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Places to submit your poetry — week 2 of National Poetry Month

April is National Poetry Month. It’s a great time to write poetry, to read poetry, and to submit poetry to journals. To celebrate, I’ll post a list of seven literary journals every Monday in April. These are journals I especially enjoy reading, with links to their submission guidelines.

Home Planet NewsSybil Writing in a Woman’s Voice (guidelines are in the right sidebar)One / Jacar Press The Metaworker The Elevation ReviewUnlost Journal

Grab your pencil and go write a po...

Places to submit your poetry — week 1 of National Poetry Month

April is National Poetry Month. It’s a great time to write poetry, to read poetry, and to submit poetry to journals. To celebrate, I’ll post a list of seven literary journals every Monday in April. These are journals I especially enjoy reading, with links to their submission guidelines.

RundelaniaWaterwheel ReviewCommon Ground ReviewStick FiguresBasilisk TreeJAKEHeron TreeGrab your pencil and go write a poem!

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April is National Poetry Month

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It’s almost here! What fun poetic things shall we do?

If you’re a teacher, why not visit Poets.org to get a free poster for your classroom, along with lesson plans for teaching poetry?

Crazy thought: write ...

Natalie Kimbell ~ 3 Questions & a Poem

3 Questions and a Poem–in which one of my favorite poets is interviewed and shares a poem.

QUESTION 1

What do you consider the three most important elements of a poem?

I never know. Each poem is different. Most of the time, sound plays a major role. Words have to play. They have to feel good in the mouth and the ears of the reader and of course the writer. Honesty and vulnerability also have to be present for me. I would be no better than an AI poem without it. Writing a poem that v...

b.read.crumbs : Oughting

Oughting [verb]. : enduring, bearing. 

“Psychologist Clayton Barbeau coined the term “shoulding yourself.” It basically means putting pressure on yourself to do or be something based on what you think you’re supposed to do or be.” ~ Copare

In the Connolly Tarot deck, the Heirophant card could be a portrait of actor Brent Spiner in the role of Data the android from Star Trek: The Next Generation. Data had a complex and sometimes heartbreaking story arc throughout the series, ultimately ...

What do editors want? I ask Mandy Haynes

Wherein I ask an editor the questions all writers want to ask.

Mandy Haynes wears more hats than I can count, and wears every one of them with aplomb. Here she tells it like it is from her perspective as editor of the highly-regarded WELL READ Magazine.

First: do you charge a submission fee? Second: do you offer free or paid subscriptions?

Answer to both: There are no charges for submissions or subscription to WELL READ. I don’t want money to stop writers from sharing their work...

b.read.crumbs: Who’s Got the Power? by Julie Herman

This is a repost of Julie Herman‘s most recent b.read.crumbs post. I’ll be following her lead (as I so often do) in my b.read.crumbs post next week. We might have a theme running through the year. Let me know if you can spot it.

All scenes start with a character trying to exert agency–to use their ingenuity, determination, wiles, whathaveyou, to get achieve their desire. It would be a boring story indeed without scene tension. Without the scene tension of wanting/not getting right away/ta...

Amie Whittemore ~ 3 Questions & a Poem

3 Questions and a Poem–in which one of my favorite poets is interviewed and shares a poem.

QUESTION 1

What do you consider the three most important elements of a poem?

For me, three things I most value in a poem are sensory imagery, sparkling metaphors, and attention to the relationship between form and content. For me, imagery and metaphor (often working together in a poem) are what bring me back to poems, even when I stray. I love when writers find new ways to convey insights abou...

b.read.crumbs : Nurturing

The Connolly deck Empress grabbed my attention the first time I saw it because it’s such a perfect depiction of the spirit and soul of Barbara Mertz a.k.a. Barbara Michaels a.k.a. Elizabeth Peters.

WHAT ABOUT BOB?

Maybe you’ve heard the story of the man (let’s call him Bob) who wasn’t particularly good or particularly bad during his life. Because of that neutrality, Saint Peter allowed Bob to choose his own eternity. Would he prefer Heaven or Hell?

Bob was smart enough to know that ...

Researching the Work of Transgender Authors

a guest post by Dawn Reno Langley, author of Analyzing the Prescotts

When the doctoral program advisors from The Union Institute and University interviewed me to see if I would be a good fit for their program, they alerted me ahead of time that my research would need to fit the social-justice premise of the Ph.D. program. I thought about how I would use what I’d already learned during the thesis section of my MFA program and “up my game” for the next step in my educational process: the do...