tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73573602024-03-13T15:27:49.970-04:00VERSEAn international literary journal from 1984 to 2018, <i>Verse</i> now administers the Tomaž Šalamun Prize.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger507125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7357360.post-37039217827495380312020-10-19T10:31:00.001-04:002020-10-19T10:31:05.870-04:00<p> new page for the Tomaž Šalamun Prize:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.factoryhollowpress.com/tomaz-salamun-prize">http://www.factoryhollowpress.com/tomaz-salamun-prize</a></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7357360.post-41685940868980844032020-10-19T10:30:00.003-04:002020-10-19T10:30:21.830-04:00<p> 2021 Tomaž Šalamun Prize now open for submissions. Deadline: March 15, 2021.</p><p><br /></p><p>$500 + chapbook publication + 1-month residency in Ljubljana, Slovenia</p><p><br /></p><p>To submit: <a href="https://verse.submittable.com/submit">https://verse.submittable.com/submit</a></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7357360.post-23804393886317183842020-06-08T15:13:00.000-04:002020-06-08T15:13:00.800-04:002020 Tomaž Šalamun Prize winner + Editors' Choice selectionBianca Stone selected Jake Bauer's chapbook <i>Big Pool, Oh</i> as winner of the 2020 Tomaž Šalamun Prize. Bauer will receive a $500 honorarium, a free one-month residency at the Tomaž Šalamun Centre for Poetry in Ljubljana, Slovenia, and 10 copies of his chapbook, which will be published by Factory Hollow Press.<br />
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Because we have been receiving so many excellent submissions, last year we started an editors' choice selection, in which one of the remaining finalists' chapbooks is selected for publication. The 2020 editors' choice selection is Zoe White's <i>Hyperspace</i>. Her chapbook also will be published by Factory Hollow.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7357360.post-61930278406288723362020-03-11T10:27:00.004-04:002020-03-11T10:27:33.983-04:004 days left to submit to 2020 Tomaž Šalamun Prize$500 honorarium, free one-month residency in Ljubljana, Slovenia and chapbook publication by Factory Hollow Press + 10 free copies of chapbook.<br />
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A second chapbook will be selected from the entry pool for publication as an Editor's Choice.<br />
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<a href="https://verse.submittable.com/submit">https://verse.submittable.com/submit</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7357360.post-17801092363322944612019-10-02T12:34:00.002-04:002019-10-02T12:34:41.276-04:002020 Tomaž Šalamun Prize submissionsSubmissions for the <a href="https://verse.submittable.com/submit" target="_blank">2020 Tomaž Šalamun Prize</a> are now open. The winner will receive $500, publication of their chapbook by Factory Hollow Press, and a one-month residency in Ljubljana, Slovenia at the Tomaž Šalamun Centre for Poetry. Bianca Stone will judge.<br />
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Also, the editors will select a second chapbook for publication by Factory Hollow.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7357360.post-91263042832115363052019-04-07T13:35:00.000-04:002019-04-07T13:35:03.682-04:002019 Tomaž Šalamun Prize winner + new editors' choice selectionEmily Pettit selected Jennifer Liberts' chapbook <i>Tender Organs</i> as winner of the 2019 Tomaž Šalamun Prize. Liberts will receive a $500 honorarium and a free one-month residency at the Tomaž Šalamun Centre for Poetry in Ljubljana, Slovenia, and her chapbook will be published by Factory Hollow Press.<br />
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Because there were so many excellent submissions, this year we started an editors' choice selection, in which one of the remaining finalists' chapbooks is selected for publication by Factory Hollow Press. The 2019 editors' choice selection is Dalton Day's chapbook <i>Un</i>. His chapbook also will be published.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7357360.post-39984656638533916982019-03-01T12:50:00.004-05:002019-03-01T12:50:53.882-05:0015 days to enter the 2019 Tomaž Šalamun Prizedeadline March 15, 2019<br />
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$500 + 1-month residency in Ljubljana, Slovenia + chapbook publication by Factory Hollow Press<br />
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final judge: Emily Pettit<br />
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<a href="https://verse.submittable.com/submit">https://verse.submittable.com/submit</a><br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7357360.post-65446282005877294922018-11-12T12:27:00.004-05:002018-11-12T12:27:57.471-05:002019 Tomaž Šalamun Prize now open for submissionsdeadline: March 15, 2019<br />
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Winner receives $500, chapbook publication by Factory Hollow Press, and a free 1-month residency in downtown Ljubljana, Slovenia<br />
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To enter:<br />
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<a href="https://verse.submittable.com/submit">https://verse.submittable.com/submit</a><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7357360.post-47418514044761262842018-03-07T10:51:00.003-05:002018-03-07T10:51:52.129-05:00R.I.P. Lucie Brock-Broido, 1956-2018<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Lucie Brock-Broido</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><br /></b></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>That Same Vagabond Sweetness</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Odd I cannot remember a time</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">When there was no World. I am</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">At home, at callow home</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Worshipping the train, the Elsewhere's </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Metallic sweetness, scissoring. A pack</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Of blessings lights upon my back.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">There are thou happy.</span></i><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The noise of the world's tracks</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Made magical alarms me. <i>There</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Are thou happy too.</i> And the half</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Blown catweed & the vagrant</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Sky & the vacant apoplectic</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Bed shiftless in its vacancy, I stop.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">[from <i>Verse</i>, Volume 12, Number 3]</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7357360.post-42246296367113492292018-03-05T09:29:00.001-05:002018-03-05T09:29:59.343-05:0010 days to enter the 2018 Tomaž Šalamun PrizeTo enter, visit: <a href="https://verse.submittable.com/submit">https://verse.submittable.com/submit</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7357360.post-45193545116325841312018-03-02T11:16:00.000-05:002018-03-02T23:14:14.881-05:00new issue of VERSE<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Volume 34 (the final print issue of <i>Verse</i>) is out and includes poetry and prose portfolios by</span><br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Vincent Zompa (</span></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">winner of the 2016 </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: normal;">Tomaž Šalamun Prize)</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Monica McClure</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Julie Carr</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Dan Rosenberg</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Molly Brodak</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Ryoko Sekiguchi (</span></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">translated by Lindsay Turner)</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Arianne Zwartjes</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Daniel Biegelson </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Ben Gaffaney </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Kell Connor</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Jaclyn Sadicario</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Matvei Yankelevich</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Dara Wier</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">To order a copy, visit </span>https://verse.submittable.com/submit<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">. </span></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7357360.post-46976428629116181812018-01-14T14:06:00.003-05:002018-01-14T14:06:46.999-05:00Now open to entries for the 2018 Tomaz Salamun Prize!deadline: March 15, 2018<br />
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The winner's chapbook will be published by Factory Hollow Press. The winner will receive $500 and a one-month residency in Ljubljana, Slovenia.<br />
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To submit, visit:<br />
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https://verse.submittable.com/submit<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7357360.post-45951151943726220632017-07-11T11:59:00.001-04:002017-07-11T11:59:39.778-04:004 days left to submit to the 2017 Tomaz Salamun Prize!https://verse.submittable.com/submit/41191/tomaz-salamun-prize-2017<br />
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Winner receives $500, publication by Factory Hollow Press, and 1-month residency in Ljubljana, Slovenia.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7357360.post-67688975258518181602017-04-24T07:58:00.002-04:002017-04-24T07:58:26.276-04:00NEW! Poem by Natalie Lyalin<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Garamond;">Natalie Lyalin<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond;">SO WHAT, THE CLOUDS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond;">So what, the clouds<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond;">with a piercing gold haze<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond;">so a red feather stuck to my foot<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond;">The gull’s squawk, so what<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond;">Mother, father, horseshoe crab<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond;">I thought I spotted them all in<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond;">the glare of sunset<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond;">So what, the smudge of life<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond;">sooting bleached branches,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond;">disinfecting the parts that need it<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond;">So what, until we say goodbye<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond;">we had a weekend together<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond;">and I helped pick out your dress<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond;">What does it matter<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond;">The tin chandelier pocked with holes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond;">So what the rain<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond;">I never visited or cared too much<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond;">The bottles and woven baskets full of sea glass<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond;">Hair grit, white towel snapping in the wind<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond;">Birds circling their condos<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond;">An abundance of banana bread<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond;">Celebrating America not on the fourth of July<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond;">but on the 16th, when nothing is happening<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond;">Surprisingly I am somebody’s mother<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond;">I have no council <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond;">I turn on the lights <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond;">The sun crests the bank of pines pushing on the
dusk<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond;">While overhead a group of rockets take off from
Cape Canaveral <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond;">making an arc toward heaven</span><span style="font-family: Garamond;"> </span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7357360.post-79128677808879766282017-04-02T11:22:00.001-04:002017-04-03T00:11:48.336-04:002017 Tomaž Šalamun Prize<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The 2017 <a href="https://verse.submittable.com/submit/41191/tomaz-salamun-prize-2017" target="_blank">Tomaž Šalamun Prize</a> is open for entries until July 15, 2017. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">$500 + chapbook published by Factory Hollow Press + one-month residency in Ljubljana, Slovenia</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>Judge</b>: Matthew Zapruder</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Tomaž Šalamun Prize is <b>open to poets at any stage of their career.</b> Previous publication is neither a requirement nor a restriction. You can enter if you've published no books or 100 books.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Translations into English are acceptable if the author is still living and has given written permission. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Prose poetry and hybrid forms are also acceptable.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The winning chapbook will be published by Factory Hollow Press in Amherst, MA.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The prize winner will receive $500, 10 free copies of their chapbook, and a free one-month residency at the Tomaž Šalamun Center for Poetry in Ljubljana, Slovenia.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">If a translation wins the prize, the translator will receive $500, 10 copies of the chapbook, and the residency, but the original author also will receive 10 copies of the chapbook.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Individual pieces in the chapbook may have been published in print and/or online journals, but the chapbook itself must be previously unpublished.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Simultaneous submissions are acceptable, but please withdraw your submission immediately if your submission is accepted elsewhere.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Matthew Zapruder will judge the 2017 prize. Current/former students and close friends of the judge are not eligible. (If in doubt about your eligibility, query editorversemag@gmail.com.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>Deadline</b>: July 15, 2017</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">To enter: Submit a poetry chapbook (18-28 pages) to the link above.</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7357360.post-30509168669562627392017-01-24T11:05:00.001-05:002017-01-24T11:05:07.093-05:00NEW! Review of Elizabeth Powell<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Willy
Loman’s Reckless Daughter or Living Truthfully Under </i><i>Imaginary
Circumstances</i><i> </i>by Elizabeth Powell. <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Anhinga,
2016.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Reviewed by
Nancy Mitchell<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Elizabeth
Powell’s compelling new volume of poems, <i>Willy Loman’s Reckless Daughter or
Living Truthfully Under </i><i>Imaginary Circumstances</i><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">, w</span>inner of the 2015 Robert
Dana-Anhinga Prize for Poetry and published by Anhinga Press, is<span style="color: #535353;"> </span>the saga of one psyche’s circuitous, <span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;">courageous </span>evolution to wholeness
as it reclaims and integrates the fragments of its shattered self. Like a
classic epic, th<span lang="NL" style="mso-ansi-language: NL;">e book</span> is
substantial; its 109 pages are divided into four distinct, yet integrated
parts, and the arc of each furthers the narrative arc of the collection, the
tension of which lies in “the tug of war between what you are and what you want
to be.” In lines barely held in check by semi-formal constraints of rhyme and
rhythm, the poems pellmell the reader through poems like “a toboggan threshing
me down a hill.” The wrangle of this struggle is underscored by erratically
shifting tones via inventive syntax and humorous, original
neologisms/verbalizations: “I lollygagged and sofatized as I proceeded with the
CNN-induced lobotomy dream of life,” and<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
world, violent full of sex,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>the
movie’<span lang="DE">s zeitgeist, era
after era, a new Bond</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>double-o-sevening
in<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="DE"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>(CARE PACKAGE, WITH RIDDLE AS
MISSIVE)</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">as well as with<span style="line-height: 200%;"> startling enjambments:</span><span style="line-height: 200%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span>…This
poem is made of me and I it. It doesn’t worry<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>about
irony
or stance and only odd incidence and fact and doesn’t care<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>if
it tells the truth about what will happen to my face<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>or
behind my back….<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 0.5in;">Part One, the heft</span><span style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 0.5in;">iest section, worthy to stand on its
own as a separate volume, serves as the Genesis, the creation story of the
collection, as it introduces the origin of the book’s structure along which
uncanny parallels to the speaker’</span><span lang="FR" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 0.5in;">s li</span><span style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 0.5in;">fe
are plotted:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> Around then, I read
my father’s 1960s Compass copy of Arthur Miller's <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> "Death
of a Salesman" and began to understand why his sister called<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> him Willy Loman. He had eaten the dream and it
made him sick...But</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> my
father’s sister never stopped with the Willy Loman talk, and so we</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> seemed
to be acting that play as our family drama.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">(“AUTOCORRECTING THE LYRIC I”)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 200%;">From
a longstanding intimacy</span><span style="line-height: 200%;"> with
the American drama—“This entire book is in love with <i>Death of a Salesman</i>
by Arthur Miller, and has been in conversation with it for a good, long time,”
according to Powell’s notes—and subsequent internalization, a world is created
into which the title character is called forth from the a shadowy subterranean
of unconsciousness, or “my doppelgänger under the bed, snoring and talking and
laughing in her sleep,” to inhabit this world with full autonomy: “I read it
again and again, until the doppelgänger moved from under the bed to the top
bunk.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 0.5in;">Powell</span><span style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 0.5in;">’s doppelgänger is an alchemic tour de force, deftly
echoing Plath: “and then I knew what to do. / I made a model of you,” claims a
poem also titled “Daddy.” Willy Loman’s daughter, paradoxically whole and black
hole, becomes the self into which other selves, shattered “the way the Rolling
Stones sing about” by seismic psychological pressures, are absorbed. Because
the doppelgänger can successfully assimilate undifferentiated cultural
identities—</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 75%;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Let’s say I’m fusion of cold borscht and finger
sandwiches on white. I'm<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 75%;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>matzo
ball Jew Bagel and thrifty Campbell’s soup with dried parsley<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 75%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><i>don’t-worry-about-me
</i></span><span lang="IT" style="line-height: 75%;">luncheon. I</span><span style="line-height: 75%;">’m noodle
kugel and I’m turkey divan<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 75%;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>casserole. I’m
Bubbeleh and I’m Dearie. I’m Ma and I’m Mummy. I’m<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 50%;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>the Episcojew, and
I am strong and not strong! I have a family tartan<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 50%;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>and a silence in
the Vilnius ghetto. I cannot be buried in the holy land</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> but I cannot be cremated. I am
passing and have passed, heard the</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> murmurs of </span><i style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">lovely </i><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">& also
...</span><i style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Dirty Jews, Fucking Gentiles</i><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">—as well as the trauma of sexual
abuse—<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 4;"> </span>…small
child who is taken into a room with<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>an ex-convict and made to drink peppermint
schnapps and lie on his<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>polyester
orange and yellow bed and black out until she walks from<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>the
room and is shown his medals of valor from a war she doesn't<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>understand. She didn’t
know peppermint that way until she came<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>to dislike the sunniest days. (“Sense
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Memory: (Re)-Experiencing Time Travel”)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">she
becomes the trustworthy, although admittedly imaginary </span><span lang="IT" style="line-height: 150%;">confidant, </span><span style="line-height: 150%;">sister in Pasternak’s “sister life,”
the </span><i><span lang="FR" style="line-height: 150%;">ma souer</span></i><span style="line-height: 150%;">
of the speaker. Both protective mediator and arbiter of memory, the
doppelgänger will become the the reliable narrator, even as she speaks as a
foil to other characters throughout the book, but only with the speaker’s
complicity or permission: </span><span style="line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>My
retinal flashes made no sense until I realized they were someone<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="DA"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>else</span>’s story trying to
live through me. That sweet doppleganger, brother-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>sister, evil other, good girl! The
story kept banging at my red front door…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“Someone
else’s story” is also the speaker’s; by opening the “red front door” she
intuitively and courageously allows the necessary psychic split into a stronger
double who, acting as a “second,” descends into the hell of the past and faces
down the demons of abandonment and estrangement, before assimilating them and
returning whole to tell the whole story.</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 0.5in;">In the poem “LIVING TRUTHFULLY UNDER
IMAGINARY CIRCUMSTANCES,” the speaker speaks for </span><span style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 0.5in;">“both of them” with, “We both want to be whole, so the
story can be told.”</span><span style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 0.5in;">In my notes I’ve written, “Or maybe:
We want the story to be told so we can both be whole.” </span><span style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 0.5in;">Elizabeth Powell’s stunning,
evocative </span><i style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="line-height: 200%;">Willy Loman’s
Reckless Daughter or Living Truthfully Under Imaginary Circumstances, </span></i><span style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 0.5in;">is</span><span style="color: #535353; line-height: 200%; text-indent: 0.5in;">, </span><span style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 0.5in;">like any
odyssey, to be read in parts, slowly, carefully, and reflectively, like a
psyche recovering the shattered parts of herself.</span></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7357360.post-36341168357097747622016-07-11T13:41:00.003-04:002016-07-11T13:41:24.613-04:002016 Tomaž Šalamun Prize deadline<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "\22 times\22 " , "\22 times new roman\22 " , serif; line-height: 20px;">Submissions for the </span><span style="font-family: "\22 times\22 " , "\22 times new roman\22 " , serif;">2016 </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "\22 times\22 " , "\22 times new roman\22 " , serif; line-height: 20px;">Tomaž Šalamun Prize will be <a href="http://verse.submittable.com/" target="_blank">accepted</a> through July 15. Dara Wier is the final judge.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7357360.post-51012518497450100572016-07-06T20:39:00.001-04:002016-07-07T13:39:14.250-04:00NEW! Poem by Tiffany HigginsTiffany Higgins<br />
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<span style="color: #240000; font-family: "times new roman";"><b>Can Starfish?<o:p></o:p></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #240000; font-family: "times new roman";"><b><br /></b></span>
<span style="color: #240000; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: x-small;"><i>in the form of a Googlet, a found poem formed from Google dropdown suggestions generated by a beginning phrase</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #240000; font-family: "times new roman";">can starfish bite<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #240000; font-family: "times new roman";">can starfish see<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #240000; font-family: "times new roman";">can starfish feel pain<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The August heat pierces me to the core. The flies too. And his patched-up pajamas. He had to sell his gold watch to some neighbors . . . Soon, very soon, his life will be over. Sitting on the edge of the bed, his breathing shallow . . . He asks me for a cigarette.</div>
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First I stand up, then I find the pack, next . . . But is there really an order to things? I’ve made and repeated these motions for such a long time, always the same, backwards and forwards, I extend my hand, I find the pack, I light the cigarette, I know it won’t burn to the end.</div>
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The sun through the windows is already making me sweat. The next room over, the children are waking up. The lapping of their little voices.</div>
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You could begin a book this way. Or end one.</div>
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The pages have scattered on the beach. Letters fall off, wrap around rocks, fray, twist, attach to the roots of plants, strange organisms, writhing seaweed . . .</div>
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A melody rises from the earth. Suddenly I recognize it, it’s the one I put on in the car sometimes. Then it changes. I hear footsteps underground . . .</div>
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Untangle these letters, gather them from the sand, it’s my job, I’m the one who has to do it, I know it.</div>
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I’m the one who invented them, drew them with colored pencils in my notebook.</div>
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And I can’t move, my feet, my steps . . . </div>
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This seaweed that grows out of me . . .</div>
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The nights are very long and the days pass unnoticed. I hear thoughts like little motors whirring in the air. Others’ thoughts and my own. Living, keeping me company, more alive than those to whom they belong.</div>
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Over the years some have grown hard with rust; others, weakening, falling apart, still delight me. So I wind them up, set the little motors going, and I listen to them . . . </div>
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I’d have a hard time waking tomorrow to find only silence.</div>
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It’s three in the morning, the dead in their graves. I think of them. Thought is alive, warm, it gathers itself, forms a kernel that attaches itself to the world, and it begins to move, to shift.</div>
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I give the dead this gift, the only one possible.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7357360.post-20598351416443781952016-04-25T11:36:00.001-04:002016-04-25T11:36:27.515-04:00Dan Ivec / 2015 Tomaž Šalamun Prize finalist<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Dan Ivec</span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7357360.post-38754458620062605612016-04-22T01:00:00.000-04:002016-04-22T01:00:13.686-04:00E.C. Belli / 2015 Tomaž Šalamun Prize finalist<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">E.C. Belli</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>from</i> <b>The Driftless Is Literal</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Mostly, when the locals talked, their gossip was a type of prayer. Mostly to their patron saint of the snow bank, of have-not & want-less. Mostly, measurement was the problem. Always too much or never enough—mostly humility & when it wasn’t, precipitation. Mostly I struggled with attention. Mostly, I hurled bricks, but I didn’t wake any less anxious. If anything, the ache burrowed deeper. If I believed in prayer, I’d have prayed for grace & for birdsong. I realized that I’d had it backwards all this time: the weather reports us. Mostly, when I talked, it was to myself. Who is the patron saint of the bell & who of its silence? Who is the patron saint of the song tangled in these sheets? Saint of the flood plain. Saint of the cell tower. Saint of the long haul. Saint of static, take it. You can have it all.</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7357360.post-35704693745728303212016-04-17T22:40:00.003-04:002016-04-17T22:42:25.364-04:002016 Tomaž Šalamun Prize open to entriesThe 2016 Tomaž Šalamun Prize is open for entries until July 15, 2016. Writers who have published no more than 2 books are eligible. The prize is for a chapbook-length portfolio (20-40 pages). The winner receives $1000 and publication in the print edition of <i>Verse</i>. Dara Wier is the final judge. To submit, visit:<br />
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<a href="https://verse.submittable.com/submit">https://verse.submittable.com/submit</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7357360.post-62032190804354724372016-04-16T08:00:00.000-04:002016-04-16T08:00:04.222-04:00Bradley Fest / 2015 Tomaž Šalamun Prize finalist<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Bradley Fest</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">[2015 Tomaž Šalamun Prize finalist]</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Architects and Their Books</b><br />
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</b>Time’s laceration let out upon a mahogany<br />
doorstep. The kind we make up as children<br />
in bed, alone. As if there was another option.<br />
As if Mr. Panda could have been a different kind<br />
of confidant. We’ll let feeling in for a moment<br />
only to have it sutured, impossibly, to understanding,<br />
like a saddled-beast lounging on the quarterdeck of this,<br />
our present colloquium. We’ll let this we we have become<br />
stumble off into the night, infantilized like so many<br />
un-pursued dreamscapes. Some fourth person<br />
would have to arrive, as if on her way to the depot<br />
like a harried harbinger of ice-cold and forgotten departures.<br />
Systems work. Molasses drips. Sanguine yearning<br />
churns out of the cattle-press, always. Elaborate<br />
please. The insufficiency at work in the hazy<br />
construction of some kind of yesterday approaches<br />
melancholy, at best. Meaning: do not become forensic.<br />
Take the pictures, sure, but be careful only to document<br />
the details matching the case, the important lineaments<br />
frequenting this, desire’s current neoliberal expression.<br />
Not, to be sure, the relevant dripping mucus on the mirror<br />
nor the chaste notes rippling the flag. I like tumescence<br />
as much as the next victim, but would prefer not to get<br />
carried away on the back of some gryphon-steed as my tail feathers<br />
wag toward the sky. I, not you, work conscientiously for<br />
a million little dumb show matinees. Silent, they’re performed in<br />
parking structures made from fiberglass and patience. Stalwart,<br />
I tell you, they house forever-notes. Next time, get down.<br />
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Be careful with the perforated letter. She’ll unhouse you,<br />
so close to the walkway as you are. The dappled smoke<br />
seeping out of the sun connotes not requiems nor certainty.<br />
Canned sentiment is perhaps killing our house pets. Or else<br />
freedom has (perhaps) deleted our houseguests. The threshold<br />
doesn’t mind the imperative I’m giving, the command from silent structures<br />
to the trains that pass in the middle of the day, lonely on their eastward<br />
wandering, and working toward dental transcendence, rollicking<br />
their rhythm forward and through the densities of fine, trellised<br />
woodwork. Post-arboretum sale, the delicacies purchased,<br />
the light of them, their coma-inducing glare, capsized the moment.<br />
Sure, queens of delight strode thoughtfully down lanes of embarkation,<br />
distances folded together in their tresses, like panoplied andromedans,<br />
like fore-warned, miscreant saboteurs on their way to endless satisfaction.</span></div>
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