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International Poetry Directory: http://www.soos.com/mall/dustbooks.html
Christopher Stolle has compiled a rather long list of mags that accept poetry by e-mail.
Past copies of this newsletter have been posted at Grim Commander's Library: http://www.lglobal.com/~command and http://www.magic.ca/grim
Writing wanted for RADDLE MOON clarkd@sfu.ca
Writing wanted: My publication is going to include short stories and a few poems. Andrea Wier awier@shrike.depaul.edu
Writing wanted: PERSONALITY MAGAZINE Editor: Christopher Stolle cstolle@hamlet.ucs.indiana.edu
"Oh my, I had stepped into a mode I wasn't prepared for. I was happy." - Mark Strand, Baltimore Announcement: The South Bay Author's Coalition has a free, all star, original, live poetry show, Oct 19th from 4 to 8 pm. Contiguous with this event, a poetry book fair. Oct 18th will see an open reading at the same venue. Oct 16, poets will compete for a $100 prize at Insomniac South. Info: Poet@worldnet.att.net
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Review:
Women On A Wire, published by Ladybug Press, 751 Laurel Street #223, San Carlos, CA 94070-3113. $11.95. Toll-free: 1-888-892-5000 Edited by Georgia Jones. This is a collection of writing that originally appeared "in Cyberspace" in the Women's Wire Poetry Room. I am not real fond of the personal confession type of poetry, but I was moved by many of the poems in this collection. As with most anthologies, there are weak links. The good news is there is not very many quotable "one-liners" like I usually add to a review. The poems hang together as a whole. My favorites seem to fall in the category of pain. For example, the poem "perfection" (reminiscent of Alanis Morrisette's "perfect") where it becomes important to remember that perfection is simply not possible, but there are abusers of others who love to pretend there is such a truth. The poem is about towels, and ends: "Those towels / will always be / imperfect / in his eyes". That realization that people will never really change no matter how much they'll pretend to temporarily is continued in many other works in this anthology. -Rich
Questions:
I just noticed the cover to Poet's Park. It's beautful. William Blake? - Maggie Answer: Yep! Glad you peeked at it!
Do you still produce chapbooks for authors at low-cost? Answer: Yes. We've done over 300 since 1969. -Rich
Publisher Wanted: A chapbook revolving around the lives and times of Bonnie and Clyde? Please send reply to: nightcloud@aol.com
News:
Poet J.C. Todd will be in San Antonio, Texas in October to lead a writing workshop. Saturday, October 5th, 1996 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. Will address memory as a source for writing. Call 210-826-7348.
THE LIVE POETRY SHOW Sunday, October 6th at 7:30 PM 5930 Franklin Avenue in Hollywood. For directions to Celebrity Centre, call 213-960-3100
Duke University Press has just released "Seven Faces (Brazilian Poetry since Modernism)" by Charles A Perrone. 352-392 2016
ReadToMe reads aloud any form of electronic text, including Web pages, and is free to anyone who wishes to use it http://www.pixi.com/~reader1
"Pavlov's Mistress" by Caron Andregg, is now available. Send $6 to C.A.C. Communications, 6230 Wilshire Blvd, #55, Los Angeles, CA 90048. email queries to Caron@ktb.net.
A collection of lost works by T.S. Eliot, including bawdy verses likely to dispel any perception of the poet as a dry academic figure, has been published for the first time. The poems cover a range of subjects including love, city life, boredom and social nuance. One lewd poem describes a tinker with an oversized sexual organ.
ETCETERA, a journal of art, literature and ideas seeks submissions. ETCETERA is currently published twice a year. Experimental works, poetry, short prose, humor, interviews, and black & white artwork and photography, etc. are welcome. Email to "iedit4you@aol.com" for submission guidelines.
DIRIGIBLE, a quarterly journal of language art is looking for "postmodern," language-centered, controlled experiments, surrealist, etc. DIRIGIBLE, 216 Willow Street, New Haven CT 06511
Webstock '96, an online 4-day event, will occur Nov 1-4, 1996. The mission of the gathering is to inspire young people to become change agents in their community. Lara Galinsky dowebstock@aol.com
Downtown Small Press Book/Zine Fair Saturday, 10/12 1 - 9 p.m. FREE at New York's CAFE NICO 101 Avenue A (between E. 6th and E. 7th Streets) in the East Village (212) 674-3585 & (212) 529-2336 & jmac133@village.ios.com
Dead Links? Seattle Poets and Poetic Folder do not work. - DJ Sprague
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