Sun. 7/5/09 - Beyond Baroque 1st Sunday of the Month Features and Open Mic Reading

Beyond Baroque
681 Venice Blvd.
Venice, CA
(31) 822-3006
 
 
5 July, Sunday—5 PM
Open reading with C.E. CHAFFIN and Special Mystery Guest
C.E. CHAFFIN is editor of The Melic Review. Widely published as a poet, critic and essayist, his new collection Unexpected Light: Selected
Poems and Love Poems 1998-2008 was recently published by Diminuendo Press.
Hosted by MARIE LECRIVAIN. Sign-up 4:45 PM. FREE.

Haiku Contest by Iris Magazine

A LITTLE HAIKU CONTEST BY HAIKU MAGAZINE IRIS, CROATIA
 
HAIKU MAGAZINE IRIS WILL PUBLISH YOUR 2 HAIKU/SENRYU ON THEME OF WATCHING THE SKY ON AUGUST 28, 2009 WHEN WE EXPECT TO SEE THE MARS AS LARGE AS THE MOON....
 
PLEASE SEND YOUR HAIKU BY AUGUST 30, 2009.
 
10 AUTHORS WITH THE MOST INTERESTING HAIKU WILL RECEIVE A FREE COPY OF HAIKU MAGAZINE IRIS NO. 3  AS A GIFT.
 
SEND YOUR HAIKU TO THE EDITOR  dvrozic@optinet.hr

PIW July 2009

The July issue of PIW welcomes the return of the PIW China and Israel domains after a period without publications. There's also poetry from Ireland, Australia and Colombia. Yao Feng is a Beijing-born poet who now resides in Macao. Several of his poems centre around the under- or unrepresented voices of history: the porters of Mount Everest expeditions; the “three thousand imperial concubines” of the Forbidden City, the survivors and victims of the Nanjing Massacre.

The problematic representation and remembrance of the unheard voices of history is also taken up as a theme by Iranian-born Ali Alizadeh, featured this month on the Australian domain, in poems such as 'My People' and 'Incinerator'.

Israel presents three very different poets, as well as accompanying articles about their work. Nano Shabtai, writes boldly and candidly, frequently about her difficult relationships with her family members. Shai Dotan’s poems range from political laments of the violence in Israel to a Wallace Stevens homage about pears. USA-born Ariel Zinder poems are sensitive and lyrical, yoking as editor Lisa Katz notes, “Jewish texts, narratives, concepts and holidays to contemporary lives”.

We also have a trio of poets from Colombia: Amparo Osorio poems are short in length but rich in elusive, nature-infused imagery. José Luis Díaz Granados’s 'The Perpetual Feast' takes up the theme of history, though that of a personal rather than a wider political history. José Zuleta Ortiz’s poems focus on the lives of other people or on the poet’s observations of the outside world: the doorkeeper of the 'Santa Barbara Hotel', a girl on a “conjugal visit”, a spider descending and ascending from its web.

The final two poets of this varied PIW issue hail from Ireland. In 'Checkpoint', a poem which so accurately conveys a contemplative, star-lit, post-pub mood, Michael Cody documents a walk home from “Maggie Dunne’s / in Carrick Beg”, while in another poem about a walk, 'Eccles Street', Gerald Smyth retraces “the epic route” made through the streets of the city by James Joyce’s Ulysses protagonist, Leopold Bloom.


To read the July editorial, articles, poet pages and poems, visit http://www.poetryinternationalweb.org

Denis Garrison books re-issued

Three books by Denis Garrison re-issued as pocket paperbacks.
MET Press has re-issued the three in-print titles of poetry by Denis M. Garrison as pocket paperbacks. Both more portable and less expensive than the trade paperback editions, these make Garrison's work accessible to more readers.

Hidden River, Garrison's second collection of haiku, is priced at $11.95.

Fire Blossoms: The Birth of Haiku Noir is priced at $10.95.

Sailor in the Rain and Other Poems, free and formal verse, is priced at $12.95.
It was selected for the "Best Books for Summer Reading, 2008" by The Montserrat Review.

Garrison's first collection of haiku, Eight Shades of Blue, after three editions, has been posted at www.Scribd.com for free reading and downloading; it has been taken out of print.

MET Press:   http://www.themetpress.com/bookstore/books.html 

MET Press at Lulu.com:   http://stores.lulu.com/modernenglishtanka

MET 12 published. Call for Submissions for MET 13

MET 12, Summer 2009, has been published in print and digital editions. The print edition and the PDF ebook are on sale now. The HTML version is posted online at www.modernenglishtanka.com .  This new issue includes 67 poets and is very full with wonderful new tanka and reviews. Check it out now!

 
Call for Submissions Modern English Tanka
Issue Vol. 4, No. 1. Autumn 2009 -- PLEASE NOTE THE CHANGED ONLINE GUIDELINES!


You are invited to submit tanka for the Autumn 2009 issue of Modern English Tanka. The submission deadline is August 15, 2009. Submissions will NOT close earlier than the deadline.


Modern English Tanka is a quarterly journal—a print literary journal, a PDF ebook, and a digital online magazine—dedicated to publishing and promoting fine English tanka. 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.
MET specializes in single tanka. Please do not submit sets or sequences. 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.themetpress.com/MET/ Editor: Denis M. Garrison. Contributing Editor: Michael McClintock. Email up to 20 tanka to the Editor at SUBMISSIONS@MODERNENGLISHTANKA.COM Before submitting, please read the detailed submission guidelines on the website at http://www.modernenglishtankapress.com/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) plus a PDF ebook and an online HTML digital edition.


Thank you for sharing this call widely.
Sincerely,
Editors, Modern English Tanka
http://www.themetpress.com/MET/

PRUNE JUICE 2 published. Call for Submissions for PJ3

The Summer issue of PRUNE JUICE: Journal of Senryu and Kyoka has been published online and in print and ebook editions. Check out the new issue at www.prunejuicejournal.com !


CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS for
PRUNE JUICE No. 3, Winter 2010: JOURNAL OF SENRYU AND KYOKA
www.prunejuicejournal.com


You are invited to submit senryu and/or kyoka for the next issue of Prune Juice, Winter 2010. Prune Juice: Journal of Senryu and Kyoka is a biannual journal—a print literary journal, an ebook, and a digital online magazine—dedicated to publishing and promoting fine English senryu and kyoka. Selection Criteria: Senryu generally emphasize human foibles and frailties, usually satirically, ironically, humorously. Season words are not necessary nor usual in senryu. Kyoka have a different history than senryu; nevertheless, for modern kyoka in English, the definition is similar: a poem in the tanka form but with the satirical, ironic, humorous aspects of senryu. We are looking for fresh works, not clichéd poems. Wit is highly appreciated, as well as insight. We appreciate a wide range of both genres, from the gently humorous to the most wicked satire. Our tastes run towards the wicked end of the scale, but all sorts are welcome, with these exceptions: No pornographic, gross, scatological, bigoted, or hateful poems; no personal attacks on private or public persons. All selection decisions will be made at the sole discretion of the editor.


Submissions for Prune Juice 3, Winter 2010 are open from now until December 15, 2009. The Winter issue publishes January 1, 2010. Submissions do not close before the announced date. The digital issue will be posted online just before the print and ebook editions go to press. We publish in the print edition, that is, 4.25" x 6.87" paperback pocket book, in a PDF ebook format, and in the online digital edition.


NO SIMULTANEOUS SUBMISSIONS: Please do not submit anything on offer anywhere else. We are not in the market for works under consideration for publication elsewhere.


NOT PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED: We primarily seek to publish fine senryu and kyoka that have not been previously published. Each poet is personally responsible for noting in the submission any previous publication of any submitted work.


HOW TO SUBMIT FOR PRUNE JUICE. You may submit up to ten senryu and/or ten kyoka at one time. We may publish as few as 1 or 2 poems or a larger number. Please do NOT send us works that are still in work. Please send us polished works, error-free. Make your submission by sending your poems in to Prune Juice in the body of an email. Do NOT send any attachments. Emails with attachments will be deleted. If you need clarification, or have a special situation you want to discuss, please feel free to write to the Editor at submissions@prunejuicejournal.com


SEND ALL SUBMISSIONS TO SUBMISSIONS@PRUNEJUICEJOURNAL.COM


PLEASE DO NOT SEND SUBMISSIONS TO ANY OTHER ADDRESS.


WHAT TO SUBMIT. Prune Juice needs the following information: 1. Contributor Note: include your full name and your residential location (city, State/Province, and country). 2. Your email address (will not be routinely included in the published Contributor Note). 3. If you are younger than 16 years of age, tell us so that we may comply with the U.S.A. Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (the COPPA applies to children under 13; our minimum age limit is 16 as a matter of editorial policy - you must be 16 or older to submit anything to Prune Juice). 4. The submission itself.


THERE IS NO PAYMENT FOR CONTRIBUTORS. No payment will be made. No contributor copies are furnished free.


CONTRIBUTOR’S RESPONSIBILITIES. If you choose to submit any work(s) for publication in Prune Juice, please read and familiarize yourself with the complete Submission Guidelines available online at: http://www.themetpress.com/prunejuicejournal/submit.html, as well as our Copyright, Privacy, and Editorial Policies. By submitting any work(s) to Prune Juice, you are representing to Prune Juice and its editor and publisher that you have the copyright to the work(s) and you are permitting Prune Juice copyrights in accordance with Prune Juice’s published Copyright Policy, and that you hold Prune Juice and its editor and publisher harmless in all respects from any copyright infringement caused by your submission.


Please send us your best senryu and kyoka!


Thank you for sharing this call widely.


Sincerely,
Alexis Rotella, Editor
Prune Juice: Journal of Senryu and Kyoka
Email: submissions@prunejuicejournal.com
http://www.prunejuicejournal.com/

20th Issue of Pen Himalaya

Dear Poets/Writers,
 
20th Issue of Pen Himalaya www.pennhimalaya.com has gone online with poems by Elisha Porat, Joseph R Trombatore, Frances Mackay, Hadaa Sendoo, Luis Benitez and Stella Thompson; haiku by Margarita Engle, essays by Nabin chhetri and Michael Kriesel, review of Duane Locke's Yang Chu's Poems by Connie Stadler and Sharmagne Leland-St. John's Contingencies by Karen Schwartz.
 
Thank you for reading as usual and your valuable support.
 
Mukul

moonset reminder

Now that it is almost July, just a quick reminder to have your submissions for our autumn/winter issue of moonset to us no later than 1 August. Please see the official website (URL) below for full details on how to submit haiku, senryu, haibun, tanka, and haiga to the appropriate editors. Old-timers and Newbies equally welcome.

Also please send any articles to an'ya and any news to Sasa; email contest entries, and/or dream-ku to peterB;. email addresses also listed at the website.

Thank you ever so much to a generous few, we are about 40% to our goal of becoming non-profit . . . also please update your subscription asap if need be so we can make certain that you receive our next issue . . .

love ya', an'ya
http://www.moonset-newspaper.com

kritya- a web journal of poetry is on line

Friends! New issue of kritya is on line

www.kritya.in


Talking about modernity, it is high time its limits were widened; a number of subjects like nature and human love are often dismissed as romanticism, especially by literary critics. But the need of the day is to save nature and be friendly to it; it means that nature as well as the effort to save nature, and the importance of being friendly to it must necessarily be a part of the discourses of modernity in contemporary literature.
Nurturing nature does not mean neglecting other human problems. It is in fact the solution to the problem. Is it not true that most of the farmers are forced to become labourers and more and more slums come up because of negligence of nature and our surroundings? Let us rethink modernity.

Rati Saxena
Editor
www.kritya.in

Virginia Arts of the Book Center: Green Poems Contest

Green. It’s the color of our money and the banner of our environment. It can be drab as olive or sharp as spring. We don’t mind where you take it--the ecological, the economical, the ecologonomical—just not too far afield of the low 500 nms of wavelength.


Supported by Poetry Daily and the Virginia Arts of the Book Center, Green Poems offers a prize of 30 limited-edition letterpress broadsides and an announcement on Poetry Daily. Visit the VABC website  for entry form and details.


$15 to enter. Deadline July 1, 2009. Past contest broadsides can be found here

Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award

 $2500 & Publication

A first book of poems will be selected from an open competition. The winner receives publication with Southern Illinois University Press and a $1000 prize. The winner also receives $1500 as an honorarium for a reading at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. $25 entry fee. Postmark deadline: July 1, 2009. Final Judge: Michelle Boisseau. Mail to: Crab Orchard First Book Award, Faner 2380 - Mail Code 4503, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, 1000 Faner Drive, Carbondale, IL 62901

Poetry Super Highway's 2009 Contest announcement

The 2009 Poetry Contest Begins This Tuesday, July, 2. Details here.

Margaret Reid Traditional Verse Poetry Contest - Last Call


6th year. Fifteen cash prizes totaling $5,350. Top prize $2,000. Submit poems in traditional verse forms, such as sonnets. Winning entries published online. Both published and unpublished work accepted. Entry fee is $7 for every 25 lines, payable to Winning Writers. Postmark deadline: June 30. Judges: J.H. Reid, D.C. Konrad. Submit online or mail to Winning Writers, Attn: Margaret Reid Poetry Contest, 351 Pleasant Street, PMB 222, Northampton, MA 01060. Winning Writers is proud to be one of "101 Best Websites for Writers" (Writer's Digest, 2005-2009). More information: www.winningwriters.com/margaret

New Haiga Journal to Launch Wednesday, July 1st, 2009: DailyHaiga


Haiku and haiga enthusiasts will have an opportunity to explore these forms in a new way, with the launch of DailyHaiga, this coming Wednesday, July 1, 2009.


 DailyHaiga is an edited online journal of contemporary and traditional haiga, available online at http://www.dailyhaiga.org/. Following the format of sister publication DailyHaiku (http://www.dailyhaiku.org/), this journal will present a new piece each day from one of their contributors.


Those new to the form will find that haiga moves beyond the boundaries of written verse—pairing haiku with an image that expands or juxtaposes the moment explored in the haiku.


 Over the next few months, DailyHaiga will feature work from renowned invited artists, including: an’ya, Susan Constable, Billie Dee, Lary Fraser, Allison Millcock, Sakuo Nakamura, Linda Papanicolaou, Carol Raisfeld, Ray Rasmussen, Emily Romano, Alexis Rotella, and Liam Wilkinson.


The site features sophisticated archiving and search functions with easy navigation between current and previous haiga. DailyHaiga also syndicates content, and is available through your favorite RSS or Atom feedreader at http://www.dailyhaiga.org/rss/


General submissions will open on July 1st.  Guidelines for email submissions can be found at http://www.dailyhaiga.org/.  In addition to new haiga, we will also consider haiga that pair new images with previously published literary components (e.g. haiku and related poetic forms).  We will not consider haiga that have previously appeared online in any form.


DailyHaiga staff can be contacted at dailyhaiga@gmail.com.


Editor: Linda M. Pilarski
Associate Editor (Poetry): Patrick M. Pilarski
Associate Editor (Artwork): Nicole Pakan
ISSN: 1918-851X
Spring Lake Alberta, Canada
http://www.dailyhaiga.org/

2009 Heron's Nest Illustration Contest

 
THE HERON'S NEST
2009 ILLUSTRATION CONTEST
The Heron's Nest is pleased to announce the 2009 Illustration Contest for material that will be used on the cover and as section markers for the Volume 11 annual print edition, which will be mailed in April of next year. The pertinent details are as follows:

Please submit graphic images suitable for use as either a cover or a section marker for any of the four seasons or "overview" or "readers' choice awards" sections.

E-mail submissions should be directed to John Stevenson at ithacan@earthlink.net.

The format should be TIF, and the resolution must be 300 dpi or better.

Postal submissions may be directed to:

John Stevenson, Managing Editor
The Heron's Nest
PO Box 122
Nassau, NY 12123
USA

While we will accept postal submissions, any images selected will eventually have to be provided in the TIF format.

The in-hand deadline for submissions is October 1, 2009.


PS: Copies of the Volume 10 print annual edition are still available. Click here to order.

Asahi Haikuist Network

Readers are invited to send haiku about the Milky Way by postcard to David McMurray, International University of Kagoshima, Sakanoue 8-34-1, Kagoshima, 891-0197, or by e-mail mcmurray@fka.att.ne.jp Haiku are selected for printing each first, third and fifth Friday of the month for the Asahi Haikuist Network . The next column appears July 3.

ken*again presents Summer issue

The Summer 2009 ken*again is now viewable at http://kenagain.freeservers.com/

haiku for the Asahi Haikuist Network

Readers are invited to send haiku about summer rain by postcard to David McMurray, International University of Kagoshima, Sakanoue 8-34-1, Kagoshima, 891-0197, or e-mail<mcmurray@fka.att.ne.jp>. Haiku are selected for printing each first, third and fifth Friday of the month for the Asahi Haikuist Network <www.asahi.com/english/haiku>. The next column appears June 19.

Cyclamens and Swords Poetry Contest

The second annual Cyclamens and Swords Poetry Contest is under way!

 

First prize is $300, second prize $100, third prize $50 and seven honorable mentions. 

 

Publication

The top ten poems will be published on the Cyclamens and Swords website. A chapbook containing the winning poems and the honorable mentions will be sent to the winners in addition to their cash prize. 

  

What to submit

This is an open contest for poetry of any style or theme. Your entry should be your own original work. You may submit the same poem(s) simultaneously to this contest and others and you may submit poems that have been published elsewhere, as long as you own the online publication rights.

 

Submission period

Submissions accepted from June 1st until 30th November 2009.

  

Length

Poems not to exceed 30 lines length (excluding title and spaces between stanzas).

  

Entry Fee

$5 (NIS20) for a submission of one poem, $10 (NIS40) for a submission of three poems, $15 (NIS60) for a submission of six poems. Go to the Payments Page to pay via PayPal or send cash or check (sorry only Israel checks) to P.O. Box 21 , Metulla 10292 , ISRAEL .

  

How to submit

Online entries must be emailed to johnmichael@cyclamensandswords.com

Poems should be in one single Word or .rtf attachment. Each poem should be on a separate page.  Include your contact details: name, address, email address, telephone numbers only once in the document. 

Entries may also be mailed to: Cyclamens and Swords Publishing, P.O. Box 21 , Metulla 10292 , ISRAEL (postmarked no later than 30th November 2008).

 

Click here to read last year’s winning entries

 
Johnmichael Simon
Chief Editor

MET Press update

MET Press is always trying to improve our products and services for our readers and authors. A recent development is that the MidAtlantic Book Publishers Association (MBPA) has accepted MET Press as a publisher-member. The MBPA is the main regional trade group for independent presses on the central east coast.


We have also developed a new web-presence on the excellent Scribd website. Check out www.scribd.com/dmgarrison where you will see the Tanka Teachers Guide is getting wide attention. I have posted some of my own older titles there for free access. This website is very useful for attracting avid readers to the MET Press website.

If you have not already seen them, check out our Author Pages at www.themetpress.com/bookstore/authors.html . MET Press has several fine authors and poets participating as equity authors. So that we can continue to give them the personal attention and service they deserve, we are now not soliciting or accepting any new equity authors, at least until all the books in our publishing pipeline have been completed. And, by the way, there are some great new titles in the pipeline!

best wishes,

 Denis M. Garrison

MET Press

www.themetpress.com

ATLAS POETICA PRESS RELEASE


ATLAS POETICA TO PUBLISH THREE TIMES A YEAR IN 2010


17 June 2009, Perryville, MD, USA


Atlas Poetica : A Journal of Poetry of Place in Modern English Tanka will be going to a 3x a year publication schedule in 2010. For the first two years of its existence it was published 2x a year, but continued growth in popularity with readers and poets has justified the increase. ATPO publishes tanka, tanka sequences, tanka prose, book reviews, announcements, and resources of interest to tanka poetry of place readers under the editorship of M. Kei.


ATPO will continue to feature fine art covers drawn from the galleries of 'Earth as Art', 'Visible Earth,' and other satellite image galleries produced by NASA, the USGS, and other US governmental agencies. Each of these high quality satellite photographs was originally taken as part of scientific surveys of the Earth but was deemed to have significant artistic merit in addition to scientific value. Previous covers have featured the Anti-Atlas Mountains of Morocco, the Dasht-e Kevir of Iran, Gosses Bluff, Australia, and the Taz and Yenisey Rivers, Russia.


ATPO will continue to publish in an 8.5 " x 11" format and in order to present as much tanka and related material as possible in 72 pages. The new publication schedule takes effect for the 2010 year, and full and updated guidelines are published at the website <AtlasPoetica.com>. Potential contributors should be aware that ATPO normally seeks first world English-language rights, and publishes in a triple format of printed journal, e-book, and free online version. 


The new publication schedule is:


#5, Spring 2010 – Submit Nov 15, 2009 - Jan 31, 2010. Publishes March 15, 2010.
#6, Summer 2010 – Submit March 15 - May 31, 2010. Publishes July 15, 2010.
#7, Autumn 2010 – Submit July 15 - Oct. 31, 2010. Publishes Nov. 15, 2010.


Non-fiction contributors of reviews, articles, announcements, resources, and other materials may contribute at any time.


Atlas Poetica : A Journal of Poetry of Place in Modern English Tanka is published by Modern English Tanka Press of Baltimore, Maryland.


Modern English Tanka Press
P O Box 437171
Baltimore, MD 21236 USA
Telephone: 443-802-1249
Email: dmg@themetpress.com

 
M. Kei
Editor, Atlas Poetica
A Journal of Poetry of Place in Modern English Tanka
Published by Modern English Tanka Press, Baltimore, MD

AtlasPoetica.com
ModernEnglishTanka.com
AtlasPoetica.blogspot.com

Poetry International Updates

The 40th Poetry International Festival: 13–20 June in the Rotterdam City Theatre


THE OPENING CEREMONY, Saturday 13 June

On the evening of Saturday 13 June the Rotterdam City Theatre was packed with poets, performers, editors, translators and audience members, among them Queen Beatrix, for the opening ceremony of the 40th Poetry International Festival. Words, whether sung, spoken or written, were married with sound and music in a 90-minute extravaganza of poetry and performance, beginning with the hard-hitting DAKOTA, a digital work by Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries with text set to percussion, and ending with the evocative music of De Kift, a Dutch band.

To read more about the opening event, visit the Poetry International Festival 2009 diary.


LIVE STREAMING


Tonight we will be live streaming the Bits of Poetry event on the PIW website, from 20.00 to 21.00 CET.

This will be followed by live streaming of the international programme event with Yang Lian (China) Mourid Barghouti (Palestine) and Nachoem M. Wijnberg (Netherlands) from 21.30 to 22.30 CET.


BITS OF POETRY, Monday 15 June


On Monday 15 June, in an introduction covering the origins and development of this genre, from Marinetti to the Ciné-poèmes, poet and translator Jan Baeke will raise questions such as “How new is digital poetry?” and “What differentiates it from other poetry?” The unprecedented possibilities of the genre will be illustrated through a selection of works to be discussed and presented by Yra van Dijk, professor of Dutch literature. From Monday to Friday, the works presented in this programme, as well as others, can be experienced by visitors in the festival’s Digital Poetry Laboratory.


The programme includes a digital interview with Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries, as well as a showing of their work DAKOTA and their European premiere of SMASH THE GANG OF FOUR BILLION, which so far has only been shown in China (in Chinese). Other international poets featured include Olia Lialina (Russia), Brian Kim Stefans (USA), Noah Wardrip-Fruin (USA), Aya Karpinska (USA) and Mark Napier (USA). Dutch works featured are part of the Poezie op het scherm (Poetry on the screen) project, an initiative of Fonds voor de Letteren, the Waag Society and Fonds BKVB which gave poets and multimedia designers the opportunity to collaborate on a literary work designed for the screen. The foundation for the Production and Translation of Dutch Literature (NLPVF) also contributed to the project, enabling some of the Dutch works to be translated into English.


The Bits of Poetry programme is sponsored by Apple Premium Reseller MacHouse www.machouse.nl.


AND…

If you haven’t yet looked at the June issue of PIW, visit www.poetryinternational.org to read poems by all the visiting poets.


For more information about events and programmes at the festival, including the live streaming schedule, visit the festival page of PIW, or www.poetry.nl, where there is also a comprehensive schedule of events.

Ascent Aspirations Magazine News

Ascent Aspirations Magazine
Ascent will go monthly as of August 2009.
The Spring 2009 Ascent Aspirations Print Anthology will be available within the next two weeks. Copies are available for purchase. Many B.C. writers and Vancouver Island writers are featured, along with writers from Ontario, Alberta, USA and the UK.
http://www.ascentaspirations.ca/ascentspring2009.htm
View photos and bios of contributors.
http://www.ascentaspirations.ca/anthologycontributorsseven.htm

What's New with Ascent Aspirations Magazine
Many local national, international and local events are posted here and the page changes regularly especially for current local events.
http://www.ascentaspirations.ca/whatsnew.htm

Fall 2009 Print Anthology Contest
This will be our theme issue for this year.
http://www.ascentaspirations.ca/ascentfall2009.htm

Cover Artist, Patricia Carroll Launches Her New Web Site
http://www.patriciacarroll.ca/

Ascent Aspirations Links
From the main page you can access links to other writers, resources, ezines, publishers, conferences, contests, courses and our archives.
If you want to submit links, we will promote your efforts. We are continually updating and adding to this information, so check back to us regularly. New links are continuing to be added.
http://www.ascentaspirations.ca/

Writers' Bios and Photos
If you are already a part of the Ascent Aspirations writers' community as a published writer in Ascent Aspirations and have not sent us a photo or need to update a bio, send it along and we will update our pages.

Sheri-D Wilson - A North American Slam Champion
3 Hour Workshop July 9th at Hope Lutheren Church, Nanaimo and an Evening Performance at the  VIU Theatre, Nanaimo
http://www.wordstorm.ca/sheridwilson.pdf

Ivan E. Coyote - Canada's Top Story Teller
3 Hour Workshop September 11th and a 6 Hour Workshop and Performance on September 12th
http://www.wordstorm.ca/ivanecoyoteevents.pdf

WordStorm September 17th - Featured Performers -  Isa Milman and Lorraine Gane
http://www.wordstorm.ca/

Oceanside WordWorx, Parksville Returns in September 2009
Email us if you are interested in being a featured or lightning reader.
http://www.ascentaspirations.ca/oceansidewordworx.htm
ascentaspirations@shaw.ca

WordStorm Society of the Arts
Support us by becoming a member and joining our community.The larger our membership, the greater the chance we can get funding to continue to provide events, and workshops by local, national  and international writers.

http://www.wordstorm.ca/wordstormsociety.htm
http://www.wordstorm.ca/Wordstorm%20Membership%20Form%20Web.pdf






Be sure to check out upcoming events from the WordStorm Society at www.wordstorm.ca

such as workshops and a performance with spoken word artist Sheri-D Wilson on July 9 and 11, 2009 and Ivan E. Coyote September 11th and 12th.
http://www.ascentaspirations.ca/whatsnew.htm
Join me there!


Ascent Aspirations Publishing
www.ascentaspirations.ca
ascentaspirations@shaw.ca
Member of the Federation of BC Writers
http://www.bcwriters.com/
Member of the Canadian Poetry Association
http://www.canadianpoetryassoc.com/
Member of the Canadian Federation of Poets
http://www.federationofpoets.com/
WordStorm
http://www.wordstorm.ca

Poets Work Press Josephine Darner award open for submissions

We are pleased to announce that we are now accepting submissions for  the 2009 Josephine Darner Poetry Award.  For submission guidelines, go to the following web address.  If there are any questions that are not addressed in the guidelines, please feel free to email us.
 
 


PoetWorks Press, LLC
www.poetworks.com

The 40th Poetry International Festival: 13–20 June in the Rotterdam Schouwburg

The 40th Poetry International Festival: 13–20 June in the Rotterdam Schouwburg

It’s June: time once again for the Poetry International Festival, where poets from around the world converge in Rotterdam for a week-long celebration of poetry, performance and translation. This year the festival celebrates its 40th anniversary with an array of programmes and events including a digital poetry laboratory, a film premiere, a photography exhibition, book launches, an itinerant poetry librarian, music, contemporary dance, prize-givings, readings, discussions and workshops. During the festival, we will be making live broadcasts of the international poetry programmes on this website, as well as giving daily updates and uploading video recordings.

For more information about events and programmes at the festival, visit the festival page on this website, or www.poetry.nl, where there is also a comprehensive schedule of events.


June issue of PIW

The June issue of PIW is dedicated to the poets to be featured at the 40th Poetry International Festival, Rotterdam.

Five Dutch poets will be in the spotlight at the festival this year: L.F. Rosen, Gerrit Kouwenaar, Arjen Duinker, Nachoem  M. Wijnberg and Rutger Kopland.

Many of the visiting poets currently live, or have lived, in the USA, though originate from elsewhere. These include Bei Dao (China), Dunya Mikhail (Iraq), Valzhyna Mort (Belarus), Vera Pavlova (Russia), Luke Davies (Australia) and Brian Turner (USA).

Other trans-national poets include Kazuko Shiraishi, who was born in Canada, but moved back to Japan just before the Second World War; Palestinian Mourid Barghouti, who has lived in Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, Kuwait and Hungary; Chinese poet Yang Lian who was born in Switzerland, grew up in Beijing, and now lives London; George Szirtes, originally from Hungary, who writes in English and resides in the UK; and Henrik Nordbrandt, a Danish poet who has lived in Turkey, Greece and Italy.

We will also welcome Gert Vlok Nel (South Africa), Jacques Roubaud (France), Umberto Fiori (Italy), Tua Forsström (Finland), Piotr Sommer (Poland), Sigitas Parulskis, (Lithuania), Maura Dooley (UK) and Matthew Sweeney (Ireland).

To read the editorial and more about the poets, visit


   



Newslog:

Carol Rumens on W.H. Auden’s newly discovered poems
http://international.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=14563

Live streaming schedule

For those of you who can’t make it to Rotterdam, you can watch the poets read via our live streaming of the International Poetry programme events. English translations will appear as the poets read in their original language.

All times shown are CET.

Saturday 13 June
Opening 20.00-21.45

Monday 15 June
Bits of Poetry: Mapping the shifting landscape of digital poetry 20.00-21.00
Yang Lian, Mourid Barghouti and Nachoem M. Wijnberg 21.30-22.30

Tuesday 16 June
Tatjana Daan presents Umberto Fiori, Jacques Roubaud and Gert Vlok Nel 20.00-21.00
Arjen Duinker, Sigitas Parulskis and George Szirtes 21.30-22.30

Wednesday 17 June
“The War Works Hard”: Brian Turner and Dunya Mikhail in conversation with Geert Buelens 20.00-21.00

Thursday 18 June
Martin Mooij presents Bei Dao, Maura Dooley and Kazuko Shiraishi 20.00-21.00
Valzhyna Mort, L.F. Rosen and Luke Davies 21.30-22.30

Friday 19 June
Tua Forsström, Gerrit Kouwenaar and Henrik Nordbrandt 20.00-21.00
“Kijk, het heeft gewaaid” (Look how windy it’s been), launch of an anthology of poems from the last 40 years of the festival 21.30-22.30


Felix Poetry Festival, Antwerp

On Thursday 18 June, two Poetry International Festival poets, Mourid Barghouti and Gert Vlok Nel, will appear at the Felix Poetry Festival in Antwerp. On Friday 19 June at 8p.m. the Felix festival will also host live video streaming of the Poetry International event with Tua Forsström, Gerrit Kouwenaar and Henrik Nordbrandt. For more information (in Dutch) about the Felix Poetry Festival, visit this webpage.

Shamrock No 10 now online and other haiku news!


The new issue of Shamrock Haiku Journal, the online magazine of the Irish Haiku Society, is now available at www.shamrockhaiku.webs.com/currentissue.htm  Shamrock is an international quarterly online journal that publishes quality haiku, senryu and haibun in English, and has a home page at http://www.shamrockhaiku.webs.com
Shamrock Haiku Journal is calling for submissions from local, national and international haiku poets for the next issue, which will be out in early September 2009. Please submit your work to the editor, Anthony Anatoly Kudryavitsky, at irishhaikusociety[at]hotmail.com
The deadline for submissions is 31st August, 2009. See submissions guidelines at http://www.shamrockhaiku.webs.com/submissions.htm .

Also, please find attached Irish Haiku Society Newsletter, the latest issue (also available here: http://irishhaiku.webs.com/IHS%20News%20June%20to%20August%202009.pdf )

Among the haiku news we highlight the following:

GINKO 2009

The Irish Haiku Society will conduct a ginko (an organised haiku-writing walk/excursion) in Dun Laoghaire / Sandycove on Saturday, June 20th, 2009 at noon. The meeting point is the main entrance to Sandycove Dart Station. Everybody is very welcome to join us! Writing haiku or other poems in the course of a ginko is not in the least obligatory.
For further details please email: irishhaikusociety[at]hotmail.com or phone +353 87 123 0502

IHS International Haiku Competition 2009

The Irish Haiku Society International Haiku Competition offers prizes of Euro 150, Euro 50 and Euro 30 for unpublished haiku/senryu in English. In addition there will be up to seven Highly Commended haiku/senryu.

All the entries shall be postmarked by 31th October 2009. No e-mail submissions, please! Details here: http://irishhaiku.webs.com/haikucompetition.htm


With best regards,


Anthony Anatoly Kudryavitsky, Ph.D.
Chairman, the Irish Haiku Society
Dublin, Ireland
e. irishhaikusociety@hotmail.com

Hindi E-Magazine 31 Issue from BHOPAL

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Beyond Baroque 1st Sunday of the Month Features and Open Mic

Beyond Baroque
681 Venice Blvd.
Venice, CA
 
(310) 822-3006
 
 
7, Sunday, Sunday - 5 PM
Open reading, Re)verb Magazine presents Zachary Locklin and Paul Kareen Tayyar
 
 
Zachary Locklin has been published in magazines such as Re)Verb, poeticdiversity, Magnapoets, Pearl, Freefall, and the Chiron Review.  He is also in the new book, Flymf's Greatest Hits, available on Amazon.com.  He has a Master's of Professional Writing from USC, and he currently teaches composition and creative writing at California State University, Long Beach.  He also co-edits Chiron Review.

Paul Kareem Tayyar's most recent books of poems are "Scenes From A Good Life" (Tebot Bach) and "Postmark Atlantis" (Level 4 Press).  He is a two-time nominee for the Pushcart Prize, and he is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of World Parade Books, an independent press in Southern California, whose books include recent works by Gerald Locklin, Edward Field, Lyn Lifshin, and Tyler Dilts.
 
Hosted by MARIE LECRIVAIN. Sign-up 4:45 PM. FREE.

Subtle Tea's June-September 2009 Edition is live

 SubtleTea June - September 2009 Edition
 
 
 www.subtletea.com

 

Enter the 2009 SubtleTea Summer Writing Contest or Visual Art Contest!

 

-  SubtleTea Interview: Renee Alberts  -

-  Links spotlight: Do Re Mi Station / John Hope Franklin / upper-Midwest blizzard of 1888 /

Mary Roach on Bonk / "Dangers of a Salaried Bureaucracy"  -

-  Poetry spotlight: John Grey / George Moore  -

-  Author pages: Zora Neale Hurston / Evelyn Waugh  -

-  Poetry: Renee Alberts / Lyn Lifshin  -

-  Visual art: Seth McMillan / Dan Ruhrmanty / Rachel Burgess / Steve Cartwright  -

-  Prose: "An Art Thief" / "Juror on Trial  -

-  Quotes: Thomas Paine / Peggy Noonan  -

-  More poetry: Barb Lundy / Steve De France / Twixt / Holly Day  -

-  Online book spotlight: In Defense of Women by H.L. Mencken   -

-  Film: "John Wayne: American" / "Grace Kelly: The Movies' First Princess"  -

- Prose reprise:  "Personal Posturings: Yahoos as Bloggers"  -

-  Nick Zegarac's DVD reviews  -

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