... final judge of the short story section of THE NEW WRITER: Prose and Poetry Prizes You've got a few days to get your story in ... fee). £15 per Serial/Novella. Single poems must be previously unpublished with a limit of 40 lines. ... fee: £5 for up to 2 single poems (TNW subscribers 4 poems for £5). Collection of ... (6-10 poems) can be previously published. No line limit. Entry fee £12 per collection. ...

... book, but it won't sell it. I'm going to do an upcoming post on the (prose) book trailers I think are most successful, so if you have a suggestion please leave it in the comments ... -known of the Billy Collins productions: & my actual favorite of his (yes, I do like his poems): & my favorite of the Poetry Foundation ones: Of course, what these have in common is original and fluid ...

... Jarrell), still I tend to wordsmith my reviews nearly to death. The microreviews I've written for Boston Review I tinkered with as if they were prose poems. *** Speaking of fiction: Ian McEwan has a new ... Way too interesting a word choice. *** I'm up for Mary's Three New Poems by the End of the Decade Challenge, if it's okay to count poems already started. ...

... my blog. 200 words could win you 500 quid. Not bad eh? Check it out. Ambit Magazine is running a prose and poetry competition to celebrate its 200th issue and you are invited to enter poems or prose of 200 words for a chance to win. 1st prize: £500 - 2nd prize: £200 - 3rd prize: £75 The winners will be published in Ambit ...

The crew at Deckfight have not only taken the time to give a quite fine review to Jamie Iredell's new Orange Alert joint Prose. Poems. A Novel., they have even allowed Jamie to riff on their Friday Five segment, in this case discussing the five best things Jamie has recently read. All good stuff, quite good stuff, and for more good ...

Laundromat Prose Ditty Roskos, laundry poet supreme, asked me for this. I had laundry poems in my notebooks, but lost the notebooks-even a poem bout Joe Salerno, my old friend, and how it was snowing a couple weeks after he died, and I was doing the laundry and I expected him to enter in a heavy black coat with the Portuguese grandmothers. He would have wanted to ...

... ’ll wilted be; thou’ll wilted be! - Emily Dickinson Discussion with my hall 9 neighbours about poems. Made me realise how much I use to like tearing apart prose and poem. Savour them. look at their superficially. Look at them in-depth. Put a relationship into it. Put some loss. Break them down, and. Tear them apart.

... ask him to a dance. She looks out from the pages as if to say 'This crap is what you're churning out these days? You'd better take the rap for pushing those neuroses on the crowd that likes romance. Do you see what you've written? Do you dare to take a glance at some of this forsaken prose that you pass off as done? I'll be out of here directly so I guess you'd better run.

... poem, and Alicia's, and Amanda's, and the two flarf poems--Jayme's and Alicia's again . . . Okay, mostly for you to know . . . the same old same old . . . There could be a test on this fiction ... of the poems back in both classes and we'll look at prose poems (on Mon/Tues), and now we are looking for some odinary narrative logic, though you CAN write an elliptical prose poem . ...

... being published proves something, but the intent seems to be published now, today, currently, poems that offer nothing of interest to living life, but packed full ... acceptable.Political correctness is demanded.Contort the language.Prose is poetry.Personal angst is art.Trauma, ... is good, even if meaningless.Religious poetry is always perfect.Poems in tongue, in code, mysterious, popular.Private poetry ...