Poetry House Concert This Weekend

Poetry and Music in Wyncote: October 21st, 1:30 pm

Rodger Lowenthal is Having a House Party!

Poets HAYDEN SAUNIER, GRANT CLAUSER, PAUL SIEGELL and JOE ROARTY… with special, musical guests playing blues, Irish, rockabilly, bluegrass.

Small desserts appreciated. $15 donation (all proceeds to poets + musicians)
HAYDEN SAUNIER is the author of the poetry collection Tips for Domestic Travel, published in 2009 by Black Lawrence Press. Her work has appeared widely and her most recent awards include the 2011 Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry from Nimrod International Journal and the 2011 Rattle Poetry Prize. Her acting credits include The Sixth Sense, Philadelphia Diary, Hack, the voice of a broken-down stove for Ikea, and dozens of roles in the theatre. Raised in Charlottesville, Virginia, she now lives outside Philadelphia. (http://howapoemhappens.blogspot.com/2012/08/hayden-saunier.html)

GRANT CLAUSER is the author of the book, The Trouble with Rivers ( Foothills Publishing, 2012). He earned an MFA in poetry from Bowling Green State University where he was a Richard Devine Fellow. In 2010 he was selected as the Montgomery County Pennsylvania Poet Laureate by Robert Bly. He started the Montco Wordshop in Lansdale and he has conducted workshops for the Musehouse Writing Center and Philadelphia Writers Conference. His favorite dry fly is the Parachute Adams. (http://www.uniambic.com/)

JOE ROARTY has been shiprekkd on the shores of the susquehanna and has made his way 2 Philly. He is a performance artist who has performed his work across the United States.(http://www.foxchasereview.org/10SU/JoeRoarty.html)

PAUL SIEGELL is the author of three books of poetry: wild life rifle fire (Otoliths Books, 2010), jambandbootleg (A-Head Publishing, 2009) and Poemergency Room (Otoliths Books, 2008). Paul is a senior editor at Painted Bride Quarterly. Kindly find more of Paul’s work – and concrete poetry t-shirts – at “ReVeLeR @ eYeLeVeL” (http://paulsiegell.blogspot.com/).

 213 MAPLE AVE, WYNCOTE, PA 19095

DONATION $15.00. (All proceeds to poets & musicians)

Small desserts appreciated.

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PoetCore is Now UnIambic

If you’re getting this message because you subscribed to the blog formerly known as PoetCore, you’ve probably figured out by now that the name has changed to UnIambic. The old URL will still work and should redirect you. The site is still essentially the same, I just grew tired of the name. Plus, UnIambic makes me laugh a little.

New Issue of Stone Highway Review

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The newest issue of Stone Highway Review is up and available for your reading pleasure. If you are looking for some poetry - this is probably where you want to go. We have poetry and prose from writers like Meg Tuite, Walter Bjorkman, Hanna Elson, Stephanie Dickinson, Carol Berg, Matthew Porubsky, JP Reese, LeeAnn Oliver, Joy Ladin, and many more.

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My poem "What We Spent it On" is included on page 12 of this issue. Taylor Hodge's "Closing Shift" (around page 33) is one of of the stand-out poems in this issue, but there are many more.

Poet Natasha Trethewey - 19th U.S. Poet Laureate

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The Neurotic-Growling-Self-Loathing Side of Poetry Biz by Devon Miller-Duggan

Reblogged from Miriam's Well: Poetry, Land Art, and Beyond:

The Neurotic-Growling-Self-Loathing Side of Poetry Biz

“Really?!” I mutter to myself, “Norton (or Knopf, or FSG, or Copper Canyon, or…) sees fit to publish this sentimental mediocrity?!” This little conversation with myself not infrequently happens when I get to the bottom of whatever poem I’ve been reading on Verse Daily or Poetry Daily in The New Yorker. I recognize that it is not useful.

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This essay is marvelous. I know I often feel the same way as do many of my writerly friends.

Under the Stars - Poetry and BLues

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HOUSE CONCERT
Under the Stars Poetry and Blues

Featuring:

Paul Siegell
Brian Smith
Diane Guarnieri
Joanne Leva
Fred Stuckey of Gas Money
Saul Braudy
Phyllis Chapell of Ciora
Doris Ferleger

May 19, 2012 (Saturday), 7 pm
213 Maple Ave, Wyncote PA 19095

Donation $15.00 (All proceeds to poets & musicians)
Soft drinks provided. Alcohol up to you.
Small desserts appreciated.

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National Poetry Month Spotlight: Mary Biddinger

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As April draws to a close, we'd like to thank all of the BLP poets who contributed to our poem-a-day feature during National Poetry Month. To cap off the month, we are proud to feature Mary Biddinger, whose chapbook Saint Monica was recently published by Black Lawrence Press.

What My Body Taught You

It was cold and then colder. The underbelly…

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Lovely language here, "anatomy of a birch tree"

Read to Write by Musehouse Instructor Grant Clauser

Reblogged from Musehouse:

Read to Write

When I was a college student, my first creative writing teacher told the class that there were two kinds of writers: those who wanted to write and those who wanted to have written. He may not have been the first person to say that, but it’s still one of his many sayings that resonates with me now, 25 years later.

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My new guest post at the Musehouse blog.

Who’s Reading Your Poetry Submissions?

At Prairie Schooner, “about 40 graduate readers look through the submissions, determining if they are eligible for the magazine. “

from an article in the Daily Nebraskan.

Prairie Schooner does not currently accept electronic submissions (this is changing soon) nor charge for submissions.

By the way, I’m not judging, just pointing it out (I was a screener for Mid-American Review when I was a grad student). This is a question often discussed in writing circles and becomes more interesting as more journals adopt submission fees–see previous post for complete context. I know a lot of writers worry that a 24-year-old grad student may not be the best judge of what literature is “eligible.” I know I’m a very different reader than I was 20 years ago.