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Magazine Stand :: Decolonial Passage – Issue 2

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The call for Issue 2 of the online publication Decolonial Passage was themed “Food, Power, and Powerlessness,” with submissions on a wide range of topics: food and cultural heritage, food preparation and gender, the industrialization of food production, food production and imperialism, food sovereignty, food insecurity, and food deserts. The issue includes nonfiction by Kathy Watson, Bret Anne Serbin, Tracy Youngblom; fiction by Mungai Mwangi, Favour Iruoma Chukwuemeka, Davina Kawuma, Rosanna Rios-Spicer, Fatima Abdullahi; poetry by Matthew Johnson, Nancy L. Meyer, Paul Smith, Robyn Perros, Patrice Wilson, Toti O’Brien, Jane Ward, Catherine Harnett, Leslie B. Neustadt, Steven Ray Smith, Lola Labinjo, Juley Harvey, David Agyei-Yeboah, Sean Murphy, Salimah Valiani, Oliver Sopulu Odo. Decolonial Passage also publishes online content on a rolling basis, with recent contributions from Cheryl Atim Alexander (“The Butterfly Harvesters”) and Gemini Wahhaj (“Netherland: A Prequel to Joseph O’Neill’s Tale”). All content is free and accessible to read online.

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New Book :: An Influencer’s World

An Influencer's World: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Social Media Influencers and Creators by Caroline Baker and Don Baker book cover image

An Influencer’s World: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Social Media Influencers and Creators by Caroline Baker and Don Baker
University of Iowa Press, June 2023

An Influencer’s World: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Social Media Influencers and Creators by Caroline Baker and Don Baker explores the business of influencing built around likes and hate, which can take a huge psychological toll on those who choose to play the game. Their work pulls back the curtain and shines a light on the often-misunderstood realities of this dynamic industry. Featuring dozens of interviews with trending influencers, CEOs, leading industry insiders, brands, mental health professionals, and celebrities, this book provides an unconventional look at both the business side of influencing and the personal lives of influencers and creators.

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Magazine Stand :: The Courtship of Winds – Winter 2023

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The Courtship of Winds offers readers many new voices with “thoughtful perspectives on our shared experience.” Fully accessible to read online, the only thing this issue is ‘missing’ is drama – and the drama editors say they’d love to receive some well-crafted plays for upcoming issues. What readers will find in this issue is poetry, Paul Rabinowitz, Caroline Maun, Gale Acuff, Brenda Yates, Rebecca Ressl, Danley Romero, Sharon Kennedy-Nolle, Yvonne Pearson, Michael Ansara, Richard Matta, Richard Dinges, Jr., David Reuter, Gordon Kippola, Nathan Thomas, Bobby Parrott, Murray Silverstein, Alison Hicks, Sandra Newton, Anne Marie Wells, Bob Meszaros, Erren Kelly, Rhys Lee, Leila Farjami, Gordon Kippola, Frederick Pollack, and Will Walker; art & photography by Paul Rabinowitz and Jim Zola; essays by Yvonne Pearson, and Neil Mathison; and fiction by Gavin Kayner, Gregory T. Janetka, Regina Thomas, Teresa Burns Gunther, and Marco Etheridge.

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New Book :: Under a Future Sky

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Under a Future Sky by Brynn Saito
Red Hen Press, August 2023

Under a Future Sky is Brynn Saito’s poetic gathering of generations, a performance with ghosts anchored in a journey with her father to the desert prison where, over eighty years ago, her grandparents met and made a life. Born of a personal ache, an unquenchable desire to animate the shadow archive, Saito’s journey unfolds in lyric correspondences and epistolary poems that sing with rage, confusion, and, ultimately, love. In these works, descendants of wartime incarceration exchange dreams, mothers become water goddesses, and a modern daughter haunts future ruins. To enter this book is to enter the slipstream of nonlinear time, where mystical inclinations, yellow cedars, and sisterhood make a balm for trauma’s scars. Altogether, the work enacts a dialogue between the past and the present; the radical ancestor and the future child; and the desert prison and the family garden, where Saito’s father diligently gathers stones.

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Comics Review :: Trans and Non-Binary Menstruation by Jac Dellaria

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I came across Jac Dellaria’s work thanks to the Chicago Zine Fest where he was tabling. He has an Instagram where he posts his most recent work, and I zine reviewed several of his indie publications. Dellaria also has an incredible series he created in collaboration with University of Wisconsin – Madison Sociology Professor Sarah E. Frank (“Frankie”) based on interview research conducted in 2018-19 with trans and nonbinary emerging adults (18-29). Frank writes that Dellaria “translated the findings and quotes into stunning comic panels, presenting . . . a visual narrative of menstruation for trans and genderqueer people.” The comics include “The Bathroom,” “Product Problems,” “At the Doctor’s,” and “On Identity.” These four comics are worth visiting and sharing, especially in light of continued basic bathroom rights for all and to understand what it is like for others whose experiences are real and valid yet not justly recognized. As one character in “On Identity” comments, “I feel kinda stuck because periods are such ‘a woman’s thing’ that if I speak up, then I’ll be seen as invalidating my identity. But If I don’t, then no one will ever learn.” Here’s hoping more people will care enough to learn.

Trans and Non-Binary Menstruation by Jac Dellaria. Teaching Frankly, 2020.

“Queering Menstruation: Trans and Non-Binary Identity and Body Politics” by Sarah E. Frank. Sociological Inquiry, 2020.

Reviewer bio: Denise Hill is Editor of NewPages.com and reviews books she chooses based on her own personal interests.

Lit Mag Covers :: Picks of the Week – June 19, 2023

We are reviving an old favorite blog feature that originally ran from 2013-2019. This post recognizes cover art and designs for literary magazines, whether in print or online. These are chosen solely at the discretion of the Editor. Enjoy!

Booth 18 cover image

Publishing new material online on the first Friday of every month, Booth also releases two print issues a year. Issue 18 cover art is “Bald Eagle” by Kelcey Parker Ervick.

Indiana Review Winter 2023 cover art

Kudos to Indiana Review for their redesign – both inside and out – the Winter 2023 issue featuring cover art by Corey Pemberton entitled “TT, I’m so done with you.”

New Ohio Review issue 32 cover image

Issue 32 of New Ohio Review features Jesse Lee Kercheval’s playful, colorful, and highly textured “The Kiss” watercolor on paper.

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Magazine Stand :: bioStories – June 2023

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Publishing nonfiction prose only, bioStories offers readers writing that focuses on the skilled craft of storytelling, with biographies that express the understanding that “real life is messy,” yet acknowledge: “human nature is idiosyncratic and frequently contradictory, and, quite often, when you look close enough, it is downright graceful.” The publication features a weekly essay on its homepage. Recent contributors include Julie Lockhart, Yoon Chung, Cathy Fiorello, Joshua David Laine, Pamela Kaye, Michelle Cacho-Negrete, Sally Carton, and Sydney Lea.

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New Book :: Do I Belong Here?

Do I Belong Here? / ¿Es este mi lugar? by René Colato Laínez book cover image

Do I Belong Here? / ¿Es este mi lugar? by René Colato Laínez
Illustrations by Fabricio Vanden Broeck
Piñata Books, May 2023

An immigrant boy stands “in the middle of a whirlwind of children,” and wonders where he is supposed to go. Finally, a woman speaks to him in a language he doesn’t understand and takes him to his classroom. A boy named Carlos helps orient him, but later when he reads aloud, everyone laughs at him. And when he gets an “F” on an assignment, he is sure “I do not belong here.” Award-winning children’s book author René Colato Laínez teams up again with illustrator Fabricio Vanden Broeck to explore the experiences of newcomers in schools and affirm that yes! They do belong. With beautiful acrylic-on-wood illustrations depicting children at school, this bilingual kids’ book by a Salvadoran immigrant tells an important story that will resonate with all kids who want nothing more than to belong.

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Magazine Stand :: Consequence – Spring 2023

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The Spring 2023 issue of Consequence (15.1) spotlights not only the consequences of war and geopolitical violence but also the diversity of such experiences—both external and internal. In this volume, for example, there are eighteen different countries represented, all of which portray any number of place-specific repercussions. In the art feature, the photos of Alfred Yaghobzadeh, relay the varied physical and cultural effects on Afghanistan and its people after decades of war. Likewise, Sandra Kolankiewicz’s poem, “Dear Famous Poet,” is a potent example of internal consequences as we witness the personal experiences of both a wounded vet as he’s teaching a class while being belittled and that of the young narrator, who is angered by this ridicule. There are fifty-six beautiful and highly-crafted pieces in this issue, and each is an example of just how far-reaching and singular the consequences of war and geopolitical violence can be.

Magazine Stand :: Bear Review – Spring 2023

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The Spring 2023 issue of Bear Review (9.2) is live – and this is one bear you’ll want to run toward! This online issue offers readers poetry by Lisa Allen, Claressinka Anderson, Rebecca Baggett, Alyse Bensel, Sarah Carey, Robin Rosen Chang, Genevieve DeGuzman, Lawrence Di Stefano, Sean Thomas Dougherty, Loisa Fenichell, Jason Gray, Justin Groppuso-Cook, Brian Henry, Whitney Hudak, Skye Jackson, Padraig O’ Tuama, Jenny Maaketo, Martha McCullough, Peter Mason, Julia Anna Morrison, Mitchell Nobis, Meghan Sterling, and Liane Tyrrel.

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Magazine Stand :: Arkana – 14

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Arkana, the graduate-run online literary journal of the University of Central Arkansas is staffed and edited by students in the Arkansas Writers’ MFA Program and accepts submissions from artists worldwide. The editors write, “As part of an overlooked and often misunderstood region of the US, we’re drawn to an inclusive literary tradition that extends beyond our rich southern landscape. We strive to create a space that brings together diverse voices and champions stories that embody our mission.” Issue 14 features interviews with Michael X. Wang and Matthew Salesses, as well as works by Sherri-Anne Forde, Nikki Ummel, Lucy Zhang, Sean Madden, Josephine Whittock, C. H. Weihmann, Sekhar Banerjee, Donna Steiner, Mario Duarte, Gregg Williard, and Debasish, Mishra.

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New Book :: Plums for Months

Plums for Months: A Memoir of Nature and Neurodivergence by Jazi Cox book cover image

Plums for Months: A Memoir of Nature and Neurodivergence by Zaji Cox
Forest Avenue Press, May 2023

As a neurodivergent child in a hundred-year-old house, Zaji Cox collects grammar books, second-hand toys, and sightings of feral cats. She dances and cartwheels through self-discovery and doubt, guided by her big sister and their devoted single mother. Through short essays that evoke the abundant imagination of childhood, Plums for Months explores the challenges of growing up mixed race and low-income on the outskirts of Portland, Oregon.

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Magazine Stand :: CutBank Celebrates 50 Years

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Happy 50th Anniversary to CutBank Literary Magazine, founded in 1973 by the Creative Writing Program at the University of Montana, and publishing new and emerging writers in its biannual print publication as well as unique online content: “We’re global in scope, but with a regional bias.” Issue 98 features poetry by Tyler Kline, James Henry Knippen, Melissa Kwasny, David Moolten, Pádraig Ó Tuama, and Mary Sesso; fiction by Michael Caleb Tasker; nonfiction by Rachel Attias, Charisse Baldoria, Rose McLarney, and Kathleen Walker; an author Interview with Pádraig Ó Tuama by Kalani Padilla & Erin O’Regan White; interior landscape photography by David Murphy, and cover art by Tino Rodríguez.

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June 2023 eLitPak :: Contest and Writing Class Opportunities from Black Fox Literary Magazine!

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Deadline: June 18, 2023
Submit your fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction to Black Fox Literary Magazine’s Secrets Unraveled Writing Contest! Deadline: June 18, 2023! And be sure to check out our upcoming writing class with Catherine Adel West on June 25, 2023! View flyer and visit Submittable for more information!

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June 2023 eLitPak :: 2023 Charles Simic Poetry Prize

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Deadline: July 31, 2023
Hole In The Head Review has established the Charles Simic Poetry Prize to honor our late friend and mentor. First prize will receive $1,000 and publication in our November 1 issue. Winner will be announced at our October 26 poetry reading, on social media, and in our November 1 issue. Poet David Rivard, who taught with Charlie in The University of New Hampshire MFA program, will judge. View flyer for more information. Submissions accepted through July 31, 2023 through our submission portal.

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June 2023 eLitPak :: Gival Press 2023 Oscar Wilde Award

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for Best LGBTQ+ Original Poem

Deadline: June 27, 2023
22nd Annual Gival Press Oscar Wilde Award for the best LGBTQ+ original poem in English, with a prize of $500.00. View flyer for more information and then submit here.

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Magazine Stand :: Broadsided Press – June 2023

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Founded in 2005, the mission of Broadsided Press was “putting literature and art on the streets” by publishing monthly visual-literary collaborations as free posters for anyone to download, print, and post. This grassroots distribution was thus managed by “Vectors” who share the broadsides in their neighborhoods. June 2023 will be their final monthly installment as they moved instead to biannual portfolios of work. In addition, Broadsided Press offers free lesson plans for using broadsides to teach visual arts, reviews, and summer workshops at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA. We’ve always been great fans here of the work of Broadsided Press and hope you’ll take a moment to check out their site.

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June 2023 eLitPak :: Women at Woodstock 2024

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Write in a Community of Fellow Creatives in the Catskills

Registration Deadline: October 1, 2023
Our intimate retreat fosters creativity in a safe environment. We write and workshop by day and share readings in a wine & cheese literary salon every evening. Our guest this year is Elizabeth Brundage, author of several novels including The Vanishing Point, A Stranger Like You, and All Things Cease to Appear, which was the basis for the Netflix film “Things Heard and Seen.” View flyer for more information.

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June 2023 eLitPak :: The Bridge on Beer River: Available for Pre-Order

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A rust belt city in decline retains the solace of romance, which often proves to be an empty promise or even a curse. In The Bridge on Beer River, a novel-in-stories set in Reagan-era Binghamton, New York, characters scramble for subsistence while hoping for love and a better life. View flyer and visit website for more information.

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June 2023 eLitPak :: Howling Bird Press Poetry Prize is Open for Manuscript Submissions!

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Deadline: August 21, 2023
Howling Bird Press awards $2,500 and book publication in fall 2024 to one single-author original (previously unpublished in book form) poetry manuscript. Using the online submission system, submit a manuscript of between 48 and 72 pages with a $25 entry fee by August 21, 2023. Howling Bird is part of Augsburg University’s MFA program. James Cihlar, publisher: [email protected]. Visit submissions manager.

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New Book :: Player’s Vendetta

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Player’s Vendetta A Willie Cuesta Mystery by John Lantigua
Arte Público Press, March 2023

Willie Cuesta, former Miami Police Department detective-turned-private investigator, is swinging in his hammock, estimating the number of mango daquiris he can squeeze from a ripe piece of fruit about to fall from his tree. He’s also waiting for a prospective client who refused to discuss her case over the phone. Ellie Hernandez hasn’t seen her fiancé, Roberto “Bobby” Player, in ten days, and she wants Willie to find him. Bobby has been obsessed with the suspicious death of his parents more than thirty-five years ago in Cuba, and he recently went to the island to find their killers. Only six years old when they were murdered, he was living in the United States, where they were supposed to join him. He was one of the “Peter Pan” kids smuggled out when Fidel Castro took over. Willie learns the Players controlled one of the most successful casinos on the island and a large sum of money—half a million dollars—disappeared with their deaths. His investigation reveals an assortment of suspicious characters who were in Havana when the Players were killed, including a former Cuban spy now living in Little Havana, Mafia gangsters involved in gambling institutions and even an undercover US intelligence agent.

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June 2023 eLitPak :: 7th Annual Taos Writers Conference

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Come to beautiful Taos, New Mexico to attend the 7th Annual Taos Writers Conference 7/7/23-7/9/23. Our keynote speaker Ramona Emerson will be joined by twenty other faculty members offering workshops in every genre including poetry, fiction, memoir, and creative nonfiction. Noted faculty include Ariel Gore, Jamie Figueroa, and Valerie Martinez. FMI: visit website or call 575-758-0081.

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June 2023 eLitPak :: Last Call! North Street Book Prize for Self-Published & Hybrid-Published Books

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Winning Writers will award a grand prize of $10,000 cash in its ninth annual North Street competition and $20,400 in all. See our flyer to learn why our contest is one of the very best for self-published and hybrid-published authors. Submit books published in any year and on any platform. $75 entry fee. Enter online or by mail by June 30. Learn more at our website.

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Magazine Stand :: The Fiddlehead – Spring 2023

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The Fiddlehead No. 295 (Spring 2023) features poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and reviews written by some of the best new and established writers. Contributors include Moni Brar—winner of The Fiddlehead 32nd annual Ralph Gustafson Prize For Best Poem, Adrienne Gruber, Chelsea Peters, Lis Sanchez, Kwai Shen, Kathleen Winter, and many more. Visit The Fiddlehead website to see a full list of contributors, read excerpts from selected works, listen to Moni Brar read her award-winning poem, and order a copy of No. 295 or subscribe for home delivery. Cover art, Peonies, by Stephen May.

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Where to Submit Roundup: June 16, 2023

51 Submission Opportunities including calls for submissions, writing contests, and book prizes.

Where to Submit Roundup 2023

It seems that June has just started and here we are and it is half over with. That means that our eLitPak Newsletter was emailed to our current newsletter subscribers. If you missed out, you can access it online here. There are some submission opportunities you don’t want to miss out on there, too. Plus, of course, enjoy our weekly roundup of submission opportunities below as well.

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Magazine Stand :: MockingHeart Review – Spring/Summer 2023

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The online triannual MockingHeart Review publishes twenty poems per issue as well as a featured poet. The editors look for works “that express the complexities of the human heart in clear, precise, lyrical language.” The publication also features up to ten pieces of art per issue, as well as an occasional featured artist, for all kinds of artwork. “Our taste is diverse and ever-expanding,” the editors say. Jo Taylor is the featured poet in this newest issue and is joined by contributions by Al Maginnes, Arvilla Fee, Barbara Brooks, Cecil Morris, Christian Ward, Christine Perry, Dianna MacKinnon Henning, Emily Eads, Jean Podralski, John Tustin, Ken Hines, Laurel Benjamin, Mark J. Mitchell, Mike Lewis-Beck, Rachel Dacus, Richard Dinges, Jr., Robert L. Dean, Jr., Steve Brisendine, and Suzanne E. Wiltz.

New Book :: The Hungers of the World

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The Hungers of the World: New & Collected Later Poems by John Morgan
Salmon Poetry, April 2023

The Hungers of the World: New & Collected Later Poems by John Morgan joins its companion volume, The Moving Out: Collected Early Poems, published in 2019, to provide a comprehensive gathering of this Alaskan poet’s work. Originally from New York, Morgan moved with his family to Fairbanks, Alaska in 1976 to direct the creative writing program at the University of Alaska. In 1982, he and his wife Nancy built a house overlooking the Tanana River with a long view south to the Alaska Range. Morgan has written a series of poems which feature that view as it changes month by month through the seasons. Morgan’s family features prominently in his work as well as larger topics that deal with history and the arts. The final section of The Hungers of the World contains two long poems: The Wedge and River of Light: A Conversation with Kabir. The latter takes the reader on an adventurous raft trip down the Copper River in Southcentral Alaska with the Indian mystic poet Kabir as Morgan’s imaginary companion and spiritual guide.

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Books Received June 2023

NewPages receives many wonderful book titles each month to share with our readers. You can read more about some of these by clicking on “New Books” under the NewPages Blog or Books tab on the menu. If you are a publisher or author looking to be listed here or featured on our blog and social media, please contact us!

Poetry

Alone, J.R. Solonche, David Robert Books
Bar of Rest, Sara Epstein, Kelsay Books
Bridge at the End of the World, Scott T. Starbuck, Blue Light Press
Broken Metronome, Connie Post, Glass Lyre Press
The Death of Weinberg: Poems and Stories, Walter Weinschenk, Kelsay Books
Dreaming in Cantera, Bonnie Wolkenstein, WordTech Editions
The Dreams of Gods, J.R. Solonche, Kelsay Books
EtC, Laura Mullen, Solid Objects
excisions, Hilary Plum, Black Lawrence Press
Expert Terrain, Diane Schenker, Word Poetry
Fig Season, Joan E. Bauer, Turning Point
Glass to Sand, John Van Dreal, Cherry Grove Collections
gulp/gasp, Serena Piccoli, Moira Books
Hearts, Joanne Corey, Kelsay Books

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Magazine Review :: Arc Poetry Magazine “How Poems Work”

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Each issue of Arc Poetry Magazine includes “How Poems Work,” which offers readers a “case-study appreciation” of a single poem. The poem is reprinted in the issue along with the analysis, focusing on style, subject matter, influences, context, and the use of poetic elements. The spring 2023 issue featured Bardia Sinaee’s appreciation for “Epiphany” by Sara Venart. The poem opens with a series of visualized situations from everyday life, starting with the prompt “Here I am…” and coursing over a selection of events and feelings and questioning ‘what ifs.’ The closing line was a dagger to my heart in the most loving way and left me sobbing. “That’s a good poem,” I could have been satisfied to say, but then I read Sinaee’s commentary, which helped make connections I would not have, and offered a more authoritative assessment in ways I might not have felt confident making, but which made complete sense, such as, “This poem addresses us urgently and intimately.” While I felt that in reading the poem, seeing it said helped ground my feeling in shared reason. It helped me make sense, not of the poem, but of the effect the words had on me. It offered me a conversation partner in an otherwise solitary experience. It’s a wonderful feature for those of us who enjoy education but lack access to teachers—something to look forward to in each issue.

Reviewer bio: Denise Hill is Editor of NewPages.com and reviews books she chooses based on her own personal interests.

New Book :: The Best Material for the Artist in the World

Best Material for the Artist in the World - Albert Bierstadt: A Biography in Poems by Kenneth Chamlee book cover image

Best Material for the Artist in the World – Albert Bierstadt: A Biography in Poems by Kenneth Chamlee
Stephen F. Austin University Press, March 2023

This poetic biography tracks the life and career of landscape artist Albert Bierstadt, whose 19th-century representations of the American West earned him wealth and international acclaim. These narrative, lyric, and ekphrastic poems touch the momentum of the developing west, the devastation of native tribes and the great buffalo herds, as well as the resiliency of Bierstadt’s art in times of environmental awareness and expansionist reappraisal.

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Magazine Stand :: Utopia – April/May 2023

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Utopia Science Fiction Magazine publishes a new issue on the 30th of every other month with a free story and poem released online every three weeks. Publishing quality science fiction short stories, science articles, and poetry, the most recent issue includes short stories by J.S. Johnston, Nadine Aurora Tabing, Ray Daley, Sam W. Pisciotta; poetry, Kim Whysall-Hammond, Greg Schwartz, Yuliia Vereta, Lauren McBride; science essays by Yuliia Vereta, Jean-Paul L. Garnier; and an interview with Joe Haldeman.

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New Book :: Embarrassed of the (W)Hole

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Embarrassed of the (W)Hole by Panoply Performance Laboratory
Ugly Duckling Presse, March 2023

Embarrassed of the (W)Hole is an operating manual for an opera-of-operations. Oriented around formal and modal resistances to “wholism” as complex foil and the proposition to embarrass, the book includes scores-for-scores, theoretical frames, process notes, and a User Survey meant to be “operated” and “used” (specifically, rigorously) to stage and situate pertinent contexts, conditions, and embodiments of and for projected future operations.

Panoply Performance Laboratory is a thinktank, organizational entity, and flexible performance collective. Founded in 2006 by Esther Neff and co-directed with Brian McCorkle through 2018, PPL has also existed as a physical lab site (“institution as a verb”) in Brooklyn, hosting projects and performances by artists and thinkers from around the world.

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New Book :: HIGHER

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HIGHER by Robert Stewart
Press Americana, April 2023

Winner of the 2022 Prize Americana, the poems in HIGHER by Robert Stewart are at once direct and resonant, celebratory of the natural world and of spiritual aspirations. Rising from a working-class, blue-collar sensibility, these pieces range from a short work about using a sledgehammer on a street crew to a multi-part longer work about animals in changing nature. These lyric poems include subtle metrics and enough narrative to drive events, often with elegiac references to a military vet friend, a brother, a Sicilian grandmother, and literary heroes. Their focus ultimately returns to hope and care for children, often with no small amount of humor.

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Magazine Stand :: 805 Lit+Art – June 2023

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The June 2023 issue of 805 Lit+Art (9.2) gets readers ready to plunge into summer with their vibrant water cover art “At the Beach” by Michael Noonan, then explore the depths of the color blue in Christine Vartoughian’s flash fiction, “The Color of Forgotten Dreams,” hunt for water in Nicholas Wright’s short story, “Millennial Elysium,” and feel the lapping waves in Melissa Fitzpatrick’s flash, “Beach People.” This issue also offers work by debut authors, including Samantha Joslin’s debut flash “Fantasy” and Lizzie Bellinger’s debut creative nonfiction “The Secret Stories of Shoes.” Visit 805 Lit+Art to access the full content online.

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New Lit on the Block :: Viewless Wings

banner for The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast

“Viewless Wings” is from the poem “Ode to a Nightingale” by John Keats: “Away! away! for I will fly to thee, // Not charioted by Bacchus and his pards, // But on the viewless wings of Poesy” – and thus the inspiration for a unique platform that provides emerging poets the opportunity to publish their works online as well as have them included on the Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast.

Publishing in an open online and podcast format ten times per year, with interviews with poets published weekly-ish, Viewless Wings “was founded to celebrate the art of poetry through interviews with prestigious poets, opportunities for emerging poets to have their voices heard on submitted poetry episodes, and articles on the craft of poetry and publishing.”

Promoting poetry and poetics is first nature for Morehead, who is also Poet Laureate of Dublin, California, and author of canvas: poems; portraits of red and gray: memoir poems; and The Plague Doctor. Morehead is also the primary reader for Viewless Wings with volunteer readers enlisted as needed. “The contributions from followers of Viewless Wings and interviews with prestigious poets has been inspiring. I personally learn more about the art of poetry from each interview and submitted poem and am fulfilled by providing a platform for poets’ voices to be heard.”

“It’s rewarding hearing poetry read by the poet,” Morehead says, and visitors to Viewless Wings can likewise share in this experience. “Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast listeners (and readers of the accompanying articles on the website) can expect to be inspired and educated about the craft of poetry. We welcome diverse voices and love providing a platform for poets.” The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast has included interviews with Safia Elhillo, Olivia Gatwood, A.E. Stallings, Dana Gioia, Yanyi, and many more, in addition to poems submitted (and read by) emerging poets.

Morehead advises, “For those considering starting a literary magazine or podcast, focus on publishing quality content and be patient. It takes time to build an audience.” And for contributors, while they can expect that Morehead will read their work, due to the number of submissions received, personalized feedback is not possible; turnaround time is 1-3 months.

Viewless Wings has a future already in the works with plans to expand into more livestream events as part of the Viewless Wings Live series, and participate in community events, having successfully attended the Bay Area Book Festival for the first time in 2023.

New Book :: Earth, Little Earth

Tierra, Tierrita / Earth, Little Earth by Jorgue Tetl Argueta book cover image

Tierra, Tierrita / Earth, Little Earth by Jorgue Tetl Argueta
Illustrations by Felipe Ugalde Alcantara
Piñata Books, May 2023

“My name is Earth / but people call me Little Earth.” In the fourth installment of their award-winning Madre Tierra / Mother Earth series of trilingual picture books about the natural world, Jorge Argueta and Felipe Ugalde Alcántara collaborate again to introduce Mother Earth, who is “full of all the colors / and all the flavors.” A Junior Library Guild selection, this book about Mother Earth reflects Argueta’s indigenous roots and his appreciation for the natural world. Containing the English and Spanish text on each page, the entire poem appears at the end in Nahuat, the language of Argueta’s Pipil-Nahua ancestors. This is an excellent choice to encourage children to write their own poems about nature and to begin conversations about the interconnected web of life.

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New Book :: How to Shoot a Tourist

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How to Shoot a Tourist (With a Bow & Arrow) In a Hot-Air Balloon by Joseph D. Reich
Sagging Meniscus Press, April 2023

Joseph D. Reich’s 300-page, lyrical epic poem How to Shoot a Tourist (With a Bow & Arrow) in a Hot-Air Balloon contains surreal, confessional, stream-of-consciousness stanzas that run up and down the page in a desperate, fantastical rage. They are hypnotically interrupted by a recurring refrain from which they emerge and depart on wildly varied journeys: probing the nature, origins and psychological derivation of surrealism. Reich looks at persistent pain within and damage and devastation without in richly “ridiculous” images that are not only surreal but satirical and questioning, while also the best answer to the idiosyncratic machinations of authority. How to Shoot a Tourist is an exhaustive mythic encyclopedia of America and of Reich’s teeming inner world.

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Magazine Stand :: THEMA – Spring 2023

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Each issue of THEMA Literary Journal is based on a different theme, often derived from unique thoughts. It is meant to inspire imagination. The editors depend on the creativity of the writers to interpret the themes. The Crumpled Yellow Paper, our current issue (35:2, Spring 2023), was born when one editor opened an envelope and pulled out a crumpled piece of yellow paper containing an author’s scrawled inquiry. It made us wonder what stories and poems might evolve from such a piece of crumpled paper. The writings that emerged are diverse, ranging from humorous to magical to harrowing. The cover photograph by Lynda Fox, featuring yellow origami horses, is especially prized for its humor. What were some of the various “crumpled yellow papers” and where were they found in these stories and poems? To name just a few, consider a yellow candy wrapper blowing in the wind, drifting yellow leaves, a mysterious paper found on a walk in the park, notes discarded either accidentally or on purpose, an enigmatic message inscribed on a crumpled yellow paper. Was it really a piece of paper, or something else?

New Book :: A Connecticut Yankee Goes to Washington

A Connecticut Yankee Goes to Washington: George P. McLean, Birdman of the Senate by Will McLean Greeley book cover image

A Connecticut Yankee Goes to Washington: George P. McLean, Birdman of the Senate by Will McLean Greeley
Rochester Institute of Technology Press, March 2023

A Connecticut Yankee Goes to Washington: George P. McLean, Birdman of the Senate by Will McLean Greeley recounts Senator George P. McLean’s crowning achievement: overseeing passage of one of the country’s first and most important wildlife conservation laws, the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918. The MBTA, which is still in effect today, has saved billions of birds from senseless killing and likely prevented the extinction of entire bird species. A Connecticut Yankee Goes to Washington puts McLean’s victory for birds in the context of his distinguished forty-five-year career marked by many acts of reform during a time of widespread corruption and political instability. Author Will McLean Greeley traces McLean’s rise from obscurity as a Connecticut farm boy to national prominence when he advised five US presidents and helped lead change and shape events as a US senator from 1911 to 1929.

Will McLean Greeley grew up in western Michigan with a passion for American history, politics, and birds. He earned a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Michigan and then a master’s degree from Michigan in archives administration. After retiring from a thirty-five-year career in government and corporate market research, he embarked upon a three-year research and writing journey to learn about his great-great-uncle George P. McLean and his legacy.

New Book :: Gay Poems for Red States

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Gay Poems for Red States by Willie Edward Taylor Carver, Jr.
The University Press of Kentucky, June 2023

In Gay Poems for Red States, Willie Edward Taylor Carver, Jr. counters the injustice of a persistent anti-LGBTQ+ movement by asserting that a life full of beauty and pride is possible for everyone. More than a collection of poetry, Carver’s earnest and heartfelt verses are for those wishing to discover and understand the vastness of Appalachia, and for the LGBTQ+ Appalachians who long for a future—for a home—in an often unwelcoming place.

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Magazine Stand :: Kenyon Review – Summer 2023

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The Summer 2023 issue of The Kenyon Review includes a Women’s Health-themed folio, with poetry by Lynne Thompson, Felicia Zamora, and Cindy Juyoung Ok; fiction by Emma Binder and Kabi Hartman; nonfiction by Susannah Nevison and Sophie Strohmeier; and much more. The annual Nature’s Nature feature, edited by David Baker, showcases poems by Victoria Chang, Terrance Hayes, Joanna Klink, Joyelle McSweeney, Arthur Sze, and Brian Teare, who each also introduce emerging poets. The cover art is by Tawny Chatmon.

Book Review :: 1:6 The Graphic Novel

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As with any disaster, 1/6: The Graphic Novel is emotionally difficult to read, but nearly impossible to look away from. Volume 1: Remember This Day Forever takes readers into the surreal (for now) world of ‘what if’ the insurrection had been successful. Propaganda messaging drones patrol the streets, news stations are taken by force and resistant newscasters killed on the spot (the Second Amendment ‘trumps’ the First), and Trump supporters rally on the National Mall for the unveiling of an “Independence Day January 6, 2021” statue with state militia (Georgia and Arizona specifically) recognized for their efforts. A MAGA father whose son was killed in the event comes to honor him, only to be distraught by the messaging scapegoating Antifa and BLM. The hero (so far) is a journalist who joins a group of ‘freedom fighters’ working to reinstate democracy, and the cliffhanger ending reveals they’ve got a volatile treasure critical to their success. While the authors note “This is a work of speculative fiction grounded in real events,” it will be all too real a match to what many have feared might have and might still happen in our lifetimes. This will be a four-issue series with free copies available to non-profits and advocacy groups as well as wholesale pricing.

1/6: The Graphic Novel – Volume 1: Remember This Day Forever written by Alan Jenkins and Gan Golan, illustrated by Will Rosado. OneSix Comics, January 2023.

Reviewer bio: Denise Hill is Editor of NewPages.com and reviews books she chooses based on her own personal interests.

New Book :: In the Museum of My Daughter’s Mind

In the Museum of My Daughter's Mind by Marjorie Maddox and Anna Lee Hafer book cover image

In the Museum of My Daughter’s Mind by Marjorie Maddox and Anna Lee Hafer
Shanti Arts, May 2023

In the Museum of My Daughter’s Mind is a collaboration of poetry by Marjorie Maddox and art by her daughter Anna Lee Hafer, inspirited by a rainy-day excursion when Maddox and Hafer visit the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland. As never before, they realized how their passions for art and poetry intersect. With this exhibit and Hafer’s own surreal paintings as inspiring backdrop, they exchanged their responses to joy and trauma more deeply—artist to artist, mother to daughter. These connections between poet and visual artist constitute the core of this ekphrastic collection. In addition, Maddox includes nine poems based on work she saw that day by Antar Mikosz, Greg Mort, Margaret Munz-Losch, Ingo Swann, and Christian Twamley, as well as several later collaborations with Karen Elias.

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New Book :: Spending Time With Dad

Mis días con Papá / Spending Time With Dad by Elías David book cover image

Mis días con Papá / Spending Time With Dad by Elías David
Illustrations by Claudia Delgadillo
Piñata Books, May 2023

Mis días con Papá / Spending Time With Dad follows a boy and his stay-at-home dad, who takes care of him while his mom goes to work at the port, “where huge cargo ships come and go every day.” She oversees the containers that go around the world! In this brightly illustrated bilingual picture book, young children will relate to the family and its daily routines while immigrants will see themselves as they adjust to life far away from relatives. And children will see that the roles of men and women are fluid; dads can be loving fathers in charge of their kids’ well-being and moms can go to the office every day—or vice versa.

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Magazine Stand :: The Decadent Review – June 2023

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Publishing online on a rolling basis, The Decadent Review‘s latest poetry, criticism, essays, and reviews include Ruth Towne’s ekphrasis over Lee Miller’s photograph “Tanja Ramm Under a Bell Jar“; James M. Magrini’s “Poiētic Truth (Alētheia) in Archaic Greece“, a Heideggerian analysis of Marcel Detienne’s concept of alētheia and poetry; Karin Falcone Krieger’s review of Dan Beachy-Quick’s “Wind-Mountain-Oak: The Poems of Sappho”; Charles Upton’s on whether Can Artificial Intelligence Really Write Poetry; Johnny Payne’s criticism of modern poetry in “After Apocalypse Tristesse“; Nancy Chapple’s spoken word and piano essay on Shostakovich’s 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87; amongst other poems and texts for readers to enjoy in an openly accessible format.

Book Review :: Diana by Sivan Piatigorsky-Roth

Diana: My Graphic Obsession by Sivan Piatigorsky-Roth book cover image

Sivan Piatigorsky-Roth’s Diana: My Graphic Obsession made me realize that Diana holds a fairly firm place in my life experience. Having practically grown up with her, at least in news stories, I was surprised to have so many of Roth’s graphic renditions of famous photographs strike one memory chord after another. Most surprising is to see her life anew, through Roth’s insightful yet somewhat melancholy commentary, like the fact that Diana was only 16 years old when she first met Charles, who was then 29. Roth comments, “He was the very embodiment of charm. Standing next to him, Diana was just a child. His attention was overwhelming.”

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New Book :: 2.4.18

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2.14.18 by Dan Kaplan
Spuyten Duyvil Press, April 2023

Dan Kaplan’s 2.4.18 is an erasure of the February 4, 2018 issue of The New York Times, a book that wades through distorted fact, eroded context, and what may (not) be newsworthy. Kaplan is the editor of Burnside Review Press, and 2.4.18 is his third book of poetry.

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New Book :: Proximal Morocco

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Proximal Morocco by Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine
Ugly Duckling Presse, March 2023

Proximal Morocco is a collection of poems by Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine originally published in 1975. It was written in fits and starts during a span of ten years (1964-1974), during the fever pitch of his political exile from his homeland of Morocco which he fled, partly for fear of political persecution and partly to pursue a literary career in Paris, France. Laced with the same politically-inflected Surrealistic fervor as Aimé Césaire, the book is at once a powerful outcry to fellow artists for international solidarity of the colonized and outcast and a documentation of the pain and struggle of exile.

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Magazine Stand :: Blink-Ink – #52

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Blink-Ink is the definition of “small but mighty” – at 5 1/2 X 4 1/4 print format, each issue is packed with stories of “approximately” 50 words. The newest issue features 26 stories on the theme “Waiting on a Friend.” Each issue is themed, and the editors provide guidelines and deadlines on their website. Subscribers receive four issues per year, and it’s a real delight to see these arrive in the mail. Easy to carry along anywhere, a subscription is the perfect gift idea for those readers and writers in your life (including yourself!).

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Where to Submit Roundup: June 9, 2023

54 Submission Opportunities including calls for submissions, writing contests, and book prizes.

Where to Submit Roundup 2023

The first full week of June is officially behind us. If the wildfire haze is strongly present in your area like it is in ours, keep indoors and keep on writing and editing. NewPages has your back to help you with your submission goals with our Where to Submit Roundup for June 9, 2023.

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