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Marginalia Letterpress

Starting with its previous issue (#4), Marginalia began to include letterpress works with their publication. The letterpress works are produced on a Chandler & Price Platen Press, with chapbooks designed and printed at Now It’s Up to You (157 S. Logan, Denver CO 80209) with the assistance of expert printer Tom Parson. The newest issue (v5) – the Eksphrasis Issue – includes three letterpress postcards, showcasing the work of Sasha Chavchavadze, Rachel Burgess, and William Gillespie.

G.W. Review Senior Contest Winners

Every spring, The George Washington University’s national/international literary review, G.W. Review, holds a contest for outgoing seniors; one senior artist, poet and fiction writer have their work featured in the Review, along with a short bio and photograph. This year’s contest winners are Carrie Wilkens for fiction, Anya Firestone for poetry, and Nida Jafrani for art. Their work is featured in the Spring 2010 issue.

Glimmer Train April Family Matters Winners – 2010

Glimmer Train has just chosen the winning stories for their April Family Matters competition. This competition is held quarterly and is open to all writers for stories about family. Word count should not exceed 12,000. (All shorter lengths welcome.) The next Family Matters competition will take place in October. Glimmer Train’s monthly submission calendar may be viewed here.

First place: Jenny Zhang (pictured), of Iowa City, IA, wins $1200 for “We Love You Crispina.” Her story will be published in the Fall 2011 issue of Glimmer Train Stories.


Second place: Joy Wood, of West Bloomfield, MI, wins $500 for “The Man in the Elevator.” Her story will also be published in an upcoming issue of Glimmer Train Stories, increasing her prize to $700.

Third place: Linda Legters of Newtown, CT, wins $300 for “When We’re Lying.” Her story will also be published in an upcoming issue of Glimmer Train Stories, increasing her prize to $700.


A PDF of the Top 25 winners can be found here.

 

Deadline soon approaching!

Fiction Open: June 30

Glimmer Train hosts this competition quarterly, and first place is $2000 plus publication in the journal. It’s open to all writers, no theme restrictions, and the word count range is 2000-20,000. Click here for complete guidelines.

Jobs

English Department and Creative Writing Program of Bowling Green State University seek applicants for a tenure-track assistant professor in Poetry Writing and Literature. Deadline November 15, 2010.

The Department of English and the BFA program at Stephen F. Austin State University seek applications for a tenure-track assistant professor of creative writing, with a specialization in literary non-fiction and a possible strong secondary area in poetry or fiction.

Oklahoma City University seeks applications for part-time faculty to teach in a new low-residency MFA in Creative Writing program, scheduled to begin in Summer 2011. Submit materials by June 31, 2010.

The Ledge Poetry and Fiction Contest Winners

The Summer-Fall 2010 issue of The Ledge includes works by the winners of The Ledge 2008 Poetry Awards: First Prize, Jennifer Perrine for the poem “A Transparent Man is Hard to Find”; Seond Prize, Elizabeth Harrington for the poem “Witness”; Third Prize, J. Kates for the “Learning to Shoot.”

The Ledge 2009 Poetry Awards Competition winners and finalists have been announced and will have their poems published in The Ledge #33, to be published in 2011:

First Prize ($1,000)Philip Dacey of New York, NY
Second Prize ($250) Jennifer Perrine of Des Mones, IA
Third Prize ($100) by Kate Hovey of Northridge, CA

Finalists: Samantha Barrow of New York, NY; Francis Klein of Glen Ridge, NJ; Joyce Meyers of Wallingford, PA; Debra Marquart of Ames, IA; Tiffanie Desmangles of West Lafayette, IN; and Marsh Muirhead of Bemidji, MN.

Also to be published in The Ledge #33 are the winners of The Ledge 2009 Fiction Awards Competition:

First prize ($1000) Michael Thompson of Indianapolis, IN
Second prize ($250) Kate Reuther of New York City, NY
Third prize ($100) Paullette Gaudet of Seattle, WA

Honorable Mention: Clare Beams of Norwell, MA; Sean Lanigan of Somerville, MA; Anne Trooper Holbrook of Tunbridge, VT; and Kelly Luce of Woodside, CA.

Spring 2011 Emerging Writer Fellowships

The Writer’s Center, metropolitan Washington, DC’s community gathering place for writers and readers, is currently accepting submissions for several competitive Emerging Writer Fellowships for Spring 2011. We welcome submissions from writers of all genres, backgrounds, and experiences in the following genres: fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. The deadline to submit is September 30, 2010.

IR Back Issue Blog Sale

This month on the Indiana Review blog, Under the Blue Light, IR is having a back issue sale: “We’ll be highlighting some past issues, tracking down a few authors, seeing what they have been up to recently, and marking down the prices of journals past so that we can all enjoy the good work done by writers of the years before.”

New Lit on the Block :: Shadowbox

Harrison Candelaria Fletcher, editor, has announced the publication of the first issue of of Shadowbox, an online magazine exclusively devoted to contemporary creative nonfiction “of every shape, style, and incarnation. Each issue will include new writing, interviews with masters of the form, reviews of provocative published work, a gallery of visual and literary collaborations, an archive of resurrected writings, interactive links with like-minded types, and much more.”

The Shadowbox site is designed to be interactive (click the objects), and will be published biannually. The first issue features interviews with Brenda Miller, a book review of David Shield’s Reality Hunger: A Manifesto, an art gallery featuring words and images of Margo Klass and Frank Soos, and new writing by Bev Aliff, Julie Carr, Noah Eli Gordon, Daniel Hales, Jena Huisken, Stephen Graham Jones, J. Michael Martinez, Kerry Muir, Megan Nix, Linda Norton, Karen Michelle Otero, Robert Vivian, and Jake Adam York.

Shadowbox reads submissions May 15 – October 15 and December 15 – April 15.

Memoir (and) Contest Winners


The latest issue of Memoir (and) includes the winners for the 2009 Prizes for Memoir in Prose or Poetry:

Grand Prize to Joe Wilkins
Second Prize to Cynthia Helen Beecher
Third Prize to Melanie Drane

The Memoir (and) Prizes for Memoir in Prose or Poetry are awarded to the most outstanding prose or poetry memoirs—traditional, nontraditional or experimental—drawn from the publication’s open reading period (May 1 – August 16). There is no contest entry fee.

Lit Mag News and Reviews

It may be summer, but NewPages is still cranking! We’ve got a smash lineup of new Lit Mag reviews, including reviews of Avery, Bateau, Big Muddy, Briar Cliff Review, Camera Obscura (premier issue), Cold Mountain, Court Green, Dark Sky Magazine (online), Elder Mountain (premier issue), F Magazine, Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review, Jelly Bucket (premier issue), The Journal, the minnesota review, Paul Revere’s Horse, Rhino, River Styx, Shenandoah, Sou’wester, Spinning Jenny, Tampa Review, and Whitefish Review.

We’re also trying out a new format for our reviews – if you love it or hate it, let us know.

The NewPages Magazine Stand is frequently updated, including short blurbs and cover images of new lit mags. It’s a virtual newsstand, better than any bookstore or library selection I know! Stop by and check it out to get an inside (and outside) look at some latest issues.

Memoir: It’s All in the Writing

With its latest issue (v3 n1), Memoir (and) welcomes Claudia Sternbach as the new Editorial Board Chair. Sternbach wastes no time in tackling the identity of the memoir genre in her introductory note, in which she recounts a “well-known” author’s comment that “unless you have lived an extraordinary life, there is no point in writing about it.” Sternbach’s response? “Balderdash.” Recounting extraordinary exploits can be interesting, she goes on, as long as they are well written, “But no more interesting than an exquisitely told story of aging, or of spending years in pursuit of a perfect smile. It is all in the writing.”

The Frost Place Residency

The Frost Place in Franconia, New Hampshire, invites applications for a six- to eight-week residency in poet Robert Frost’s former farmhouse, which sits on a quiet north-country lane with a spectacular view of the White Mountains, and which serves as a museum and conference center.

The residency begins July 1st and ends August 31st, and includes an award of $1,000. The Resident Poet will have an opportunity to give a series of public readings across the region, including at Dartmouth College, for which the Resident Poet will receive a $1,000 honorarium, and at the St. Johnsbury Athenaeum. There are no other specific obligations.

To be eligible, applicants will have published at least one book of poems. Applications will be judged by members of The Frost Place Board of Trustees.

BatCat Press Open Reading Period

BatCat Press summer reading period runs until July 31. They take all genres in any length, and ultimately aim to publish 2-3 full books a year, with 1-2 smaller projects (chapbooks, broadsides, etc).

BatCat Press is staffed by high school students who attend Lincoln Park Performing Arts Charter High School (Midland, PA). All staff members “major” in literary arts and are upperclassmen who have taken at least two semesters of bookbinding (both of which are taught by Deanna Mulye, who also runs the press). The students read submissions, discuss what should be published, and then physically print and make all of the books in-house, by hand. Their run numbers vary depending on the project – they averaged about 200 copies per title this year.

New Issues Poetry Prize Winners

Jeff Hoffman has won the 2010 New Issues Poetry Prize for his manuscript Journal of American Foreign Policy. Linda Gregerson, author of Magnetic North, judged.

Jeff wins a $2,000 award and publication of his manuscript in the spring of 2011.

Lizzie Hutton’s manuscript She’d Waited Mellennia was named runner-up and will be published in the fall of 2011.

Guidelines for the 2011 prize are available on the New Issues Poetry website.

Contest Fee “Early Bird Special”

Black Lawrence Press is now accepting submissions for the 2010 St. Lawrence Book Award, an annual award that is given for an unpublished collection of short stories or poems. The St. Lawrence Book Award is open to any writer who has not yet published a full-length collection of short stories or poems. The winner of this contest will receive book publication, a $1,000 cash award, and ten copies of the book. Prizes are awarded on publication. The entry fee for the prize is $25 and the deadline is August 31, 2010.

However, Black Lawrence Press just sent out an e-mail with the following information:

Because we know that many writers have been hit especially hard by the economic downturn, we are offering a fantastic early bird special. If you submit your manuscript to The St. Lawrence Book Award before June 30, 2010, we will only charge you the price of one of our titles. The choice is yours. Most of our titles are priced between $14 and $18. (And we carry great chapbooks that are only $9!)

Here’s how it works:

1) Go to www.blacklawrencepress.com.
2) Click on the “Books” button on the left side of the page.
3) Order a title that interests you.
4) Shortly after placing your order, you will receive an email from Paypal with your receipt. Keep that for your records. Don’t worry about forwarding it to us; we can cross-check everything on our end.
5) Send your cover letter and manuscript to [email protected] before June 30, 2010. In your cover letter, note the title that you purchased.
6) That’s it!

Send a Soldier a Book

There’s still time to participate in Press 53’s Send a Book to a Soldier offer:

“From now until Flag Day, June 14, buy a book at www.Press53.com and we will send another book to a soldier in your name at no additional cost to you. Choose from any of our 50-plus titles and we will send a copy of the same book to an active duty soldier in your name. Soldiers will be selected from www.AnySoldier.com.”

Narrative Winter Contest Winners

Stories by the Narrative Winter Contest Winners are now available online.

FIRST PLACE ($4000)
“A. Roolette? A. Roolette?” by Adam Prince

SECOND PLACE ($1500)
“Savior Games” by Cori Jones

THIRD PLACE ($500)
“Every Good Marriage Begins in Tears” by Katie Chase

FIVE FINALISTS ($100 each)
Greg Brown
David Rabe
Helen Maryles Shankman
James Silberstein
Terese Svoboda

The Spring 2010 Story Contest, with a $3,250 First Prize, a $1,500 Second Prize, a $750 Third Prize, and ten finalists receiving $100 each. Open to fiction and nonfiction. All entries will be considered for publication. Contest Deadline: July 31, midnight, Pacific daylight time.

The Second Annual Poetry Contest, with a $1,500 First Prize, a $750 Second Prize, a $300 Third Prize, and ten finalists receiving $75 each. All entries will be considered for publication. Open to all poetry submissions. The contest runs from May 26 to July 18, at midnight PDT.

Vote for Pongo

Richard Gold from the Pongo Teen Writing Project wrote to announce he’s a finalist for the “All-Star Among Us” competition. Winning will give Richard a chance to promote Pongo’s mission and methods for healing through poetry. He’s asking us to please participate in the final vote and make him an All-Star. Voting ends June 20, and winning means a boost for Pongo with publicity at the All-Star Game in July.

Here’s what you do:

1. First forward this email to your friends and encourage them to vote a bunch.
2. Click on this link – http://mlb.mlb.com/peopleallstarsamongus/
3. Click on “Seattle Mariners.”
4. Vote for me.
5. Do it again and again. (You have to refresh the link each time you vote.)

And while you’re there – check out the other teams and finalists – if Seattle isn’t your team, you can go on and vote for your own state. There’s no limit on voting, no registering, no nonsense. Just a couple clicks is all it takes!

FC2 Announces Book Contest Winners

Fiction Collective Two announced the results of its two book contests, the Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize and the FC2 Ronald Sukenick/American Book Review Innovative Fiction Contest.

Tricia Bauer, of West Redding, Connecticut, was awarded the first annual FC2 Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize for her novel Father Flashes. The prize includes publication by FC2, an imprint of University of Alabama Press, and $15,000. Melanie Rae Thon received special mention for her manuscript The Voice of the River. The judge was Carole Maso.

Sara Greenslit, of Madison, Wisconsin, has won this year’s FC2 Ronald Sukenick/American Book Review Innovative Fiction Contest for her novel As If a Bird Flew by Me. The prize includes publication by FC2 and $1000. Kathleen M. McLaughlin, for her manuscript Burn, and Erin M. Kautza, for her manuscript Expiration Dates of Various Creatures, were both cited for special mention. The judge was Susan Steinberg.

Through these contests, Fiction Collective Two aims to publish and promote the work of writers of fiction deemed experimental, innovative, or too challenging for contemporary commercial presses.

Writers with at least three published books of fiction (story collections or novels or a combination) are eligible for the Doctorow Prize. The next judge will be Ben Marcus.

The Sukenick Prize is open to any writer of English who is a citizen of the United States and who has not previously published with Fiction Collective Two. Its next judge will be Kate Bernheimer.

The submission period for both contests is 15 August to 1 November. Visit the website, fc2.org, for further information and guidelines.

Writer Anecdotes Wanted

Jeffrey Skinner and Leslie McGrath at Sarabande Books are working on a project about the careers of poets and literary prose writers. How do poets and other literary writers move ahead in their careers (other than via their blazing talent?) This is your chance to share the anecdotes you’ve only told your closest friends. The editors are interested only in the stories, not in names and places. They offer anonymity and gratitude in exchange. And, if they use your anecdote, a free copy of the resulting book. Please email your anecdotes to mcgrath.leslie-at-gmail.com by July 1, 2010 under the heading “Book Anecdote.”

Les Figures Press Contest Winners

Les Figures Press has announced the winners of their Not Blessed A Little Story Contest in which writers remixed selections from Harold Abramowitz’s recently released Not Blessed. Abramowitz also selected the winning entries.

Winner: Barbara Maloutas for “Her Not Blessed”

Runner-Ups (in no particular order):
“The first day of spring” by Erin Hinkes
“28 DAYS / (from Temporality) by Stephen Radcliffe
“Not Blessed, A Collaboration” by Soham Patel, Deborah Marie Poe & Gene Tanta

Les Figures will be posting these stories (one story per day) on the Les Figues blog: GIVE A FIG. The stories will also be archived as PDF’s on their website.

3-Day Novel Contest

Registration is now open for the 33rd Annual International 3-Day Novel Contest.

“The goal: write a complete novel in only 72 hours. The reward: a heck of a creative experience and one coffee-stained, tear-tinged, rule-breaking first draft. And for the winning author, publication. (Cash prizes too.) It’s a Canadian born, now international, literary rite-of-passage.”

The contest takes place every Labor Day weekend – this year: September 4-6, 2010.

Honoring Leslie Scalapino

In mourning Leslie Scalapino’s death and in celebrating her multi-genre poetry, Laura Hinton, Professor of English at City College of New York, is coordinating a “Streaming/Reading Memorial” on her blog, Chant de la Sirene. Several pieces have thus far been posted, and she is looking forward to more. Contributions of short piecse about Leslie, on the topic of reading/re-reading her work can be sent to: laurahinton12-at-gmail.com

2011 Vilcek Prizes in Literature

The 2011 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Literature guidelines and application forms are now available. Deadline: July 30, 2010.

No entry fee.

The awards are for non-American-born writers of poetry, fiction or creative nonfiction who are living and working in the U.S., age 38 and under; one $25,000 prize, + four $5000 prizes.

There is also a $100,000 Vilcek Literature Prize for one non-American-born writer of poetry, fiction or creative nonfiction who is living and working in the U.S., no age restriction, but there is no application process for this prize.

2011 Motherwell Prize Winner

Fence Books announced the winner of the 2011 Motherwell Prize for a first or second full-length collection of poems by a woman writing in English. Negro League Baseball, by Harmony Holiday, of New York, New York, will be published in 2011, and the author will receive a $5,000 prize.

Musicians Wanted

Mad Hatter’s Review has put a call out for musicians who would be interested in creating tunes to accompany the works published in their literary/arts magazine. E-mail Carol Novack, Publisher/Editor-in-Chief at madhr.12-atgmail.com, subject line: AVAILABLE MUSICIAN.

Passings :: Leslie Scalapino

Born in Santa Barbara in 1944, Leslie Scalapino passed away on May 28, 2010 in Berkeley, California.

“Author of 30 books of poetry, new fiction, criticism, and plays. Most recent poetry books include Day Ocean State of Stars’ Night (Green Integer, 2007), New Time (Wesleyan), and It’s go in/quiet illumined grass/land (The Post-Apollo Press). Works of new fiction include Defoe (Green Integer), Dahlia’s Iris (FC2), and Orchid Jetsm (Tuumba). Her Selected Poems, 1974 2006/It’s go in horizontal will be published by University of California Press in spring 2008. Awards: American Book Award (Before Columbus Foundation), Poetry Center Award (San Francisco State University), and Lawrence Lipton Prize.” (Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts)

CNF Experimental Nonfiction CFS

Creative Nonfiction is currently looking for experimental nonfiction for the “Pushing the Boundaries” section of the Summer issue. (“Experimental,” “boundaries,” yes, these can be loaded terms; let’s not get bogged down.) We want new work that in some way, well, pushes the boundaries of the genre–in form, in content … really, in anything except nonfiction-ness (though we might even be open to that, depending on how it’s done).

Essays must be: unpublished, 3,000 words or less, postmarked by June 4 , 2010, and clearly marked “Pushing the Boundaries ” on both the essay and the outside of the envelope. Please send manuscript, accompanied by a cover letter with complete contact information (address, phone, and email) and SASE:

Creative Nonfiction
Attn: Pushing the Boundaries
5501 Walnut Street, Suite 202
Pittsburgh, PA 15232

Harvard Review Online

Harvard Review Online has a new monthly online literary journal designed to complement the print edition of the Harvard Review. Included are a book reviews, and expanded poetry section, and other special features, such as an interview with Chris Wallace-Crabbe, conducted by Ronald A. Sharp, and a link to the new online submission site, Tell It Slant. Harvard Review Online will continue to feature new poetry and book reviews, plus occasional interviews, short fiction, and literary essays.

Poetry Response to Gulf Oil Disaster

Poets for Living Waters is a poetry action in response to the Gulf Oil Disaster of April 20, 2010, one of the most profound man-made ecological catastrophes in history.

The first law of ecology states that everything is connected to everything else. An appreciation of this systemic connectivity suggests a wide range of poetry will offer a meaningful response to the current crisis, including work that harkens back to Hurricane Katrina and the ongoing regional effects.

Please submit 1-3 poems, a short bio, and credits for any previously published submissions to: poetsforlivingwaters-atyahoo.com

New Press on the Block :: Rescue Press

Daniel Khalastchi, visiting Assistant Professor at Marquette University Department of English has teamed up with poet Caryl Pagel to start a unique small press and have just released their first book, Marc Rahe’s poetry collection, The Smaller Half.

Rescue Press publishes work by activists, artists, craftsmen, entrepreneurs, list-makers, philosophers, poets, scientists, writers, and creative thinkers of all kinds. They are interested in small collections of artwork, comics, compositions, essays, experiments, how-tos, interrogations, lectures, lists, manifestos, notes, outlines, poetry, procedures, questions, reviews, sketches, stories, technical prose, textbooks, travel writing, and more. As their byline says: “Rescue Press is a library of chaotic and investigative work.”

Rescue Press is based out of Milwaukee and will have an open reading period soon hopes to publish three more books within the next calendar year (fiction, non-fiction, maybe more poetry, etc.).

Cheaper than Amazon

From now until June 20, Tarpaulin Sky Press is offering backlist titles for $10 – shipping included – when you buy two or more books. Some books include the current Lambda Award Finalist Ana Božičević’s Stars of the Night Commute and works by Jenny Boully, Kate Bernheimer, Rebecca Brown, Brian Evenson, Laird Hunt, Bhanu Kapil, Lance Olsen, Mark Cunningham, Danielle Dutton, Noah Eli Gordon & Joshua Marie Wilkinson, Gordon Massman, Joyelle McSweeney, Andrew Zornoza, and more.

Scholarship Competition

DePaul University Summer Writing Conference
July 16-18
Chicago, Loop Campus

Submit 3 poems, 1 creative nonfiction piece (10 pages or less), or 1 short story (10 pages or less) for the chance to win a scholarship to DePaul’s Summer Writing Conference, July 16-18, and the opportunity to read your work at the conference. No entry fee. A winner from each of the three genres will be chosen.

Please email submissions to Chris Green: cgreen1-at-depaul.edu by June 4. Everyone who submits work will be notified by email of contest results in early June.

New Delta Review Contest Winners

New Delta Review, Spring 2010, features winner of the 2010 Matt Clark Prize for Fiction, Jaime Poissant and finalistsSarah Domet, Kathy Flann, Karin C. Davidson, and Jim Ruland, and the winner for Poetry, Sharon Charde, with finalists Jared Walls. Also featured is the winner for the first Creative Nonfiction Contest, Bobbie Darbyshire, and finalist Jennifer Jean Nuernberg.

2010 Tusculum Review Poetry Prize Winners

The 2010 volume (#6) of The Tusculum Review features two poems by Allison Joseph, the final judge of the Tusculum Review Poetry Prize, as well as works by Nancy K. Pearson who was selected as the winner of the prize. All poems Pearson entered into the contest—“It Was a Swell Fiesta,” “Left for Dead,” “Shift,” “Waiver,” “Eulogy,” & “Typeface Elegy” are published in this issue. TTR will be running a prose contest in 2011.

Poets and Technology

“The internet, Facebook, Twitter, blogs, websites, iPad, iPod, podcasts, digital video and who knows what else. What do they all mean for the poet? For Poetry?” Nic Sabastian, on her blog Very Like a Whale, has started a new series of Ten Questions on Poets & Technology, with responses so far from Amy King (5/13) and Collin Kelley (5/19).

BPJ Celebrates 60

Beloit Poetry Journal celebrates its 60th anniversary with a chapbook issue (Summer 2010) of new poems by winners of their Chad Walsh Prize. Over its seventeen-year history, the Walsh Prize has gone as often to young poets as to mid- and late-career poets with long publication records. This chapbook issue features works by Margaret Aho, Sherman Alexie, Robert Chute, Karl Elder, Albert Goldbarth, Jessica Goodfellow, John Hodgen, Janet Holmes, Mary Leader, Kurt Leland, Mary Molinary, Lucia Perillo, Sam Reed, Glori Simmons, Onna Solomon, and Susan Tichy.

And, as always, BPJ invites readers to join the online conversation with BPJ poets on their Poet’s Forum. The participating poets for this issue are Jessica Goodfellow (June), Susan Tichy (July), and Karl Elder (August). Currently, Nan Watkins is on forum to discuss her translations of Yvan Goll’s poems.

The Fiddlehead Contest Winners

The Fiddlehead, Spring 2010 (#243) includes the nineteenth annual literary contest winners: Eliza Roberson for fiction with honorable mentions to Sara Heinonen and Susi Lovell; and Jeff Steudel for poetry with honorable mentions to Kim Trainor and Heidi Garnett.

The deadline for the 2010 contest is December 1, 2010, with $2010 going to each winner and $500 to each of two honorable mentions.

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Cave Wall Remembers Lucille Clifton

In her Editor’s Note, Cave Wall Editor Rhett Trull dedicates the issue (#7) to Lucille Clifton with this remembrance: “This year, with the death of Lucille Clifton, we lost a great poet. I had the privilege of studying with her when she was a visiting professor at Duke University. When I think of that class, the main thing I remember is her joy. She brought it with her into any room. It was a difficult time in my life, and I clung to Lucille Clifton’s every word as if it were a kind of gospel, a message not just on how to write but on how to live. She made the world seem full of wonder, impossible not to love.

“This does not mean she wrote only of beauty. On the contrary, Lucille Clifton’s poetry is a catalogue of the spectrum of emotions from sorrow to hope, joy to despair, anger to celebration; to each of these, she brought her sense of compassion. Above my desk hangs one of her quotes: ‘You can’t play for safety and make art.” In my notebooks, I’ve saved more of her wisdom from that semester: ‘Art is not about answers. Don’t be afraid to leave a poem unresolved.’ ‘A poem should never leave you where it found you.'”

New to NewPages :: U.S. 1 Worksheets

U.S. 1 Worksheets is the annual publication of U.S. 1 Poets’ Cooperative, a group of poets based in central New Jersey. In addition to producing the journal, members promote poetry by meeting weekly to share and critique their own work, producing an annual literary journal, give public readings followed by open mic, and hold occasional events, including U.S. 1 Presents at Princeton Public Library.

The journal, which began in tabloid format in 1973, has been published continuously since then. While publishing the work of their cooperative members, the current issue includes about 2/3 of its works from poets throughout the U.S., as well as from England and the Philippines. Manuscripts are accepted from May 1st through June 30th and read by rotating editors from the Cooperative.

Iowa Review Changes and Updates

The Iowa Review celebrates forty years of publishing this year – with changes both inside and out. On the inside, Russell Scott Valentino takes over as editor from David Hamilton after his thirty-two years. The outside of the journal for 2010 will feature the winning design concept of Jingwen Cao, a graphic design junior at the University of Iowa. Though change can be “traumatic,” Valentino writes, “We have tried to steer a middle course in the current redesign of The Iowa Review, neither sailing away into the ether nor slinking off into a backwater. As we celebrate our fortieth anniversary in 2010, we wish to re-emphasize our commitment to what has made TIR a centerpiece of contemporary American letters while exploring the opportunities that new technologies and new ideas about the world make available today.” TIR welcomes feedback from its readers.