Download or read book 2015 Poet s Market written by Robert Lee Brewer and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-08-19 with total page 781 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most trusted guide to getting poetry published! Want to get your poetry published? There's no better tool for making it happen than the 2015 Poet's Market, which includes hundreds of publishing opportunities specifically for poets, including listings for book/chapbook publishers, poetry publications, contests, and more. These include contact information, submission preferences, insider tips on what specific editors want, and--when offered--payment information. In addition to the listings, Poet's Market offers articles on the Craft of Poetry, Business of Poetry, and Promotion of Poetry--not to mention new poems from today's best and brightest poets, including Beth Copeland, Joseph Mills, Judith Skillman, Laurie Kolp, Bernadette Geyer, and more. Learn the habits of highly productive poets, the usefulness of silence, revision tricks, poetic forms, ways to promote a new book, and more. You also gain access to: • Lists of conferences, workshops, organizations, and grants • A free digital download of Writer's Yearbook featuring the 100 Best Markets *Includes access to the webinar "How to Build an Audience for Your Poetry" from Robert Lee Brewer, editor of Poet's Market*

Download or read book 2015 Poet s Market written by Robert Lee Brewer and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides poets with information on more than one thousand commercial and literary markets for their work, details of payments and submission guidelines, and includes interviews with poets, publishers, and editors.

Download or read book Hour of the Ox written by Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2016-11-18 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of The 2015 Donald Hall Prize for Poetry Selected by Crystal Ann Williams Hour of the Ox examines the multiplicity of distance, wanderlust, and grief at the intersection between filial and cultural responsibility. Desires are sloughed off, replaced by new ones, re-cultivated as mythos. These poems offer a complex and necessary new perspective on the elegiac immigrant song.

Download or read book My Cruel Invention written by Kelly Cherry and published by Meerkat Press, LLC. This book was released on 2015-12 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An outstanding collection of poetry about inventions and inventors, real and imagined, assembled by editor and poet, Bernadette Geyer, author of The Scabbard of Her Throat and a chapbook, What Remains. "I was awed by the seemingly endless number of ways that poets approached the subject. Naturally, there are poems about real inventions--from clocks to pantyhose to chemotherapy drugs--as well as poems that conjure fantastical inventions--such as a contraption for kissing and a happy marriage machine. While some of the poems in this anthology provide searing commentary on the dreadfulness of some of the creations birthed by inventors, other poems offer us a view into the stories behind inventions, as well as the lives of real and imagined inventors. Whether invoking humor, irony, historic research, or imagination, the poems in this anthology converse not only with each other, but also with their readers and the world at large, in service to the continued human drive to create solutions--even to problems we didn't know we had." -Bernadette Geyer Poems by Alex Dreppec, Brett Foster, Clare Louise Harmon, Daniel Hales, David Mook, Donald Illich, Dorene O'Brien, F. J. Bergmann, FJP Langheim, Gwen Hart, H.M. Jones, Holly Karapetkova, J.G. McClure, Janet McNally, Jean Bonin, Jerry Bradley, Jesseca Cornelson, Jessica Goodfellow, Jo Angela Edwins, Joel Allegretti, Julie E. Bloemeke, Karen Bovenmyer, Karen Skolfield, Kathryn Rickel, Keith Stevenson, Kelly Cherry, Kim Roberts, Kirsten Imani Kasai, Kristine Ong Muslim, Laura Shovan, Magus Magnus, Malka Older, Marcela Sulak, Marjorie Maddox, Mia Leonin, Nolan Liebert, Norbert Gora, Rie Sheridan Rose, Rikki Santer, Robert Kenny, Sarah Key, Scott Beal, Shelley Puhak, Steven Wingate, Susan Bucci Mockler, Tanis MacDonald, Tanya Bryan, Tricia Asklar, W. Luther Jett, William Minor, and William Winfield Wright

Download or read book The Half Finished Heaven written by Tomas Transtromer and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2017-05-09 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Winner of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature The contemporary Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer is a recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature and has a prestigious worldwide reputation. Robert Bly, a longtime friend and confidant of Tranströmer's, as well as one of his first translators, has carefully chosen and translated the finest of Tranströmer's poems to create this cherished and invaluable collection. Contents Introduction: "Upward into the Depths" by Robert Bly 1 From 17 Poems (1954) Secrets on the Road (1958) The Half-Finished Heaven (1962) Evening—Morning Storm The Man Awakened by a Song above His Roof Track Kyrie After the Attack Balakirev's Dream (1905) The Couple Allegro Lamento The Tree and the Sky A Winter Night Dark Shape Swimming The Half-Finished Heaven Nocturne 2 From Resonance and Footprints (1966) Night Vision (1970) Open and Closed Space From an African Diary Morning Bird Songs Summer Grass About History After a Death Under Pressure Slow Music Out in the Open Solitude Breathing Space July The Open Window s26Preludes The Bookcase Outskirts Going with the Current Traffic Night Duty A Few Moments The Name Standing Up 3 From Pathways (1973) Truth Barriers (1978) Elegy The Scattered Congregation Snow-Melting Time, '66 Further In Late May December Evening, '72 Seeing through the Ground Guard Duty Along the Lines (Far North) At Funchal (Island of Madeira) Calling Home Citoyens For Mats and Laila After a Long Dry Spell A Place in the Woods Street Crossing Below Freezing Start of a Late Autumn Novel From the Winter of 1947 The Clearing Schubertiana 4 From The Wild Market Square (1983) For the Living and the Dead (1989) Grief Gondola (1996) From March '79 Fire Script Black Postcards Romanesque Arches The Forgotten Commander Vermeer The Cuckoo The Kingdom of Uncertainty Three Stanzas Two Cities Island Life, 1860 April and Silence Grief Gondola #2

Download or read book Wide Awake written by Suzanne Lummis and published by Pacific Coast Poetry. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named one of Los Angeles Times Book Critic David Ulin's "Top 10 Books of 2015", Wide Awake draws together nationally acclaimed poets and gifted newer writers-one hundred twelve poets of Los Angeles and its surrounding territories-whose work speaks to the humanity, pathos and comedy, of what may be the most romanticized and scorned, disparaged and exalted, of the world's great cities. With respect to style, the selections range from the narrative to the more open-ended or non-sequential, classic formal verse to robust vernacular, and in this way speak to the lively state of North American poetry in our age. Poets include David St. John, Wanda Coleman, Cecilia Woloch, Lynne Thompson, Timothy Steele, Kate Gale, Gail Wronsky, Terry Wolverton, Luis J. Rodriguez, Tony Barnstone, Robin Coste Lewis, William Archila and Melissa Roxas.

Download or read book Inferno written by Eileen Myles and published by Soft Skull Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Loosely following Dante's epic by fashioning her own riveting account into three distinct parts, Eileen Myles brings her unparalleled brand of raw intellect and insight to her latest novel, The Inferno. The first part of the story, mesmerizing readers with its ripple of memoir, tells the saga (or hell) of a poet girl. The second, on the surface, provides instruction on how to write a poem--but it also pulls a clever bait-and-switch by informing readers how to become a lesbian as well. Myles's exposition of lesbianity, in fact, includes six pages of female genitalia that rival anything Henry Miller ever produced. The third and final part of the book is a fictional proposal to a funding organization in which the author obliges the foundation's request to supply them with her career narrative, but instead of the tedious sanitized version, she offers a bluntly truthful one. Full of travel disasters, bad readings of wonderful poems, and death, this last section is Myles's Purgatorio--a litany chronicling the career of a poet and her writing life. Myles's rebellious spirit is fully present here as she injects her signature blurring of memoir and fiction, poem and essay, to reinforce her status as one of America's most groundbreaking writers. This eagerly anticipated follow-up to her landmark Cool for You will not disappoint fans of Myles or of modern literature itself.

Download or read book Prepositional written by Scott Owens and published by Redhawk Publications. This book was released on 2022-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for Prepositional: In Prepositional Scott Owens highlights the preposition as a metaphor for shared humanity, and with an engaging playfulness, he explores human relationships and the world at large, drawing upon a rich mosaic of life experiences. Owens parses our connections, "As you are a part, I am a part, /and though we can be just one, / we are always also many, / and we can never be completely apart." Brimming with artistry, Prepositional also displays our universality: "Where I come from/ is the same place you come from..." Throughout the book subtle humor abounds, bringing text and subtext into play: "Without prepositions it's hard to imagine/ where we would end up." Prepositional sweeps the reader on a rollicking journey in lyric landscapes of language, where "So much of who we are/resides there - between the lips/of any human mouth."-Ami Kaye, Publisher & Editor, Glass Lyre Press Scott Owens writes poetry as if he were a painter, seeing more than other people see, looking beyond the obvious. Owens sees and invites the reader to visualize images, actions, beliefs, purposes, motives, and results of what he has gleaned from his life as a child, a husband, a father, a teacher, a human being who took notice. In "Where I Come From" he explores how we are more alike than different. "On Settelmeyer Bridge," shows us that "only the names change." This is a collection of some of Owens's most loved poems mixed with newer poems such as "Coffee During Covid." Toward the end of the book, he writes about aging, what he treasures and what he has learned. In "Nearing the End of my Sentence," he writes "I long for a semi-colon, a dash, a parenthesis, at least another comma." This is another Scott Owens book I will read again and again.-Glenda Council Beall - poet, author In Prepositional Scott Owens trues the lapping sand from "Where I Come From" all the way to the Dollar General where he offers the truth that words work the way they do for the enrichment of us all. We must keep on keeping on seems to be the root message, and enjoying it as we do. His philosophical lyrics prove that "Where there is language there is art."-Shelby Stephenson's recent book is Country. He was poet laureate of North Carolina from 2015-2018 Poet Scott Owens has been working steadily, especially in the period since 2006 on poetry that distinguishes itself craft-wise with a seamless quality that links a powerfully disturbing history to a fulfilling, successful adulthood. In Prepositional, he eschews the expectations for the New and Selected format by offering decidedly more of the New, a circumstance that will delight his devoted readers. If you know Scott's work, you'll know that Norman is here, of course, to direct all these flashing memories and precise observations down the forever river, "refusing to be forgotten."-Tim Peeler, author and editor About the Author Scott Owens holds degrees from Ohio University, UNC Charlotte, and UNC Greensboro. He is a Professor of Poetry at Lenoir Rhyne University, former editor of Wild Goose Poetry Review and Southern Poetry Review. He owns and operates Taste Full Beans Coffeehouse and Gallery and coordinates Poetry Hickory. He is the author of 17 collections of poetry and recipient of awards from the Academy of American Poets, the Pushcart Prize Anthology, the Next Generation/Indie Lit Awards, the North Carolina Writers Network, the North Carolina Poetry Society, and the Poetry Society of South Carolina. He has been featured in The Writer's Almanac seven times, and his articles about poetry have been featured frequently in Poet's Market.

Download or read book John Hulse Collected Poems 1985 2015 written by John Hulse and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2017-02-23 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an amazing collection of poems from John Hulse. His award-winning poetry and stories touch on subjects of social justice, religion and spirituality, and politics and humor. The book was written to try and raise money and awareness for veterans causes. Proceeds from the book will be directed toward veterans organizations.

Download or read book Jumana and Perfect Love Two Poetic Prose Pieces written by Allison Grayhurst and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-07-28 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Allison Grayhurst's poetry combines the depth and dark intensity of Sylvia Plath, the layered complex imagery of Dylan Thomas and the philosophical insights of Soren Kierkegaard, taking the reader on a fearless journey through the human condition, delving with honesty into death, grief, loss, faith, commitment, motherhood, and erotic love. Grayhurst intertwines a potent spirituality throughout her work so that each poem is not simply a statement or observation, but a revelation that demands the reader's personal involvement. Grayhurst's poetic genius is profound and evident. Her voice is uniquely authentic, undeniable in its dignified vulnerability as it is in its significance,” Kyp Harness, singer/songwriter, author.“Allison Grayhurst is the Queen of Catharsis. Allison Grayhurst's poems are like cathedrals witnessing and articulating in unflinching graphic detail the gritty angst and grief of life, while taking it to rare clarity, calm and comfort in an otherwise confusing world of deception, mediocrity and degradation. Allison Grayhurst takes the sludge of life, and with fearless sharpness of eye and heart she spins it free of maggots with the depth of honour and passion. Allison Grayhurst's work is haunting, majestic and cleansing, often leaving one breathless in the wake of its intelligence, hope, faith and love amidst the muck of life. Many of Allison Grayhurst's poems are simply masterpieces booming with thunderous insight begging to be in Bartlett's Quotations, lines such as "I drink necessity's authority." Nothing is wishy-washy in the realm of Allison Grayhurst. Allison Grayhurst's work is sustaining, enriching, and deepening for the soul to read... a light of sanity in the world. As a poet, Allison Grayhurst is a lighthouse of intelligent honour... indeed, intelligence rips through her work like white water,” Taylor Jane Green BA, RIHR, CHT, Registered Spiritual Psychotherapist, and author of Swan Wheeler: A North American Mythology and The Rise of Eros

Download or read book Excavating the Sky written by Konstantin Kulakov and published by . This book was released on 1989-06-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his debut collection of poems, Excavating the Sky, Konstantin Kulakov labors to relate the inner spirituality of his Russian background to the fragmentation of a market-driven New World. Whether it is his failed Muslim-Christian relationship, his dance with natural science, or his struggle to expose continued US raciality, Kulakov seeks the contradictions in everything, "mixing words to bring-out sparks." What emerges is a spiritual language that resists the exclusionary tendencies of the 21st century and offers subtle flashes of possibility.

Download or read book Leaf and Beak written by Scott Wiggerman and published by Purple Flag. This book was released on 2015-02-15 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most mornings for the past decade, poet Scott Wiggerman has walked the trails at Austin's Mueller Lake Park, an urban space created on land that once held the city's airport. Awake to the landscape as he walked, Wiggerman stopped from time to time and jotted a word or phrase for a poem that would come later. Leaf and Beak is the product of these walks, of the poet's ever watchful eye, of the discipline he learned mastering the sonnet. Readers are in good hands here. The sonnets-seventy-five of them-flow so smoothly you can forget you're reading a sonnet and just let the images take you in, the rhythms move you forward. The poems of Leaf and Beak are quiet poems, reflective poems, poems that ask you to walk in stillness for moments at a time, to absorb "the hidden in full view," to appreciate "a lone green leaf / that hangs on like a weekend birthday, deaf / to bitter winds." Wiggerman moves from the observed image, letting some details turn him inward while others lead to meditations on his fellow beings, on the world he walks. "What will / tomorrow bring that now cannot be seen?" he asks. "What change, what wonders to discover?"

Download or read book Subterranean Blue Poetry written by Rebecca Banks and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-02-28 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Subterranean Blue Poetry is an Internet Poetry Journal that publishes New Age Poetry and Art. This book is Volume III Issues I - XII (2015). We consider the works of all Poets that send Poetry and are particularly looking for homegrown Poets from the Canadian/American Indian Community, Quebec, small town Canada, International Poets and anyone who was ever considered "the other." If it sings and has zing its in. Subterranean Blue Poetry's mandate is to promote emerging and established Poets, introducing Poets and their poetry to a wider audience and to discover new poetry/art synergies. With the flourishing online self-publishing market we provide a guide to some of the truly great Poetry reads of the New Age. The Online Magazine has a nominal subscription fee, ($5 per Issue and $25 per yearly subscription) and we pay our Poets/Artists $10 per Poem and $25 per Art/Photo for the masthead. It is not healthy when Poets/Artists are not paid for their work, the work of artists is important and what they do should be recognized. There are no reading fees, no great Poet/Artist should be overlooked because they have a lack of financial resources. The artefacts of culture are important and should be recognized and promoted, in the Spirit of the New Age. New Age Artists are invited to send .jpgs of their original artworks for the masthead of the Poetry Issue, one piece of art is published for every Poetry Issue. We are looking for New Age Art that is beautiful, yet compelling, tells the truth, yet creates mythologies. Subterranean Blue Poetry features Subterranea . . . an all things poetry information hub with pictures. Other Services at Subterranean Blue Poetry include an Archives, every Issue and poem/artwork published is archived. A French language version of the magazine is published for every Issue. We write Book Reviews of Books of Poetry. Subterranean Blue Poetry offers online and in person Poetry Workshops and Speaking Engagements. A critique and assessment of your Poetry/Art submission with ideas for development can be negotiated through Email. Also, we create WebSites and perform WebSite Upgrades. Sales of Subterranean Blue Poetry Volume III (2015) go to charity, The Open Door Mission in Montreal, Quebec. www.subterraneanbluepoetry.com. "for those subterranean blues"

Download or read book On the Road to Guillotineland written by John Hulse and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-28 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An astonishing collection of poems from John Hulse. His award winning poetry and stories touch on subjects of social justice, religion and spirituality, politics and humor. The book was written to try and raise money and awareness for veterans causes. Proceeds from the book will be directed towards veterans organizations. A magisterial compilation. A combination of Bukowski's Last Night of the Earth and Orwell's 1984. -Susan Hampton An emotional rollercoaster. Soon to be a cult classic. -Kristina Betts A poet that belongs with the Masters. -Jennifer Brewster

Download or read book Juniper Street written by Vona Groarke and published by Gallery Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Juniper street" is a volume of poetry.

Download or read book The Lillian Trilogy written by Mary Meriam and published by . This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * Girlie Calendar (Book 3) selected for the 2016 American Library Association Over the Rainbow List "A poet can survive anything but a misprint," wrote Oscar Wilde, flippantly intimating that poets are made half-mad by a world of trouble. One rootless poet lost in trouble, Mary Meriam, found an anchor in "The Lillian Trilogy, " which combines in one volume her three recently published poetry collections: "Word Hot, Conjuring My Leafy Muse, " and "Girlie Calendar." The poems use a wide variety of poetic forms to capture and command relentless buckets of loss and heartache, revealing the untold horrors of her life and turning them around in a magnificent blossoming of longing, lust, sadness, and wit. This is very strong, fearless stuff, beautiful. -Rhina P. Espaillat Mary Meriam is a rare and original poet. This is a dazzling book, a fusion of anguish and wit and song, written in clear and compelling language. I love the wildness, the inventiveness, the always surprising but accurate metaphors. She writes of real things, real people, always musically. She uses Mother Goose rhythms and rhymes or echoes of Sapphic meters or settings as grim as any of the Grimm Brothers' tales, to tell searing truths that move, frighten, and delight one with the skill of their telling. -Naomi Replansky Mary Meriam is a frightening poet, a frighteningly good poet. The intensity of her writing will frighten you, but also her technical skill. She can put a chill into the most common rhyme. The poems speak like "a gust of gorgeous / thundering swallows." She identifies her models as Christina Rossetti and Charlotte Mew, whose Goblin Market and "Farmer's Bride" rightfully haunt the collection. But her real soulmate is Thomas Lovell Beddoes, the ultimate poet of the queer and scary whose masterpiece, "Death's Jest Book, " was left appropriately unfinished. She may ask us to "unspook" her dreams, but we won't succeed. The uncanny is too engrained in her sensibility. All we can ask is that she continue to keep writing. -David Bergman Mary Meriam is a poet who takes risks, by which I don't mean what you think I mean. There's nothing risky about breaking rules that haven't been in effect since 1880. I'm talking about the modern rules, the new respectability, the advice given in poetry workshops by legions of successful poets whom no one reads. Mary doesn't give a shit about Pound's "don'ts," she's too busy writing fierce, gorgeous poems about love and pain. She's a true rebel, in all her heartfelt, singsong, vulnerable, girly glory. -Rose Kelleher Mary Meriam is an accomplished technician and imaginative Mother Goose artist, who like Mother Goose (my favorite collection in the world), is almost always serious, even tragic, along with fun. I am floored by poems with lines like the opening of "I Learn Today My Mother Lied" ""Not one drop of Jewish blood / in me or you!" my mother cried, / as if she had a drop to hide..." We are lucky to have her dissident voice. -Willis Barnstone Mary Meriam's formalist poems are compressed bliss, dreamlike couplets and velvet quatrains honed to a fabric delightfully carnal. Like two of her touchstones, Frost and Bishop, her masterful metrics are handmaidens to her message at play in the fields of passion, loss, and redemption. -J. Patrick Lewis This is my kind of a poet. 'She speaks, ' as Larkin said of the beautiful and wistful and utterly different Stevie Smith, 'with the authority of sadness.' She also speaks in the language of tradition. She uses old forms fiercely. She is rather a fierce poet. Oh, and a Lesbian. You can't ignore that. But what does she do? Do with words. Magic. Above all, Mary Meriam is a magic poet and if that is what you want (as I do) this is a book for you. -John Whitworth

Download or read book The Drunk Has Shot The Pilot And He s Flying Us Into The Ocean written by Joel Carpenter and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-03-08 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Drunk Has Shot the Pilot is a collection of poems selected from J. Carpenter's first three works: Things We Lost, Religion, and The Great American Relapse. Chosen for their raw grind through themes of sobriety, love, and loss, Carpenter accounts in his own distinct way what it means to be human. Between his first three works, Carpenter teetered between break through and breakdown, while struggling with substance abuse, legal battles, joblessness and rebuilding a new life. These poems were written as a means of self exploration, acceptance, and healing. The provocative array of subject matter selected from those books and republished in this collection that grabs you by the collar and demands the readers attention.l Carpenter is an American poet and singer songwriter based in New England. He was born in 1992 in Chattanooga, Tennessee, then raised in Portland, Maine, from the age of two. Carpenter is the founder of the Underground Writers Association, an independent publishing house with a mission to bring bold book projects from emerging writers to market. Carpenter is also known for his daring dog rescue in 2015, adopting his dog Sadie 1500 miles from home, and making national news.