Thank You for Swallowing is a fairly new online lit mag described as a “protest in poems.” They have several themed submission calls currently open. The themes for the next few issues are: Blood (due 30 June) Guns (due 30 July) Fear (due 30 August) Toxic masculinity (due […]
Following the sudden demise of our printing and design company in Cody, WY, I wanted to go "postal." Instead, I went poetic. The line that released some of my anger read, "They smacked the gavel without a sound." I really wanted to smack the banker. I write poetry […]
I’m blown away by the importance and the meaning packed into this project. The folks at the Tandem Reader Awards have attracted support from some outstanding literary community presses and lit mags, such as Milkweed Editions, Copper Canyon Press, Sundress Publications, and poets and artists such as, Kaveh Akbar, Siaara Freeman, Megan […]
Entropy is a “website featuring literary & non-literary content. A website that seeks to engage with the literary community, that becomes its own community, and creates a space for literary & non-literary ideas.” In June they posted an article on where to submit in June and July. Click here to read the […]
Excellent money-saving advice from friend and fellow poet Sandy Marchetti for how to have a successful book launch. This certainly can be used by lit mags and anthologies as well!
It’s one thing to have a poem published, it’s another to have it published by an incredible and passionate staff and for it to be a found poem! I’m so pleased and honored to have my new poem “Your scarlet” published in the Spring issue of Amethyst Arsenic alongside […]
It’s one thing to have a poem published, it’s another to have it published by an incredible and passionate staff and for it to be a found poem! I’m so pleased and honored to have my new poem “Your scarlet” published in the Spring issue of Amethyst Arsenic alongside […]
Earlier this year I interviewed Andrew Mitchell, Editor-in-Chief of Outlook Springs about their first “Ladies Night” submission call with an opportunity specifically for women poets and writers to send their work direct to the editors. The interview (updated) and submission information is below. IMPORTANT NOTE: Submit just one genre at a time […]
Glass: A Journal of Poetry seeks poetry submissions for a special feature in response to the June 12 shooting at Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Florida. Submissions for this special issue are open to LGBTQ poets and especially LGBTQ poets of color (cis-gendered straight poets with poems in response to the […]
I Cried Through Stag's Leap by Sharon Olds and Without by Donald Hall My manuscript had been accepted by a publisher when a friend advised me to read Stag's Leap. Here was a Pulitzer-winning book on the same subject--husband of 30+ years falls in love with other woman. […]
