Clarion Magazine is based in Boston, edited by BU students, alums and allies, and published in collaboration with @penandanvil and @bubooklab. ¡Chicchirichi!
Do you write stories by, not about, ghosts? Do you execute literary hoaxes? Do you play with pseudonyms and heteronyms? If so, we want your work for a special issue-out-of-time of Clarion. PM us for details, or email [email protected]. We have room for ~12 contributors. No fee.
New prompt in the Melissa poetry workshop with refugee women--We closed our eyes and listened to a noise machine with noises like "birdsong" and "ocean" and "thunderstorm" and "nighttime" and "white noise"--women heard these, but also "fighter airplane," "bombs," "radio static."
I'm aching for my birthplace, Ukraine. Wishing I wasn't turning back to poems I wrote back in 2014. How is this happening? What can I do from here and in this language? What can I do but keep writing and reading and aching...
TFW the institutional IT office confirms they're at last moving your sites to the fully-public S3 bucket on AWS. Our stable of campus journal websites can finally be brought out of slumber and updated, 18 months later. Bless the patience and acumen of IT professionals!
@tonytonypeyser Alive and kicking, though our website launch has been wildly delayed by (the ongoing crisis). All submitters through 2020 should have been notified about results; any we missed we’d like to know about and make amends with?
* CORRECTION. Ugh. It's the BURNING STACKS, not the BURNING LIBRARY. I wrote the darn thing and I can't get it right. Goes to show that versions and alternatives swirl around our word choices, like orbital trash around a planetary body.
Today's Featured Poet:
Norman Henry Pritchard was born in NYC in 1939. He belonged to the Umbra group (1962–65), a collective of young black writers that included Steve Cannon, Thomas C. Dent, David Henderson, Calvin Hernton, Ishmael Reed, and Lorenzo Thomas.
"Why are so few contemporary US #poets writing atheist poetry?" So Bill Knott asked, and so we'd like to know: are YOU a writer of vivid, human-hearted #atheist#poetry? The Knott Prize is again open for #submissions, until 10/31: https://t.co/xNMAPBdO4p.
We have #faith in you.