Sugar Mule Literary Magazine, ed. M. L. Weber

CURRENT ISSUE - # 40
"Voices from the UK"
guest-edited by Gillian Prew

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Walt Whitman gathering

Canadian Anthology

Oklahoman Anthology

Cuban/American Anthology

>2: An Anthology of Collaborations

up-coming issue #41 is no longer accepting submissions
it is guest-edited by
Jeanetta Calhoun Mish
from those already submitted

up-coming issue #42 will be guest-edited by Lawrence Upton - submissions will be accepted TBA

up-coming issue #43 will be guest-edited by Soniah Kamal by INVITATION ONLY

The following section is for those interested in Walt Whitman.

     Wallace Stevens said:

      In the far South the sun of autumn is passing
      like Walt Whitman walking along a ruddy shore.
     He is singing and chanting the things that are part of him,
      The worlds that were and will be, death and day.
      Nothing is final, he chants. No man shall see the end.
      His beard is of fire and his staff is a leaping flame.

     . . .

      Harold Bloom said:

      "Whitman is the greatest artist his nation has brought forth....
      One always wants to start fresh with Whitman and read him as
      as though he has never been read before...Whitman, like Shakespeare
     ...tempts me to confront greatness directly, as though I could
      be alone with his work...try to read as though you were Adam
      early in the morning."

     . . .

      D. H. Lawrence said:

      "Whitman, the great poet, has meant so much to me. Whitman,
      the one man breaking a way ahead."

     . . .

      William Carlos Williams said:

      "I think our one major lead as Americans is to educe
      and exploit the significance of Walt Whitman's formal
      excursions--And nothing else!"
     . . .

      William James said:

      Whitman discovered "the kind of fiber . . . which is the material
      woven of all the excitements, joys, and meanings that ever will
      be in this world."

If you have work inspired by or related to Whitman,
please send it at any time;
otherwise submit your work only during reading periods noted above.

If accepted, all Whitman-inspired work
appears in an on-going "gathering" issue (see link above)
to be published as a book.

To read essential poems by Walt Whitman himself, please click here.
IF YOU THINK YOU HAVE ALREADY READ WHITMAN
try THIS ONE.

Remember to check the "submission details" link above and always
put your name and email address inside your attached Word or rtf file.