December 2008
9 posts
If you haven’t found a collaboration partner for a submission to our next theme yet, be sure to check the comments below the Call for Submissions, and leave your own. (We’ll remove email addresses after the deadline to minimize their exposure to the spammer spiders, but if you’re concerned about that in the meantime, we encourage you to spell out your email.)
Qarrtsiluni contributor Alice George’s first poetry collection, This Must Be the Place, is now available from Mayapple Press (and also at Amazon). As the publisher’s website puts it,
Alice George’s poems meet the threats of everyday life with a lifted chin, a jaundiced eye and a sense of humor. Exploring materials from folklore and fairy tales, politics and science within the...
A new addition to our links page: 14 by 14, which “publishes fourteen contemporary sonnets by fourteen different authors” every other month.
We removed the haiku e-zine tiny words, since sadly it appears to have ceased publication.
Friday, December 12 is the last day to get free shipping on Water Signs, the new chapbook by frequent qarrtsiluni contributor and Water issue editor Katherine Durham Oldmixon. Order from the Finishing Line Press New Releases page (it’s a little more than half-way down on the right). Here are a couple of blurbs from the press release to whet your appetite:
In this exquisite series of...
We’re impressed with the inaugural issue of ouroboros, a quarterly journal of poetry and art edited by two qarrtsiluni contributors, Jo Hemmant and Christine Swint.
Qarrtsiluni contributor Howie Good’s sixth chapbook, Tomorrowland, has just been published by Achilles Chapbooks, and may be ordered here. Quoting from the press release:
The lead poem of the book, the 11-part “A Tiny Fugue for Tomorrowland,” has been nominated for a 2008 Pushcart Prize …
Jack Henry of deadbeatpress.com said Good is “one of those rare voices ...
We finally have a favicon! (About freakin’ time, WordPress.com. But why in the world did you have to coin the neologism “blavatar” for it?)
And I discover, once again, how hard it is to make anything legible at that size. Quite by accident, though, I think I’ve come up with something that sort of works. The roundess of that q in a square of black kind of suggests...
If you’re looking for holiday gift ideas, don’t forget about the qarrtsiluni goods cache: shirts, mugs, and a ball cap. If you want something else that Cafepress offers with the qarrtsiluni logo on it, let us know and we’ll do our best to accommodate. We don’t make a penny off of this; it’s just free advertising for the magazine.
Submissions are open for our next issue, “Mutating the Signature,” with guest editors Dana Guthrie Martin and Nathan Moore. Be sure to study the theme description carefully before submitting.
