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 The World That Belongs To Us: An Anthology of Queer Poetry from South Asia edited by Aditi Angiras and Akhil Katyal featured this week in the PSH Bookstore:
'A bold and necessary correction to the subcontinent's poetry canon.' - Jeet Thayil This first-of-its-kind anthology brings together the best of contemporary queer poetry from South Asia, both from the subcontinent and its many diasporas.The anthology features well-known voices like Hoshang Merchant, Ruth Vanita, Suniti Namjoshi, Kazim Ali, Rajiv Mohabir as well as a host of new poets. The themes range from desire and loneliness, sexual intimacy and struggles, caste and language, activism both on the streets and in the homes, the role of family both given and chosen, and heartbreaks and heartjoins. Writing from Bangalore, Baroda, Benares, Boston, Chennai, Colombo, Dhaka, Delhi, Dublin, Karachi, Kathmandu, Lahore, London, New York City, and writing in languages including Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Urdu, Manipuri, Malayalam, Marathi, Punjabi, Tamil, and, of course, English, the result is an urgent, imaginative and beautiful testament to the diversity, politics, aesthetics and ethics of queer life in South Asia today.
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Hardcover, 240 Pages, Harper Collins, September 2020 |
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TOM HOWARD/MARGARET REID POETRY CONTEST
 Sponsored by Winning Writers, we just slashed the effective entry fee for this contest in half! Now you can enter two poems in one $15 submission. Win $3,000 for a poem in any style and $3,000 for a poem that rhymes or has a traditional style. Total prizes: $8,000. The top two winners will also receive two-year gift certificates from our co-sponsor, Duotrope (a $100 value). Both published and unpublished work accepted. Winning entries published online. Length limit: 250 lines per poem. Final judge: S. Mei Sheng Frazier.
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Build Your Own Brain by Greg Farnum
Build Your Own Brain
Poetry for the new century
By Greg Farnum
"Terrific. Much to like throughout."
--Ken Mikolowski, author of Little Mysteries and Big Enigmas.
gtfa...@yahoo.com
We are now accepting entries in our Summer 2021 contest!
THE DREAMQUESTONE POETRY & WRITING CONTEST - SUMMER 2021 is open to anyone who enjoys expressing innermost thoughts and feelings into the beautiful literary art of poetry and/or writing a story that is worth telling everyone. Guidelines: (1) Write a poem, thirty lines or fewer on any subject, form, or style. And/or (2) Write a short story, five pages maximum length, single or double line spacing, on any subject or theme. Genres include fiction, nonfiction, or creative nonfiction (including essay compositions, diary, journal entries, stage plays, and screenwriting). Multiple and simultaneous entries are accepted. Prizes: Writing First Prize is $500; Second: $250; Third: $100. Poetry First Prize: $250; Second: $125; Third: $50. Entry fees: $5 per poem/$10 per story. Postmark deadline: September 22, 2021. How to enter, visit https://www.dreamquestone.com
| Stitches and Scars by Rolland Vasin
 Rolland Vasin aka Vachine, found his poetic voice in the Day Room of UCLA’s 6 West unit for Mental Illness Recovery. A Vietnam Veteran treated for war-related stresses, Rolland found solace in written and verbal expressions in modern poetic verse. His work is gutturally compelling, humorous, ironic, self-revealing, and has been described as “a novella in fourteen lines.”
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The Tokyo-Van Nuys Express by Rick Lupert
 Rick Lupert’s 25th collection of poems and latest travelogue written in Japan while visiting Tokyo, Kyoto, and Hiroshima, follows in the footsteps of Richard Brautigan and is loosely inspired by his title The Tokyo-Montana Express. Follow Lupert through Japan with his signature wit and poet’s eye as your guide, as he stands in the mysterious “stick line”, as indescribable food is put in his mouth (and described anyway), as a monkey crawls on his head, as Hiroshima looms at the end of it all.
"His poems are funny, moving, insightful, and full of a traveler’s wonder and bemusement.” –Ianthe Brautigan
Click here to read poems from The Tokyo-Van Nuys Express
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
The Bond Street Review, a bi-annual literary journal publishing from Rochester, New York since 2011, is now accepting submissions for the Summer 2021 issue (due out in early August) – deadline to submit is July 15th. Want to send us something? You should. And don't be shy about sharing the info with any writers whose work you think we should read. Go to https://inkpublications1.wixsite.com/mysite for submission guidelines and to read previous issues.
Unlikely Stories
www.UnlikelyStories.org has been live on the web since 1998, and publishes literature, criticism of art and society, visual art, movies, and music, as well as 3-5 books a year. Check us out at https://www.UnlikelyStories.org/
Space Cowboy Books
Support Indie Bookstores! Space Cowboy Books is an independent brick and mortar bookstore in Joshua Tree, CA - specializing in science fiction but also carrying a wide range of general interest books. We host author events, produce Simultaneous Times podcast, and carry a wide range of local authors and poets. Visit our online store. https://bookshop.org/shop/spacecowboybooks
Dead Shark on the N Train by Susana H. Case
Dead Shark on the N Train, from Broadstone Books, 2020, which won a Pinnacle Book Award for Best Poetry Book, a NYC Big Book Award Distinguished Favorite, and was a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Book Award is available at https://www.broadstonebooks.com/shop/p/dead-shark-on-the-n-train-poetry-by-susana-h-case or at: www.susanahcase.com.
“Dead Men Don’t Know Jack” - western poems by LB Sedlacek
“Dead Men Don’t Know Jack” - western poems by LB Sedlacek now available. Includes her most popular poem the title poem based on Wild Bill Hickok’s death. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B096LS1CYW
This book of poetry contains my most popular poem, the title poem, “Dead Men Don’t Know Jack”. It’s a poem based on a character actor I knew who was in a play based on the death of Wild Bill Hickok in South Dakota.
The other poems in this collection cover a range of ideas, thoughts, themes and styles. It’s my special almost western array of poems with some regular verses thrown in as well.
Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association (SFPA)
Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association (SFPA) is open for membership universally and diversely. Membership is $15/year for digital publications, starting at $45/year (US) for print and $35/year (US) for mixed media. Membership includes quarterly issues of Star*Line, The Rhysling Anthology (for the Rhysling Award for best short and long SF, Fantasy or Horror poem), the Dwarf Stars Anthology (for the Dwarf Stars Award for best poem 10 lines or less). Plus access to over 75 collections of poetry nominated for the annual Elgin Award for best speculative chapbook and full-length collection; critique groups; a vibrant community of poets from around the world. Please visit sfpoetry.com/join.html for specifics and to sign up.
Dreams and Nightmares Magazine
Dreams and Nightmares, the magazine of fantastic poetry since 1986, Print subs $25/6 issues ($30 outside North America); Sample $5. PDF $1/issue or lifetime pdf sub for $39; PayPal to jopn...@gmail.com. Open to authors of diverse backgrounds. Submissions: dckm...@gmail.com. Pmt $12 on acceptance & contributor's copy. URL: http://dreamsandnightmaresmagazine.blogspot.com/.
Lummox Productions
Since 1994, Lummox Productions has supported the small press and it's poets. With a catalog of over 150 publications, there is something for everyone. Recent books include Stitches and Scars by Vachine (2021). www.lummoxpress.com
Red Thread Through a Rusty Needle: Poetry by Gay Guard-Chamberlin
Award-winning Chicago poet Gay Guard-Chamberlin's collection, Red Thread Through a Rusty Needle, now available. Three dozen evocative poems that explore the natural world, mothers and daughters, the inner life of words, and the secret lives of ordinary objects. Her sister, award-winning Sacramento poet Anara Guard's collection, Hand on My Heart, contains 35 poignant and powerful poems of praise and lament, floods and heat waves, love and Mason jars. Buy them both as a discounted "Sister Set." Visit siblingrevelrypoetry.newwindpublishing.com
Compulsive Reader
Reviews of books by some of the hottest writers working today, interviews, literary news, and giveaways galore. It's a haven for book lovers. http://www.compulsivereader.com
To Light a House of Bones By Carey Link (Blue Light Press)
To Light a House of Bones
Reading Carey Link's new collection, I found myself breathing more slowly, easing into a world of light, color, and, most importantly, attentiveness to the moment. These poems of hard-earned transcendence admit that, yes, we all live in a 'house of bones' but also assert the possibility of transcendence: through language, through the tenderness of the mother-daughter bond, through lyrical vision. Floating in this book, I felt an amniotic sustenance, a challenge to be continually reborn, and to live fully.
- Jennifer Horne, Alabama Poet Laureate, author of Bottle Tree and Borrowed Light, Little Wanderer
I Wish My Father, a memoir-in-verse by Lesléa Newman
I Wish My Father, a memoir-in-verse by Lesléa Newman explores the journey of an adult daughter through the last years of her father’s life as with great anger and sadness, he moves from husband to widow, attoreny to retiree, tennis player to spectator, driver to passenger, and homeowner to independent living resident. "A big-hearted masterpiece that has my whole-hearted recommendation.” — Alexandra Umlas, Cultural Weekly https://lesleanewman.com/books-for-adults/poetry/i-wish-my-father/
God Wrestler: A Poem for Every Torah Portion by Rick Lupert
 With just a few exquisite words, Rick Lupert fills in the white spaces between the Torah's words, and offers holy insight, life wisdom, reverent irreverence, and sacred depth. It takes a poet to find the poetry of Torah, and a great teacher to share it. Rick is both. His book is a gift to us all. -Rabbi Ed Feinstein
One can always count on Rick to see things in ways that we would not otherwise have seen them. He has succeeded in finding messages within each parashah that are simultaneously uniquely personal and entirely universal. Humor and depth abound. Rick amplifies the timeless nature of the words of Torah, and fills each page with new perspectives. -Cantor Ellen Dreskin
Rick Lupert’s poetry is witty, knowing, wise, and a tonic to the seeking soul. -Rabbi David Wolpe
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