Magnapoets Print Journal issue 2 now open for submissions

Submissions guidelines:

For free verse and formal poetry, send no more than 3 poems, and no more than 48 lines in length, including title, to UrsulaTG1@aol.com Subject line: MAGANPOETS POETRY EDITOR. Include poems in the body of the email. Attachments will not be opened. Poems may be any style or form, rhymed or free verse, but may NOT contain sexually explicit or imprudent language. You will be notified by June 1, 2008, if your poems are accepted for inclusion in the magazine. No previously published material. All submissions are released upon publication of the issue for which they were submitted

For short stories, send ONE prose piece, along with a 25 word or less BIO.Word length: 250 - 2,500 words.Genres: fiction ( micro, flash, macro ); creative non-fiction; travel narrative; essay. Not allowed: Anything that involve non-consensual behavior or graphic violence.Send to: marie@poeticdiversity.org  Include “Magnapoets” in the subject line.

Tanka and haiku submissions will be opened in May. Stay tuned for further updates.

Marie Lecrivain Features at the Coffee Cartel

Hello:
   Yes, it's THAT time again.
    I will be featuring at the Coffee Cartel, home of comfy couches and the lovely triumverate of poetry hosts: Larry Colker, Jim Doane and Stephany Prodromides
When: Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Time: 8 pm
Where: Coffee Cartel
1820 South Catalina Avenue
Hollywood Riviera
Redondo Beach
Cross Street: Elena Avenue
(310) 316-6554 

Directions and other particulars can be found here:

http://www.redondop oets.com

Also, I will have copies of my new poetry chapbook, Misericordes (copyright 2008 Off World Publications) for sale.
44 poems for $7 - that's a bargain, in my opinion.
Other people's opinions: :)

Marie can paint very ornate and beautiful poems, with a rich and complex vocabulary, but she can also express a desperation and vertigo in the face of the void, the void is clear in these poems behind the often very beautiful tapestry of words. – David McLean, A Hunger for Mourning

Lecrivain's dark and deadpan humor is at its height, blending the brilliance of The Day of the Locust and Lost in Translation into a dichotomous frenetic ennui that is all too real..." - Nelson Gary, author of Cinema, XXX, and A Wonderful Life in Our Lives.

See you there!:)
Marie Lecrivain
executive editor
poeticdiversity: the litzine of Los Angeles

The Makata Vol. 9 is online

Dalityapi Unpoemed

May 2008

Greetings Bard-Brothers & Sisters:

Check out the latest issue of the Makata at http://www.dalityapi.com/

THE MAKATA (POET) Vol.9

http://makata.dalityapi.com/

Makata Issue No.5, May 2008 is now available online featuring the works of our home-grown and international poets: Aliazer S. Abdurajim, Aurora Antonovic, Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal, Faith Erasmo, Manuel Lino G. Faelnar, Frederick Lim, Jen Macapagal and Will P. Ortiz.

Included in this issue are the finalists in the KABUWANAN POETRY COMPETITION: Raul "Tata" Funilas, Jason Tabinas, Deborah Rosalind D. Nieto, Noel Sales Barcelona, Juan Emmanuel C. Fernandez, Soliman Agulto Santos, Marc Laurenze C. Celis, Glenn Ford B. Tolentino, Brian B. Acabado, Francisco Arias Monteseña and Ada Dizon Angeles.

Send all submissions / contributions for Volume 9, June 2008 issue to svillafania at yahoo [dot] com and to Jason Chancoco at tarusan22 at yahoo [dot] com (for Tagalog/Filipino & Bikol poetry). Also accepting poems written in other Philippine languages: Cebuano, Iluko, Hiligaynon, Waray, Kapampangan, Pangasinan, Meranao, Tausug etc.

The Saigyo Awards for Tanka 2008

The Saigyo Awards for Tanka 2008

Deadline: In hand August 1, 2008

Prizes: First Prize: $100; Second Prize: $50; Third Prize: $25. Winners living outside the US will receive subscriptions to tanka journals in place of cash prizes.

Eligibility: Open to everyone.

Entry Fee: None.

Rules: All tanka must be the entrant's original, unpublished work, and not under consideration by any publication or other contest.

Submissions: Up to 10 tanka in English, typed (or printed legibly) on one sheet of 8 1/2 x 11 paper. Submit 2 copies. Provide name, address and pen name, if you use one, in upper left corner of one copy only.

Correspondence: Send business size SASE (outside US, SAE and 1 IRC) for notification of results. No entries will be returned.

Mail entries to: Carolyn Thomas, 7866 Hogan Circle, Hemet, CA 92545 USA.

Poetry Reading By Asmina Hasandra

ON SATURDAY 17th of  MAY 2008, 8 p.m.  A POETRY READING BY ASMINA HASANDRA  AND NEFELI G. at the theatre EKATI.
PLACE: theatre EKATI [ Ekatis 11 & Yakinthou, pl. Kypselis tEL:210 640 1931.

Beyond Baroque 1st Sunday of the Month Reading

http://www.beyondba roque.org/

681 Venice Blvd., Venice

May 4, Sunday — 5 PM
Open Reading featuring CHARLES CLAYMORE, STEPHANY PRODROMIDES, and JACK COOPER.

Charles Claymore is a poet and musician. He is the author of Fall from Prescopia: An Incomplete Irrespective.

Stephany Prodromides holds a Masters of Science in Educational Psychology and has a successful career as an instructional designer. She is a co-host at the Coffee Cartel Reading in Redondo Beach, and her work has appeared in Askew, poeticdiversity: the litzine of Los Angeles, and The Laurel Review.

Jack Cooper is the author of Across My Silence. His work has appeared in The Evansville Review, The Pelican Review, The Meridian Anthology, Tundra, California Quarterly, Poet Lore, Runes, and many other journals.

Hosted by Marie Lecrivain. Open sign up 4:45, 2 poem limit. FREE

The Haiku Calendar Competition Snapshot Press

Deadline

Entries should be postmarked by April 30, 2008.

Overseas (non-UK) entries mailed in the month up to and including this closing date must be sent by airmail.

Awards

£300/US $600 total prize money.

12 haiku will be selected as monthly winners and will be published prominently in The Haiku Calendar 2009. The prize money will be divided equally between the 12 winners. 40 additional haiku will be selected as runners-up and these will also be published in the calendar.

Entrants may win more than one prize.

Regulations

Haiku should ideally include a season word or activity. This may be a direct reference to a specific day, month or season (e.g. New Year’s Day, June, winter), or a phenomenon or activity associated with a particular season. Seasonality should ideally align with the traditional Japanese (and English) consideration that the equinoxes and solstices occur at the midpoints of their respective seasons.

Haiku may be free-form or 5-7-5 and must be the original work of the entrant.

Previously published work is acceptable, though haiku previously published by Snapshot Press are not eligible.

Any number of haiku may be entered.

Entry procedure

Each haiku entered should be typed or written legibly in English on a single 3" x 5" (75mm x 125mm) card. Your name should not appear on this card.

Each haiku must be assigned to a month. This month should be written on the reverse of the 3" x 5" card. (Entrants from Australia and New Zealand are advised to transpose composition dates by six months.)

The first line of each haiku entered should be recorded on a separate sheet of paper along with the corresponding month. (No entry form is necessary, though one is available in pdf format here if required.)

Your real name and your address should be recorded on this entry sheet only.

If you would prefer to be published under a pen name, or for your name to appear in a distinctive fashion (e.g. all lower-case letters), please also write this prominently on the entry sheet.

Entry fee

£2.50/US $5 per haiku, £5/US $10 for three haiku, and £10/US $20 for up to ten haiku.

Please make cheques/postal orders payable to “Snapshot Press”.

US checks and banknotes are accepted.

Euro banknotes will be accepted at the same rate as US dollars. Please do not send cheques or postal/money orders in Euro currency.

N.B. Please do not send cheques or postal/money orders drawn on banks etc. in countries other than the UK (sterling) and USA (US dollars). (Entrants in Canada, Australia and New Zealand should send US or sterling banknotes, unless they have a US- or UK-based bank account.)

Address for entries

THCC, Snapshot Press, PO Box 132, Waterloo, Liverpool, L22 8WZ, UK.

Notification of results

Results will be announced on June 30, 2008.

If you would like to receive notification of the results as soon as they are available please include your email address on the entry sheet, or enclose an SAE marked ‘THCC Results’ (+ 1 International Reply Coupon or a US $1 bill internationally).

The Haiku Calendar 2009 will be published by Snapshot Press in August 2008. Copies can be ordered in advance at £7.00 UK; £8.50/US $17 Overseas (post-paid). Please enclose payment and state number of copies ordered on the entry sheet.

The Haiku Calendar 2008 can be ordered here.

Correspondence

Poem cards cannot be returned – please keep copies of your work.

The decision of the adjudicator is final. No correspondence will be entered into.

Rights

All rights revert to the authors upon publication.

Entry in the competition is deemed to be acceptance of these rules.

Adjudicator

John Barlow is the editor of The Haiku Calendar, which has appeared annually since 2000, and co-editor of The New Haiku (2002). He also edited the haiku magazine Snapshots from 1998-2006. His own collections include Flamingo Shapes (2001) and Waiting for the Seventh Wave (2006), and his haiku have received awards in the UK, US, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand.

mgversion2_en_02, June 2008

Hi everyone

In June 08, mgv2_en_02 will be online. This will be the second issue of the
all-English, online magazine. It will be at the usual address
http://mgversion2.free.fr.

You can now send your work (poems, flash fiction, short-stories, arts, music,
anything you want of any genre you like) at mgversion2@free.fr

+

Some time before the end of this year (probably this fall), I intend letting the
whole French speaking readers of this ezine having the luck to read your work in
French in a special mgv2_fr issue - that'll be the 63rd. Do not send anything
for this future issue right now, I'll come back to you in time for that.

Kind regards

Walter Ruhlmann, editor.

PS: I ALLOW YOU TO SPREAD THE WORD... AS MUCH AS YOU WANT  :-)

CHRYSANTHEMUM #3

chrysanthemum #3 is now online & can be viewed at: www.chrysanthemum-haiku.net

best wishes--Dietmar Tauchner

True Vine Press Announcement

Dear Fellow Friends, Previous Contributors, Subscribers & Haijin:
True Vine Press Announcement
After extensive planning, we've launched our new project dedicated to publishing haiku, senryu, and tanka. Our projects will include anthologies and chapbooks. Of course, we will continue to publish Wisteria: A Journal of Haiku, Senryu & Tanka.
Please see our website and read the guidelines for our first call for submissions. And please help spread the word, we want this first chapbook to be memorable to the winner and us.
True Vine Press
From the Publisher & Editor of Wisteria
Tony A. Thompson

Beyond Baroque

http://www.beyondba roque.org/

681 Venice Blvd., Venice

6 April, Sunday — 5 PM
Open Reading with Re)verb: Featuring KEVIN LEE, ZACHARY LOCKLIN, and GERALD LOCKLIN
KEVIN LEE is the publisher and founder of R)v Press, Re)verb (a poetry magazine) and Shaya (a short fiction magazine). His work has appeared in Pearl, Chiron Review, Rattle and Slipstream. ZACHARY LOCKLIN has been published in Pearl, poeticdiversity, and Freefall. He is co-poetry editor of Chiron Review. GERALD LOCKLIN is author of over 125 books and chapbooks, with over 3,000 published poems, stories, articles, reviews, and interviews. Hosted by Marie Lecrivain. Open sign up 4:45, 2 poem limit. FREE.

poetic diversity is online!

poeticdiversity: the litzine of Lost Angeles
volume 6 number 1
April 2008
Once more, unto the breach, dear friends, once more…" - William Shakespeare, King Henry V
    I hope, of course, whoever reads this introduction understands my sense of humor.
    April is BACK! It's… well, hmmm… it's National "Something" Month… which one was that? There's April Fools Day (1st); Bataan Day (Phillipnes, 9th); Tax Day (15th); 4:20 (HA! – 20th); Patriot's Day (21st); Earth Day (22nd); Conch Republic Independence Celebration (Florida Keys, 23rd); ANZAC Day (Australia, New Zealand, 25th); St. George's Day (UK, 25th); Carnation Revolution (Portugal, 25th); National Sexual Assault Awareness Month (this is a SERIOUS topic), … and… oh, yes, it also National POETRY Month.
    I'm not going to bust anyone's chops – this time around - about the need to keep poetry alive and well in an uncaring and stulifying world. Poetry's doing fine on its own, as long as there are Truths to be expressed and Words to be written down. I choose to celebrate this month, along with the staff, by presenting what we consider to be another fabulous issue of poetry, prose, interviews, art, and reviews that celebrate diversity.
    If, however, you are looking for a poetry reading to further satisfy your literary addiction, then check out Poetix's ( http://www.poetix.net/) calendar of events for details and directions. Some suggested highlights are:
   Sunday, April 6th – Beyond Baroque's 1st Sunday of the Month Reading: Kevin Patrick Lee, Zachary and Gerald Locklin. 5-7 pm. Open Mic: Three minutes/ Two poem limit. FREE. Hosted by Marie Lecrivain. Venice.
    Thursday, April 10 - Eric Brown +O 6:30 pm Downtown Poets Crawl, Downtown Los Angeles.
    Thursday, April 14th - Sci-Fi & Fantasy Poetry +O 8 pm Monday Night Poetry - Santa Catalina Library Pasadena.
    … And there are a ton of open mics – my recommendations are: Coffee Cartel in Redondo Beach (Tues), Cobalt Café in Canoga Park (Tues), and Velvet Guerilla Lounge in Santa Monica (Wed), etc. There is something for a poet to attend every blessed night of the week. So, I guess this means that Eliot was wrong: April is not the "cruelest" month, unless you owe Uncle Sam some big ones.
    In this issue:
    Center Stage: G. Murray Thomas gets down with Brendan Constantine.
    Editor At Large: Theresa Antonia interviews Other Voices International Project editor Roger Humes.
    Featured Poets: Mike Dias, Gene Justice, Sarah Maclay, April May March, and Gene van Troyer.
    Guest Essayist: Shannon Prince finds her muse "her" way in Bones in the Other World.
    Artist in Residence: Scottish poet, novelist, and painter Dee Rimbaud.
    Contributing Poets and Writers: Theresa Antonia, Jim D. Babwe, Julia Bemiss, Amanda Boschetto, Jack G. Bowman, Maria Rose Burgio, Don Kingfisher Campbell, Chris Crittenden , Henry Dumolet, W. Scott Fischer, Kenneth Gurney, Erik Haber, Sherri Hoffman, Alegria Imperial, Liu Jue, Scott C. Kaestner, Marie Lecrivain, Laura LeHew, Chris Mansell, Isobel McQueen, Mephistopheles , Robert John Miller, Sonnet Mondal, Carl Moore, Peter Nezafati, Brenda Petrakos, Rob Plath, Kim Schroeder, June Shiitake, Annette Sudgen, Ilona Timoszuk, and Kirby Wright.
    Reviews: Bruce Bartrug's Rio De Dios: Thirteen Histories of the Los Angeles River; Nickole Brown's Sister ; editor Mark Eleveld's and Sourcebooks The Spoken Word Revolution Redux; Alta Ifland's Voice of Ice/Voix de Glace; Sarah Maclay's The White Bride; and Moontide Press's Carving in Bone: An Anthology of Orange County Poetry.
    See you in August. Go out and get your poetry groove on!... (smile).

marie lecrivain
executive editor
poeticdiversity: the litzine of Los Angeles

Modern English Tanka - Summer 2008 Call for Submissions

Modern English Tanka - Summer 2008 Call for Submissions
Call for Submissions
Modern English Tanka
Issue Vol. 2, No. 4. Summer 2008

You are invited to submit tanka for the Summer 2008 issue of Modern English Tanka. The submission deadline is May 15, 2008. Submissions will NOT close earlier than the deadline.
Modern English Tanka is a quarterly journal—both a print literary journal and a digital online magazine—dedicated to publishing and promoting fine English tanka (including tanka written in cinquain and cinqku set forms). We are interested in both traditional and innovative verse of high quality and in all serious attempts to assimilate the best of the Japanese waka/tanka genres into a continuously developing English short verse tradition. In addition to verse, we publish articles, essays, book notes & reviews, interviews, letters to the editor, etc., related to tanka.
MET specializes in single tanka but tanka in sets and sequences will be considered as well. Collaborative tanka sequences are not wanted. While the five-line criterion is generally definitive for tanka, MET will consider variant forms on an individual basis (like everything else!) Serious poetry and adult themes are appreciated. Doggerel and anything that is pornographic or in any way nasty, hateful, bigoted, or partisan political, will not be accepted. All such judgments will be made at the sole discretion of the editor.
Previously unpublished work, not on offer elsewhere, is solicited.
Modern English Tanka, Baltimore, Maryland USA. Website: www.modernenglishtanka.com/ Editor: Denis M. Garrison. Contributing Editor: Michael McClintock. Email up to 40 tanka, or email articles, reviews, essays, letters to the editor, etc., to the Editor at SUBMISSIONS (at) MODERNENGLISHTANKA (dot) COM. Before submitting, please read the detailed submission guidelines on the website at http://www.modernenglishtankapress.com/MET/metsubmit.html. Modern English Tanka looks for top quality tanka in natural, modern English idiom. No payment for publication. No contributor copies. Publishes a print edition (6" x 9" trade paperback) and an online digital edition.
Thank you for sharing this call widely.
Sincerely,
Editors, Modern English Tanka
http://www.modernenglishtanka.com/ 

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Poetry Super Highway's Great Poetry E-Book Free-For-All

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Announcing: the fourth annual:
Great Poetry E-Book Free-For-All

The mission of the Poetry Super Highway
is to expose as many people to as many other
people's poetry as possible.

What?

A crazy project in which your poetry e-books will be freely available to all interested humans on Earth for a 24 hour period.

Throughout April we will collect e-books from poets and writers interested in participating.

Then on May 1st, for a 24 hour period, a special website will go live with links to all of the e-books. For 24 hours anyone will be free to download, for free, as many of these e-books as they like...a poetry e-book free-for-all.

How?

To participate, read all of the guidelines below and then click on our Online Submission form. That's it. It's simple. By doing so, your e-book will be included.

The E-Book has to be written by you.

E-books should be in PDF Format for universal compatibility with anyone's computer.

If you have an e-book in Microsoft Word or another format, please convert it to PDF. One way to do this (if you don't know how) is to visit the website http://PDFOnline. com/. Then click on the orange link "Convert to PDF for Free >>". From there you will be allowed to select the file on your computer which will uploaded and e-mailed back to you in PDF format.

When creating your e-book file, please keep it smaller than 1 megabyte.

Once you've created your e-book (not before), click on our Online Submission Form to join in!

Do not fill out the form and then e-mail us your e-book later. Please fill out the form and use it to upload your e-book to us.

We are not accepting e-books or submissions by e-mail. The only way to join in is by clicking on the Online Submission Form below.

On May 1 at Midnight (the evening of April 30), we will distribute a special e-mail letting people know the location of the web page with links to all of the e-book files. People will be free to download any or all of the titles and your poetry will be freely, electronically, travelling all over the world. This web page will go off line 24 hours later at Midnight on May 2nd.

We will also list your e-book and description on this web page along with the link to your website for all to see.

When it's over, we'll produce a list of how many copies of each book were downloaded for no reason other than you may find it interesting.

To submit your book, please go to our
ONLINE SUBMISSION FORM

Frequently Asked Questions

Why are you doing this?
To expose as many people to as many other people's poetry as possible.

Why isn't this a one-one exchange like the Great Poetry Exchange?
The immediate accessibility of the internet, and zero costs for producing e-books makes this a much more attractive opportunity for an immediate larger audience for your books. We don't want to limit your potential readers to other producers of e-books, nor to one other person.

Why does the e-book have to be written by me?
Unlike the Great Poetry Exchange, were one can participate by pledging to send a book by someone else or an anthology they've edited, since e-books are not purchased physical entities, and because they will be available in unlimited quantities during the 24 hour period on May 1st, only you have the rights to your poetry. You can't authorize the free distribution of someone else's poetry, the rights of which you don't own, to the world.

This sounds cool but I don't have an e-book.
That's not really a question, but anyway, why not make one? Do some basic design and layout of your poems in your favorite word processing program. Make a title page. Design a nice cover. Use any pictures you want. Turn it into an PDF. You've got an e-book. There's no time like the present. Maybe you'll take it to print later?

I participated last year and I want to submit the same book, can you just use the file and info you have already?
This creates more work for us and is a little more difficult for us to manage. It would really help out if you could click on the Online Submission Form so we can have everything in the same place, we'd appreciate it.

I'm concerned about my book being free for everyone on the planet.
Also not a question but we understand. Maybe this isn't for you. Maybe you sell e-books on your website and don't want to give unlimited copies of one away over a 24 hour period. Hey, it's cool.

Are these really frequently asked questions?
Actually no, all these were written before we received any questions, imagining what some of the questions might be.

More info:

Visit the Poetry Super Highway and click on "Great Poetry e-Book Free-For All" for updated details and for the list of participating authors/e-books.

http://PoetrySuperH ighway.com/ PoetLinks. html

From PoetsWork Press

We are 30 days away from the cutoff date for acceptance of submissions to be considered for our next upcoming anthology of poetry.  This is a reminder that the cut off date for submissions is April 30th.  Submission Guidelines can be found at the following web site:
For those interested in the 2008 Poetry Award, submission guidelines can be found on the following web site:
The cut off date for submitting your work for this prestigious prize is September 30, 2008. 
We look forward to publishing the best poems being written by a few of the talented poets of today.
PoetWorks Press, LLC
www.poetworks.com 

Subtle Tea April 2008 Edition

SubtleTea April 2008 Edition

www.subtletea.com

April - June 2008 Edition 

-  SubtleTea Interview with Cantara Christopher -

-  Visual art: David Ubben / Pamela MacBean / Laurie Marshall / Jim Fuess  -

-  Links spotlight: Lin Yutang intro to Chuang-tzu / Stanley Crouch at All About Jazz /

Naomi Wolf 10/2007  / Stephen King's NBF speech 2003  -

-  Poetry spotlight: Sean C. Bowen / Lyn Lifshin / Jack Conway  -

-  Prose: “Absolutely Sweet Marie"  -

-  Poetry: Joseph Reich / Gerald Bosacker / Bobbi Lurie / Bob Bradshaw  -

-  Book reviews: Survival Notes / Vamped / Cross This Bridge At A Walk (reprise)  -

-  Author pages: Walter B. Gibson / Edith Wharton / Charles Johnson / Viktor Frankl  -

-  Nick Zegarac's DVD reviews  -

-  Quotes: Frances Wright / Evelyn Waugh / Janet Radcliffe Richards  -

-  Poetry: John Grey / Gail Ghai / I.B. Rad / Rolf Gompertz  -

-  Eddie Mars series and The Hollywood Art  -

Makata Issue No. 4, April 2008 is now online

Dalityapi Unpoemed

April 2008

Greetings Bard-Brothers & Sisters:

Check out the latest issue of the Makata at http://www.dalityapi.com/

THE MAKATA (POET) Vol.9

http://makata.dalityapi.com/

Makata Issue No.4, April 2008 is now available online featuring the works of our home-grown and international poets: Aurora Antonovic, beeSPUNKY, Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal, Maria Criselda Bisda, W. R. Bongcaron, Eduardo Cong, Nelson Singson Dino,  Alegria Imperial, Rachel Chan Suet Kay and Maria Carmina A. Reynaldo.

Send all submissions / contributions for Volume 9, May 2008 issue to svillafania at yahoo [dot] com and to Jason Chancoco at tarusan22 at yahoo [dot] com (for Tagalog/Filipino & Bikol poetry). Also accepting poems written in other Philippine languages: Cebuano, Iluko, Hiligaynon, Waray, Kapampangan, Pangasinan, etc.

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Urduja Culture & Arts Society (UCAS)

presents

"SPIRIT OF URDUJA"

prose, poetry reading & art exhibit

by Artista Sining bIswal ng pangasinaN (ASIN)

on April 28, 2008

5pm art exhibit of 15 Pangasinan visual artists

8pm dinner poetry reading

Venue:

Lisland Rainforest Resort & Resto

Urdaneta City, Pangasinan

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Multilingualism in Philippine Literature and Cyberspace

The Makata project proposal “Multilingualism in Philippine Literature and Cyberspace” (http://makata.dalityapi.com/) in support to the UNESCO’s 2008 International Year of Languages has been considered and approved.

http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.php-URL_ID=36460&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html

Thematic framework: Multilingualism and Cyberspace

Geographical outreach: International

Types of project: Capacity-building

Beneficiary countries: Philippines (and other countries)

Main responsible:

Santiago Villafania (sonny@eac.edu.ph)

Emilio Aguinaldo College,

1113-1117 San Marcelino St.,

Ermita, Manila, Philippines

Summary of the activities

The primary aim of this project is to encourage the youth in the Philippines to write literary works in their Mother Tongue.

The MAKATA, since 1999, serves as an online journal for Philippine and International contemporary poetry.

2008 project activities include:

- publication of works in major Philippine languages: Tagalog, Cebuano, Iluko, Hiligaynon, Bicol, Waray, Kapampangan, Pangasinan, etc.

- organize/coordinate poetry readings in different provinces which will be a build-up to World Poetry day (21 March)

The site will be available for writers, educators and researchers interested in literary works in different Philippine languages.

Main partners

Currently in cooperation with the Commission on Filipino Language which supports multilingualism in its annual literary contest: the Gawad Komisyon.

Start Date: 01-01-2007 End Date: 21-12-2015

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TODAY in LITERATURE

http://www.todayinliterature.com/today.asp

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Thank you for reading.

Your Bard-Brother,

Santiago B. Villafania

Dalityapi Unpoemed

http://www.dalityapi.com/

Speak in the dark. What the light believes of it is poetry. - Jose Garcia Villa

The 39th Poetry International Festival

7th- 13th June 2008 in the Schouwburg in Rotterdam

March 26, 2008
The theme is CITY AND COUNTRY. The audience will determine how much to pay for their tickets at the end of each programme.

In 2008, for the first time in history, the majority of the world’s population will live in urban areas. This proved occasion for Poetry International to dedicate the 39th edition of the festival – from 7th –13th June in the Rotterdam Schouwburg - to the theme ‘City and Country’. The week will be filled with programmes, lectures, interviews and debates related to the theme.


Free poetry: visitors determine own ticket fee
It is not possible to buy a ticket to the festival this year. This does not mean that there is no entrance fee, but this will be asked only after the programme. In accordance with the principles of Reverse Economy, visitors will determine what to pay by seeing the programme.

Programme
This year’s festival features an event on Dutch poet Gerard Reve, and related to the theme of the festival – City and Country – a special event on T.S. Eliot‘s The Waste Land. The audience will be able to listen to the integral version of this 434-line poem and Paul Claes (Flemish author, and translator of yet to be published translation of The Waste Land) will give a talk on his interpretation of the poem and his translation of it.

In different locations at the festival grounds, some of the well-known tents by Dutch Visual artist Dre Wapenaar will be exhibited and used.

Following the yearly tradition, the C. Buddingh’ prize for new Dutch poetry will be awarded during the festival. The jury, consisting of Dutch and Flemish poets Willem Jan Otten and Paul Bogaert, and the programmer of the Dutch literary festival Wintertuin Monique Warnier, will choose the nominees from the submissions. The winner will be announced at the festival, on Wednesday June 11th.

Poets (links will be regularly updated)
Each of the poets will read more than once at the festival, giving the audience the opportunity to return for a missed poet or to revisit favourites.
Confirmed poets are: H.H. ter Balkt (Netherlands), Maria Barnas (Netherlands), Linda Maria Baros (France / Romania), Philippe Beck (France), Remco Campert (Netherlands), William Cliff (Belgium), Mangalesh Dabral (India), Jean-Michel Espitallier (France), James Fenton (United Kingdom), Andrea Gibellini (Italy), Robert Gray (Australia), Shoichiro Iwakiri (Japan), Gerdur Kristný (Iceland), Peter van Lier (Netherlands), Roni Margulies (Turkey), Risto Oikarinen (Finland) , Mirta Rosenberg (Argentina), Silke Scheuermann (Germany), Miriam Van hee (Belgium), Szabolcs Várady (Hungary), Henk van der Waal (Netherlands), Natan Zach (Israel / Germany), Adam Zagajewski (Poland).

Theme: ‘City and Country’
In 2008, for the first time in history the majority of the world’s human population will live in urban areas rather than in the country. By 2030, this is expected to rise to over 60%. This irreversible urbanisation will fundamentally change the relationship between the city and the country, and have implications on both individuals and society.

Poetry International is addressing this scenario by focussing on poetry from the city and the countryside during the 39th Poetry International Festival. Throughout the week there will be programmes, lectures, interviews and debates dedicated to the subject. Naturally, what this turning point could mean for poetry will also be part of the programme.

Visit our website regularly for updated information. Information in Dutch will be communicated via www.poetry.nl

Pen Himalaya's 16th issue released

Dear Readers/ Contributors,

After a period of struggle and pause, we are back on the track. Pen Himalaya's 16th issue is online now. You can read the issue here: http://penhimalaya.netfirms.com

Hope to hear from you now and then in the future.

Best Regards,
Mukul

The Snapshot Press Haiku Calendar Competition

Details here.

an'ya's new book, seasons of a hermitess, released

Rosenberry Books PRESS RELEASE

Rosenberry Books is proud to announce the publication and March 1, 2008 release of

a new book, “seasons of a hermitess: 101 haiku by an'ya” . . . ISBN 0-9727130-3-4.

This "Book in Hand" hand-bound edition was especially designed by artisan book designer, Diane Katz.

seasons of a hermitess can be purchased beginning March 1 of this year directly from  rosenberrybooks.com/bookinhandcatalog.html, or please call Rosenberry Books at 800.723.0336.

—an'ya—a household name in the haiku world—is currently editor of  "moonset Literary

Newspaper” at http://moonsetnewspaper.blogspot.com. She walks quietly through the

seasons and observes 101 haiku touch 101 moments as they pass. With a deft and innocent brush of her hand, an'ya opens the door to each season with a sumi-e style haiga.

From the author’s preface: “We must not discount the complexity of this art form. It is far more difficult to be creative in three lines of limited syllables . . . in haiku, the impact must be immediate—then fleeting, just as those real moments in our lives and in nature.”

         seasons of a hermitess, 101 haiku by an’ya

         6 x 9 inch hand-bound—$17.95. (discount price)

         Echizen Washi cover in the style of Japanese handmade paper.

         Thai mulberry flyleaves with bamboo inclusions, archival.

Rosenberry creates "Book in Hand” beautifully-designed hand-bound editions in response to the variety and richness of human endeavor; offering something very different from the mainstream publishing industry.

Again, please place your orders for an’ya’s new book “seasons of a hermitess” directly from  www.rosenberrybooks.com, or feel free to call us at RosenberryBooks 800.723.0336.

Makata's new issue is live!

Dalityapi Unpoemed

March 2008

Greetings Bard-Brothers & Sisters:

Check out the latest issue of the Makata at http://www.dalityapi.com/

THE MAKATA (POET) Vol.9

http://makata.dalityapi.com/

Makata Issue No.3, March 2008 is now available online featuring the works of our home-grown and international poets: Michael Francis C. Andrada, Mark Angeles, Aurora Antonovic, Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal, Willie R. Bongcaron, Sergio Bumadilla, Jesamyne Diokno, Erwin S. Fernandez, Lolito Go, Arti Honrao and Napoleon Resultay.

Send all submissions / contributions for Volume 9, April 2008 issue to svillafania at yahoo [dot] com and to Jason Chancoco at tarusan22 at yahoo [dot] com (for Tagalog/Filipino & Bikol poetry). Also accepting poems written in other Philippine languages: Cebuano, Iluko, Hiligaynon, Waray, Kapampangan, Pangasinan, etc.

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Multilingualism in Philippine Literature and Cyberspace

The Makata project proposal “Multilingualism in Philippine Literature and Cyberspace” (http://makata.dalityapi.com/) in support to the UNESCO’s 2008 International Year of Languages has been considered and approved.

http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.php-URL_ID=36460&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html

Thematic framework: Multilingualism and Cyberspace

Geographical outreach: International

Types of project: Capacity-building

Beneficiary countries: Philippines (and other countries)

Main responsible:

Santiago Villafania (sonny@eac.edu.ph)

Emilio Aguinaldo College,

1113-1117 San Marcelino St.,

Ermita, Manila, Philippines

Summary of the activities

The primary aim of this project is to encourage the youth in the Philippines to write literary works in their Mother Tongue.

The MAKATA, since 1999, serves as an online journal for Philippine and International contemporary poetry.

2008 project activities include:

- publication of works in major Philippine languages: Tagalog, Cebuano, Iluko, Hiligaynon, Bicol, Waray, Kapampangan, Pangasinan, etc.

- organize/coordinate poetry readings in different provinces which will be a build-up to World Poetry day (21 March)

The site will be available for writers, educators and researchers interested in literary works in different Philippine languages.

Main partners

Currently in cooperation with the Commission on Filipino Language which supports multilingualism in its annual literary contest: the Gawad Komisyon.

Start Date: 01-01-2007 End Date: 21-12-2015

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TODAY in LITERATURE

http://www.todayinliterature.com/today.asp

MAILING LIST

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Thank you for reading.

Your Bard-Brother,

Santiago B. Villafania

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Painting by Norman J. Olson, cover of the current issue


Hi everyone, this is Walter Ruhlmann

I just wanted to warn you that the first issue of mgversion2>datura, English
version is now online, at last.
Connect to http://mgversion2.free.fr and click on B-Side then current issue.

All the best

Walter Ruhlmann, editor
mgversion2.free.fr

mgv2_en on line this week

Poets and a composer from around the world - all of them English speaking people - have answered my call last January.
The first issue of mgversion2_en will be on line this week.
Best

Walter Ruhlmann, editor
http://mgversion2.free.fr

Announcing the Art Gallery of Jerry Dreesen

Artist Jerry Dreesen has opened up his own online gallery. Commissions welcomed.

The Spring Issue of Simply Haiku is live

Simply Haiku
The International Japanese Short Form Journal
read by over 6,000 people worldwide

Simply Haiku:

       "The  Showcase for
Japanese Short Form poetry"

http://www.simplyhaiku.com/

Spring Issue

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FEATURING:

An Interview with Graham Nunn
By Patricia Prime

Plausible deniability: Nature as hypothesis in English-language haiku
By Richard Gilbert

Tanka by Kisaburo Konoshima
Newly translated by David Callner

Contemplative Haiku

Francis W. Alexander
Owen Bullock
Ellen Compton
Richard Krawiec
Hiroko Morita Malatesta
Adelaide B. Shaw
Diana Webb

Tantalizing Tanka

Aurora Antonovic
Dave Bacharach
Collin Barber
Janet Lynn Davis
Jim Doss
M. Kei
Bob Lucky
Giselle Maya
Maria Steyn

Captivating Haibun:

Francis W. Alexander
hortensia anderson
Anthony Bowman
Yvonne Cabalona
Tish Davis
Garry Eaton
Robert Hecht
Margaret Hehman-Smith
Joyce Hildebrand
Bob Lucky
Patricia Prime
Ray Rasmussen
Lynne Rees
Richard Straw

An Illuminating Column

Tracks in the Sand
  By George Swede 

Hot Senryu:

Sports:
Barry George, Bill Kenney, Ed Markowski,
Bob Brill, Bob Lucky, Jesse McGowan,
Alexis Rotella, Alan Pizzarelli, Jörgen Johansson,
Matthew Paul, Efren Estevez, Mathew Spano,
Ed Markowski, Kala Ramesh, Brenda Gannam,
Arizona Zipper, David Kelly-Hedrick, Carol Raisfeld,
Barry George

Family Affairs:
John Stevenson, Carol Raisfeld, Gautam Nadkarni,
Alexis Rotella, Kala Ramesh, Gautam Nadkarni,
Alan Pizzarelli, Jim Doss, Mykel Board, A. Thiagarajan,
Tom Clausen, Bob Lucky, Bob Brill, Ed Markowski,
W.F. Owen, Roberta Beary, D. Claire Gallagher

Sizzling and Innovative Renku:

Junicho: 
   Withering Wind
    ~ Frank Williams and Diana Webb

Shisan: 
   A row of flip-flops
    ~ Diana Webb 

Kasen: 
   Morning Breeze
   Briza diminetii (Romanian version)
    ~ Vasile Moldovan and Magdalena Dale

Nijuin: 
   A Jump in the Calm Sea
   Skok u bonacu (Croatian version)
    ~Tomislav Maretic

Correspondence: 
   My struggles with renku
    ~ Frank Williams
      

Innovative Modern Haiga:

Collin Barber
Pris Campbell
Yu Chang
Matt Morden
Carol Raisfeld and Ashe
Max Verhart and Marlène Buitelaar
Robert Wilson

Aesthetic Traditional Haiga:

Suezan Aikins and Johnye Strickland
Bachmann-Eckenstein Arts and Antiques
Ion Codrescu

BOOK REVIEWS

Robert D. Wilson:

Four Decades of My Tanka Road:
The Tanka Collections of Sanford Goldstein,
by Sanford Goldstein

Johnye Strickland:

Dust of Summers: The Red Moon Anthology of
English-Language Haiku 2007, edited by
Jim Kacian and the Red Moon Editorial Staff

And, of course, lots of CONTEST NEWS!
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"The online showcase for
Japanese short form poetry"

SPRING ISSUE
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Read by over 6,000 people worldwide

The latest issue of Roadrunner is live!

Come check out the latest issue of Roadrunner at www.roadrunnerjournal.net

Beyond Baroque: Lanthier, Spicuzza and Zaro

Open Reading with RAY LANTHIER, MARIANO ZARO, AND JEANNE MARIE SPICUZZA

Sunday, Feb. 3, 2008, 5 PM

FREE
681 Venice Blvd.

Venice, CA

ph: (310) -822-3006

Sign up at 4:45 pm, Three minute, two poem limit

RAY LANTHIER is a veteran of the Bob Flanagan Beyond Baroque Wednesday workshop. His work appeared in the 2002 Valley Contemporary Poets anthology. MARIANO ZARO's work has appeared in Luces y sombras, The Louisville Review, and The Baltimore Review. JEANNE MARIE SPICUZZA's work has appeared in Poets Against War, Quill and Parchment, Shepherd Express, Riverwest Review, and Poetry Motel. Hosted by Marie Lecrivain. Open sign up 4:45, 2 poem limit. FREE.

A Poet's Seder

Saturday, April 26th, 2008, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, Venice CA

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This is an open call for submissions for "A Poets' Haggadah" to be produced and released as part of the "Poets' Seder" event at Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center in Venice, California on April 26th, 2008. The book will be compiled, designed and edited by Poetry Super Highway's Rick Lupert.

The Haggadah is the book read during the Jewish Passover Seder which tells the story of Passover as well as guides participants through the ritual components of the seder.

The idea is to fill this unique book with reinterpretations of the themes and original text of Passover, written through the lenses of poets.

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Submission Guidelines:

1) Send no more than three pieces of any style or length which specifically relate to one of the themes of Passover, with one of the 15 components of the Passover Seder in mind.

Some of the general themes of Passover and the seder are: Freedom, Slavery, We used to be slaves and now we're free, Bitterness, Memory, History as memory, Telling a story, Plagues, Giving Thanks, Drinking Wine, Celebration, Praise, Festive Meal.

The 15 components of the Passover Seder and a brief explanation of each can be found here:
http://www.shalomat lanta.org/ page.html? ArticleID= 36809

2) Please indicate which of the 15 components of the Haggadah you have in mind with each piece you send.

3) Previously published material is ok but we're eagerly looking for pieces which specifically relate to the themes of Passover and one of the components of the seder. (If previously published, please indicate where and when so we can properly credit.)

4) Please include a maximum 100 word bio.

5) Work may only be submitted by e-mail to submit@poetseder. com (PDF, .doc or text pasted into e-mail)

6) The deadline to submit your work is Monday, March 3rd, 2008.

7) If your work is accepted, you will receive one copy of the published book and free admission to the Poets' Seder event at Beyond Baroque on April 26th, 2008.

8) Submission does not guarantee publication.

9) You will be notified by March 31st whether or not your work was accepted.

9) Some contributers will also be asked to participate in the Poets' Seder event though acceptance into the book does not guarantee an invitation to read in the event. (This will mainly depend on our desire to have one piece presented for each of the 15 components of the seder as well as a desire to present varied material and the author's ability to be at Beyond Baroque in Venice, CA on April 26th, 2008)

Need more info or clarification? Send an e-mail to info@poetseder. com

JAL's Children's Haiku Contest 2008

Kids, if you're 15 & under, take note :

Japan Airlines (JAL) is sponsoring The 10th World Children's Haiku Contest 2008.
This contest is open to children throughout the world. The grand prize is two economy round-trip tickets to Tokyo, Japan, for the winner and a companion. The contest is open until Feb. 29, 2008.

The 10th World Children's Haiku Contest 2008 is organized by the JAL Foundation and sponsored by JAL. It is also supported by the  Japan Committee at UNICEF. Following is more information on the contest rules & regulations :


The theme for this year is "winds." The poem can be any thought or feeling related to winds. Entries should be in Haiku form, the traditional 3-line verse of 17 syllables divided into a 5-7-5 pattern.

The Haiku and an illustration, in color or black and white, should be drawn by the author of the Haiku, on the same piece of letter-sized paper.

Name, Age, Grade, Teacher's Name and School, should be clearly written on the back of the Haiku entry.

Entries must be written in English.

The poem and illustration must be the student's original work.

One Haiku and Illustration entry per person.


All entries must be submitted to Haiku Contest,  JAL office Chandralok Bldg.,36 Janpath,New Delhi 110 001 no later than the deadline, Feb. 29.

MAGNAPOETS: Taking over the world one poem at a time

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ISSN 1916-3010

Magnapoets Print, a bi-annual 8.5" x 11" print journal featuring all forms of poetry, short stories, interviews, and essays, is releasing its premiere issue at the end of this month.  In this issue, poetry from Joseph Armstead, an'ya, Kirsty Karkow, Peggy Willis Lyles, Margarita Engle, Taylor Graham, and more. Featuring an interview with former US Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky.

Editorial Staff:

Editor-in-Chief, Aurora Antonovic
Free Verse and Form Poetry Editor: Ursula T. Gibson
Short Stories Editor: Marie Lecrivain
Special Features Editor: David Herrle
Columnist: Nick Zegarac
Haiku and Senryu Editor: Matt Morden
Tanka Editor: Aurora Antonovic

Cover photograph, Mont Blanc, taken and copyrighted by Milorad Pavic. 

Single issues are available for $5.00 in the United States and Canada, and $7.00 per issue for international orders. An annual subscription (2 issues, one in January, one in July) is $10.00 in Canada and the United States, and $14.00 elsewhere. Payment options are cash, check, or international money order, in US funds, made out to Aurora Antonovic,  13300 Tecumseh Road East, Suite 226, Tecumseh, Ontario, N8N 4R8, Canada.

Submissions guidelines and all other information found here.

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