Tag: qarrtsiluni

• Poetry news

  • Jo and I are beginning a new reading period for the third issue of ouroboros review, ending Sunday, May 3, and due to be released in July. We’ll take a break for the summer, and then resume reading in the fall for a winter issue.

  • It’s a happy day – Deb Scott and I have a poem up at qarrtsiluni for their Mutating the Signature series, edited by Dana and Nathan, who now have a blog together with the same name as this current edition of qarrtsiluni. Thanks to Dave Bonta, Dana, and Nathan for making it happen.

  • Jill, Carolee and I have written thirty prompts for the month of April, which has been dubbed National Poetry Writing Month on the web. It’s also National Poetry Month in the United States. As if we needed a month to celebrate poetry! You can go to Read Write Poem every day next month to find a new idea to inspire your writing. Because of a conversation we had with Michelle McGrane, we have dubbed ourselves The Madwomen who Stand Outside the Supermarket Passing out Poems to People. We we also be in your pockets the day you need to carry around a poem in your pocket. So look out.

  • Poet Robert Lee Brewer, who runs a poetry blog for Writer’s Digest called Poetic Asides, has announced a poetry marathon for the month of April. He’ll be posting a prompt a day, and will choose his top favorite poems posted on his site for each day. And there’s more. He and a group of distinguished judges, including Marky Doty, Collin Kelley, Nick Flynn, Shaindel Beers, and Dorianne Laux, will choose the top fifty poems from these entries to be included in an e-chap anthology. April is going to be a frenzy of poems.

  March 25, 2009

  ouroboros review, Poetic Asides, qarrtsiluni

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• Winding, a video and poem at Qarrtsiluni

  Qarrtsiluni has published a video and poem I made with Jo Hemmant and Michelle McGrane, titled Winding. It was a pure joy to work with Michelle and Jo, who are both talented artists and lovely people. Thanks again to Dana, Nathan, and Dave for creating the opportunity for collaboration.

  January 29, 2009

  qarrtsiluni

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• Qarrtsiluni mutates the signature

  If you haven’t been reading Qarrtsiluni’s latest edition, Mutating the Signature, you’re missing out on a revolution sweeping poetry on the web. Editors Dana Guthrie Martin and Nathan Moore have assembled an inspired group of poems, songs, visual art, video, and recordings, all created in collaboration. Each piece has multiple authors, and comes with process notes that reveal the inner workings of multiple minds.

  Guthrie Martin is also the founding member of The Poetry Collaborative, where several poets, including Moore, work together to write, often revising in plain view. They’ve even been known to write their poems on places like twitter and facebook.

  Dave Bonta, managing editor and co-founder of Qarrtsiluni, is a pioneer in sharing creative writing on the web. His journal is one of the few that publishes author recordings of most of the poems and short stories on the site. It comes as no surprise that he would be one of the first editors to publish an entire edition devoted entirely to collaborative works.

  January 28, 2009

  dana guthrie martin, dave bonta, Nathan Moore, qarrtsiluni

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• Dear Holly,

  Epilogue

  A fog of days, my log of time,
  grows roots, branches into shoots,
  forms pods heavy with seeds.

  One seed holds the nights
  I swayed under the back porch light,
  one too many glasses of merlot.
  My sons slept, their faces like orbs
  glowing from the shadows of their beds.

  Another seed spoons with the afternoons
  I napped away the warm hours,
  head slung back on the couch,
  my boys sitting crisscross applesauce
  on the floor, watching
  an endless banner of cartoons.

  A third is filled with mornings –
  I toss them onto the soil,
  and they uncoil from the earth
  bearing the fruit of moments to be relived,

  But when the seedcases burst,
  the new days blend into the shaded
  dreams of the past.
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  Visit Holly’s Lost Kite to read her fabulous poem about a person’s view of the present.

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  Jo and I are happy to announce the inaugural issue of ouroboros! We’re proud of this magazine, and have enjoyed putting it together very much. Please visit, and revel in its awesomeness.

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  If I haven’t responded to your blog posts lately it’s because I’ve been working on the magazine with Jo, and also because of the collaborative issue coming up at qarrtsiluni, edited by Dana and Nathan. So don’t kick me off your blogroll, or your googly reader, I’ll be back, promise.

  December 8, 2008

  Lost Kite, ouroboros review, qarrtsiluni

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• You want to listen to something?

  I just got home from leading a poetry workshop at the high school where I used to teach, opened my email, and saw that qarrtsiluni has posted a video I made for their latest issue, Journaling the Apocalypse. The video is called time capsule chronicles. If you have a spare minute and a half, please watch and listen!

  November 19, 2008

  qarrtsiluni, video

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