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LAST CALL! TOM HOWARD/MARGARET REID POETRY CONTEST

Deadline: September 30. Sponsored by Winning Writers. Win $3,000 for a poem in any style and $3,000 for a poem that rhymes or has a traditional style. Total prizes: $9,000. The top two winners will also receive two-year gift certificates from our co-sponsor, Duotrope (a $100 value). Submit 1-3 poems for one $22 entry fee. Both published and unpublished work accepted. Winning entries published online. Length limit: 250 lines per poem. Final judge: Michal ‘MJ’ Jones.

Winning Writers is one of the “101 Best Websites for Writers” (Writer’s Digest, 2023). See past winners, advice from the judge, and submit online at https://winningwriters.com/tompoetrypsh2309

For writing resources and contest opportunities, follow Winning Writers on Facebook and Twitter.

Books By Golden Academy Award Winning Author Aeon X Syntronica

Award winning author & poet Aeon X Syntronica has written 3 novellas, a collection of short stories and 14 collections of poems. His short stories and poems have appeared in over 200 anthologies including Twice The Terror and What Fears Become published by multi-award winning The Horror Zine edited by Jeani Rector. He has won many prestigious awards & honours including: A Golden Academy Award, A Gold Medal of Honour & Citation, International Authors & Writers Whose Who, The World Literary Academy, IBC Roll Of Honour, The Cultural Diploma Of Honour, Men Of Achievement, 5,000 Personalities Of The World and has been short-listed twice for The Forward Prize. All of his books are available in paperback and eBook on Amazon.
Amazon.co.uk : Aeon X Syntronica

The Low Country Shvitz by Rick Lupert

Rick Lupert’s 27th poetry collection and latest humorous travelogue written in Savannah, Georgia (where ghosts inhabit the poems), Charleston, South Carolina (where the lady who gives out cookies is among the nicest people you’ll ever meet), Asheville, North Carolina (the east coast’s contribution to “weird” cities), and Charlotte, North Carolina, where ducks and frogs roam the streets without a single care. Join Rick and his mostly willing travel companion Addie as they explore all there is to do, see, and eat in the south. You’ll eat biscuits. You’ll be in the spot where the Civil War started. You’ll wander through “Chicken Alley.” Stow away on this hilarious, poetic vacation. It’s much cheaper than buying plane tickets.

Click here to read poems from “The Low Country Shvitz”

The Low Country Shvitz by Rick Lupert

Last call for entries! Dream Quest One Poetry & Writing Contest – Summer 2023

Open to anyone who loves expressing innermost thoughts and feelings into the beautiful literary art of poetry and/or writing a story that is worth telling everyone! Guidelines: (1) Write a poem, 30 lines or fewer on any subject, form, or style. And/or (2) Write a short story, 5 pages maximum length, single or double line spacing, on any subject or theme, fiction, nonfiction, or creative nonfiction. Multiple and simultaneous entries are accepted Prizes: Poetry First Prize: $250; Second: $125; Third: $50. Writing First Prize is $500; Second: $250; Third: $100. Entry fees:  $5 per poem, $10 per story. Postmark deadline: September 30, 2023. Visit https://www.dreamquestone.com/ for details on how to enter!

Bobish by Magdalena Ball

“Simultaneously heartbreaking and inspiring, this beautifully written, immaculately researched verse memoir is accessible to readers of fiction and poetry alike. It will hold a special resonance for anyone whose ancestors were forced to flee their homes and endure dangerous sea voyages to forge lives in new lands. Recommended unreservedly.”  Denise O’Hagan https://www.amazon.com/Bobish-Magdalena-Ball/dp/1922571601

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Books by Rachel R. Baum

Books by Rachel R. Baum – https://www.rachelrbaum.net/ – Funeral and Memorial Service Readings, Poems and Tributes (McFarland, 1999), In Dreams Cars Flew (Dancing Girl Press, 2023), a collection of poems by a Covid Long Hauler, How to Rob a Convenience Store (Cowboy Jamboree Press, 2024), poems that try to make sense of gun culture when there isn’t any.

THE ABDUCTION by Maram Al-Masri, translated by Hélène Cardona

Winner of an Albertine and FACE Foundation Grant. “The Abduction is an emotional and powerful work.” -Readers’ Favorite

“Using artfully spare language and repetition, Maram Al-Masri takes us deep into the emotional complexities of losing her young child to a patriarchal society.” -Martha Collins
“I am compelled by the raw spareness of these poems, their keen honesty.” -Diane Seuss
“As The Abduction proves, Hélène Cardona is a translator who has the exquisite sensitivity and erudition that this brave, vulnerable work deserves.” -Cynthia Hogue
Available on Bookshop, Amazon, White Pine Press. Learn more & connect with Hélène here.

Unlikely Stories

Despite its unfortunate location in alphabetical order, Unlikely Stories is an electronic journal of literature and art that has been running, more-or-less continually, for 25 years. In August, we’ll be releasing our FUCK FLORIDA issue, a collection of antifascist content, a mad yawp into the screaming void of our intolerable and unlivable world. Learn all about us at https://www.unlikelystories.org/

Lessons from the Orchard by Diane Jackman

Lessons from the Orchard published by Sacred Eagle Publishing Ltd. ISBN 9-781999-963897 Diane Jackman, prizewinning and widely published poet in UK and US, writes from her deep interest in landscape, the past and half-remembered stories of family history. Meet Diane at www.dianejackman.co.uk or even buy the book.

Pinnacles of Hope, Charlie Brice, Impspired Press, 2022.

Pinnacles of Hope is a chronicle of life experience ranging from the joys of hippie culture to the challenges of illness and mortality. Whether he’s giving a craft talk on poetry or imagining himself as Charles the Bald, Charles Brice covers all the bases. With this clever wit and word play, he discovers “…the curious quiet that makes birds sing.” And in his unique way, Brice shares his truth: “…the palpable sense/that we…broken ones are still here.”

Linda Nemec Foster, author of Bone Country, The Blue Divide, and Talking Diamonds

Offertories: Exclamations and Disequilibirums by Barbara Simmons

Offertories: Exclamations and Disequilibirums by Barbara Simmons, (Friesen Press, April 2022
Available on Amazon and Friesen Press. Barbara’s website:  https://www.barbarasimmonspoetry.com

This collection of free-verse poetry travels, along with the author, across her lifetime, from high school through college and graduate school, past marriage, divorce, and the death of a parent, deep into raising children, always finding a new path of understanding, deeply thinking about her inner and external worlds.  There is an element of “exclaiming” in these offertories, an understanding that even imbalance can bring about a new equilibrium in one’s life.  Simmons’ poetry moves through the terrain of mythology, landscapes, train rides, seasons, loss, hope, finally understanding how one comes to see one’s life as utterances that help one regain one’s balance in life’s journey.

Poet David Leo Sirois

David Leo Sirois is a Canadian-American poet published 150 times, in 25 countries, translated into 13 languages. He hosts Spoken World Online, the Zoom version of SpokenWord Paris. His chapbook, Humbledoves (Poems to Pigeons & Plants) can be bought here:

humbledoves https://a.co/d/aVrE8OR

LOOKING for WILL: My Bardic Quest with Shakespeare, by Greg Bell

LOOKING for WILL: My Bardic Quest with Shakespeare, by Greg Bell

This book is a haunting – both a séance and an exorcism.
“Read it, and re-read it, and find your perceptions of Shakespeare subtly changed as you share Shakespeare’s journey, Bell’s journey, and embark on your own personal journey to look again for Will.” Sarah Waters Review, The Shakespeare Standard

Available on Amazon, Bookshop.org, and Better World Books, but support your local store if you can.

WINTER AT A SUMMER HOUSE by Mary Beth Hines

WINTER AT A SUMMER HOUSE by Mary Beth Hines—a collection that “sings to us out of the staircases, backyards, and swimming pools of a life sumptuously lived, a world rife with joys and enticements, with girlhood wish and adulthood tryst.” ~Tom Daley, author of Far Cry and House You Cannot Reach 

Available at Kelsay Books, Bookshop.org, or on Amazon. Learn more and connect with Mary Beth here.

Catherine Campbell Has Been a Poet All Her Life

She has recently released two collections, available to purchase from Amazon both in paperback and Kindle versions. The first is “The Lotus” which includes reflections on life, love, loss, and light. It became the #1 seller in the Australian/Oceania category within days of release and has met with 5-star reviews from across the world. Her second collection, “Daisy Chains,” contains poetry about the journey through motherhood, from birth to leaving-home age. This too has received wonderful reviews and has deeply resonated with her audience. You can join Catherine Campbell Poetry on Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/cath4simplicity/

New from Space Cowboy Books – Michael Butterworth – Complete Poems 1965-2020

For more than fifty years Michael Butterworth, better known for his work as a writer, editor and publisher, has also been a quiet unobtrusive voice in poetry, with roots lying both in the small press poetry journals of the sixties and seventies and in New Wave of Science Fiction. A collection such as this one from Space Cowboy Books is overdue, and Complete Poems: 1965-2020 brings to more deserving attention a less heard voice in modern poetry. Get your copy at https://bookshop.org/a/197/9781732825765

The Death of The American Dream: An Obituary on a Failed & Doomed World. . .

“A memoir that presents a philosophy of nihilism. A satire on the irony of life. A dark night of nothingness. A brutal bashing of society. A debate on the value of suicide. A self help guide for the path to destruction. An obituary on a failed and doomed world. A revelation of personal apocalypse. THE MOURNING HOUR presents the masterpiece poetic rants of Frogg Corpse, a mad genius standing on the lunatic fringe of a world gone wrong. Read at your own damn risk!”
—Ron Whitehead, U.S. National Beat Poet Laureate

Purchase here.

ALL POETRY by Paulo Leminski

ALL POETRY by Paulo Leminski (2022) presents the master’s multi-faceted poems of contrast: rigor v. emotion, erudition v. lightness, avant-garde v. convention, formal construction v. colloquialism. From West to East, he embodied a frontier of both “cultured” and “pop,” super-concentrated and quotidian material. Existential / love lyric, haiku, visual effects, “joke poem,” meta-poetics, slogans, songs, “it’s all good.” All Poetry is a true adventure—for the intellect and the senses.  Find the book at Amazon books!

The Hogwash series by Daniel S. Irwin

The Hogwash series by Daniel S. Irwin (Hogwash, Hogwash Too, Hogwash BOLD, Hogwash de Guano, Hogwash XXX Renegade). Underground poetry often witty, irreverent, absurd, vulgar (but you won’t go blind reading it…deaf is another matter.) Books published with Lulu Publishing and can be found on Amazon.  Each book perfectly suited for church book burnings.

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