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Thursday, October 29, 2009 at 10:04AMNominees for Best of the Web and others
Here are the recent nominations we have made for works appearing in Poemeleon in the last two issues. Congratulations to everyone on this list, and to everyone whose work we have published. If we could nominate all of you we would!
Nominees for the 2010 Best of the Web Anthology (Dzanc Books):
- Jo Scott-Coe, for "Not So Gay at the YMCA" (The Gender Issue)
- Diane Seuss, for "Baby goodbye" (The Gender Issue)
- Lafayette Wattles, for "Soup Kitchen" (The Gender Issue)
Nominees for the 2009 Best of the Net Anthology (Sundress Press):
- Deborah Bogen, for "Driving Home Trying Not to Change the Station (The Humor Issue)
- Sherman Alexie, for "Inappropriate" (The Humor Issue)
- Ann Fisher-Wirth, for "My Nancy Drews" (The Humor Issue)
- Barbara Crooker, for "TXT MSSGE HMLT" (The Humor Issue)
- Jason Bredle, for "American Sex Machine" (The Humor Issue)
- David Graham, for "The Look of a Bay Mare" (The Humor Issue)
Nominees for the 2009 Best New Poets Anthology (University of Virginia Press):
- Chella Courington, for "Medley" (The Humor Issue)
- Jon Stone, for "Bullshit Related Injuries in the A & E" (The Humor Issue)
The Winner of the Mystery Box Contest is...
(This may be anti-climactic for some, but I'm playing catch-up on the posts and I certainly don't want to miss out on making the big announcement on this blog. You might have noticed that the poll has been removed from the sidebar. That is because a NEW Mystery Box Contest is in full swing. Check it out here.)
The Gender Issue
The Gender Issue is now available online. Visit the website to read new work by:
Tony Barnstone, Charles Harper Webb, Diane Seuss, Jeannine Hall Gailey, Stephany Prodromides, Ching-In Chen, Michelle Bitting, Jennifer K Sweeney, Sherry Chandler, Andrea O'Brien, Kathryn Stripling Byer, Roy Jacobstein, Richard Garcia, Lafayette Wattles, Marbrook Djelloul, Bernard Henrie, and lots lots more!
Also including essays on the gendered experience and the implications of gender by Elliot BatZedek and Jo Scott-Coe, on gender and poetics by Gary Lehmann, and reviews of books by Kathleen Rooney, Judy Kronenfeld, and the anthologies Manthology and Letters to the World.
West Hollywood Book Fair tomorrow!
Come by and listen to Michelle Bitting, Ching-In Chen, Chella Courington, Jeannine Hall Gailey, Robert Krut, and Paul Lieber, 3 -4 pm, the Lounge Stage.
For more information visit the WeHoBookFair website or click this link to download a PDF of the flyer for our event, where you can also pick up a Poemeleon sticker and be the first to see the latest Mystery Box in person.
(P.S. I know, you're all waiting to find out who the winner of the current Mystery Box Contest is, but you'll just have to wait until the Gender Issue launches early next week!)
See you there!
