Arteidolia is an art and literary platform founded in 2013 that features essays, reviews, critical writing, visual art, experimental work, engagements, interviews & conversations. The platform includes their literary journal swifts & slows: a quarterly of crisscrossings which features poetic collaborations; and Arteidolia Press publishing literary collections of poetry, […]
In this excerpt from my new book Subjects in Poetry (LSU Press), I discuss how finding your subject can help you find your voice. I thought the discussion might interest Trish’s readers, and thank her for posting it. As late as his mid-twenties—i.e., not late at all as […]
NonBinary Review is the literary journal of Zoetic Press. They publish four themed issues every year and are seeking short stories, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, visual art year-round with specific reading periods for each theme. The current theme is Shared Worlds (deadline 2/1/2022) followed by Person First in […]
Content Warning: physical abuse, reference to eating fish “…do not paint too much after nature. Art is an abstraction; derive this abstraction from nature while dreaming before it, and think more of the creation which will result than of nature.” —Paul Gauguin Existence is infinite and ineffable, but […]
Many thanks to They Call Us for publishing my poem “Promiscuity” in their most recent issue Sluts and Prudes along side artwork by Asko Skladany and a poem by Hiromi Yashida. I love the aesthetic and artwork in this feminist zine! Make sure to check out the entire […]
The Sejong Cultural Society is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization founded in Chicago, IL in 2004. They are currently open for no fee entries for their Sejong Writing Competition for essays and sijo poetry. The sijo is a traditional three-line Korean poetic form organized technically and thematically by line […]
Open mics are an incredible opportunity for poets and writers to share their work, get instant audience feedback, practice for readings, listen to what others are writing, and to build community. The International Women’s Writing Guild (IWWG) hosts their free-to-attend All Voices Open Mic twice a month including […]
Having grown up in a working-poor family in which having no more than a high school education was the norm, poetry wasn’t something I knew much about. It certainly wasn’t a path I ever considered taking. Poetry was something other people did, and mostly it was opaque to […]
The Letters I’ll Never Send anthology is a new project edited by poet Jackie Bluu to “bring a community of women (or those who identify as women) together to collectively share their stories, emotions, thoughts, or whatever it is that they’re looking to get off their chests. I […]
Because I am a Jane Eyre junkie, I want to tell your readers about Sundays With Jane Eyre (SWJE). Located in Philadelphia, The Rosenbach museum is treating Brontë fans to a free weekly program that explores Charlotte Brontë’s classic novel and Gothic tour de force, Jane Eyre. Program […]
