo Publishers Newspaper
News this week from Redheaded Stepchild, Crab Creek Review, Rougarou, A Midsummer Night's Press, Sinister Wisdom (back issues of the newspaper are archived at the Wompo festival of women's poetry here: wompherence.proboards.com ).
1. The new Fall issue of Redheaded Stepchild is now up: redheadedmag.com/poetry/ featuring poetry by Wompos and others, including Carly Sachs, Sarah Sarai, Neile Graham, and Lois Marie Harrod to name a few.
The Redheaded Stepchild only accepts poems that have been rejected by other magazines. We are open to submissions again in February.
2. Crab Creek Review 2010 Vol.2 Now Available! Order our current issue, here- www.crabcreekreview.org
featuring new work from James Bertolino, Alice Derry, Patricia Fargnoli, Erin Malone, Anne McDuffie, Kevin Miller, Peter Pereira, Fernando Perez, Midge Raymond, Martha Silano, Ann Spiers, Joannie Kervran Stangeland, and David Wagoner.
Our new issue also features Beyond Ekphrasis, a special section of poetry inspired by other art forms, guest edited by Susan Rich. Also-- fabulous short stories and book reviews.
3. I am Editor-in-Chief of Rougarou: An Online Literary Journal: english.louisiana.edu/rougarou/index.shtml. The new fall issue is live, and we're now reading for the spring issue. Please check us out. ~ Katie Manning
4. Send submissions for Queer Jewish Poetry by November 30th!
Details below:
A Midsummer Night's Press announces a call for submissions for two anthologies celebrating queer Jewish poetry:
FLAMBOYANT: A CELEBRATION OF JEWISH GAY POETRY
edited by Lawrence Schimel
and
MILK AND HONEY: A CELEBRATION OF JEWISH LESBIAN POETRY
edited by Julie R. Enszer
to be published in Spring 2011.
We are looking for poems that celebrate and question, meditate and intimate, argue and reconcile contemporary queer Jewish identity. What is queer Jewish experience in the twenty-first century? What poetry expresses queer Jewishness today?
Whether you write about interfaith queer parenting, cruising
in shul, how it feels to sign a ketubah in a country that won't recognize our same-sex marriages, fetishizing a sheggitz or being fetishized, we want to read about it and share it with others who want to read it as well.
What are our sacred texts for today? If they don't yet exist, write them. What are our queer Jewish blessings, curses and prayers.
While there is a rich tradition of queer Jewish writers who
have made an indelible mark on our literature over the years, from Gertrude Stein and Adrienne Rich to Allen Ginsberg and Edward Field, we are looking for work that reflects queer Jewish identity in the new (secular) millennium. As such, we are open either to unpublished work, or work that was published since 2000 (this would include work originally published in a magazine or anthology
before 2000, which was later collected in a book published after 2000).
We welcome voices from across the spectrum of Jewish identity, from observant to merely cultural, and their intersections with gay,
lesbian, bisexual, and transgender identities and experiences.
We are open to all styles of poetry, from formal to free verse.
We welcome queer Jewish voices from outside the US, and are
willing to consider translations into English. (It is the translator's
responsibility to secure permission to reprint the poem in English.)
Both anthologies are open to previously published work, but
it is the poet's responsibility to secure permission to reprint the poem.
We welcome work from Jewish trans poets, so long as the
content of the work is relevant to either gay or lesbian experience.
There is no limit to the number of poems which may be submitted, so long as the Jewish and queer content are both relevant.
Submission instructions:
1) Title file with the initials of the anthology and author's last name: F-Surname.doc or MH-Surname.doc
2) Include your name, your mailing address, your email address, and a bio WITHIN the .doc file with your essay, as submissions will be separated from emails to be read.
3) Submit your work by email, as an attachment in .doc or .rtf format, to queerjewishpoetry@gmail.com
Deadline: November 30, 2010.
Payment will be three copies of the anthology per contributor.
About the editors:
Lawrence Schimel is the author or anthologist of over 100
books, including FOUND TRIBE: JEWISH COMING OUT STORIES, KOSHER MEAT, BEST GAY POETRY 2008, FIRST PERSON QUEER, PoMoSEXUALS: CHALLENGING ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT GENDER AND SEXUALITY, TWO BOYS IN LOVE, THE FUTURE IS QUEER, etc. He has won the Lambda Literary Award (twice), an Independent Publisher Book Award, the Spectrum Award, and other honors. He writes in both English and Spanish, and his work has been translated into 27 languages.
Julie R. Enszer is the author of the poetry collection HANDMADE LOVE (A Midsummer Night's Press, 2010) and the chapbook SISTERHOOD (Seven Kitchens Press, 2010). Her work has appeared in numerous Jewish, feminist and queer publications, including BRIDGES, JEWISH WOMEN'S LITERARY ANNUAL, SINISTER WISDOM, CALYX, WOMEN'S REVIEW OF BOOKS, FEMINIST STUDIES,
WASHINGTON BLADE, LAMBDA BOOK REPORT, etc. She is also the founder of the Lesbian Poetry Archive.
About the publisher:
A Midsummer Night's Press is an independent poetry publisher, publishing primarily in two imprints: 1) Fabula Rasa, dedicated to work inspired by myth and fairy tale, which has published FORTUNE'S LOVER: A BOOK OF TAROT POEMS by Rachel Pollack and FAIRY TALES FOR WRITERS by Lawrence Schimel, and 2) Body
Language, devoted to queer poetry, which has published THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED IN OUR OTHER LIFE by Achy Obejas; BANALITIES by Brane Mozetic, translated by Elizabeti Zargi; HANDMADE LOVE by Julie R. Enszer; and MUTE by Raymond Luczak.
www.amidsummernightspress.com
5. Sinister Wisdom New Issue and Reading for Future Issues
Sinister Wisdom is a multicultural journal by and for lesbians and has been publishing since 1976.
Sinister Wisdom 81: Lesbian Poetry--When? And Now! is out and available for purchase. The issue features a variety of contemporary lesbian poets in dialogue with poets of yore and includes work by Judith Barrington, Tamiko Beyer, Sharon Bridgforth, Ching-In Chen, Elizabeth Colen, Sharon Deevey, Beatrix Gates, Jewelle Gomez, Elsa Gidlow, Carol Guess, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Marilyn Hacker, Adrienne Rich, Eloise Klein healy, Joan Larkin, Audre Lorde, and many others.
To order a single copy or multiple copies, email JulieREnszer@gmail.com for more information. Copies are $6 and payment is available by check or paypal.
Information on the current issue is here: www.sinisterwisdom.org/journal.html#current
Julie R. Enszer and Merry Gangemi, the new editors of Sinister Wisdom, are reading for the next open issue, SW 83, to be published in the summer of 2011. Send submissions of poetry, fiction, essays, and other writings to JulieREnszer@gmail.com
For more information and to subscribe to Sinister Wisdom, go to www.SinisterWisdom.org.
News this week from Redheaded Stepchild, Crab Creek Review, Rougarou, A Midsummer Night's Press, Sinister Wisdom (back issues of the newspaper are archived at the Wompo festival of women's poetry here: wompherence.proboards.com ).
1. The new Fall issue of Redheaded Stepchild is now up: redheadedmag.com/poetry/ featuring poetry by Wompos and others, including Carly Sachs, Sarah Sarai, Neile Graham, and Lois Marie Harrod to name a few.
The Redheaded Stepchild only accepts poems that have been rejected by other magazines. We are open to submissions again in February.
2. Crab Creek Review 2010 Vol.2 Now Available! Order our current issue, here- www.crabcreekreview.org
featuring new work from James Bertolino, Alice Derry, Patricia Fargnoli, Erin Malone, Anne McDuffie, Kevin Miller, Peter Pereira, Fernando Perez, Midge Raymond, Martha Silano, Ann Spiers, Joannie Kervran Stangeland, and David Wagoner.
Our new issue also features Beyond Ekphrasis, a special section of poetry inspired by other art forms, guest edited by Susan Rich. Also-- fabulous short stories and book reviews.
3. I am Editor-in-Chief of Rougarou: An Online Literary Journal: english.louisiana.edu/rougarou/index.shtml. The new fall issue is live, and we're now reading for the spring issue. Please check us out. ~ Katie Manning
4. Send submissions for Queer Jewish Poetry by November 30th!
Details below:
A Midsummer Night's Press announces a call for submissions for two anthologies celebrating queer Jewish poetry:
FLAMBOYANT: A CELEBRATION OF JEWISH GAY POETRY
edited by Lawrence Schimel
and
MILK AND HONEY: A CELEBRATION OF JEWISH LESBIAN POETRY
edited by Julie R. Enszer
to be published in Spring 2011.
We are looking for poems that celebrate and question, meditate and intimate, argue and reconcile contemporary queer Jewish identity. What is queer Jewish experience in the twenty-first century? What poetry expresses queer Jewishness today?
Whether you write about interfaith queer parenting, cruising
in shul, how it feels to sign a ketubah in a country that won't recognize our same-sex marriages, fetishizing a sheggitz or being fetishized, we want to read about it and share it with others who want to read it as well.
What are our sacred texts for today? If they don't yet exist, write them. What are our queer Jewish blessings, curses and prayers.
While there is a rich tradition of queer Jewish writers who
have made an indelible mark on our literature over the years, from Gertrude Stein and Adrienne Rich to Allen Ginsberg and Edward Field, we are looking for work that reflects queer Jewish identity in the new (secular) millennium. As such, we are open either to unpublished work, or work that was published since 2000 (this would include work originally published in a magazine or anthology
before 2000, which was later collected in a book published after 2000).
We welcome voices from across the spectrum of Jewish identity, from observant to merely cultural, and their intersections with gay,
lesbian, bisexual, and transgender identities and experiences.
We are open to all styles of poetry, from formal to free verse.
We welcome queer Jewish voices from outside the US, and are
willing to consider translations into English. (It is the translator's
responsibility to secure permission to reprint the poem in English.)
Both anthologies are open to previously published work, but
it is the poet's responsibility to secure permission to reprint the poem.
We welcome work from Jewish trans poets, so long as the
content of the work is relevant to either gay or lesbian experience.
There is no limit to the number of poems which may be submitted, so long as the Jewish and queer content are both relevant.
Submission instructions:
1) Title file with the initials of the anthology and author's last name: F-Surname.doc or MH-Surname.doc
2) Include your name, your mailing address, your email address, and a bio WITHIN the .doc file with your essay, as submissions will be separated from emails to be read.
3) Submit your work by email, as an attachment in .doc or .rtf format, to queerjewishpoetry@gmail.com
Deadline: November 30, 2010.
Payment will be three copies of the anthology per contributor.
About the editors:
Lawrence Schimel is the author or anthologist of over 100
books, including FOUND TRIBE: JEWISH COMING OUT STORIES, KOSHER MEAT, BEST GAY POETRY 2008, FIRST PERSON QUEER, PoMoSEXUALS: CHALLENGING ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT GENDER AND SEXUALITY, TWO BOYS IN LOVE, THE FUTURE IS QUEER, etc. He has won the Lambda Literary Award (twice), an Independent Publisher Book Award, the Spectrum Award, and other honors. He writes in both English and Spanish, and his work has been translated into 27 languages.
Julie R. Enszer is the author of the poetry collection HANDMADE LOVE (A Midsummer Night's Press, 2010) and the chapbook SISTERHOOD (Seven Kitchens Press, 2010). Her work has appeared in numerous Jewish, feminist and queer publications, including BRIDGES, JEWISH WOMEN'S LITERARY ANNUAL, SINISTER WISDOM, CALYX, WOMEN'S REVIEW OF BOOKS, FEMINIST STUDIES,
WASHINGTON BLADE, LAMBDA BOOK REPORT, etc. She is also the founder of the Lesbian Poetry Archive.
About the publisher:
A Midsummer Night's Press is an independent poetry publisher, publishing primarily in two imprints: 1) Fabula Rasa, dedicated to work inspired by myth and fairy tale, which has published FORTUNE'S LOVER: A BOOK OF TAROT POEMS by Rachel Pollack and FAIRY TALES FOR WRITERS by Lawrence Schimel, and 2) Body
Language, devoted to queer poetry, which has published THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED IN OUR OTHER LIFE by Achy Obejas; BANALITIES by Brane Mozetic, translated by Elizabeti Zargi; HANDMADE LOVE by Julie R. Enszer; and MUTE by Raymond Luczak.
www.amidsummernightspress.com
5. Sinister Wisdom New Issue and Reading for Future Issues
Sinister Wisdom is a multicultural journal by and for lesbians and has been publishing since 1976.
Sinister Wisdom 81: Lesbian Poetry--When? And Now! is out and available for purchase. The issue features a variety of contemporary lesbian poets in dialogue with poets of yore and includes work by Judith Barrington, Tamiko Beyer, Sharon Bridgforth, Ching-In Chen, Elizabeth Colen, Sharon Deevey, Beatrix Gates, Jewelle Gomez, Elsa Gidlow, Carol Guess, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Marilyn Hacker, Adrienne Rich, Eloise Klein healy, Joan Larkin, Audre Lorde, and many others.
To order a single copy or multiple copies, email JulieREnszer@gmail.com for more information. Copies are $6 and payment is available by check or paypal.
Information on the current issue is here: www.sinisterwisdom.org/journal.html#current
Julie R. Enszer and Merry Gangemi, the new editors of Sinister Wisdom, are reading for the next open issue, SW 83, to be published in the summer of 2011. Send submissions of poetry, fiction, essays, and other writings to JulieREnszer@gmail.com
For more information and to subscribe to Sinister Wisdom, go to www.SinisterWisdom.org.