February 2011
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February Sale on qarrtsiluni print editions! Receive $2.00 off on each of our four print anthologies. http://www.phoeniciapublishing.com
Congrats to Teju Cole on the publication today of his first novel Open City by Random House. Ya done good. http://op-cit.tumblr.com/
Qarrtsiluni’s gender gap grows ever wider, our latest tally finds: http://is.gd/ktiPg6
Poetry is playing a prominent role in the popular uprising in Egypt, says Elliott Colla at Jadaliyya: http://is.gd/FWVgvJ
January 2011
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Mazel tov to Rachel Barenblat @velveteenrabbi on her ordination & the publication of her new book 70 Faces: Torah Poems. http://is.gd/kuDjn
December 2010
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Big doings at qarrtsiluni: The Crowd issue wraps up, Words of Power comes out in print, and the deadline for the next issue is tomorrow.
Epiphany Book Kit #1, “Movie Plots”: prose poems by our Translation issue editor Nick Admussen. http://epiphanykits.com Build it at home!
More details on Phoenicia’s upcoming releases from qarrtsiluni, Rachel Barenblat, Ren Powell and Marly Youmans: http://v.gd/mojege
#poettues We’e currently reading manuscripts for a translation-themed issue. http://qarrtsiluni.submishmash.com/Submit
If you’ve already submitted work and haven’t heard back yet, please hang in there.
We are extending the deadline for submissions to the Translation issue to December 31.
Our nominations are in for the 2010 Pushcart Prize: http://is.gd/i3Sjs It wasn’t easy. Thanks to everyone who made suggestions.
November 2010
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Clayton Michaels explains the origin of his poem “Watermark” at a reading in support of his qarrtsiluni chapbook: http://is.gd/hfUKd
Help us select our nominations for the Pushcart anthology: http://wp.me/p6kvT-2Bl
Qarrtsiluni’s next issue, Translation, is now open for submissions: http://wp.me/p6kvT-2Ae
October 2010
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Qarrtsiluni on the Best American Poetry blog: http://is.gd/gbdPU Thanks to @velveteenrabbi for the feature.
September 2010
11 posts
A great resource. RT @Dianelock Print Journals That Accept Online Submissions http://is.gd/fAp9H #poetry
Publishers Weekly Poetry Reviews on Tumblr →
It hardly needs saying that they could never have ventured into this terrain had qarrtsiluni not preceded them and made it cool. You’re welcome, PW.
RT @phoeniciapubl: FALL SALE! 15% off all chapbooks & qarrtsiluni titles! Order online w/code 9EFGQS59 (no Amazon) http://tinyurl.com/yg …
Thanks to Daily sPress for featuring Clayton Michaels’ Watermark. http://dailyspress.blogspot.com/2010/09/watermark-clayton-t-michaels.html
Daniela Elza and Arlene Ang converse about #poetry writing & collaboration, & reveal that they met through qarrtsiluni. http://is.gd/ff2DS
Our chapbook Watermark, by Clayton Michaels, got a glowing review from Kristen McHenry at The Good Typist: http://is.gd/fcnUy #poetry
“Having 20,000 or 20 million poets won’t help one bit if the biosphere is screwed.” —Ron Silliman http://is.gd/f63NP
“After language goes awry you are left with alphabet as the only scaffold.” Nico Vassilakis on vispoetics: http://is.gd/f453F
Writer Martha Nichols discovers that blogging isn’t about “building your brand”; it’s about going deeper. http://talkingwriting.com/?p=898
We’re pleased to be included as an “innovative journal” in Diane Lockward’s annotated list of “Online Journals I Admire”: http://is.gd/eSkEM
Good piece on anti-online magazine snobbery and the online submission fee flap from @CollinKelley http://is.gd/eOA0k #poetry
August 2010
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Watermark launch day is here! http://wp.me/p6kvT-2r2 “Break out the shotguns. We’re going to town.”
Watermark is live on the web
WatermarkPoems.com went live today at noon, together with a special, 27-minute audiobook-podcast with theme music composed and performed by the author, Clayton T. Michaels. We are trying to raise the bar for online poetry publication, if that doesn’t sound too immodest, at the same time that we reaffirm our love for print. It’s a great pleasure to have such wonderful poems with which...
The Moon-colored Flesh of Leaving →
Something Unfolds In The Distance →
Feeding the Invisible Cat →
Brood X: Part III →
Mannequin →
Sleep Song →
A Date with Ben Franklin →
The Shell →
Poet (and qarrtsiluni contributor) Jee Leong Koh on his decision to self-publish his poetry and launch his own imprint: http://is.gd/eunZb
Apart →
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James Brush on making “drylung,” the videopoem we produced in support of Clayton Michael’s chapbook Watermark: http://is.gd/eo39Y
New Classics: issue summary →
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WatchWe produced a videopoem in lieu of a standard book trailer to promote Clayton Michaels’ winning chapbook Watermark, due out on August 30. The director was James Brush.
After three and a half months, our New Classics issue is complete: http://qarrtsiluni.com/category/new-classics/
Qarrtsiluni's revamped Links page
Don’t you hate magazines that slap up a links page when they first go online and then never touch it again, letting it fill up with dead links? We don’t want to become one of those magazines, so we try to keep adding links to exciting new (or new-to-us) publications and taking out the links of sites that have died on the vine. But since Google Reader is the tool we use to access most...
July 2010
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Sale on qarrtsiluni print editions thru Aug 5! Get 10% off on orders through our online store with the code B87AYYZU http://is.gd/dTo6W
Thanks to Daily s-Press for featuring the print edition of qarrtsiluni’s Economy issue: http://is.gd/dB8cT
Our Economy issue is now available in print: http://is.gd/dpdCD
Q, author and issue editor Carey Wallace’s novel The Blind Contessa’s New Machine (Penguin USA) is now available: http://is.gd/dlDIk
Q. contributor Teju Cole’s forthcoming novel Open City included in Publishers Weekly list of 10 promising debut novels: http://is.gd/dfwPd