All These Rooms

Agency
Our gasoline held to everything - his sister’s dress
and grass, snails in the pond - within the smell of things burning
even the air disappeared. But I can hardly see
the blank fields anymore
for the earth has no memory
and cannot refuse to grow.
Generation
Incredible stillness a scene suddenly mute
no cicadas left for no trees remained […]

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Guidelines for the 2008 Franklin-Christoph Poetry Contest
http://www.franklin-christoph.com/Writing/PoetryContest.html
We will award $2500 in total prizes, including the $1000 cash grand prize. 10 Merit
Award Winners will receive $150 writing instruments.
Submission Period
Entries accepted June 1-Nov 30 (postmark dates), 2008.

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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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Worsty has won the poetry contest for May. She gets to whomp whomever she pleases, especially those of you who have to yet to enter a challenge. Scowl. Anyway, I’m sure she’ll have a challenge for us soon!
Until then worsty, whomp away!

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MORTAR
Between the bricks all that mortar
was put down by men with trembling
hands with the prints rubbed
smooth at the fingertips. The mortar speaks
of tiredness, of always being in bed
with a longing between her legs, of never sleeping
but only almost. When the rain comes
she remembers being dirt and stones,
she thinks of the great grind works that crushed
her […]

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Our realities were merging to
Copulate and produce beautiful,
Upon the most beautiful
Of babies.
Have I not written enough for you lately?
My sincerest of apologies
Are found in the back pocket
Of my jeans…
Folded and tarnished
At the seams.
And you, my love,
How do you feel like one of
My childhood dreams?
Panned out in a panoramic
Timeline of memories and vacancies -
Spreading out limb […]

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Here’s another interesting post from the yahoo webserve. If anyone wants to get on that list and get lots of emails about creative writing opps, just let me know and I’ll post the necessary info.
Splinter Generation anthology
http://www.splintergeneration.com/index.html
Six young people, unsatisfied with being called Generation Y, Generation 9-11, and countless other ill-fitting monikers, are launching a […]

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Got this off a yahoo listserve for “Creative Writing Opportunities.”
Lake Forest College
Madeleine P. Plonsker Emerging Writer’s Residency Prize
Lake Forest College, in conjunction with the &NOW Festival, invites applications for an emerging poet under forty years old, with no major book publication to spend two months (February-March or March-April 2009) in residence at our campus […]

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As per Natalie’s request, this month’s poetry challenge is to write an epic poem… in a month. This feat is impossible enough so there are no additional requirements. Don’t forget, whoever wins gets the coveted whomper stick and also gets to make up next month’s challenge. So bring it, I want to see the next […]

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You know what would be great? If Microsoft could come up with a Word program designed for writing poetry, or at least a poetry setting so that you don’t have to click on “Ignore All” every time you run spell check.

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