OFF THE COAST: New Issue, Editors & Submission Call

Off the Coast

New Issue, Editors & Submission Call (Deadline 9/15/2008)

Summer 2008 Issue coming August 10th

Contributors: David Adams, Linda Buckmaster, Chris Crittenden,
M. Kelly Lombardi, Bruce Pratt, and others

Artwork by Tino Villanueva, Elizabeth Ostrander, Steve Lautermilch

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Following 13 years of successful publication under the editorship of George and Arlene Van Deventer, the poetry journal Off the Coast has found a new home in Downeast Maine. Valerie Lawson and Michael Brown, the new editors and publishers, are accepting submissions for the next issue until September 15th with publication scheduled for November 1st.

POETRY: Send 1-3 quality poems, any subject or style. We prefer cut-and-paste in
the body of an e-mail. Postal submissions please include an SASE.

GRAPHICS: Off the Coast will continue to include graphics and photographs in black & white and for the cover in color or B&W. Send images in jpg format, 75-100
dpi, approx. 2K pixels on the long side.

BOOKS for REVIEW: Send a single copy of a newly published poetry book for possible review. We are not accepting chapbooks for review at this time.

Contributors whose work is accepted will receive one free copy and
additional copies of the issue in which their work appears for half price.

Subscriptions $35. Subscriptions for the remaining issues in 2008 and the anticipated
four issues in 2009 are $50. Single issue: $10.

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Forward all inquiries, submissions, and subscriptions to:

poetrylane@hughes.net

Or :

Off the Coast
P.O. Box 14
Robbinston, ME 04671
207-454-8026

5th Annual Palm Beach Poetry Festival: January 2009, Delray Beach

5th Annual Palm Beach Poetry Festival
January 19-24, 2009, Delray Beach

Dear Friend of the Festival,

We are so excited about our Fifth Anniversary Festival, January 19-24, 2009 and we want to let you know we are now accepting applications for workshops.

Our faculty this year includes Martin Espada, Kimiko Hahn, Thomas Lux, Laura Kasischke, Anne Marie Macari, Gerald Stern, Gregory Orr, Denise Duhamel, and Victoria Redel.

We will also welcome Florida poets Kelle Groom, and Michael Hettich, for a special reading. Winners of the High School Poetry Contest will receive their awards. Taylor Mali, and Lynne Procope will perform at our annual late-night Coffee House event. The deadline to apply for workshops is October 31, 2008.

For more details and to apply, visit http://www.palmbeachpoetryfestival.org/ for workshop descriptions, biographies of our faculty poets, and news about the festival.

We would welcome the opportunity to welcome you as a part of this half-decade celebration of poetry. They say Beethoven's Fifth was his best--we are following Ludwig's lead! Don't miss it!

Warm regards,

Miles
Miles A. Coon, Director
Palm Beach Poetry Festival
palmbeachpoefest@aol.com

Susan
Susan R. Williamson, Assistant Director
Palm Beach Poetry Festival
srw@palmbeachpoetryfestival.org

The Punto Poetry Project: Call for Submissions

The Punto Poetry Project: Call for Submissions

Familia,

At long last, here is the call for submissions for the Punto Poetry Project™. Please forward this info to all your gente and to your list serves. Feel free to join our Punto Poetry community too. http://puntopoetry.ning.com

If you have any questions, please see our website at http://puntopoetry.ning.com


Cuidate!

Shaggy Flores
NuyoMassarican Poeta

Robert Karimi
Poet Laureate of Narnia

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Someta: Call for Submissions

PUNTO! Exclamations from Generations of Latina/o Poets

Calling ¡You!
the spoken word artist, the poeta, the crazy performance poet, the storyteller of metaphors, the subtle experimental poet, all of yous, from the casa to the raza cosmica and everywhere in between the transglobal barrio, yes tú, are invited to submit your original poems, slam poems, performance poems, spoken word pieces to ¡PUNTO!: Exclamations from Generations of Latina/o Poets, edited by critically acclaimed, award winning poets, Jaime “Shaggy” Flores & Robert Farid Karimi.

We seek original work by Latina/o, Chicana/o, Nuyorican writers, performance poets, and spoken word performers for a new intergenerational anthology of Latina& Latino spoken word, performance poetry.

¡PUNTO! aims to give space and voice to Latina/o writers who have helped birth the current evolution of poetry by weaving language, culture, & experiences into a tapestry of performance & poetry on the page. ¡PUNTO! poets display the multifaceted variety of a community that is on the forefront of literature and performance. ¡PUNTO! is an intergenerational book that will reflect the historic & expansive contribution of Latina/os to the art of performance & written poetry across the nation.

FAQ’s/Preguntas?
Questions about this project can be emailed to: someta@puntopoetry. com. Please indicate “anthology” or “preguntas” or “vulcan mind meld” in the subject line to avoid deletion of your email.

Submissions
Must be postmarked no later than November 2, 2008
Please make sure to remember your ancestors on this day.

Notice
We are unable to address all inquiries as to your personal status in the project given the large number of submissions under consideration for this anthology.

Please send submissions BOTH by email and by USPS:

someta@puntopoetry. com
Please include “¡Punto!” in subject line.

Punto!
c/o Robert Karimi & Shaggy Flores
p.o box 6151
minneapolis, mn 55406

GUIDELINES/PUNTOS
Please, no battles about what is Latina/o spoken word or what is Latina/o identity; we are here to celebrate those who utilize the oral tradition across transglobal barrios. If confused, just send it.

Please submit up to 4 works. Manuscripts should total no more than 10 pages, 12 pt Times New Roman font.

• All work must be original, written in English, Spanglish or Spanish with provided English translation. (If you use any other languages, even Vulcan, provide a translation)


• Work must be previously unpublished. Simultaneous submissions are okay, but please notify us if your work is accepted elsewhere, as we are not able to accept previously published work.


• Other poets’ translations of non-original work will not be accepted for this anthology.


• Written work may include poetry, spoken word, performance poetry, and selections from performance pieces. Please do not send monologues. If sending a work from a larger performance, please omit stage directions and sound and lighting cues.


• Include a clean cover page with your name and contact information as well as the titles of each work.


• Please include your name, address, phone number, and a working email address on every poem submitted.


• All work must be typed and legible on paper or else it gets vaporized.


• Margins should be set at 1” all around single spaced, on one side only of 8.5 x 11 white paper.


• Submitted copies of your work become property of the Punto Poetry project and will not be returned to you. Yes, you keep the copyright of the work, but when you submit, you are allowing us to consider it for publication.


• The editors of the anthology, the publishers, nor assistants or anyone (all lifeforms) involved in this project are not responsible for any lost manuscripts. Please do not send us the original copy of your work.


• Include a biography of no more than 70 words on a separate page. Include a short statement of how your work reflects the Latino experience. Include your favorite Latino Cuisine/Food/ Dish in the bio as well.


• Submissions must be postmarked no later than November 2, 2008 (Early submissions increase but do not guarantee your chances of acceptance). Please make sure to remember your ancestors on this day.


• Please submit both mailed and electronic versions of the poems. Electron/Email versions you must send as MS Word attachments only. Both MAC and PC platforms are acceptable. Hard copy mailed versions should be submitted to the address above.
  

If you wish to be notified of receipt of your submission by mail, include a stamped, self-addressed postcard (U.S. Postage only).

Poetry Workshop in NYC with Ellen Bass

Poetry Workshop

taught by Ellen Bass
October 25 and 26, 2008

N ew York City

Its wonderful root and bud are snow-white, bright.

When was it parted with the western skies?

Nobody knows how deep the mud it grows in is.

When it emerges from the water, we know it is the white lotus.

--Joshu

In this workshop we will allow ourselves to extend our roots deeply into the mud of our experience in order to give voice to our poems. This is an opportunity to meet the poems that gestate within us and to engage our greatest resources--attention, courage, precision--in bringing them into being. We will strive for language that is accurate, fresh, and interesting and we will work to create poems whose form, rhythmn, language, and meaning work as an effective whole.

This weekend will be a time to nurture the creative voice inside us and allow it to speak. There will be time for sharing and for response, hearing what our work touches in others, but mainly it will be an inspirational time to write.

The format will include brief talks on aspects of the craft, writing suggestions, time to write and time to share. Some critique is available for those who want that, but is not mandatory.
Both experienced and beginning poets are welcome. Class size is limited to fifteen poets.

We'll meet Saturday and Sunday from 10 am to 4 pm at the home of Nancy Hechinger on West 12th St. in New York. Address and directions to follow registration. The fee is $300 and checks should be made payable to Ellen Bass and sent to my assistant Shalom Victor at 338 Walnut Ave., Santa Cruz, CA 95060. A non-refundable deposit of $50 is required to hold your place. The remainder is due by September 1. If you have paid your entire fee and find that you can't attend the workshop, we'll refund all but the deposit if we're able to fill your space, so please let us know as soon as possible.

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Ellen Bass

ellen@ellenbass.com

http://www.ellenbass.com/

about Ellen Bass

Ellen Bass's Mules of Love (BOA 2002) won the Lambda Literary Award. Her work has been published in The Atlantic Monthly, The American Poetry Review, Ms., Ploughshares, Field, and The Kenyon Review. Among her awards for poetry are The Pushcart Prize, The Pablo Neruda Prize and the New Letters Prize.

Mark Terrill Announces Two New Booklets from Longhouse

TWO NEW BOOKLETS OUT FROM LONGHOUSE:
SUPERABUNDANCE
and
NICOLAS BORN: THE BILL FOR ROOM 11
Poems and Translations by MARK TERRILL


Superabundance is a small collection of new poems & prose poems, in another exquisite handmade foldout booklet from Longhouse. If you’ve never held one of these little gems in your hand, you’re missing out on a unique experience in the world of fine small presses.




Nicolas Born: The Bill for Room 11 is a small collection of my translations of one of the most important poets of post-war Germany. Nicolas Born was born in Duisburg in 1937 and grew up on the lower Rhine before moving to Berlin in 1963. He was befriended with Günter Grass, Rolf Dieter Brinkmann, Peter Handke and many other important poets and writers. In addition to four collections of poetry, Born also wrote three novels, including Die Falschung, which was filmed by Volker Schlöndorff and starred Bruno Ganz and Hanna Schygulla. Born died of cancer in 1979. His collected poems and a selection of his letters were published by Wallstein in 2007.


For samples from these and other new booklets by

Pir Zia Inayat-Khan & Peter Lamborn Wilson, Walter Franceschi, Bob Arnold, Elena Medel / Forrest Gander, Hoa Nguyen, Dale Smith, Anne Waldman, Han Shan / JP Seaton, Simon Pettet, and Cid Corman

Click here: A Longhouse Reader Summer 2008

Check out the extensive catalog and all things Longhouse at: http://www.longhousepoetry.com/

Six-Word Memoir Book & Contest

Everyone has a story. Can you tell yours in six words?

Submit yours to be considered for SMITH's next six-word memoir book.

Category / Genre: Non-fiction Length
Requirement: 6 words
Compensation: Exposure. Possible publication in a future book from SMITH Mag.
Submissions Deadline: 08/13/2008


The first book, Not Quite What I Was Planning, is out now.

About The Book

Not Quite What I was Planning: Six Word Memoirs from Writers Famous and Obscure collects almost 1,000 six-word memoirs, including additions from many celebrities including Stephen Colbert, Amy Sedaris, Dave Eggers, Richard Ford, Deepak Chopra, Moby, and more. A New York Times bestseller and subject of hundreds of stories from The New Yorker to NPR and hailed as "American haiku," SMITH's book of six-word memoirs is both a moving peek at the minutia of humanity and the most inspirational toilet reading you'll ever find.

Six-Word Memoirs: The Legend
Legend has it that Hemingway was once challenged to write a story in only six words. His response? “For sale: baby shoes, never worn.”

Last year, SMITH Magazine re-ignited the recountre by asking our readers for their own six-word memoirs. They sent in short life stories in droves, from the bittersweet (“Cursed with cancer, blessed with friends”) and poignant (“I still make coffee for two”) to the inspirational (“Business school? Bah! Pop music? Hurrah”) and hilarious (“I like big butts, can’t lie”).

To submit* your story go to: http://www.smithmag.net/sixwords/

(*Submissons require membership. No Fee.)

-SMITH MAGAZINE


OR JOIN URBIS (Free Membership) AND SUBMIT AT THEIR SITE:

Urbis is a community of creative people that offers sophisticated tools to help advance creativity and expose it to an audience.



Urbis just launched a contest with Smith Magazine. Write a six word memoir about the creative life, get exposure on Smith Magazine, and possibly get published in one of their NY Times Best Sellers.

More than 900 of the editors’ favorites became Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous & Obscure, published by HarperCollins. The book became a New York Times bestseller, has been featured everywhere from The New Yorker to NPR, and inspired teachers, bloggers, and countless others across the world.

Now Urbis and SMITH want you to describe your life as a writer, artist, or raconteur in six well-chosen words. We’ll feature the best ones on Urbis and SMITH—and they could end up in a future book.It's only six words - you can do it:

http://urbis.com/opportunities

We are featuring the highest ranked contenders in the facebook fan page for Urbis. Go see how people sum their lives in six words:

Urbis on Facebook

-The Urbis Team

BORDERS 2nd Open-Door Poetry Contest Through July 2008

BORDERS 2nd Open-Door Poetry Contest
Judged by BILLY COLLINS, former U.S. Poet Laureate

The second Borders Open-Door Poetry Contest is open for submissions! Former U.S. Poet Laureate, and renowned poet Billy Collins will judge the contest and welcomes your poem submissions. The top 10 (5 adult, 5 student) poems submitted, in text or in video, will be published on our site right alongside a poem by Billy Collins in an upcoming episode! Billy will also read and give feedback on the poems he selects as best. All finalists’ poems will be considered for publication in our annual “Best of” book, which will highlight the many talented poets in the Borders community!

Contest Updates and Details:

Poetry contest submissions for our 2nd contest being judged by Billy Collins are open through July, 2008.

Two winners will be chosen! A student/teen (age 13-18) winner as well as an adult winner (age 19+).

The top 5 poems from teens (age 13-18) and the top 5 poems from adults (age 19+) submitted to the Borders Open-Door Poetry contest will be published on our site alongside a poem by former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins.

The contest is open in both subject and genre, and is completely free of charge.

Each entry must be original and otherwise unpublished in any format (print or online publication).

Submissions from the first contest will carry over and be considered for this 2nd contest, so you needn’t resubmit the same poem.

You can submit as many original poems as you’d like, but please submit each one separately by clicking the button below. A pop-up form will appear for your entry.

Poems in text should be a maximum of 500 words. Poems submitted as video readings should be submitted in any common format not exceeding 12MB. Please submit your poem’s text along with your video reading, within the same entry form.

All entries will be considered by the Student Publishing Program’s Advisory Board—a panel of top authors, editors and educators from the world of poetry—and then our celebrity judge will read the contest finalists and choose the winner.

You must be over 13 years of age to participate.

Enter Here!
http://www.studentpublishingprogram.org/borders/poems/

Robin Glasser Announces Her New Book, My Life as a Concubine (PHAZE Books, June 2008)

My Life as a Concubine
by Robin Glasser
PHAZE Books, June 2008
978-1-59426-820-5
e-book
$6.00

My Life as a Concubine is the lively account of a savvy, New York City woman, never married, not looking to be, who suddenly falls in love with a Frenchman. After several enchanting years together, Jean-Loup tells her that he must return to France. She is in a quandary—stay on the isle of Manhattan where she has work, friends and speaks the lingo or depart for Paris with the utterly adorable frog prince? There is one teensy-weensy problem—Jean-Loup hasn't asked her to go with him. When he finally pops the question, it certainly isn't the one she expects.

PHAZE Books specializing in Romantic and Women's Erotica

YUR Magazine Presents Poetic Pen Poetry Workshop with Bruce George Aug 16 in Nashville, TN

YUR Magazine

Presents

Poetic Pen Poetry Workshop

with

BRUCE GEORGE, co-founder of Def Poetry Jam

Saturday August 16

Noon - 3PM

@

Harambee House

1018 North 16th Street

Nashville, TN 37206

$20

Register Online at: www.regonline.com/yurmagazine

For More Info Contact 615.332.4452

In celebration of literary and visual arts, YUR MagaZine is hosting the Poetic Pen, facilitated by Bruce George (Co-Founder of HBO’s Russell Simmons Def Poetry Jam and managing editor for The Bandana Republic). This event will take place Saturday, August 16, 2008 from noon - 3 p.m. YUR Magazine is seeking to inform and provide the participants in the literary arts community with simple, yet helpful steps that can improve their art or talent.

The Poetic Pen will target youth ages 15 and up as well as adults. YUR Magazine hopes to deliver this educational and cultural workshop to up and coming literary greats within the Nashville Community and surrounding areas. This workshop will be dedicated to assisting individuals to find their most authentic voice and hone their poetry writing skills. It is our goal to provide participants with a supportive, yet challenging environment to develop and enhance their skills as a poet, writer and/or spoken word artist. This initiative will promote the artistic movement through literary and visual arts.

The 10th Harlem Book Fair July 18 - 20

The 10th
HARLEM BOOK FAIR
Anniversary Celebration & Gala
Harlem, New York
in association with

The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

Events from July 18 - 20, 2008
West 135th Street from Malcolm X Blvd.
to Frederick Douglass Blvd.

BUILDING READERS, BUILDING COMMUNITY

DOWNLOAD COMPLETE HBF EVENT SCHEDULE

Dear Booklovers,

The programs of the 10th Anniversary Gala and Celebration of the Harlem Book Fair will begin on Friday, July 18th and conclude on Sunday, July 20th at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. The outdoor festival will be held on Saturday, July 19, from 11 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. on West 135th Street between Lenox Avenue and Frederick Douglass Boulevard.

We continue...!

New from Cervena Barva: The News Today by George Held

Cervena Barva Press
is pleased to announce the publication of

The News Today

by

George Held

The News Today is George Held's second chapbook from Cervená Barva Press, the first being W Is for War (2006). His other poetry books include Beyond Renewal (2001) and the chapbooks Winged (1995), Salamander Love and Others (1998), Open & Shut (1999), Grounded (2005), The Art of Writing and Others (2007), and Phased (2008). Other books include the e-book American Poetry (2004), the art book Absolut Death & Others (2000) (with paintings by Roz Dimon), Martial Artist (2005) (translations of Martial's epigrams), and the anthology Touched by Eros (2002), which he edited. Held's poetry has appeared in more than a dozen anthologies, received five Pushcart Prize nominations, and been read by Garrison Keillor on The Writer's Almanac (NPR). He has co-edited The Ledge Poetry and Fiction Magazine since 1991. In addition, he served as a Fulbright lecturer in Czechoslovakia, 1973-76, and has been on the executive board of The South Fork Natural History Society and Museum (Bridgehampton, NY) since 1991.

Order online at http://www.thelostbookshelf.com/cervenabooks.html

The News Today
by George Held
$7.00 + $3.00 S/H
33 pages, paper
Publication Date: July, 2008

For information contact:
Gloria Mindock
Cervena Barva Press, Somerville, MA
Email: editor@cervenabarvapress.com

NoBoarders Poetry Radio Requests Tracks & CD's

NoBoarders Poetry Radio
Formerly Eadon's Place Internet Broadcast

SEND US YOUR TRACKS & CD'S

Powered by Live365, we air poetry, spokenword and musice broadcast readers, performance poets & spokenword artists with or without musical accompaniment from all over the world. We also air various music genres such as, but not limited to, jazz, blues, hip-hop, experimental, folk, fusion, world music; multi-lingual and uncensored.

Independent, non-commercial internet radio produced by Linda DiFeterici & Keith Roach.

MAIL CDS to :
Linda DiFeterici
DiFeterici-Roach, Inc
P.O. Box 309
Paulsboro, NJ 08066

EMAIL tracks to: difetroach@comcast.net

NOTE: all submissions must include track title(s), artist's names and album title(s)

NoBoarders Poetry Radio is brought to you by DiFeterici-Roach, Inc

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