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Our Favorite Poetry Magazines

admin — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Whether you read your poetry from leather bound books or you find it on your hughesnet we’ve got an alternative you should consider. Poetry magazines have come a long wayhere are a few of our favorites:

Modern Haiku: This publication is only semi-annual but it’s all about the ancient Japanese art of Haiku. It may seem one dimensional but by the last page you’ll have newfound respect for a limitation of words.

4AM Poetry Review: This one’s only once annual (August) but it’s got works from some of the preeminent thinkers of the modern age and all kinds of contributions from industry headers.

Avocet: This one’s got a unique slant but we think the magazine’s love for “natural” poems with vivid imagery really makes it something special. They specialize in publishing already-published works but it makes for a nice collection piece.

Cider Press Review: Accepts new submissions all year round and it’s done in Pennsylvania so its works are often farm-focused. It’s had some of the best names in the genre published so you can count on quality content.

It’s Morning For These Rising Poets

admin — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Poets have been around for thousands of years, spinning great torrents of emotion into a form of storytelling which stimulates all of the senses in a sort of ‘literary synesthesia.’ Great poets from Homer to Sylvia Plath, Robert Browning, Edgar Allan Poe, and even Langston Hughes have been pouring their hearts out onto paper for the enjoyment of readers for many generations. Now, there is a new stock of future poets emerging to take the spotlight from the greats who inspired them. Poets like Emily O’Neill and Valerie Loveland are beginning to rise up and make a statement to the literary world.Never heard of this before? Get up to speed here.

Emily O’Neill is best known for her eccentric style writing poems, often precisely choosing words which evoke various sensations within the reader. She reads her poems aloud to growing audiences all over the country. Her most recently published work, entitled ‘Nursery’, which seeks to evoke feelings of loss and yearning regarding the birth of new life.

Valerie Loveland is the author of ‘Reanimated, Somehow,’ which was published in 2009. She is one to look out for, having won several local competitions and recently obtained an award from a local literary festival in her home state of Massachusetts. Her most recent poetic work, ‘Singed and Soaked,’ tells a story about firefighters rushing to the scene of a fire at a local bookstore.

While these beginning poets have not yet become seasoned, respected veterans, their time is fast approaching. Soon, both O’Neill and Loveland will likely take their places among many of the classic literary greats who first inspired them.

Poetry And Your Child: Start Early And Don’t Stop

admin — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Poetry And Your Child – How Early Is Too Early?
The love of truly great poetry for children should begin as early as infancy. The soothing sound of poetic verse is to a fretful infant as an icy mountain stream is to a thirsty deer. Children are born with natural rhythm. If this is developed early with regular readings of poetry, it extends into other areas of a child’s life: music, dance, mathematics and science.

Poetry – Not Just A Literary Art
Toddlers are drawn to all things whimsical, the stuff of which childhood abounds. Encourage their whimsical natures by reading poetry specifically for children. Mother Goose was perhaps the very first introduction to poetic verse for children of bygone years. There was much more to Mother Goose than poetic rhymes. These childhood rhymes encouraged whimsy and commanded attention to poetic plot. Thus, poetry isn’t just a literary art. It’s also a learning environment full of wonder and nourishment of the mind.

Interesting Teens in Poetry
Infants accustomed to poetry develop into teens with fairly acclimated love of poetry. For teens, it’s necessary to focus their poetry on contemporary poets to enhance their interests. Encourage children to write poetry early.

Congratulations On Your Award! What’s Next?

admin — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 00:00:00 +0000

It’s a great feeling when a piece that you’ve worked, struggled, fought, cried and smiled over wins an award or becomes published. That ever elusive feeling of true accomplishment swells inside of you and you feel that you’ve finally found the road of accomplishment that you’ve been searching for.

So what happens after?

While that sense of accomplishment and success won’t ever really go away, it will fade. It’s up to you to note your success and keep moving forward, keep striding on toward your next success. And you can guarantee that your next success will feel just as elusive as your first. Keep working hard and challenging yourself to be better, do better, write better, perform better. Find your limits and surpass them. Find your hurdles and leap over them. Try to be better than you ever thought you could be.

It’s important that you acknowledge and celebrate your victories, but it’s also important that you remember the sleepless nights, frustration, crumpled and ripped up pages and the seemingly endless writer’s block that won you that award. Nothing worth having is easy, and it’s important that you remember that.

So hang that award on your wall where you can see it while you’re composing your next award-wining poem. You’ve earned one award, now go earn some more.

Writing Poetry For A Digital World

admin — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Digital poetry, a new genre or type of poetry, is actually not new. It has been in the making since the late fifties when computer geeks then would play with textual form, on the computer, to generate a composite of electronic text, image, and sound delivered as a combined kind of performance art (think Jean Francois Detaille and his “Kick the Bucket” piece) and visual, or concrete, poem (think ee cummings and “In-Just”).

Today, six decades in, we can do what the first digital poets did and the poets and performance artists do and can “write” for an e-audience with an even greater offering of and access to a multitude of e-formats. Some of the creation tools for these include but are not limited to

The digital camera
A draw/photo suite
An e-book publisher
The laptop or desktop computer
The human voice
The written word

The variety of digital poetry that can and does result is even more limitless, presenting as many possibilities as the creator’s imagination permits, but here are some examples of poetry that evokes movement, animation, liveliness itself:

The jigsaw puzzle that scrambles and comes back together in “pieces”, by Robert Kendall

The visual collage of paint and poem for the readerly space of the web which discusses and at the same time performs “splintering”, by Diane Caney

The black void surprise of composition and computerized voice which involves (or requires) user interactivity to scroll over the page for meaning, in Tammy McGovern’s “TranceMissions”.

Again, the possibilities are exponential, dependent upon only the limits of user/creator minds.