Introducing: The Meddling Kids Series....Just wait'll we get our hands on those books!
Pilot Books will hold our first open reading period in May of 2009 to select a manuscript to be published in our new Meddling Kids Series. Please submit 2 printed copies of your original poetry manuscript (10-25 pages of verse) postmarked between May 1st -May 31st , 2009. Include two cover pages--one with manuscript title, your name, address, email and phone; another with manuscript title only. Manuscripts will be logged in by an impartial third party, read anonymously by the editors and a panel of outside readers. A selection of finalists may be asked to submit their manuscript electronically. No SASE necessary, we will communicate via email. Post your entries, along with a $10 reading fee to the address below. (All entry $$ will fund the production of the selected manuscript.)
Pilot Books
39 Lilly Street
Florence, MA 01062
Thursday, May 7, 2009
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
ANNA NICOLE: THE UNTOLD STORY
May 21 7-9 PM THE WRITERS CENTER
4508 Walsh Ave. Bethesda MD. 20815 301-654-8664
PANPIPES presents a reading of Act 1, draft 1 of
ANNA NICOLE: THE UNTOLD STORY
by Grace Cavalieri
featuring:
Rose Solari as Anna
Jimmy Patterson as Horshel
Ellen Cole as Anima
Jim Gagne as Pushkin
Ken Flynn as Interviewer the marvelous
Also featured Cliff Bernier and his fabulous jazz ensemble
4508 Walsh Ave. Bethesda MD. 20815 301-654-8664
PANPIPES presents a reading of Act 1, draft 1 of
ANNA NICOLE: THE UNTOLD STORY
by Grace Cavalieri
featuring:
Rose Solari as Anna
Jimmy Patterson as Horshel
Ellen Cole as Anima
Jim Gagne as Pushkin
Ken Flynn as Interviewer the marvelous
Also featured Cliff Bernier and his fabulous jazz ensemble
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Recommended Summer Reading - Jessy Randall
During May and June, No Tells is featuring "Recommended Summer Reading" selections by No Tell contributors.
Jessy Randall's recommendations:
How to be Perfect by Ron Padgett (Coffee House Press, 2007)
Ron Padgett is part of the New York School of poets, like Kenneth Koch and Frank O'Hara. How to be Perfect is worth buying for "Words from the Front" alone ("We don't look as young / as we used to / except in the dim light / especially in / the soft warmth of candlelight / when we say / in all sincerity / You're so cute / and / You're my cutie. / Imagine / two old people / behaving like this. / It's enough / to make you happy.") This book might be enough to make you happy, too.
The Cheap Seats by Scott Poole (Lost Horse Press, 1999)
These poems are funny and weird. Another one to make you happy. I bought The Cheap Seats solely because it contained "New York Women" ("I have never been to New York / but I imagine all New York women / having long hair, long hair / they are always combing, / thick hair that gets loose / and crawls down the skyscrapers / in the static of the afternoon...") but all the poems in it are good.
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Jessy Randall's collection of poems A Day in Boyland (Ghost Road Press, 2007) was a finalist for the Colorado Book Award. Her young adult novel, The Wandora Unit, is forthcoming from Ghost Road in September 2009. It's about friendship and love in the high school literary magazine crowd. Her website is http://personalwebs.coloradocollege.edu/~jrandall.
Jessy Randall's recommendations:
How to be Perfect by Ron Padgett (Coffee House Press, 2007)
Ron Padgett is part of the New York School of poets, like Kenneth Koch and Frank O'Hara. How to be Perfect is worth buying for "Words from the Front" alone ("We don't look as young / as we used to / except in the dim light / especially in / the soft warmth of candlelight / when we say / in all sincerity / You're so cute / and / You're my cutie. / Imagine / two old people / behaving like this. / It's enough / to make you happy.") This book might be enough to make you happy, too.
The Cheap Seats by Scott Poole (Lost Horse Press, 1999)
These poems are funny and weird. Another one to make you happy. I bought The Cheap Seats solely because it contained "New York Women" ("I have never been to New York / but I imagine all New York women / having long hair, long hair / they are always combing, / thick hair that gets loose / and crawls down the skyscrapers / in the static of the afternoon...") but all the poems in it are good.
* * *
Jessy Randall's collection of poems A Day in Boyland (Ghost Road Press, 2007) was a finalist for the Colorado Book Award. Her young adult novel, The Wandora Unit, is forthcoming from Ghost Road in September 2009. It's about friendship and love in the high school literary magazine crowd. Her website is http://personalwebs.coloradocollege.edu/~jrandall.
Monday, May 4, 2009
Ringing Video Contest
Kitchen Press is now accepting submissions of short home-made videos to accompany individual poems from Rauan Klassnik's online chapbook Ringing.
Details for contest here.
Details for contest here.
Friday, May 1, 2009
Kyle Semmel Interviews Reb Livingston
Poetry is a Gift Community: An Interview with Reb Livingston
I don't think I'd use the word "industry" to describe poetry publishing and don't consider it to be some sort of capitalist venture. I don't approach publishing with a supply/demand model. If I approached it in those terms, I never would have done any of it. In those terms there's a poem glut and a dismal demand for them. In those terms there should be 2 publishers putting out 5 books a year and maybe 4 or 5 poetry magazines.
No Tell Motel Reading Period
No Tell Motel's reading period is open during the month of May.
Before submitting poems, please familiarize yourself with our guidelines. Submissions that fail to follow the guidelines are not considered. If you have any questions, please inquire beforehand.
Before submitting poems, please familiarize yourself with our guidelines. Submissions that fail to follow the guidelines are not considered. If you have any questions, please inquire beforehand.
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