I turned in my LaGuardia grades on Wednesday and handed in all my paperwork yesterday plus picked up my desk copy for Eng 102 so I'm completely done with Long Island City. Today is my last day at College of Staten Island. A few office visits and a half an hour to collect final papers. I'll submit grades on Monday then take a nice long break from ferry rides!
The timing couldn't be better as I have a ridiculous amount of reading piling up:
Barrow Street 10th Anniversary
Jubilat issue 15
Crayon Number 5 (which is massive & I've only read the Sawako piece)
Poets & Writers Jan/Feb 09 (but I don't read this cover to cover)
The Voyeur, a short story by Nicolette Wong
from Unincorporated Territory, by Craig Santos Perez
& then this is what I picked up from the library
B, a novel, by Jonathan Baumbach
Wake- Up Calls, 66 Morning poems by Wanda Phipps
The House that Jack Built, The Collected Lectures of Jack Spicer (I've been waiting over 6mths for this to come in)
The Bubble of American Supremacy, correcting the misuse of American power, by George Soros
Collected Books of Jack Spicer
Selected poems 1958-1984, by John Weiners
I've read a bunch of Spicer so I won't read the collected books from cover to cover & I've read very little of Weiners' work so I'll randomly flip through this book to see if anything grabs me. If there is a better single volume book by Weiners that I should read, please let me know. I'll read the morning poems in the morning & the novel will be my train, ferry, & before bed book.
Showing posts with label Poets and Writers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Poets and Writers. Show all posts
Friday, December 19, 2008
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
What Say You?
It's close to that time of the year again- the manuscript contest crave. Where poets go nutso polishing, revising, and sending out their little children hoping to find lovely homes between two soft covers, but before you send out endless checks maybe read the flip side of the coin. Good stuff on Reb's blog and a first hand account of Cider Press Review's on-going bad reputation here.
This isn't to say that I'm NOT going to send out my MS and eschew contest entirely, however, I will be extremely selective and limit it to only a few. Honestly, I don't have the time, money, or desire to send it out to a bunch of presses I just haven't heard of and who have published poets I've never read. (Which is to say when I have money, I 'd rather spend it on books and keep reading!)
A while back I entered a contest because I liked the journal, but Billy Collins was the judge. Was I crazy? Not that I have an intimate knowledge of Mr. Collins' taste, but I feel pretty comfortable in making the assumption that my poems are not exactly up his alley.
Why did I enter?
I had time on my hands (at my previous job) to work on the submission and money in my bank account. Billy Collins and Tony Hoagland both are judging what (to me, at least) appears to be A LOT of contests. I actually like some of Hoagland's poems, but what does his association with Cider Press Review do for his reputation. They already had problems with their "contest" even before he agreed the judge for them....
What do you think? Do you send out your MS because you think you can get Billy to chuckle, how do you feel about Tony? Do you even look to see who the judges are or check out the press? Or blindly send away to every contest listed in Poets & Writers?
What say y'all?
This isn't to say that I'm NOT going to send out my MS and eschew contest entirely, however, I will be extremely selective and limit it to only a few. Honestly, I don't have the time, money, or desire to send it out to a bunch of presses I just haven't heard of and who have published poets I've never read. (Which is to say when I have money, I 'd rather spend it on books and keep reading!)
A while back I entered a contest because I liked the journal, but Billy Collins was the judge. Was I crazy? Not that I have an intimate knowledge of Mr. Collins' taste, but I feel pretty comfortable in making the assumption that my poems are not exactly up his alley.
Why did I enter?
I had time on my hands (at my previous job) to work on the submission and money in my bank account. Billy Collins and Tony Hoagland both are judging what (to me, at least) appears to be A LOT of contests. I actually like some of Hoagland's poems, but what does his association with Cider Press Review do for his reputation. They already had problems with their "contest" even before he agreed the judge for them....
What do you think? Do you send out your MS because you think you can get Billy to chuckle, how do you feel about Tony? Do you even look to see who the judges are or check out the press? Or blindly send away to every contest listed in Poets & Writers?
What say y'all?
Friday, April 4, 2008
Are There Any Ladies In The House?
If you're a female, under 30 & living in NYC/BK/Queens then Poets & Writers Magazine is looking for you:
Poets & Writers Seeks Submissions
Poets & Writers is currently accepting submissions for the annual Amy Awards contest. The Amy Award is presented to women poets age 30 and under living in the New York City metropolitan area or on Long Island. Winners receive an honorarium and a reading in New York City. Submissions are now being accepted for the 2008 Amy Awards. Please send 3 lyric poems (50 lines or less), a short bio, and a SASE by June 1 to: Poets & Writers, Attn: Amy Awards,
90 Broad St., Suite 2100, New York, NY 10004
p.s. Word on the chatterwheel is that last year's submissions were a bit lacking so turn dem 'puters on and make it a competition!
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Speaking of poets, Julia Cohen has out a new chapbook collaboration with cohort poet Mathias Svalina.
It's a bit spendy but has illustrations, is letterpressed, & super-limited so get your collector fever on at http://www.smallfirespress.com/chapbooks.html
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There's a ton of reading going on including this Kimiko Hahn reading at the Brooklyn Museum which is for the BKM's First Saturdays. There's bunch of cool stuff going on 'cause of the Murakami exhibit!
Check it out here http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/visit/first_saturdays.php
or here http://brooklynbased.net/everything/beneath-the-surface/
Poets & Writers Seeks Submissions
Poets & Writers is currently accepting submissions for the annual Amy Awards contest. The Amy Award is presented to women poets age 30 and under living in the New York City metropolitan area or on Long Island. Winners receive an honorarium and a reading in New York City. Submissions are now being accepted for the 2008 Amy Awards. Please send 3 lyric poems (50 lines or less), a short bio, and a SASE by June 1 to: Poets & Writers, Attn: Amy Awards,
90 Broad St., Suite 2100, New York, NY 10004
p.s. Word on the chatterwheel is that last year's submissions were a bit lacking so turn dem 'puters on and make it a competition!
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Speaking of poets, Julia Cohen has out a new chapbook collaboration with cohort poet Mathias Svalina.
It's a bit spendy but has illustrations, is letterpressed, & super-limited so get your collector fever on at http://www.smallfirespress.com/chapbooks.html
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
There's a ton of reading going on including this Kimiko Hahn reading at the Brooklyn Museum which is for the BKM's First Saturdays. There's bunch of cool stuff going on 'cause of the Murakami exhibit!
Check it out here http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/visit/first_saturdays.php
or here http://brooklynbased.net/everything/beneath-the-surface/
Sunday, April 15, 2007
My Rock Star- Ferlinghetti Reading tomorrow
Say what you will, and despite gracing the cover of Poets & Writers, Lawrence Ferlinghetti is still under rated in the lens of American Poetry- in regards to his own poety- A Coney Island of the Mind, These are My Rivers, and most recently Americus- Book One, and what he has done for poetry. Let's just say City Lights: Prevert, Ginsburg, O'hara...
I've tried for about a year now to get him to read at the Teachers and Writers Collaborative Reading Series that I curate along with Jared and Adam but no such luck. So I'll be in line at 92Y and so should you!
http://blog.92y.org/index.php/weblog/item/cover_guy_lawrence_ferlinghetti/
I've tried for about a year now to get him to read at the Teachers and Writers Collaborative Reading Series that I curate along with Jared and Adam but no such luck. So I'll be in line at 92Y and so should you!
http://blog.92y.org/index.php/weblog/item/cover_guy_lawrence_ferlinghetti/
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