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What to do With a Brand New Year
Poetry is inspiring, poetry is moving, poetry is emotional, poetry is revelatory, and poetry is damn hard to publish. The journals and the contests present challenges, for sure, but we are having our luck with them. The hard part comes when one tries to publish a book, or even a chapbook. We’re considering self-publishing some…
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Apology by Dave
Dave won an Honourable Mention and was published in The Ultra Best Short Verse Anthology 2023. Click on the poem title to see it.
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The Canaries Leave The Coal Mine
We’ve been out of touch here, all of us. I bear more than one half of the burden though, because I lost all our passwords …. how do people not lose passwords? At any rate, we’re back and we’ll be updating things and then, you know, we’re going to ask you to help us share…
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New Canadian Journal – Arboreal
There’s a cool new Canadian journal called Arboreal Literary Magazine, and they were kind enough to publish one of Charlotte’s villanelles about getting ripped off by a contractor because, well, who hasn’t been? You can read ‘Can’t Buy That Harley Now,’ on page 43. Also, check out our friend Delight Rogers’ art on page 81.
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One foot in front of the other ….
It’s been an interesting few months that have seen five of my poems published which really ought to be a boost but, instead, I am so very stuck and so I’m muddling about, considering journals and contests to submit to – my whole world feels rather meh. Interesting how having those five pieces published (one…
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Dave Bartlett

I too sat down, laying the spear between us, and tried to explain how I came to Pellucidar, and wherefrom, but it was as impossible for him to grasp or believe the strange tale I told him as I fear it is for you upon the outer crust to believe in the existence of the…
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Katerina Fretwell

I too sat down, laying the spear between us, and tried to explain how I came to Pellucidar, and wherefrom, but it was as impossible for him to grasp or believe the strange tale I told him as I fear it is for you upon the outer crust to believe in the existence of the…
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Shelly Hazzard

I too sat down, laying the spear between us, and tried to explain how I came to Pellucidar, and wherefrom, but it was as impossible for him to grasp or believe the strange tale I told him as I fear it is for you upon the outer crust to believe in the existence of the…