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EXPeriemental Poetics and Aesthetics

EXPerimental Poetics and Aesthetics is a bi-annual, online, peer-reviewed journal featuring research on intermediate genre such as visual poetry, performance poetry, digital poetry,sound poetry, fractal poetry etc. as well as book reviews, performance reviews and other reviews that deal with experimental poetic modes.

From the editorial: “EXPerimental Poetics and Aesthetics wants to generate a space for critical reflection on hybrid forms of poetry and art. We are looking for papers and research projects of different kinds that can expand our perceptions and reflections on issues such as aesthetics, visual-aural perception and neuroaesthetics, technology and computerization in poetry, experimental poetry, digital poetry, visual poetry, fractal poetry, quantum poetry, combinatory poetry, performance poetry, etc.”

The publication accepts submissions may be sent in English, Spanish or Portuguese.

Closings :: Fremont Place Books, Seattle

After 22 years, Fremont Place Books will be closing its doors. Owner Henry Burton writes, “Local, independent bookstores are so much more than places to purchase a product. They are centers for inspiration, information sharing, and community building. As such I have felt a tremendous responsibility to keep the store open. I am well aware that closing the store is not only a loss for me personally, but also a great loss to Fremont.”

Fremont Place Books will have an open house on its last day, Feb. 27, from 12 p.m. to 6 p.m., to celebrate, as Burton wrote, “all that is great about books, bookselling, and being part of a community.”

Best of the House Short Story Winners

Issue 9 of Clapboard House online literary journal features the Best of the House Short Story Contest Winners: “Manhunt” by winner Ruth Joffre, and finalists “La Fecha” by Avra Elliott and “Healthy and Happy” by Max Gray.

Clapboard House submissions are now open for short fiction and poetry as well as submissions from poets to their no-fee Best of the House Poetry Contest, to be judged by Eric Nelson. Deadline May 1.

Fugue Prose and Poetry Contest Winners

Fugue’s Ninth Annual Prose & Poetry Contest are featured in the newest issue (#39). Junot Díaz, fiction judge, selected first place: Colette Sartor, “A Walk in the Park”; and first runner-up: Paul Vidich, “Jumpshot.” Ilya Kaminsky, poetry judge, selected first place Caitlin Cowan, “Flight Plan”; first runner-up: Corrie Williamson, “The Language of Birds”; and second runner-up: Rachel Patterson, “August Ghazal.”

Fugue’s Tenth Annual Prose & Poetry Contest is open for sumbissions until May 1, with judges Judith Kitchen (nonfiction), Dorianne Laux (poetry) and Steve Almond (fiction).

New Lit on the Block :: Floorboard Review

Ashland University MFA graduate Jen Kindbom is Editor of the new poetry and photography online lit mag Floorboard Review. Working with her are photo editors Erika Schade and David Patrick, and poetry editors Joey Connelly, Grace Curtis, Maureen Flora, Russ Novotny, Rachel Peterson.

In addition to the online magazine, the Floorboard Review site also includes the FloorBlog, featuring interviews and columns by contributors to the latest issue.

Issue 1 published in January 2011 includes works by Ruth Foley, Christopher Woods, Laura Madeline Wiseman, Margaret Walther, Ray Manlove, Jessica Bixel, Daniel Ford, David Patrick, Sarah Wells, Michael Chin, Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingde, Margaret Houston, Christa Lee, Carol L. Berg, Joey Connelly, Stephen Mead, and Meredith Danton.

Floorboard Review is currently open for online submissions of poetry and photography.

Thoreau Society Online Auction

Online Auction to benefit both The Thoreau Society and the Thoreau Farm Trust
February 21-March 18, 2011

The Thoreau Society seeks to stimulate interest in and foster education about Henry David Thoreau’s life, works, legacy and his place in his world and in ours, challenging all to live a deliberate, considered life. The Society believes Thoreau’s writings are as essential today as ever before, if not the more so, as societies and cultures confront the rapid changes that began in Thoreau’s time and continue in our own day.

The Thoreau Farm Trust serves as steward of the Henry David Thoreau birthplace. The Trust believes Thoreau’s extraordinary insights and ideas about life, nature, and individual responsibility are as relevant today as they were during his lifetime and preserves his birthplace as an education center, community resource, and place of pilgrimage.

Both organizations offer educational programming that reflects their missions.

Poet-in-Residence Extended Deadline

Elma Stuckey Liberal Arts & Sciences Emerging Poet-in-Residence
Department of English
Columbia College Chicago

Two-year position starts August 2011. Poets from underrepresented communities and/or those who bring diverse cultural, ethnic, and national perspectives to their writing and teaching are particularly encouraged to apply.

EXTENDED Deadline for applications is March 1, 2011. To view the complete job listing and apply online, please visit their website at: https://employment.colum.edu (job opening ID 100101).

African American Literary Festival

phati’tude Literary Magazine is hosting its 1st Annual African American Literary Festival in celebration of Black History Month. The event is being held at the Queens Library’s Langston Hughes Community Library & Cultural Center in Corona, New York, on February 26, 2011 from 10:00am-4:00pm, which is free and open to the public.

Granta Spanish Translation Online

Granta has been adding open access online content from their #113 issue featuring Spanish writing in translation. Their ‘Snapshot’ series consists of posts by Latin American writers Horacio Castellanos, Moya Jaime, and Eduardo HalfonManrique, each exploring an image that encapsulates their homeland. Also accessible are works by Andr

Happy 10 Pedestal Magazine!

The Pedestal Magazine online celebrates ten years of publishing with its newest issue (#61).

Editor John Amen writes: “In some ways, ten years strikes me as long enough for a venture; as if, after ten years, maybe it’s time to start something new, let the old project go. Pedestal, however, continues, in my view, to evolve. I keep feeling as if the magazine is ‘just getting started,’ as if we’ve finally reached a ‘good beginning point,’ finally ‘found our stride.’ We’re receiving stellar work, and a lot of it, from talented writers. The staff has expanded to include so many skilled and dedicated writers and editors. The technology supporting the magazine is now flexible enough to allow for various developments, new features that can be integrated into the magazine’s format, thereby creating new possibilities. In short, the project remains new. So, we definitely continue….”

And to do so, Pedestal welcomes three new staff members: Bruce Boston, Marge Ballif Simon, and Alice Osborn.

Brevity’s Craft Section

The Craft Essays section in the January 2011 issue of Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction includes interviews with authors Lee Martin and Thomas E. Kennedy, and a new craft essay by by Cynthia Pike Gaylord on how the thesis statement functions in literary works: “I still love thesis statements – after all, they saved me from many long hours staring bleary-eyed at the computer screen. And I do think a writer should be able to articulate verbally the thesis of any personal essay he or she considers nearly complete.”

AWP 2011 Return

We have safely returned from AWP 2011 Washington D.C.!

Huge thanks to all who stopped by the NewPages table to say hello and give us a shout out, as well as those who took the time to learn about who we are and what we do.

I need a couple more days to catch up. Please be patient, blog fans – I have SO MUCH to share from AWP as well as the regular goodies; I hope to be back on schedule by mid-week.

Of course, a beer donation or two wouldn’t hurt to prime the pump (see beer glass on right).

NewPages D23@AWP

Weather permitting, NewPages will be at the AWP Conference in Washington, DC from February 2 – 6. If you’re there, stop on by and meet the people behind the pages! We’ll be at table D23 in the bookfair.

Consequently, there will not be as much blogging going on this week. Beer fund contributions, however, are still welcome!

New Lit on the Block :: Palooka

Edited by Nicholas Maistros and Jonathan Starke, Palooka is a non-profit journal of fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, plays, graphic short stories, graphic essays, comic strips and art/photography. And the editors promise to read everything they receive, “word-for-word, right down to the very last juicy sentence.”

The first issue features fiction by Dustin M. Hoffman, Dan Piorkowski, Emma Bean, M.V. Montgomery, and Carl Peterson, poetry by Ryan J. Browne, Jona Colson, Deana Dueno, Liz Kicak and Tomer Konowiecki, nonfiction by Kelley Rae, Alex Park, Amy Bernhard and Natalia Andrievskikh, artwork by Andrew Abbott and Jim Fuess, and a comic by Chrissy Spallone.

Palooka is available both in print and e-version with online samples of published content.

Poet Hunt Winners

The Winter 2011 issue of The MacGuffin features works by winners of the 15th National Poet Hunt. Jim Daniels judged this year’s competition and selected Mary Schmitt, “Tribal,” for first place and Suzanne Roberts, “The Road,” and Rex Richards, “The Washing,” for honorable mention. The 16th National Poet Hunt will be judged by Terry Blackhawk.

Tipton Poetry: Local Global Lit Mag

Tipton Poetry Journal is one of those great, saddle-stitched journals that looks local, but packs a helluva global content. The Fall 2010 issue includes a kasen renga, a form of Japanese collaborative poetry consisting of a chain of 36 verses. “Kasen Renga: Autumn” is a collaboration between Joyce Brinkman, Kae Morii, and Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda. Also featured is Rohana McCormack’s “First Snow” – an English translation of Sergey Yesenin’s original Russian poem, “Я по первому снегу бредуand,” and Liang Yujing’s “Four Pseudo Haiku” written in English and self-translated into Chinese.

Prism Review Fiction and Poetry Prize Winners

This year’s winners of the Prism Review prizes in fiction and poetry are Mary Ann Davis for her poem, “From the Sublunary Year” and Becky Margolis for her story, “Weatherization.”

Poetry judge Craig Santos Perez says the winning poem “manages to weave lyricism, abstraction, narrative, image, symbolism, formal experimentation, character, and deep emotion into a haunting poetic experience. It’s a heartbreaking attempt to ‘fill the silence of illness.'”

Fiction judge Lucy Corin says of “Weatherization,” “There’s something to the flattened tone that suggests something quite gutsy about the issues the story takes up about violence . . . . In the end, what I ask of a story is that it really push itself beyond its initiating premise, that the issues it raises be taken up with as much complexity as possible, evading every easy answer, every self-satisfaction.”

Both winners receive $250 and they will appear in the forthcoming issue of Prism Review, to be published this spring.

WLT Explores Science and Literature

The January 2011 issue of World Literature Today, guest edited and introduced by Pireeni Sundaralingam, includes a symposium on The Crosstalk between Science and Literature:

Physicist Alan Lightman and philosopher Rebecca Newberger Goldstein discuss how they devise “emotional experiments” in their fiction in order to probe the limits of rational thought. [Full text online]

In a provocative essay, poet and cognitive scientist Pireeni Sundaralingam asks, Are science and poetry inherently at odds with each other? [Full text online]

Authors Suzanne Lummis, Philip Metres, Vincenzo Della Mea, and Tone Hødnebø conduct playful experiments in new poems tied to the issue’s theme.

Berlin-based architect Eric Ellingsen co-opts the repeating structure of the poetic villanelle to remap space and to explore how literature might inform urban design.

Welsh poet-physician Dannie Abse traces the intersections of poetry and medicine in his own life and work.

Playwright Kenneth Lin discusses theater’s ability to convey the grandeur of scientific discovery. [Full text online]

BLP Chapbook Winner

Black Lawrence Press announced that Charlotte Pence has won the Black River Chapbook Competition for her manuscript Branches. Charlotte will receive $500 in prize money and a publication contract from BLP.

A list of finalists for the award is available here.

New Issues Green Rose Prize Winner

The Editors of New Issues Poetry and Prose are pleased to announce the winner of the 2011 Green Rose Prize: Corey Marks for his manuscript The Radio Tree. Corey wins a $2,000 award and publication of his manuscript in the spring of 2012.

Also accepted for publication: The Frame Called Ruin by Hadara Bar-Nadav to appear in the fall of 2012

The Green Rose Prize is awarded to an author who has previously published at least one full-length book of poems. Winners are chosen by the editors of New Issues Press.

The Florida Review Native Issue

The newest issue of The Florida Review (35.1) is a special issue – the first “special issue” published by the Review – “Native Issue.” Dedicated to memory of the award-winning novelist and critic Louis Owens. Editor Toni Jensen comments on the theme: “The writers whose work is featured in this issue come from any different places – tribal, geographic, aesthetic. These differences are to be celebrated, embraced, because they help eradicate the idea that there is one Native literature or one idea of what it means to be Native.”

A full table of contents for this issue is available on The Florida Review website.

CFS: Prairie Schooner Online Digital Literature

The Prairie Schooner literary journal and the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, both of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, are developing a web site devoted to electronic literature: Prairie Schooner Online

A spot in the pilot edition of the Prairie Schooner digital project is open. Artists, filmmakers, and/or programmers may submit finished or near-finished literary-inspired pieces for consideration. Queries also welcome. Submissions/queries accepted through March 15, 2011.

The Prairie Schooner digital project goes live in fall 2011.

Prairie Schooner Online will feature pieces such as: collaborations between authors and visual/video artists, hypertext projects, and other literary multimedia artwork. Among the contributors are author and filmmaker Terese Svoboda and artist Tim Guthrie, along with various visual artists, animators and videographers. The project will also include an adaptation of stories from the Prairie Schooner archives: Eudora Welty’s “The Whistle” and Alice Hoffman’s “The Bear’s House.”

AROHO Lighthouse Poetry Prize Winner

A Room of Her Own Foundation has announced the 2010 To the Lighthouse Poetry Publication Prize winner: Carolyn Guinzio for her work &. The prize is awarded for the best, unpublished poetry collection by a woman.

2010 Finalists include Jennifer Beebe, Claire Clube, Rebecca Dunham, Laura Dunn, Rebecca Howell, Hila Ratzabi, and Ruth Thompson.

The 2011 competition is open until August 31, 2011 (postmark). See the AROHO website for downloadable cover sheet and details

Reznikoff’s Holocaust Now Available on CD

“Filmmaker and Hampshire College professor Abraham Ravett’s latest creative project — a CD of poet Charles Reznikoff reading Holocaust — took more than three decades to bring to completion.” Read more about the project and listen to excerpts from the CD here.

Brown University IWP Fellowship

The Brown International Writers Project is currently seeking nominations and applications for its one-year fellowship with residency.The Fellowship, supported by a grant from the William H. Donner Foundation, is designed to provide sanctuary and support for
established creative writers – fiction writers, playwrights, and poets – who are persecuted in their home countries or are actively prevented from pursuing free expression in their literary art. The application/nomination deadline for the next Fellowship is February 15, 2011.

Yale Review Celebrates 100 Years

From Editor J. D. McClatchy: “This coming year’s issues mark the hundredth anniversary of The Yale Review’s founding, and are designed to celebrate the intellectual riches of this university, present and past. In each, we will feature exclusively work by members of the Yale faculty. Our July issue will be devoted to pieces reprinted by Yale faculty giants of the past. The effect, we hope, will be to compose a portrait of the mind of Yale over the past century, but particularly at this exciting time in its long history.”

Read the full editorial, with a narrative history of the magazine, online.

Narrative 30 Below Contest Winners

Narrative announced the winners of their annual 30 Below contest for which all entrants in the contest were between the ages of eighteen and thirty:

First Place: Kevin A. Gonzalez for “Cerromar”

Second Place: Jacob Powers for “Safety”

Third Place: Erika Solomon for “Rules for Jews in Damascus”

Upcoming Narrative contest: The WINTER 2011 STORY CONTEST

Entry deadline: March 31 at midnight, Pacific daylight time.

Scholarships

The Red Earth MFA Low-Residency Program in Creative Writing at Oklahoma City University is pleased to announce five $1,000 merit scholarships for members of its inaugural class.

All merit scholarships are based on the quality of the writing sample supplied as part of the MFA application. Preference will be given to prospective students who complete their application by March 15. Notification of the scholarships will be mailed and also announced at OCU’s annual Creative Writing Festival on April 16. Scholarships must be applied towards the first year of study in the MFA program.

In addition, the Red Earth program is offering $1,000 tuition reductions in the first year of study for all of its inaugural class. The summer residency is slated for July 6-16. For more information about the program, visit the Web site or contact MFA Director Danita Berg: drberg-at-okcu.edu

2010 Iowa Review Awards Contest Winners

The Winter 2010/11 issue of The Iowa Review features the winners and runners-up of the annual Iowa Review Awards:

Fiction
Kathryn Scanlan, “The Old Mill”
Maria Hummel, runner-up

Poetry
HeatherWinterer, “from Art’s Garage“
Jae Choi and Mary Pinard, runners-up

Nonfiction
Deborah Thompson, “Mishti Kukur”
Jendi Reiter, runner-up

I Read This: Caribou Island

[A time-to-time post on what I’ve been reading lately.]

Having finished David Vann‘s novel, Caribou Island, I’m still trying to figure out how I can possible forgive this author for writing a novel so compelling I could not stop reading it (or wanting to read it when I couldn’t be), and coming to a finish that was so disturbing it has disrupted my thoughts – both while awake and sleeping – for the past several days. I DON’T recommend this one to anyone already suffering from seasonal affect disorder or cabin fever bordering on The Shining.

A half dozen characters take the lead by chapter for the third person omniscient narration. Irene sees her marriage to Gary coming to an end. Their daughter Rhoda can’t see it coming any more than she can see the fault line in her own engagement to Jim, her cheating fiancee. Other characters move in and out of the story, like storm clouds across the Alaskan sky, and each seems to be the other’s antagonist. In fact, if asked, I’m not sure I could clearly identify a single protagonist in this story. I suppose each character has their moment: Carl, when he finds out Monique is banging Jim and takes of into the cold Alaskan night; Gary as he struggles against the northern snow and wind to build his “dream” island cabin; Irene as she finally sees a doctor who might just help her to understand the cause of the splitting headaches she suffers.

But just as it seems a character is the lead of the plot, breaking away from adversity, each is confronted yet again with an adversary – another of the characters or the unflinching, damnable Alaskan nature.

Vann’s story is an exploration of the human psyche, that which fails us is that which we are and continue to grasp onto. Each character seems to realize this: Gary knows in fits and starts that his cabin is a stupid idea, but he stubbornly persists; Irene knows their marriage is ending, but goes along with the cabin building because she knows they have to play the final card; Rhoda knows her relationship to Jim is nothing more than what she always felt was the right thing to want, whether she feels passionately about it or not. It’s this kind of knowing that makes the writing both so compelling and devastating to read. As much as I would like to see one thing work out well for one character, there are no happy endings here. This is simply a reflection of real life that has its moments of just enough insight to help us accept what we have as good enough and move on. Or not.

Black River Chapbook Competition Winner

Charlotte Pence has won the Black River Chapbook Competition for her manuscript Branches. Charlotte will receive $500 in prize money and a publication contract from BLP. See a full list of finalists here.

Charlotte Pence is a Ph.D. candidate in creative writing at the University of Tennessee and former editor of Grist: The Journal for Writers. She most recently received the 2009 Discovered Voices award from Iron Horse Literary Journal given to one graduate student in the country for poetry each year. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Kenyon Review Online, Prairie Schooner, Southern Review, North American Review, Denver Quarterly, RATTLE, Tar River, and many other journals. She also has an anthology forthcoming with University Press of Mississippi titled Lyrical Traditions: The Intersections Between Poems and Songs.

Tribute to Robert Von Hallberg

The Chicago Review (55:3/4) includes a feature of ten essays which mark the retirement of Robert Von Hallberg from the University of Chicago. “They are all by former staff members of Chicago Review, who also completed dissertations under his supervision. The essays all address some aspect of poetry’s relation to power.” The essays include:

Devin Johnston, “The Needs of Ghosts: On Poems from the Margins of Thom Gunn’s Moly”
Elizabeth Arnold, “The Rhythm of the Actual in Basil Bunting’s ‘Chomei at Toyama'”
Alan Golding, “Louis Zukofsky and the Avant-Garde Textbook”
Mark S. Morrisson, “Ezra Pound, the Morada, and American Regionalism”
Matthias Regan, “Remembering Edward Dorn”
Robert Huddleston, “Myth and Education”
Andrea Scott, “Gerhard Falkner’s Ground Zero“
Lynn Keller, “‘Post-Language Lyric’: The Example of Juliana Spahr”
Peter O’Leary, “Apocalypticism: A Way Forward for Poetry”
Keith Tuma, “After the Bubble”

Ukrainian Poetry

The newest issue of International Poetry Review (Fall 2010) is a special issue celebrating twenty-five years of Ukrainian poetry: “This collection of Ukrainian poetry in translation comprises a representative sampling of the poetry created under twenty-five years of creative freedom for Ukrainian writers that began during Soviet premier Mikhail Gorbachev’s policy of “openness” and that has continued to flourish after Ukrainian independence in 1991.” The poetry includes 24 poets in translation, ranging from the oldest writer – Oleh Lysheha (62) to the youngest – Iryna Shuvalova (24).

Michael M. Naydan, Woskob Family Professor of Ukrainian Studies, The Pennsylvania State University, provides an introduction to the issue, including a historical overview of the Ukraine poetic movements as well as a memorial to three Ukrainian poets – Attila Mohylny, Ihor Rymaruk, and Nazar Honchar, to whom the issue is dedicated.

Taking Night to Film

Film School Rejects blogger Cole Abaius names Elie Wiesel’s Night as “one of the three cornerstones of Holocaust literature [that] still hasn’t seen the big screen for an adaptation.” Read his perspective on how it could happen, and who should direct it.

“[Bleep] the Sonnet” Jennings Says

In the newest issue of Arc Poetry Magazine, Chris Jennings takes on the sonnet in his like-named essay “On the Sonnet.” He begins: “I haven’t dedicated many musty hours to counting rather than reading poems. I’m willing to bet, though, that no one can readily dispute the fact that more poets attempt sonnets, create variants of sonnets, publish sonnets, anthologize sonnets, dive headlong into sequences of sonnets, or come to have their reputation rest on sonnets than any other set form in the English language. This used to intrigue me, then it began to puzzle me, and now it annoys me so much that the right stimulus sends me into a rage. Frankly, I am done with sonnets.”

Arc Poetry Magazine‘s website includes the opening paragraphs of Jenning’s attack of the sonnet form (the end lines of which I can at least say you won’t find repeated on FCC airwaves) – for the full text, you need to get a hold of a copy of Arc.

Writing Technology into Fiction

Laura Miller of the Guardian.co.uk looks into how novels came to terms with the internet: “We spend hours on the web, but you wouldn’t know that from reading contemporary fiction. Novelists have gone to great lengths – setting stories in the past or in remote places – to avoid dealing with the internet. Is this finally changing?”

2011 Caldecott and Newberry Winners

The 2011 Caldecott Medal winner is A Sick Day for Amos McGee, illustrated by Erin E. Stead, written by Philip C. Stead. A Neal Porter Book, published by Roaring Brook Press, a division of Holtzbrinck Publishing.

Caldecott Honors
Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave illustrated by Bryan Collier, written by Laban Carrick Hill, published by Little, Brown and Company, a division of Hachette Book Group, Inc.

Interrupting Chicken illustrated and written by David Ezra Stein, published by Candlewick Press.

The 2011 Newbery Medal winner is Moon over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool, published by Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, a division of Random House, Inc.

Newberry Honors
Turtle in Paradise written by Jennifer L. Holm, published by Random House Children’s Books, a division of Random House, Inc.

Heart of a Samurai written by Margi Preus, published by Amulet Books, an imprint of Abrams.

Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night written by Joyce Sidman, illustrated by Rick Allen, published by Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

One Crazy Summer written by Rita Williams-Garcia, published by Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.

Tin House eMakeover

Tin House has a new web design, including Submishmash for online submissions and eBook versions in both the ePub (iPad, Sony eReader, B&N Nook) and MobiPocket (Kindle) formats “wherever possible,” and, on the magazine side, featuring the full text of several stories, poems, essays, and interviews.

Helping Out Those Down Under

Australian poet Graham Nunn created the Ocean Hearted Flood Relief Project to raise funds for flood relief in QLD (Queensland, Australia). Here’s his plan:

From January 12 to January 26 Nunn will donate 100% of all sales of his book Ocean Hearted to flood relief and “to add to that, I will personally give an extra $5 for every book sold.” Copies of Ocean Hearted can be purchased for $15 (incl. postage) via paypal or check/money order.

Visit his blog for more details.

All monies will be given to the Premiers Disaster Relief Appeal, a Queensland Government established Distribution Committee that includes representatives from the Australian Red Cross to manage the disbursement of the donated funds.

Call for Guest Editors

Status Hat Productions is currently seeking guest editors for the SUMMER 2011 (3 issues) and FALL 2011 (3 issues) editions of their monthly artszine, STATUS HAT!

Editors will be responsible for 3 issues of STATUS HAT, for either the Summer or Fall quarter. SHP seeking editors with diverse backgrounds in the arts, as our editors do not work in one area, but select visual content, fiction, non-fiction and poetry, as well as seek out additional content or explorations of themes as necessary to create engaging issues of Status Hat.

Guest editors must be able to commit to reviewing and selecting submissions for their assigned issues over a 3 month period prior to the quarter (Summer or Fall, 2011) they are working on, and demonstrate excellent communication skills.

Contact editor-at-statushat.org with an inquiry by January 31, 2011. Please have “GUEST EDITOR INQUIRY” in the subject line of your email.

Singleton and Weales Featured

The Winter 2010 issue of The Georgia Review offers two special features: one on George Singleton and one on Gerald Weales.

The Singleton feature includes two stories, “Vaccination” and “Jayne Mansfield,” which, Editor Stephen Corey notes brings the total number of Singleton stories published by TGR to 11 – putting him “at the head of the quantity class for our fiction writers.” But, more importantly, Corey notes, these two selections “show one of America’s best seriocomic authors at the height of his varied strengths.” Also included in the Singleton feature is “A Holy Impropriety: the Stories of George Singleton” by William Giraldi.

The Weales feature includes “Being Out Front at American Theater: An Interview with Gerald Weales” by Stephen Corey and “American Theater Watch, 1977-2010” – excerpts from decades of Weales annual feature. Corey introduces these selections he made from over 400 pages of Weales’s contributions to the magazine.

New at AWP 2011 – Women’s Caucus

AWP Conference: The Women’s Caucus, led by Lois Roma-Deeley, Patricia Smith, Cheryl Dumesnil, Anna George Meek, Amy King, and Katherine Arnoldi, is scheduled to meet for the first time on Saturday, February 5 from 10:30 AM to 11:45 AM in the hotel Mezzanine Le.

Lois Roma-Deeley sent the following description: “Where is the place for the women writer within AWP and within the greater literary community? The women’s caucus discusses this as well as continuing inequities in creative writing publication and literature. In addition, issues centering on cultural obstacles in the form of active oppression, stereotypes, lack of access to literary power structures, historical marginalization of women’s writing, issues and perspectives and the diverse voices of women will explored. Networking opportunities.”

The mission of the AWP Women’s Caucus is the following:
–to expand networking opportunities for women writers
–to recognize the contributions of women writers nationally and internationally
–to enhance understanding of the relationship between gender and creative writing
–to expand literary and cultural dialogue to encompass all genres of creative writing specific to women writers
–to encourage an open forum for dialogues about feminist literary perspectives
–to support education about the contributions of women writers
–to support women writers on local, national, and global levels
–to advocate for equity in creative writing for all

Job :: Poetry Inside Out Outreach Manager

The Center for the Art of Translation is seeking an Outreach Manager to help place their Poetry Inside Out program in Bay Area, CA schools.

The PIO Outreach Manager works as part of a team to accomplish a number of goals and objectives for the Center. They include:

• Plan the growth and implementation of the program.
• Build relationships with school administrators, districts, teachers, professional organizations, and students and their families.
• Create new systems and revise existing ones for overall program efficiency and documentation.
• Promote opportunities for collaboration with other organizations.
• Oversee and promote PIO public events.
• Assist the PIO staff with defining the goals for and expanding the various PIO curriculum.
• And act as an ambassador of the program and the Center.

For a complete job description and instructions on how to apply, visit PIO’s Get Invovled page.