All These Rooms

Call for Submissions:
The New Plains Review is seeking stories, essays and poems on the subject of writing workshops and MFA experiences for its fall issue, devoted to the theme of how writers grow–or not–in educational settings. Submit original work by email to Editor Douglas Goetsch at douglasgoetsch(at)gmail.com
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Everyday a fair amount
of risings and of knocking down
still unbending as she wore her crown - the one she did not know before -
she wore and wore and pimped and whored
and went to battle both with and not-so-for that little bourbon body
carried her through the streets and up
and up to touch the tops
of mountains and […]

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nolovernobrothernokeeper. 
In a land where grass won’t grow
this is a field
imagine the grass is knee-high and touching
the grass is the wind tuning
this field. 

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EARTH’S BODY: AN ECOPOETRY ANTHOLOGY
Coeditors Ann Fisher-Wirth and Laura-Gray Street solicit submissions for an international anthology of ecopoetry. We are looking for a wide and varied array of submissions. Our working definition of “ecopoetry” is flexible; it includes not only what might be called nature poetry, and not only poetry that focuses on environmental issues, […]

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if your heart turns
to mud
to avoid the bitter glances
of the sun
do not call for it—
tell your tongue to
follow
it down.

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