All These Rooms

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online journal for women seeks submissions: damselfly press

damselfly press, an online literary journal for women recently selected as Best of the Web 2008 by Dzanc Books, is pleased to announce the publication of our fourth issue and call for submissions for the fifth issue. We are seeking electronic submissions of original fiction, poetry, and nonfiction by female writers slated for online publication in October 2008.
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Song

A sudden lack of desire

strips the night from the waist up -

Bare-breasted night,

Lime-leaf Night,

Night of a thousand catfish

feeding on the surface

of a city pond in spate -

the sky’s discarnate twin

disturbed by their blind hunger.

This is the night

mother would sing of

from the bottom of the well,

the one that remains

insatiable even though we cup our hands

and drink and drink.

Oh never-ending night

of awe

whose hunger is everyone’s hunger.

A Dance

Two acacia nuts, sovereign and unkempt

buried in the milk-white flesh of my palm

apprentice me not to thee but to the dance before

water, mineral, salt. No answer

for an inquisitor except breaking twice

the space between earth and sky

so effortlessly courting then forgetting

all the things we’ve loved and lost

never to come again.

Go on.

As if there was a choice.

A small talisman: A long grey bird

in the elder part of January sculls the estuary and

each pussy willow turns serpentine inside the fold

of image upon image, water then the world.

At the caesura, what happens there?

To foliate: the having of leaves.

Call for submissions: diode poetry journal

http://diodepoetry.com

diode poetry journal is an online poetry journal that is looking for
electropositive poetry for its one year anniversary issue which will appear in
August, 2008.

What is electropositive poetry? It’s poetry that excites and energizes. It’s
poetry that uses language that crackles and sparks. We’re looking for poetry
from all points on the arc, from formal to experimental (no light verse or
erotic poetry, please).

Simultaneous submissions are welcomed, but please notify us if work is
accepted elsewhere. diode does not accept previously published work.

Please submit 3-5 poems with a cover letter via email to:

submit(at)diodepoetry.com (replace (at) with @)
or
diodepoetryjournal(at)gmail.com
(replace (at) with @)

Please attach poems in either Word (.doc) or Rich Text Format (.rtf).
We read year round and will respond in 4-8 weeks.

A Call for Submissions for CRAB ORCHARD REVIEW

http://www.siuc.edu/~crborchd/special.pdf

http://www.siuc.edu/~crborchd

–THE SUBMISSION PERIOD BEGINS AUGUST 1, 2008. PLEASE DO NOT MAIL YOUR SUBMISSION BEFORE AUGUST. THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS IS OCTOBER 31, 2008. THIS IS A POSTMARK DEADLINE, SO THERE IS NO NEED TO EXPRESS MAIL, OVERNIGHT, OR FAX ANY SUBMISSION. CRAB ORCHARD REVIEW DOES NOT CONSIDER ELECTRONIC SUBMISSIONS AT ANY TIME, SO PLEASE DO NOT EMAIL YOUR SUBMISSION. THANK YOU.–

Special Issue: Color Wheel ~

Cultural Heritages in the Twenty-First Century

CRAB ORCHARD REVIEW is seeking work for our Summer/Fall 2009 issue focusing on writing inspired or informed by the experiences, observations, and/or cultural and historical possibilities of the following topic: “Color Wheel ~ Cultural Heritages in the Twenty-First Century.” We are open to work that covers any of the multitude of ways our ideas of identity, tradition, family, and place are challenged by an ever-changing world.

All submissions should be original, unpublished poetry, fiction, or literary nonfiction in English or unpublished translations in English (we do run bilingual, facing-page translations whenever possible). Please query before submitting any interview.

For our general submission guidelines, check our Web site at<http://www.siuc.edu/~crborchd/guid2.html>.

Mail submissions to:

CRAB ORCHARD REVIEW

Cultural Heritages issue

Faner 2380, Mail Code 4503

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ASouthern Illinois University Carbondale

1000 Faner Drive

Carbondale, IL 62901

United States of America

The submission period for this issue is August 1, 2008 through October 31, 2008. We will be reading submissions throughout this period and hope to complete the editorial work on the issue by mid-February. Writers whose work is selected will receive $20 (US) per magazine page ($50 minimum for poetry; $100 minimum for prose), two copies of the issue, and a year’s subscription.

Colorado Art Ranch and Art Works for the Heart of the Rockies will host 5 visual and literary artists near Salida Colorado. The residency Begins September 28, 2008 and ends October 30, 2008. Deadline for applications is August 1, 2008. For more information:
http://www.coloradoartranch.org/nextresidency.htm

ASBESTOS POETRY JOURNAL seeks poetry that makes the reader say “Gee, I wish I’d said that!”

Prefer shorter poems, because this is a very small-scale publication done in a slightly larger-than-average font. (20 pages plus cover.)

Also, please remember that kids do read this magazine.

To submit: paste poetry into the body of an email, with snail-mail address, and send to dunnmiracle(at)aol.com (replace (at) with @).

Please indicate “Asbestos submission” in Subject line. Contributors receive one copy.

We’re just trying to have a little fun here–no grants, no subscribers; the magazine is read by contributors and attendees of our poetry events. Just remember our slogan: “We’re doing Asbestos we can.”

call for submissions: Ragged Sky Press is looking for poems about clothing for a one-time anthology: outergarments, undergarments, shoes, accessories—anything that conceals…or reveals.Well-woven poems will be selected by the editors.

GUIDELINES: 1-3 poems (10 pages maximum), deadline: August 29, 2008. Send to:

<RaggedSkyAnthology(at)gmail.com>(replace (at) with @)

Payment is one copy. We consider dual submissions and previously published work only if informed of this at time of submission. We do not pay reprint fees and it is author’s responsibility to get needed permissions.We make final editorial submissions on all submitted manuscripts only after the submission deadline.

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 -
no humming sound inside the grove.

Beneath a crab scuttling across the face of the moon
lovers - their faith in the tangible
world, in delight

from the smell of rain - is something I can almost understand.
For I inherited their world
and I remember nothing.

Etiquette

Surrendered life inside my mouth -
small fish, her father’s gift
to me, the company of his only - white flesh,

grey skin, ginger, and peppercorn - undoing -
history, language, luck - everything
except one body becoming another.

Nearly all life is compassionate
in this way - selflessly shifting
form, even the hillside

where we now sit, where my people
might have continued killing your people
if winning were possible. Then in your mother’s hand

no ripe pomello
like a green rising sun and in your father’s
heart no daughter

with laughter like a sparrow -
her small body holding court
among the drunk gods.

Tender are the ghosts
who humor our ruin
by remaining outside of this room.

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, but also experimental poetry–poetry that explores language in its relations with the other-than-human. We welcome work by emerging as well as established poets. We welcome serious poems, playful poems, poems in open or traditional forms. Depending on limitations of space, we will consider not only short poems but also poems of several pages. The anthology will include only living poets or poets who were alive as of July 2007, and will include only poems either written in English or already translated into English; for poems not written in English, both the original and the translation must be submitted, and if accepted, both will be published. We will consider work that has been previously published. The poet (and/or translator) must control the copyright to the work.
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