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News this week from Blogalicious, Monday Morning Book Blog, New Mirage Journal, Spoon River Poetry Review, Poetry Newsletter, Journal of Renga & Renku (back issues of the newspaper are archived at the Wompo festival of women's poetry here: wompherence.proboards.com ).
1. Updated list of Print Journals That Accept Online Submissions at Blogalicious dianelockward.blogspot.com/
2. B. Morrison, Monday Morning Book Blog,
www.bmorrison.com/blog/
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot
- Half Broke Horses, by Jeannette Walls
3. 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 March 15, 2011 to ensure consideration for the new edition which will appear on March 30, 2011.
We are interested in reading work from around the world so long as it is written in English or has been translated into English. Please submit no more than three previously unpublished poems and a 300 word bio in the body of an email and wait until you receive an acceptance or rejection notice before submitting again.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.
If you haven't read the current edition please do so today!
Georgia A.Banks-Martin
4. Check out the latest issue of the Spoon River Poetry Review, featuring poetry by several WomPos! This issue introduces several new features to the long-standing literary journal: a substantial interview with our featured poet, a long review-essay on new books of contemporary poetry, and contributors' notes. This issue also includes a letter from the new editor, Kirstin Hotelling Zona, in which she conveys her vision for the magazine.
Spoon River Poetry Review
Volume 35, Number 2
Contemporary poetry from the U.S. and around the world in English translation. This issue (35.2) includes an interview with featured poet Joanne Diaz; a review-essay by Andrew Osborn; winning poems of the Editors' Prize contest, judged by Jeanne Marie Beaumont; and poetry by Andrew Schelling, Emily Carr, Michael Joyce, Dzvinia Orlowsky, James Longenbach, and Naomi Buck Palagi.
The next issue (April) includes new poems by Danielle Pafunda, Edward Hirsch, Kristin Prevallet, Jamaal May, Kathleen Spivack, and Melissa Stein, as well as a long review essay by Judith Harris and poems and an interview with our featured poet, Austin Smith. Subscribe today!
To subscribe, submit, or to enter our annual Editors' Prize Contest (deadline 4/15/2011), please visit our website:
www.litline.org/Spoon/
5. Sign up for Diane Lockward's free monthly Poetry Newsletter.
Each issue includes a writing-related quotation, a writing tip from a guest contributor, book recommendations, a poem and a prompt, links to cool stuff online, and whatever else comes into Diane's mind. The newsletter is kept to a modest length, and you will not be bombarded.
If this sounds like something you'd like to receive, sign up here: eepurl.com/bfoCw
Then be sure to follow the confirmation link.
Or go to Diane's blog. In the sidebar you will see a simple sign-up form. Fill it out and hit Submit. That's it. Then you can expect to receive the February issue on February 1.
Blog address: www.dianelockward.blogspot.com
Diane can also add you manually if you send her an email request: dslockward@gmail.com
Note: If you have previously signed up but not received the newsletter, check your spam folder.
6. Journal of Renga & Renku Issue #1 is now available at
www.darlingtonrichards.com/jrr
Edited and published by Norman Darlington and Moira Richards, this issue contains 170 pages of Poetry, Essays, Translations, Commentaries and Reports
Read the Table of Contents below
Leaf through the 17-page preview online at tinyurl.com/preview-jrr1
Order the 170-page print journal at www.darlingtonrichards.com/jrr
— Contents —
Editorial
Shisan – four 12-verse poems:
Flow of the Springtide, Billows of Pear Blossoms, Verlorene Zeit / Flow of the Springtide, Kinderland so fern / Childhood’s Land so Distant
Essay: Renku – A Baby Thrown Out with the Bath Water: A Start of Reappraising Shiki by Susumu Takiguchi
Nijūin – six 20-verse poems:
A Mud Turtle Crawling to a Longbill, Paper Fan, Adrift with her Dreams, The Beat of Drakes Drum, Mending Nets, Pannonia
Essay: Gradus ad Mount Tsukuba: An Introduction to the Culture of Japanese Linked Verse by H. Mack Horton
Jūnichō – four 12-verse poems:
Winter Fields, Sera d’Estate / Summer Evening, The Zen Master Trips, The Marsh Frog
Essay: The Mechanics of the White Space (or Bashō Cranks-up the Action) by John E. Carley
Kasen – eight 36-verse poems:
Impromptu at Fukagawa, The Lye Tub, February has come, Pine and Pond, Winter Clarity, Knee Deep in Dandelions, Dusk over Dry Grass, Windswept Walk
Essay: Longer Renku: The Hyakuin of 100 Stanzas by William J. Higginson
Half-kasen – an 18-verse poem:
Umbrella Handles
Yotsumono – a four-verse poem:
в сердце пиона / in the heart of a peony
Essay: The Alchemy of Live Renku by Christopher Herold
Live renku – one 12-verse, and one 18-verse poem:
Our New Nano, Darkening Skies
Book reviews:
Birds on a Wire, book of days, Under the Roan Cliffs, Haikai Poetics
Triparshva – fourteen 22-verse poems including the winner of the 2010 JRR renku contest:
The Tiniest Pebble, The First Warm Day, Dusty Skechers, Kettle Song, Summer Stars, After the campfire, Crop Circles, Weave of Dreams, Here’s Gratitude, Above the Treetops, Last Summer’s Bushfire, Shards of Coloured Glass, Dream of Birds, Last
Interview
Bibliography of renga and renku
Report: Four Sign Language Renga by Donna West and Rachel Sutton-Spence
Contributors and Acknowledgements
The JRR Crossword
Norman Darlington
Moira Richards
darlingtonrichards.com/
News this week from Blogalicious, Monday Morning Book Blog, New Mirage Journal, Spoon River Poetry Review, Poetry Newsletter, Journal of Renga & Renku (back issues of the newspaper are archived at the Wompo festival of women's poetry here: wompherence.proboards.com ).
1. Updated list of Print Journals That Accept Online Submissions at Blogalicious dianelockward.blogspot.com/
2. B. Morrison, Monday Morning Book Blog,
www.bmorrison.com/blog/
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot
- Half Broke Horses, by Jeannette Walls
3. 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 March 15, 2011 to ensure consideration for the new edition which will appear on March 30, 2011.
We are interested in reading work from around the world so long as it is written in English or has been translated into English. 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.
If you haven't read the current edition please do so today!
Georgia A.Banks-Martin
4. Check out the latest issue of the Spoon River Poetry Review, featuring poetry by several WomPos! This issue introduces several new features to the long-standing literary journal: a substantial interview with our featured poet, a long review-essay on new books of contemporary poetry, and contributors' notes. This issue also includes a letter from the new editor, Kirstin Hotelling Zona, in which she conveys her vision for the magazine.
Spoon River Poetry Review
Volume 35, Number 2
Contemporary poetry from the U.S. and around the world in English translation. This issue (35.2) includes an interview with featured poet Joanne Diaz; a review-essay by Andrew Osborn; winning poems of the Editors' Prize contest, judged by Jeanne Marie Beaumont; and poetry by Andrew Schelling, Emily Carr, Michael Joyce, Dzvinia Orlowsky, James Longenbach, and Naomi Buck Palagi.
The next issue (April) includes new poems by Danielle Pafunda, Edward Hirsch, Kristin Prevallet, Jamaal May, Kathleen Spivack, and Melissa Stein, as well as a long review essay by Judith Harris and poems and an interview with our featured poet, Austin Smith. Subscribe today!
To subscribe, submit, or to enter our annual Editors' Prize Contest (deadline 4/15/2011), please visit our website:
www.litline.org/Spoon/
5. Sign up for Diane Lockward's free monthly Poetry Newsletter.
Each issue includes a writing-related quotation, a writing tip from a guest contributor, book recommendations, a poem and a prompt, links to cool stuff online, and whatever else comes into Diane's mind. The newsletter is kept to a modest length, and you will not be bombarded.
If this sounds like something you'd like to receive, sign up here: eepurl.com/bfoCw
Then be sure to follow the confirmation link.
Or go to Diane's blog. In the sidebar you will see a simple sign-up form. Fill it out and hit Submit. That's it. Then you can expect to receive the February issue on February 1.
Blog address: www.dianelockward.blogspot.com
Diane can also add you manually if you send her an email request: dslockward@gmail.com
Note: If you have previously signed up but not received the newsletter, check your spam folder.
6. Journal of Renga & Renku Issue #1 is now available at
www.darlingtonrichards.com/jrr
Edited and published by Norman Darlington and Moira Richards, this issue contains 170 pages of Poetry, Essays, Translations, Commentaries and Reports
Read the Table of Contents below
Leaf through the 17-page preview online at tinyurl.com/preview-jrr1
Order the 170-page print journal at www.darlingtonrichards.com/jrr
— Contents —
Editorial
Shisan – four 12-verse poems:
Flow of the Springtide, Billows of Pear Blossoms, Verlorene Zeit / Flow of the Springtide, Kinderland so fern / Childhood’s Land so Distant
Essay: Renku – A Baby Thrown Out with the Bath Water: A Start of Reappraising Shiki by Susumu Takiguchi
Nijūin – six 20-verse poems:
A Mud Turtle Crawling to a Longbill, Paper Fan, Adrift with her Dreams, The Beat of Drakes Drum, Mending Nets, Pannonia
Essay: Gradus ad Mount Tsukuba: An Introduction to the Culture of Japanese Linked Verse by H. Mack Horton
Jūnichō – four 12-verse poems:
Winter Fields, Sera d’Estate / Summer Evening, The Zen Master Trips, The Marsh Frog
Essay: The Mechanics of the White Space (or Bashō Cranks-up the Action) by John E. Carley
Kasen – eight 36-verse poems:
Impromptu at Fukagawa, The Lye Tub, February has come, Pine and Pond, Winter Clarity, Knee Deep in Dandelions, Dusk over Dry Grass, Windswept Walk
Essay: Longer Renku: The Hyakuin of 100 Stanzas by William J. Higginson
Half-kasen – an 18-verse poem:
Umbrella Handles
Yotsumono – a four-verse poem:
в сердце пиона / in the heart of a peony
Essay: The Alchemy of Live Renku by Christopher Herold
Live renku – one 12-verse, and one 18-verse poem:
Our New Nano, Darkening Skies
Book reviews:
Birds on a Wire, book of days, Under the Roan Cliffs, Haikai Poetics
Triparshva – fourteen 22-verse poems including the winner of the 2010 JRR renku contest:
The Tiniest Pebble, The First Warm Day, Dusty Skechers, Kettle Song, Summer Stars, After the campfire, Crop Circles, Weave of Dreams, Here’s Gratitude, Above the Treetops, Last Summer’s Bushfire, Shards of Coloured Glass, Dream of Birds, Last
Interview
Bibliography of renga and renku
Report: Four Sign Language Renga by Donna West and Rachel Sutton-Spence
Contributors and Acknowledgements
The JRR Crossword
Norman Darlington
Moira Richards
darlingtonrichards.com/