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Saturday, February 24, 2007 at 09:21AM The deadline for submission to Volume II Issue 1 (dedicated to poems in form) is February 28th. We have already received upwards of several hundred submissions and will begin to put the issue together starting next week. Notifications should begin to go out mid-March. Looks like it's going to be another fantastic issue!
Saturday, February 24, 2007 at 08:48AM Marilyn Taylor's chapbook manuscript, "Going Wrong", has just been accepted by Parallel Press, to be published spring of 2009.
Additionally, she just received an Honorable Mention in the Dancing Galliard sonnet contest (Prism Quarterly) for two poems: "Family Picnic" and "Cover Letter." Congratulations!
Saturday, February 24, 2007 at 07:49AM Eloise Klein Healy's new book of poems, The Islands Project: Poems For Sappho, is out from Red Hen Press.
In addition to that, she now has an imprint with Red Hen, Arktoi Books. Information about Arktoi Books can be found here.
Saturday, February 24, 2007 at 07:27AM FootHills Publishing of Kanona, NY announced in January their intention to publish Gary Lehmann's long poem American Sponsored Torture: a Poem in Twelve Parts in May 2007 to coincide with the opening of the ArtistWorks & PoetWords exhibition to be held at the Dome Arena, Rochester NY, for the month of May.
The Lehmann exhibition will include a soft sculpture created by artist Bernie Lehmann and a book of poetry by poet Gary Lehmann.
To learn more about the project, visit Gary Lehman's page at Foothills Publishing.
Saturday, February 24, 2007 at 07:20AM It has come to my attention that Tony Barnstone just won the Benjamin Saltman Award in poetry for his free verse manuscript of poetry, which will appear next year with Red Hen Press, as well as an NEA in Poetry for his formal manuscript of poetry about WWII in the Pacific.