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The River in the City
By Paul Martin
Ride the Pen
Analyzing great literature for technique and writing prompts
A Quiet Courage
Online journal of short poetry and microfiction
Subscriber News: April 2015
Recent honors and publications earned by our newsletter subscribers
The Object of White Noise
By Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé
Cultured Vultures
Online journal with free weekly poetry contest
Jane Friedman’s “MBA for Writers” Lectures
Digital publishing expert explains the business side of your writing career
Indies Unlimited PublishingFoul Survey
Site for indie and self-published authors gathers data on scam publishers
The Offing
Online journal of creative writing and art that “challenges, experiments, provokes”
from Love Justice
By Bracha Nechama Bomze
Winning Writers Increases Prizes in Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest to $4,000
Press Release: Winning Writers will now award $4,000 to the best stories and essays in the 23rd annual Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest; enter online by April 30
Elegy for Bobby Kennedy
1 Who invited you into our trailer-size ranch but that nobody, anybody, put-on of a nanny, TV. So I knew all about the press cameras' pop-and-flash surrounding you like celebrity lightning and your microphone voice talking up America. White House helicopters lifting you to some secret service, your older brother,…
Two Mistakes
“Two Mistakes” by Martin Hill Ortiz Read the author's comments on the poem.
Insomnia: A Suite in Thirteen Hours
I. Count sheep, my father said. Count ewes and lambs, count in the spiraling horn of ram the shape of shells, the fair arc of the nautilus. Take a census, especially, of black sheep who balk at the wall and refuse to jump over. How woolly they are, placid and…
Museum Visitation
after “Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney” by Robert Henri at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York A singular child, under the weight of crowded masterpieces carries on a weighty conversation with the voice in his head, the voice in the museum headphones, the voice who calmly explains each brilliant painting…
Genesis, 1978
I do not, for one more Monday morning, expect to see you coming down the hall bearing fragrant muffins—suborning work with cinnamon and poppy seed delight which I enjoy until I happen to recall that in this merciless fluorescent light my mirror shines with brutal honesty. A decade separates our…
Slainte
(A sestina for Ireland) I have turned my face to the winter streets of Ardara and traced the curling lines of smoke from lively fires that crackled bright with turf. And in the thickening cold the mist that rises from the rain-steeped russet bogs brings in the smoke and settles…
My Kingdom for a Horse!
(By 'Ann Arnamus') A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse! I'm sure you know the line, of course! Such a! Cliché! Was fitting back in its heyday, But, we need a fresh translation (Luckily my avocation)! I'm certain Shakespeare would be pissed That I've imposed a modern twist…
My Mother’s Teeth
You had been held without effort and with indifference for two full days in the soil's untidy grip before I found them in the small round Tupperware on the shelf above your sink. Those pale, low battlements against which your words were born. I say the body's ferocity to die…
Everything Makes Music When It Burns
Everything makes music when it burns— destruction is the rougher side of art where char and embers harmonize in turns. Until you live your life within these terms your sadness may conceal the beauty part: that everything makes music when it burns. The aria within our body churns with smoke…
Ball
Danny Sullivan hit an old Spalding, its seams already starting, and tore the cover half off. It flopped like a numb tongue, and we chased it down and groped its guts like one of the thousand alewives we blew up with firecrackers on the banks of the Mystic River, unrolled…
Bodies, Flowerbeds: A Villanelle
The earth, carved up, engraved with bodies, this hollow vision of death: people resting together, bodies beneath a bed of flowers. We soften death into poems and stories. The art of writing is just a way of wailing for the earth, carved up, sculpted by bodies. In Cameroon, hair from…
Fire Comes
Fire comes to the garden like a sordid thought, brought by a hand starfishing out to ditch a Silk Cut filter still alight. It can't believe its luck: a smudge of creosote spilled up a wall, a windless night, the brown grass stiff as hackles, ankle deep and stirred by…
Hunger Flew With Me From Cameroon
I wept at the littoral airport in Douala, said goodbye to my friends, felt them fade away at takeoff, as the lumpish green of rain forest was consumed by ivory clouds. I sifted through tiny packages of yogurt, pudding, and cheese, curious for something, a familiar taste; wondered if this…
Allegheny County, 1888: Ava Remembers Her Canaries
I christened them with words Papa used— Sentinel and Lookout and Firedamp. Ten's old enough for a job, he said, nestling eggs in box of cotton and cedar chips. Someone's gotta breed 'em. Weeks later, the chicks burst into the world like dynamite. I offered them a flaking metal palace…
Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest 2014
Congratulations to the winners of the 2014 Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest!
Eleanor St. James
Eleanor St. James is a poet and educator who, after a temporary stay of 26 years in the Pacific Northwest, has returned to her beloved Stinson Beach, a small town in the San Francisco Bay Area couched between the Pacific Ocean and Mount Tamalpais. There she is slowly getting used…
Martin Hill Ortiz
Martin Hill Ortiz, a native of Santa Fe, New Mexico, is a professor of Pharmacology at the Ponce Health Sciences University in Ponce, Puerto Rico where he lives with his wife and son. An award-winning poet, a score of his short stories have appeared in print, anthologies, and online journals.…
Glenn Morazzini
Glenn Morazzini's poems have won the Allen Ginsberg Poetry Award, the Paumanok Poetry Prize, a Martin Dibner Poetry Fellowship, the Amy Clampitt Residency Poetry Fellowship, a Maine Arts Commission Individual Fellowship Grant, and a Pushcart Prize nomination, and have been published in Poetry, RATTLE, Poet Lore, Paterson Literary Review, and…
Sian Lindsey
Sian Lindsey is a freelance writer, journalist, and poet who was born and brought up in an Air Force family, forged a 22-year career in the Air Force herself, and has been traveling all her life. She earned degrees in mathematics and English from University of Maryland University College, an…
Joanne Lichtenstein
Joanne pursued artistic endeavors from an early age, after discovering that crayons were better for coloring than for eating! She has written numerous poems (mostly humorous) and one day hopes to write and illustrate a children's book. She also has an ear for accents, dabbles in voiceover, and is building…
Emily Rose Cole
Emily Rose Cole is a poet, songwriter, and fairytale enthusiast originally from Emmaus, Pennsylvania, though she now lives in Southern Illinois. Common themes in her work include fairytale retellings, emotional violence, and terrible things happening to birds. (Despite this, she really loves birds.) Her poems have appeared in a variety…
B.J. Buckley
B.J. Buckley is a Montana poet and writer who has worked in Arts-in-Schools/Communities programs throughout the west and midwest for over 37 years. She is currently SD Arts Council Writer-in-Residence for Sanford Arts, Sanford Cancer Center, Sioux Falls, SD. Her poems have appeared widely in small print and online journals,…
Viola Allo
Viola Allo is a Cameroonian-born poet based in the United States. Raised in Cameroon by her Cameroonian father and American mother, she migrated to the United States at the age of nineteen. She holds a bachelor's degree in psychology from the University of California, Davis and a master's degree in…
Claire Askew
Claire Askew's poetry has appeared in a variety of publications, including Poetry Scotland, The Edinburgh Review, The Guardian and PANK. Her work has also appeared in numerous major UK anthologies, most recently Be The First To Like This: New Scottish Poetry (Vagabond Voices, 2014) and Hallujah For 50ft Women: Poems…
Bud
By J.C. Todd
Fireship Press
E-book and POD publisher of nautical and historical fiction and nonfiction
Strange Angels by William Pitt Root
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tree turtle
Writer, book artist, educator, peace activist
Subscriber News: March 2015
Recent honors and publications earned by our newsletter subscribers
Stock Photo Resources at Canva
Links to sources for legally free stock photos for your blog
Final Month to Enter the 14th Annual Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest
Enter the 14th annual free humor poetry contest sponsored by Winning Writers, deadline April 1
Trish Hopkinson Poetry Blog
Poems, chapbooks, and calls for submissions
Poetry Has Value
Blog about finding paying markets for poetry
Step-by-Step Guide to Dealing with Content Theft
Article gives legal advice on blocking unauthorized use of your written content
Little Red Tree Publishes Bullies in Love by Jendi Reiter
Jendi Reiter and Little Red Tree Publishing are pleased to announce the publication of Bullies in Love
Award-Winning Poems 2015
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Bullies in Love by Jendi Reiter
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Where the Meadowlark Sings by Ellaraine Lockie
On sale now: Ellaraine Lockie’s poetry chapbook, Where the Meadowlark Sings
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