Eve Packer's NOW PLAYING is up on CD Baby

New Spokenword CD from AltSax Records

NOW PLAYING

featuring

EVE PACKER & NOAH HOWARD

IS

NOW AVAILABLE

AT

CD BABY!

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Now Playing, the latest Eve Packer (words) & Noah Howard (sax, music) poetry/jazz collaboration. This CD also features musicians Bobby Kapp, Calyer Duncan, and Bobby Few (piano). Four years in the making, features "Katrina suite", "Sopranos Sonnets", "Mural at Mintons" and lots of New York post-9/11 pre-Obama pieces. AltSax Records.

EVE PACKER: Bronx-born, poet/performer, author of 2 books, skulls head samba & the recently published playland poems 1994-2004 (Fly By Night Press), & 3 CD's w/jazz.

I salute her as the Weegee poet—Donald Hall

...smokey & sexy in a way that makes you think of love.—Dennis Duggan, NEWSDAY

NOAH HOWARD: Born in 1943, New Orleans, USA, Musical training since childhood. Professional musician since 1960. http://www.noahhoward.com/

One of the Best Alto Saxophonist around—DOWN BEAT MAGAZINE-NEW YORK

He sounds like a New Orleans reed player, gorgeously lyrical!—THE NEW YORK TIMES

Check out some of her words at Acoustic Levitation

For More Info/Bookings: Eve Packer

Raving Dove's Winter Edition Now Online. Call for Spring Edition.

After a brief hiatus, Raving Dove has returned to the literary scene with a powerful winter 2008/2009 edition.

In this edition, our nonfiction honors 99-year-old William Hammaker, the "Professor of Peace"; it takes us to the streets of Ireland and then back to the U.S., into the reflections of an ex-con. Fiction is a whimsical what if, and poetry presents an inspired salmagundi of sentiments about violence and peace.

Raving Dove's mission is to share thought-provoking poetry, prose, and art that champions human rights and social justice--and opposes physical and psychological violence in all its forms, including war, discrimination against sexual orientation, and every shade of bigotry.

We are now reviewing for our spring edition.


Jo-Ann Moss, Editor
Raving Dove, Inc.
P.O. Box 28West
Linn, OR 97068
http://www.ravingdove.org/
editor@ravingdove.org (for all matters outside of submission)


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RAVING DOVE
A Literary Journal
Since 2004

Winter 2008/2009 – Issue No. 14
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Raving Dove's mission is to share thought-provoking poetry, prose, and art that champions human rights and social justice—and opposes physical and psychological violence in all its forms, including war, discrimination against sexual orientation, and every shade of bigotry.

Published quarterly, Raving Dove showcases original poetry, nonfiction essays, fiction, photography, and art. See our submission guidelines for complete details. We are now reviewing work for our spring 2009 edition, which will be online in March.

With thanks to the contributors of the winter 2008/2009 edition:

Bob Bradshaw۰Chris Crittenden۰John Darling۰Howard Good
Rebecca Hainsworth۰Courtney McDermott
Stella Hatzopoulos Paolacci۰Ellen Jane Powers۰John Repp
Adeline Scout۰Judith Terzi۰Ocean Vuong۰Jon Wesick

In this edition, our nonfiction honors 99-year-old William Hammaker, the "Professor of Peace"; it takes us to the streets of Ireland and then back to the U.S., into the reflections of an ex-con. Fiction is a whimsical what if, and poetry presents an inspired salmagundi of sentiments about violence and peace.

Thank you for taking the time to read the offerings of our diverse and talented poets and writers.

"Raving Dove is like an impressionist painting that you have continuously observed in order to view obscured or distant images or ideas that you may have missed at first glance. Its literary sensibility seems to be one of simple and precisely written elegance..."—Micah Zevin/NewPages
Full Review


Reprinted from http://www.ravingdove.org/

PERIGEE 23 is Out! Open Call for Anniversary Issue.

Dear Subscribers;

We are pleased to bring you our 23rd issue, hot off the presses. You don't want to miss this issue, which kicks off our 2009 Fiction Contest (Guest Judge: James Brown) with an over-sized fiction section and two book reviews. The short stories alone will keep you entertained for days: Nine stories by multiple Pushcart nominees and winners, novelists, contest champions, and skilled wordsmiths all. We're also publishing an interview with poet Jack Marshall, five excellent memoirs, and six meticulously written and carefully selected poems.

Issue 23 features the watercolor paintings of Derek McCrea, a US Army Infantry Combat Soldier with two tours in Iraq with the 3rd Infantry Division, who has been painting since the summer of 1984.

After six years, we continue to be impressed and inspired by this process we—our readers, our writers, our editors and designers—continue to define and re-define. It's something remarkable. We hope you will join us in celebrating this adventure of literature and art, brought to you free-of-charge and with no strings attached. Our gift, yours and Perigee's alike—our shared amusement, our little treasure.

We hope you enjoy Perigee's 23rd issue, and continue to read, write, and send work our way. [Submission Period: #24 (December 15, 2008 - March 1, 2009 for our April 15th anniversary issue. Online form at http://www.perigee-art.com/7389/submit_live.php. Response by April 7th, 2009]


Warm Regards,


-THE EDITORS

http://www.perigee-art.com/

DAVID YEZZI Teaches Performance Poetry at 92nd Street Y

In Your Own Voice: Performing Poetry
A New Class Taught by Poet and Actor DAVID YEZZI

Beginning in February, David Yezzi is teaching a class at the 92nd Street Y on reading poetry—your own and others'—aloud to an audience (very useful for poets and public speakers).


Here's the description: This hands-on performance workshop, combining literary and theatrical practice, looks closely at what makes a poetry reading compelling, clear and resonant. Through textual analysis, vocal technique and group discussion and critique, students will create a pliant and powerful reading style to best serve their work. (Below is Richard Wilbur reading to a crowd at the West Chester University Poetry Conference last year.)

The class runs for eight Tuesdays beginning February 10, 2009 (6:30pm-9:00pm) at the 92nd Street Y (Lexington Avenue and 92nd Street). Cost: $400 for 8 Sessions. No manuscript submission required.


You can read more about it and register at:

http://www.92y.org/shop/class_detail.asp?productid=TP3LS10

David Yezzi is the Executive Editor of The New Criterion. A former director of the Unterberg Poetry Center at the 92nd Street Y in New York City, Mr. Yezzi has contributed poems and criticism to The New York TimesBook Review, The Times Literary Supplement, The Wall Street Journal, The Paris Review, The New Republic, Poetry, The Yale Review, Poetry Daily, and elsewhere. A former Stegner Fellow in poetry at Stanford University, he is the author of The Hidden Model and, from Aralia Press, the chapbook Sad Is Eros.

Special thanks to Wendy Sloane for forwarding this informatin on behalf of David Yezzi.

New Issue of AUTUMN LEAVES (Open Call).

Autumn Leaves
A Twice-Monthly Online Poetry Journal

It is below freezing and the wind blows strong against the window. There is grey ice on the lake, reflection of a twilit sky. Mario threw some bread out on the frozen ground earlier today, and some squirrels came to eat them. The squirrels are always hungry this time of the year, stealing and eating one another’s acorns. We spent part of the Christmas holidays in western Maryland, where we enjoyed walking by frozen lakes and through snow covered trees in wind chills of sometimes below -40 degrees. We also visited a couple of houses designed by the famous architect, Frank Lloyd Wright. Then we spent a couple of days with our young grandchildren.


The January 1, 2009 issue is now in cyber space. Autumn Leaves is now into its 13th year of publication, and attracts literally thousands (sometimes tens of thousands) of readers every issue.



You can find the newest poems at http://www.sondra.net/al/


And, everyone, have a wonderful 2009!


Sondra Ball
sjball at mindspring dot com

MODERN HAIGA 2008 Out & Submission Call for 2009

MODERN HAIGA 2008 Now Available.
Call for Submissions for MH 2009

Modern Haiga is an annual journal—both print and digital—dedicated to publishing and promoting fine modern graphic poetry, especially but not limited to, haiku, senryu, tanka, cinquain, cinqku, crystallines, cherita, and sijo. Many writers and artists around the world have generously shared their work in Modern Haiga.

Print Edition ISSN: 1941-4986

Digital Edition ISSN: 1941-4870

Included in the premiere issue print edition are one hundred and one outstanding works of graphic poetry. We are pleased to announce the publication of the print edition of Modern Haiga 2008. The digital edition with all accepted works is available, free, online at http://www.modernhaiga.com/.

The print edition includes a subset of the works in the digital edition; specifically, one hundred and one works were included in the case-wrapped hard cover book, one work to a page. The index to the book indicates the poets and artists included. [INDEX: an'ya; 6. Babusci, Pamela A.; 8, 34, 50. Baker, Ed; 44. Castagna, Robert; 22, 51. Cavalieri, Grace; 83. Constable, David; 52, 98. Constable, Susan; 31, 52, 54, 61, 86, 89, 98, 104. Croteau, Wilfred; 40, 69. Davila, Mary; 13, 74. de Gruttola, Raffael; 22, 40, 51, 69. Deodhar, Dr. Angelee; 30. Downey, Audrey; 56, 65, 92. Flohr, Winnifred; 35. Forrester, Stanford M.; 32. Fraser, Laryalee; 18, 88, 102. Garrison, Denis M.; 20, 27, 39, 48, 62. Gorgone, Judith; 75. Grace, Margaret L.; 26. hoo; 9, 25. Kacian, Jim; 55, 93. Kamakura, Sayumi; 59. Karkow, Kirsty; 38, 68, 100. LeBel, Gary; 24, 45, 84, 95. LeBlanc, Jean; 28, 73, 99. Margolak, Jacek; 19. McClintock, Karen; 15, 23, 33, 63, 81. McClintock, Michael; 23, 33, 63, 81. Millcock, Allison; 41, 82. Miller, Fonda Bell; 46. Moss, Ron; 7. Origa; 5, 36. Papanicolaou, Linda; 14, 49, 57, 85, 101. Pearce-Worthington, Carol; 78. Pilarski, Linda; 16, 47, 90. Prime, Patricia; 96. Raisfeld, Carol; front cover, 10, 53, 64, 87, 97. Rosellini, Elisabetta Ricca; 60. Rotella, Alexis; 11, 30, 37, 42, 58, 72, 83. Rotella, Robert F.; 79. Russell, Claudette; 43, 77. Russell, Frank; 43, 77. Shimizu, Kuniharu; 9, 25, 59, 96. Simonova-Cecon, Valeria; 103. Stevenson, John; 45. Verbeke, Geert; 12. Wilkinson, Liam; 67, 70, 76, 80, 94. Wilson, Robert D.; 21, 29, 71, 91. Woodward, Jeffrey; 17, 66.]

The full-color, hard cover book is priced at $49.95 and is available at our Lulu store, http://stores.lulu.com/modernenglishtanka and at our MET Press website, http://www.modernenglishtankapress.com/.

Thank you, all the fine poets and artists who submitted their work to Modern Haiga 2008, and to the very hard-working board of editors, which included Alexis Rotella, Liam Wilkinson, Linda Papanicolaou, and Raffael de Gruttola. Alexis and I have resigned from the board for 2009, so we can have some fresh blood for the new edition. Liam Wilkinson is the new chief editor for MH 2009. We encourage you to send your submissions in to Modern Haiga 2009 - submissions are open and the mailing address is still submissions at modernhaiga dot com--it now forwards to Liam.

Best wishes and thanks for a great year!

Denis M. Garrison

THE TOWER JOURNAL Seeks Submissions

The Tower Journal is a portal for poets, fiction writers, essayists and others. All are encouraged to send their original work to: Mary Ann Sullivan by e-mail to: msullivan@metrocast.net

The Tower Journal Fall 2008, Vol. 1 Num. 4, guest edited by Jack and Adelle Foley, features:

Best-Selling Author Peter Beagle
Poet Katherine Hastings
&
Ivan Arguelle
Jake Berry
Lori Ladd Brown
Mary-Marcia Casoly
Adelle Foley
Jack Foley
G David Schwartz
Mary Ann Sullivan
Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino
Francis Thompson
Jane Venzke

The MERC offers Memoir Workshop

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The Truth of Imagination
A Memoir Workshop:
Weekly from January 14 to February 18
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Memoirs are supposed to tell the truth. And yet, they use fictional devices-plot, dialogue, and characterization-to shape that truth and captivate readers. In this workshop, participants will learn to use the fiction writer's arsenal with the aim of shaping the truth into a gripping read. The workshop is designed with the specific goal of helping students create work that is publishable.

Wednesdays, January 4 through February 18

6:30 - 8:30 p.m.

@

The Mercantile Library Center for Fiction

17 East 47th Street

New York, New York

Slots are still available for this six-week workshop!

$165 members; $180 nonmembers

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For more information:

http://www.mercantilelibrary.org/
Phone: 212-755-6710
Or email: info@mercantilelibrary.org

Posting Courtesy of Peter Selgin

GOLD WAKE PRESS Seeks Poems on IDENTITY

Gold Wake Press will present an electronic anthology on the theme, Identity.

Submissions are open.

Note: Single poems are accepted for this venture.

Thanks.

J Michael Wahlgren
http://goldwakepress.org/
goldwakepress@ymail.com

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Submissions

We are currently in search of work on the theme, Identity. Think Identity in the broadest of sense. Each of us has a unique style. Or think specifically on the topic of identity. Submit to the below email address. Attachment preferred.

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Gold Wake Press is nothing less than the sum of its parts. We strive for high quality poems in e-chap format. We convert RTF files to PDF using Acrobat.com with 11pt Times New Roman Font. The current editor is J. Michael Wahlgren.

Submission should be sent as an attached RTF to “goldwakepress@ymail.com.” We are currently in search of electronic chapbooks of 5 poems which are previously unpublished. Please familiarize yourself with the chaps we have published thus far; we are open to taking new direction to an extent. Yes, you can submit more than 5 poems. We would select 5 pages of material to suit an electronic chapbook. No, we do not accept simultaneous submissions. We should be the only ones the poems are submitted to at that time. We seek to be a branch to a chapbook or book. Therefore, if your poems are accepted, we only ask that they are noted.

Reprinted from http://goldwakepress.org/submissions/

POETRY CEMETERY Seeks Submissions.

Poetry Cemetery, an online magazine starting its 4th year, is looking for submissions.

Show me your cemeteries, and I will tell you what kind of people you have.—Benjamin Franklin

We think the same holds true for a society's poetry. Come check us out!

http://www.poetrycemetery.com/
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=logo#/group.php?gid=106052995163&ref=mf

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SUBMISSIONS :


POETRY

Poetry Cemetery always welcomes unsolicited poetry submissions from both published and amateur poets alike. Feel free to send us your best work at any time...just be sure you follow the rules/guidelines below:

1. Send a maximum of 3 poems for consideration per issue.


2. PROOFREAD your work before you send it.


3. Send your poems in the body of the email...NOT as attachments. Also, please be sure you include titles (even if the title is "untitled"), and be sure we can distinguish the end of one poem from the beginning of the next.


4. Please let us know if the poems you've sent us have been published elsewhere; it's OK by us, just let us know where so we can properly credit the other publication.


5. Please do not send anything that is excessively vulgar, pornographic, or otherwise offensive to the masses. We believe that every art form has its place in the world...but this is not the place for overtly offensive material.


6. Please include a short bio-- 100 words or so.
   
7. Don't forget your name and at least the city and state where you live.

By sending us your poetry, you are granting us publication rights for our website, and confirming that you have the rights to allow us to publish your work.

All work remains the property of the author--we merely ask that you give us credit if the piece is republished in the future.


ART

We are also seeking artwork to decorate our pages. If you would like to help us decorate our pages, please send us your artwork in JPEG format only, as an attachment to your email.

Please, send all submission to POETRYCEMETERY@GMAIL.COM.

We will strive to respond within 4 weeks.

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We've risen from the grave! Actually, the lid hadn't closed yet before John allowed me to step in as editor. As a fan of PC, I appreciated John's excellent stewardship of this magazine—I hope I can continue providing a safe haven for poets, especially previously unpublished poets, while still offering an entertaining venue for poetry lovers.

Show me your cemeteries, and I will tell you what kind of people you have.—Benjamin Franklin

I think the same holds true for a society's poetry. I will no doubt keep many of the things that attracted me to the site—I may change a few as we go along—and hopefully John Nashville, our Editor Emeritus, will serve as a Guest Editor and contributor, from time to time.

In the meantime, click on CURRENT ISSUE, John's last; check out the new submissions guidelines, and come back and check out our January issue, coming soon!

Sincerely,

T.R. Tifoso, Editor
poetrycemetery@gmail.com
PoetryCemetery.com

HAIGAONLINE: "Mountain Roads" Issue Now Out

Dear friends:

Our latest issue, "Mountain Roads" (Haigaonline, Vol. 9, Issue 2, Autumn/Winter 2008) is now online: http://www.haigaonline.com/

Please come by and view an impressive collection of haiga by the following contributors:

Pamela Babusci
Ed Baker
Pris Campbell
Dave Constable
Susan
Constable
Mary Davila
Billie Dee
Jerry Dreesen
Denis Garrison
David Giacalone
Anne-Marie Glasheen
Claire Holloway
Maya
Lyubenova
Ida Mahulja
Allison Millcock
Shanna Baldwin Moore
Ron
Moss
Linda Pilarski
Dorota Pyra
Mike Rehling
Mary Rodning
Emily Romano
Alexis Rotella
Natalia Rudychev
Manoj Saranathan
Terry Steudlein
Jan Turner
Diana Webb
Frank Williams

On behalf of everyone at Haigaonline (Mary, Jasminka, Shisen, Hirome and Choshi) I'd like to wish you the best for this holiday season.

Linda Papanicolaou, Editor

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Submission Calls

COMING NEXT IN HAIGAONLINE . . .

I. EARTH DAY: 22 April 2009

So many people interpreted this issue's "earth" theme in ecological terms that we've decided to do an Earth Day ginkō for our Spring Gallery. The deadline for submissions will be 21 March 2009, with a projected publication date on Earth Day, 22 April 2009. Haiga accepted for publication will express Earth Day's ecological theme, either in the haiku or the image. Remember, haiga is a linked form, at its best when the relationship between image and text is open to multiple layers of meaning. Go where the spirit takes you!

You may submit up to three (3) haiga but only one (1) per author will be accepted for the issue. Include 'haigaonline--earth day' in the subject line of your email, and carefully read the all guidelines for the preparation of your haiga.

II. CONTEMPORARY HAIGA FOR THE JUNE 2009 ISSUE: TOYS, PLAY AND GAMES

How do we define play? It's so basic to our nature that we know it when we see it. If you'd like a few kigo to jump start your creativity, a quick check of the Yuki Teikei Haiku Group's online kigo list includes Boy's Day, the Doll Festival, April Fool's Day, May Day, blowing soap bubbles and coloring/hiding Easter eggs for Spring; vacation, going barefoot, swimming in a pool or at the beach for Summer, and for our friends in the Southern hemisphere, skiing, ice skating, sleigh riding, snowmen and snowball fights for Winter (www.youngleaves.org/poetry/The Yuki Teikei Haiku Season Word List.htm). Don't forget Gabi's lists at the WHC World Kigo database, too (worldkigodatabase.blogspot.com).

You may let the image rather than the haiku express the theme. Remember, haiga is a linked form, at its best when the relationship between image and text is open to multiple layers of meaning. Go where the spirit takes you!

The deadline for submissions is 21 May, 2009, with publication on the Summer Solstice, 21 June 2009. You may submit up to three (3) haiga but only one (1) per author will be accepted for the issue. Include 'haigaonline--play' in the subject line of your email, and carefully read the all guidelines for the preparation of your haiga before you submit.

III. GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION TO HAIGAONLINE


To be eligible for publication, all submissions to Haigaonline must be unpublished and not under consideration for publication elsewhere. This includes not only publication in online and print journals but also works displayed where others can access them on personal web pages, online photo albums, blogs, and at online workshop groups and forums. PLEASE NOTE: this is a return to the journal's eligibility policy under previous editors. In our invited portfolios, we can be flexible,but the policy will be rigorously enforced for open submissions to ginkōs in the Contemporary Haiga and Gallery sections.

Copyright to all work published by Haigaonline is held by the artists and authors. Nothing in the issue may be copied, reproduced or republished without their written permission. Artists and authors are free to republish work when the issue is no longer current, but agree as a condition of acceptance to credit Haigaonline as the first place of publication.

Haigaonline does not pay authors for works accepted for publication. We reserve future right to republish all items from our website in digital, hard copy or CD format. This may include promotional materials for the issue, e-cards, or an annual yearbook or calendar.

If you have an interesting haiga project or article in process that you think might interest us, we'd love to hear about it. Send all submissions and letters of inquiry to the editor via email to the following address (it is not hyperlinked, so please copy and paste it into your email). For proper routing of your haiga, please put 'haigaonline' in your subject heading.

Linda Papanicolaou, Editor
paplinda@yahoo.com

Modern English Tanka - Winter 2008 Out - Submission Call for Spring 2009

MET 10, Winter 2008, has been published in print and digital editions. The print edition and the PDF ebook will be on sale the first week of January. The HTML version is posted online at http://www.modernenglishtanka.com/. This new issue includes 86 poets and is crammed full of wonderful new work. Check it out now!

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS:
Modern English Tanka
Issue Vol. 3, No. 3. Spring 2009

You are invited to submit tanka for the Spring 2009 issue of Modern English Tanka. The submission deadline is February 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 (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 generally not wanted but may be considered. 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.


Email* up to 40 tanka, or email articles, reviews, essays, letters to the editor, etc., to the Editor at submissions@modernenglishtanka.com.

Include this personal information with your email submission:

SUBJECT LINE: "Modern English Tanka submission - [Your Name]"

BODY OF EMAIL:

1. Name.
2. Email Address.
3. Bio sketch (75 words max. No live links are published online.)
Include your residential location: [City, State/Province] Country.
4. Age—check this box IF YOU ARE UNDER 16: [ ]—Younger than 16.
5. Submission: 1 to 40 poems


*Before submitting, please read the detailed submission guidelines on the website at
http://www.modernenglishtanka.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,

Denis M. Garrison, Editor

Michael McClintock, Contributing Editor

Modern English Tanka
Baltimore, Maryland USA
http://www.modernenglishtanka.com