poemeleon

Today is the last official day to submit to the prose poem issue. Please go to the submissions page to upload your document (and be sure to read the guidelines carefully).

And remember to check out the contest!

This year we nominated poems for the University of Virginia's Best New Poets series, and I am very pleased to announce that our nominee, Alex Grant, was chosen for inclusion. His poem "The Steps of Montmartre", from Volume I Issue 2 (the ekphrastic issue), will appear in the anthology.

The guest editor is Pulitzer-prize-winner Natasha Trethewey.

Congratulations, Alex!

I'm going to be one of two featured readers next Sunday in San Dimas, CA. If you're in the area please stop by. Here's the abbreviated announcement:

OUR POETIC SOULS - Where words go when they want to play
Sunday August 12 - 2:30 PM to 5 PM San Dimas, CA
featured poets and open mic poetry reading

This week featuring: Cati Porter and Mani Suri

Cati Porter

Cati Porter is a poet, reviewer, contributing associate editor for Babel (www.icorn.org), and founding editor of Poemeleon: A Journal of Poetry (www.poemeleon.org). Some of the journals where her poems have appeared include Banyan Review, kaleidowhirl, Literary Mama, MotherVerse, Pomona Valley Review, Poetry Midwest, Poetry Southeast, SN Review, Sunspinner, Vermilion Literary Project, with poems forthcoming in the anthologies Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel -- Second Floor (No Tell Books), White Ink: Poems on Mothers and Mothering (Demeter Press), and Letters to the World (Red Hen Press). She blogs about poetry, motherhood, and other creative endeavors at http://catiporter.wordpress.com. She lives in Riverside with her husband and two young sons.

Mani Suri

(Bio from poeticdiversity.org)
Mani Suri is a veteran of the Poetic License crowd in L.A. Mani is known for crafting images out of thin air and exposing a new perspective on every subject he approaches. He is the author of two chapbooks, Poetry My Wife Hates and the Mistresses I Could Have Had Would Have Loved and Reflection: More Poetry My Wife Hates or the Mistresses I'll Never Have Who Might Have Loved It, and co-hosts a weekly reading at the Rapp Saloon in Santa Monica.


Coming August 26 - Rick Lupert, Elaine Lazzerroni and a special guest

Rick Lupert
(Bio from poeticdiversity.org)
Rick Lupert has been involved in the Los Angeles poetry community since 1990. He served for two years as a co-director of the Valley Contemporary Poets, a twenty-five year old non-profit organization which produces a readings and publications out of the San Fernando Valley. His poetry has appeared in numerous magazines and literary journals, including The Los Angeles Times, Chiron Review, Stirring, poeticdiversity, Zuzu's Petals, Caffeine Magazine, Blue Satellite and others. He is the author of 10 books: Paris: It's The Cheese, I Am My Own Orange County, Mowing Fargo, I'm a Jew. Are You?, Stolen Mummies, I'd Like to Bake Your Goods, (Ain't Got No Press), Lizard King of the Laundromat, Brendan Constantine is My Kind of Town (Inevitable Press), Feeding Holy Cats and Up Liberty's Skirt (Cassowary Press). He serves on the Artist and Community Advisory Council of Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center in Venice, California. (Though he's not sure how that happened or what it means.) He has hosted the long running Cobalt Café reading series in Canoga Park since 1994 and is regularly featured at venues throughout Southern California.

Rick created and maintains the Poetry Super Highway, a major Internet resource for poets. (http://PoetrySuperHighway.com/)

Currently Rick works as a music teacher at Temple Ahavat Shalom in Northridge and is the graphics and media specialist for the New Jewish Community Center at Milken and a freelance graphic and web designer for anyone who would like to help pay his mortgage.
www.PoetrySuperHighway.com

Elaine Lazzerroni
Elaine is the Golden Pegasus winner 1996, Beth Martin Haas Award 2002 winner, and among many other awards and recognitions she is the Godmother of the Our Poetics Souls reading.

Plus:
A special extra feature - Nancy Krieg from Kansas City, MO

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Home Brew Coffee Company
661 West Arrow Highway
San Dimas, Ca. 91773
909-394-1964
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Information including a link to a map is on the web - http://www.chrystin edrums.com/ PoeticSouls. html

Hosts: Jim Lyon / Lee Collins / Chrystine Julian

The reading was fantastic. To see the photos click here.

There will still be contributors' books available for purchase throughout the weekend, PLUS, for a limited time, I will send to you -- free -- a copy of the inaugural launch reading chapbook, if you send me a SASE.

Also, if you missed it, we have just launched the new contest. Check it out!

The Mystery Box

Poems must contain or be inspired by the box. Submit only one poem per person. There is no entry fee. There is no deadline. There are no other rules. The person who submits the most stunning poem will have their poem published in an upcoming issue of Poemeleon, PLUS they  win the box. Yes. After the contest we will mail it to you, wherever you happen to be.

Submit entries via e-mail to editor(at)poemeleon(dot)org and include the words "contest entry: (your name)" in the subject line.

Good luck!