CURRENT ISSUE - # 39
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Walt Whitman gathering
Canadian Anthology
Oklahoman Anthology
Cuban/American Anthology
>2: An Anthology of Collaborations
Issue #40 is by invitation only and features work selected by Gillian Prew
- due online 3/15/2012.
Issue #41 will be edited by Jeanetta Calhoun Mish.
Reading period is ON-GOING NOW
for a special poetry and non-fiction prose issue with the theme -
Women Writing Nature.
Please see HERE for submissions requirements.
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 once said during a lecture
at Columbia:
"I think our one major lead as Americans is to educe
and exploit the significance of Walt Whitman's formal
excursions--And nothing else!"
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.
If you wish, for $22 a year, you may have the convenience of having a
pdf copy of each issue e-mailed directly to you as an attachment
to read off-line at your leisure. Please click the "submissions details"
link above for the e-mail address for your pdf request
(likewise please e-mail if you have interest in access
to a free Kindle version).
mule pastel by
KAREN
BRUENIG