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News this week:
1. B. Morrison, Monday Morning Book Blog
2. Annie Finch has joined the faculty of St. Francis College
3. By whose voices is community built?
4. On Judith Laura's blog, Medusa Coils
5. Jeanne Marie Beaumont teaching a workshop “Inspired by Research: From Sources to Poems”
6. Terrapin Books: Call for Submissions
7. Undergraduate poetry awards at West Chester
8. 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/
- The Courage for Truth: The Letters Of Thomas Merton To Writers, edited by Christine M. Bochen
2. Annie Finch has joined the faculty of St. Francis College Low-Residency MFA Program, a new program based in Brooklyn, NY. The first residency in July 2017 may consist of only Annie's poetry workshop, a unique opportunity for a small private residency complete with keynote visiting writer and visiting agents, editors, and publishers before the first full-size residency next winter. Please backchannel Annie if interested.
3. By whose voices is community built? is the central inquiry in Peerings & Hearing--Occasional Musing on Arts in the City of Glass the latest in the blog series Jami Macarty writes on arts and community in Vancouver for Drunken Boat.
Go to: medium.com/@herkind to read all five stories.
4. On Judith Laura's blog, Medusa Coils medusacoils.blogspot.com
Review of Sheela na gig: The Dark Goddess of Sacred Power by Starr Goode
medusacoils.blogspot.com/2017/02/review-sheela-na-gig-book-by-starr-goode.html
5. On Sunday, March 5th from 10:00 am to noon, Jeanne Marie Beaumont will be teaching a workshop “Inspired by Research: From Sources to Poems” at the Writer’s Center in Bethesda, MD, 4508 Walsh Street. The workshop is open to all levels, and the cost is $50.00. Contact the Writer’s Center for more information. www.writer.org (Phone 301-654-8664).
6. Terrapin Books: Call for Submissions
www.terrapinbooks.com
For a forthcoming anthology of poems about donuts, to be published by Terrapin Books, fall 2017. Edited by Jason Lee Brown and Shanie Latham.
Submission Period: April 1, 2017, through May 31, 2017
Guidelines:
We will consider up to five published or unpublished poems about any kind of donut, e.g., jelly donut, sugar, powdered, glazed, Boston cream, donut holes, cruller, long john, fritter, pączki, oliebollen , ponchik, fánk.
We will consider previously published poems provided the author is able to grant permission for Terrapin Books to republish the poems.
See website for full guidelines: www.terrapinbooks.com/donut-anthology.html
7. Undergraduate poetry awards at West Chester
Iris N. Spencer Poetry Awards
Deadline: March 15, 2017
The Iris N. Spencer Poetry Award and Myong Cha Son Haiku Award welcome unpublished, original poems. Submissions to the Iris N. Spencer Award should be composed in the traditional modes of meter, rhyme and received forms. Both competitions will award a first place prize of $1,500 and a $500 runner-up prize.
The Rhina P. Espaillat Poetry Award celebrates original poems written in Spanish or translations of Spanish poems to English. First prize is $500.
Submission Guidelines:
~ The annual competition is open to all undergraduate poets who are enrolled in a college or university in the United States.
~ The author’s name, address, email address, telephone number and the school you attend should be submitted on a separate sheet.
~ There is no fee to enter. Submittals may be a combination of poems submitted to the Iris N. Spencer Award, the Myong Cha Son Haiku Award, or the Rhina P. Espaillat Poetry Award. Limit of two poems per contest.
~ All submissions must be submitted no later than March 15, 2017 and sent electronically to poetry@wcupa.edu or mailed to: WCU Poetry Awards Poetry House West Chester University West Chester, PA 19383
8. Ellen Moody's blogs
8.1. Bonding with characters in the Iranian Salesman (!), Wordsworth's Prelude, Woolf's Voyage out ...
austenreveries.wordpress.com/2017/02/18/bondingwithcharactersthesalesmanwordsworthspreludewoolfvoyageout-caturday/
8.2. Impeachment?: Legalized criminal behavior, gov't in disarray; Good Poems & More on Torture:
misssylviadrake.livejournal.com/149981.html
8.3. Pivotal City and County Victorian Novels: a spring course:
ellenandjim.wordpress.com/2017/02/21/pivotal-city-and-county-victorian-novels-a-spring-syllabus/
8.4. EC/ASECS at Fredericksburg, familiar and strange: Adaptation; Textual Studies; Pets in Pictures & life-writing
reveriesunderthesignofausten.wordpress.com/2017/02/23/ecasecs-at-fredericksburgfamiliarstrangeadaptationtextualstudiespetsinpictureslifewriting/
News this week:
1. B. Morrison, Monday Morning Book Blog
2. Annie Finch has joined the faculty of St. Francis College
3. By whose voices is community built?
4. On Judith Laura's blog, Medusa Coils
5. Jeanne Marie Beaumont teaching a workshop “Inspired by Research: From Sources to Poems”
6. Terrapin Books: Call for Submissions
7. Undergraduate poetry awards at West Chester
8. 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/
- The Courage for Truth: The Letters Of Thomas Merton To Writers, edited by Christine M. Bochen
2. Annie Finch has joined the faculty of St. Francis College Low-Residency MFA Program, a new program based in Brooklyn, NY. The first residency in July 2017 may consist of only Annie's poetry workshop, a unique opportunity for a small private residency complete with keynote visiting writer and visiting agents, editors, and publishers before the first full-size residency next winter. Please backchannel Annie if interested.
3. By whose voices is community built? is the central inquiry in Peerings & Hearing--Occasional Musing on Arts in the City of Glass the latest in the blog series Jami Macarty writes on arts and community in Vancouver for Drunken Boat.
Go to: medium.com/@herkind to read all five stories.
4. On Judith Laura's blog, Medusa Coils medusacoils.blogspot.com
Review of Sheela na gig: The Dark Goddess of Sacred Power by Starr Goode
medusacoils.blogspot.com/2017/02/review-sheela-na-gig-book-by-starr-goode.html
5. On Sunday, March 5th from 10:00 am to noon, Jeanne Marie Beaumont will be teaching a workshop “Inspired by Research: From Sources to Poems” at the Writer’s Center in Bethesda, MD, 4508 Walsh Street. The workshop is open to all levels, and the cost is $50.00. Contact the Writer’s Center for more information. www.writer.org (Phone 301-654-8664).
6. Terrapin Books: Call for Submissions
www.terrapinbooks.com
For a forthcoming anthology of poems about donuts, to be published by Terrapin Books, fall 2017. Edited by Jason Lee Brown and Shanie Latham.
Submission Period: April 1, 2017, through May 31, 2017
Guidelines:
We will consider up to five published or unpublished poems about any kind of donut, e.g., jelly donut, sugar, powdered, glazed, Boston cream, donut holes, cruller, long john, fritter, pączki, oliebollen , ponchik, fánk.
We will consider previously published poems provided the author is able to grant permission for Terrapin Books to republish the poems.
See website for full guidelines: www.terrapinbooks.com/donut-anthology.html
7. Undergraduate poetry awards at West Chester
Iris N. Spencer Poetry Awards
Deadline: March 15, 2017
The Iris N. Spencer Poetry Award and Myong Cha Son Haiku Award welcome unpublished, original poems. Submissions to the Iris N. Spencer Award should be composed in the traditional modes of meter, rhyme and received forms. Both competitions will award a first place prize of $1,500 and a $500 runner-up prize.
The Rhina P. Espaillat Poetry Award celebrates original poems written in Spanish or translations of Spanish poems to English. First prize is $500.
Submission Guidelines:
~ The annual competition is open to all undergraduate poets who are enrolled in a college or university in the United States.
~ The author’s name, address, email address, telephone number and the school you attend should be submitted on a separate sheet.
~ There is no fee to enter. Submittals may be a combination of poems submitted to the Iris N. Spencer Award, the Myong Cha Son Haiku Award, or the Rhina P. Espaillat Poetry Award. Limit of two poems per contest.
~ All submissions must be submitted no later than March 15, 2017 and sent electronically to poetry@wcupa.edu or mailed to: WCU Poetry Awards Poetry House West Chester University West Chester, PA 19383
8. Ellen Moody's blogs
8.1. Bonding with characters in the Iranian Salesman (!), Wordsworth's Prelude, Woolf's Voyage out ...
austenreveries.wordpress.com/2017/02/18/bondingwithcharactersthesalesmanwordsworthspreludewoolfvoyageout-caturday/
8.2. Impeachment?: Legalized criminal behavior, gov't in disarray; Good Poems & More on Torture:
misssylviadrake.livejournal.com/149981.html
8.3. Pivotal City and County Victorian Novels: a spring course:
ellenandjim.wordpress.com/2017/02/21/pivotal-city-and-county-victorian-novels-a-spring-syllabus/
8.4. EC/ASECS at Fredericksburg, familiar and strange: Adaptation; Textual Studies; Pets in Pictures & life-writing
reveriesunderthesignofausten.wordpress.com/2017/02/23/ecasecs-at-fredericksburgfamiliarstrangeadaptationtextualstudiespetsinpictureslifewriting/