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Marc Beaudin's Blog en-US Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:02:15 -0800 60 Marc Beaudin's Blog 144 41 http://www.goodreads.com/images/layout/gr_logo_144.jpg /author/show/389492.Marc_Beaudin/blog/234322-ten-tips-for-getting-published-in-counterpunch-poets-basement-or-anywh Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:02:15 -0800 <![CDATA[Ten Tips for Getting Published in CounterPunch/Poets' Basement (or Anywhere Else)]]> /author/show/389492.Marc_Beaudin/blog/234322-ten-tips-for-getting-published-in-counterpunch-poets-basement-or-anywh Read the Submission Guidelines and actually follow them. Poetry editors don't set up guidelines just for kicks: there are specific reasons for each guideline. We receive a lot of submissions and having them formatted a certain way or delivered a certain way means less time making sense of things and more time reading your work. There's a lot of great poets out there all trying to get published. Why blow your chances of being considered one of them by failing to take some simple steps that a...

posted by Marc Beaudin on December, 01 ]]> /author/show/389492.Marc_Beaudin/blog/228849-to-tweet-or-not-to-tweet Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:01:28 -0800 <![CDATA[To Tweet or Not to Tweet?]]> /author/show/389492.Marc_Beaudin/blog/228849-to-tweet-or-not-to-tweet Whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer yet another techie, time-eating attempt at book promotion
Or to take arms 'gainst a sea of silliness and by going offline, end it.

In the last few days (my apologies if you were hoping for more mangled Shakespeare), I've read in if not a horde of blogs and articles, at least a plethora of them, that Twittering (or is the verb always Tweeting?) is an indispensable tool for a writer. Somehow, tel...

posted by Marc Beaudin on December, 17 ]]> /author/show/389492.Marc_Beaudin/blog/216965-mickey-z-wants-your-revolutionary-poetry Tue, 08 Dec 2009 02:03:51 -0800 <![CDATA[Mickey Z. Wants Your Revolutionary Poetry]]> /author/show/389492.Marc_Beaudin/blog/216965-mickey-z-wants-your-revolutionary-poetry

Calling all feminists, wizards, Queer theorists, ex-Black Panthers,
Christians, Green activists, avant-gardists, Kabbalists, vegans, Hawaiian
nationalists, kickboxers, Punks, Hip Hop evangelists, New New Leftists,
pink-haired emo warriors, organic gardeners -- submit your work for "The Big
Book of Revolutionary Poetry," edited by Sparrow and Mickey Z. Send up to 3
poems to: sparrow44@juno.com or info@mickeyz.net

Also, please forward this...

posted by Marc Beaudin on December, 08 ]]> /author/show/389492.Marc_Beaudin/blog/208536-the-last-autumn Thu, 17 Dec 2009 12:28:46 -0800 <![CDATA[The Last Autumn]]> /author/show/389492.Marc_Beaudin/blog/208536-the-last-autumn
Suddenly, it's the last autumn. The final fall. All the birds fall silently from the trees ...

posted by Marc Beaudin on December, 17 ]]> /author/show/389492.Marc_Beaudin/blog/237015-submit-your-poetry-to-poets-basement-on-counterpunch Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:15:03 -0800 <![CDATA[Submit your Poetry to Poets' Basement on CounterPunch]]> /author/show/389492.Marc_Beaudin/blog/237015-submit-your-poetry-to-poets-basement-on-counterpunch CounterPunch is the internationally renowned political newsletter edited by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair. Its weekly poetry installment, Poets' Basement, has published work by Robert Creeley, Harold Pinter, Laurence Ferlinghetti, Patti Smith, and William Heyen, as well as many talented new and upcoming writers. We generally publish three poems per week: Fridays at CounterPunch.org.

Editorial Statement:
For Poets' Basement, we seek work from the leading edge of the poetic dialogue. ...

posted by Marc Beaudin on November, 30 ]]> /author/show/389492.Marc_Beaudin/blog/190044-submit-your-poetry-to-poet-s-basement-on-counterpunch Fri, 04 Dec 2009 09:09:01 -0800 <![CDATA[Submit your Poetry to Poet's Basement on CounterPunch]]> /author/show/389492.Marc_Beaudin/blog/190044-submit-your-poetry-to-poet-s-basement-on-counterpunch CounterPunch's weekly installment of "Poet's Basement." CounterPunch is the internationally renowned political newsletter edited by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair. "Poet's Basement" has published work by Robert Creeley, Harold Pinter, Laurence Ferlinghetti, Patti Smith, as well as many talented new and upcoming writers. We generally publish three poems per week...

posted by Marc Beaudin on December, 04 ]]> /author/show/389492.Marc_Beaudin/blog/172253-prestidigitatious-verse-enjoying-the-trip-of-david-blaine-s-antisocial Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:17:45 -0800 <![CDATA[Prestidigitatious Verse: Enjoying the Trip of David Blaine's ANTISOCIAL]]> /author/show/389492.Marc_Beaudin/blog/172253-prestidigitatious-verse-enjoying-the-trip-of-david-blaine-s-antisocial Blaine revels in the double entendre: In "Guns and Butter" he describes a love affair with oil, the "hydr...

posted by Marc Beaudin on November, 10 ]]> /author/show/389492.Marc_Beaudin/blog/166508-antisocial-by-david-blaine Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:09:45 -0800 <![CDATA[ANTISOCIAL by David Blaine]]> /author/show/389492.Marc_Beaudin/blog/166508-antisocial-by-david-blaine

posted by Marc Beaudin on December, 17 ]]> /author/show/389492.Marc_Beaudin/blog/141901-listen-to-some-poems-sign-the-mailing-list Mon, 28 Sep 2009 00:09:51 -0700 <![CDATA[Listen to some poems - Sign the mailing list]]> /author/show/389492.Marc_Beaudin/blog/141901-listen-to-some-poems-sign-the-mailing-list

posted by Marc Beaudin on September, 28 ]]> /author/show/389492.Marc_Beaudin/blog/76465-26 Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:55:08 -0800 <![CDATA[26]]> /author/show/389492.Marc_Beaudin/blog/76465-26
As Jim Harrison says, "The earth's proper scripture could be carried on a three by five card if we weren't drunk on our own blood."

Of course, he uses 20 just for those two lines.

posted by Marc Beaudin on December, 17 ]]>