Monday, April 1, 2013
CALL FOR POETRY SUBMISSIONS
All local poets are invited to submit a poem for the Grass Roots Poem-A-Day April Poetry Month celebration. As you may already be aware, we celebrate National Poetry Month by sending out one of our favorite poems for every day of the month of April. This year, as we have done in the past, we will be featuring a selection of local poets as well. To submit a poem for consideration, please send it to grootsreads@gmail.com along with a brief bio. We love showcasing our own local talent. Thanks for your submissions!
All local poets are invited to submit a poem for the Grass Roots Poem-A-Day April Poetry Month celebration. As you may already be aware, we celebrate National Poetry Month by sending out one of our favorite poems for every day of the month of April. This year, as we have done in the past, we will be featuring a selection of local poets as well. To submit a poem for consideration, please send it to grootsreads@gmail.com along with a brief bio. We love showcasing our own local talent. Thanks for your submissions!
This was supposed to be the prompt for spring break (but the blog fell off my radar for a moment) ;) If you'd like to still try it out I'd love to see what everyone comes up with!
Write a haiku for every person that has impacted, swayed, or influenced your life in a grand way. Create a series of haiku with these poems. The haiku can be for anyone: a teacher, grandfather, gas station pump attendant - anyone you feel has made a valuable impact on your life.
"There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon." - Matsuo Basho
Write a haiku for every person that has impacted, swayed, or influenced your life in a grand way. Create a series of haiku with these poems. The haiku can be for anyone: a teacher, grandfather, gas station pump attendant - anyone you feel has made a valuable impact on your life.
"There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon." - Matsuo Basho
Gold Man Review, a literary journal produced in Salem, is currently open for submissions of fiction, nonfiction and poetry until May 1, 2013, for their third issue. They are looking for Oregon authors, both new and old, to grace them with the written word!
Requirements:
Prose submissions up to 5,000 words
Poetry submissions up to 3 poems (up to 3 pages total)
If you're interested, go to www.GoldManPublishing.com to submit your work!
Happy scribbling!
Hello Poets, one and all!
My apologies for the short hiatus over spring break, but I am back with plenty of news for you! First off: our hard work on the Ekphrasis project is finally being mounted to life! Please join us this Wednesday, April 3rd, in the South Santiam Hall Gallery from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. to meet the poets, photographers, and facilitators of this event! Our books will be on sale for $20, but if you're thinking of buying several books, you can get a deal for buying them in bulk here: http://www.blurb.com/books/4129291-ekphrasis
Secondly, we have another new project beginning to take place! In light of April Poetry Month, Bryan Myagishima from the library has mounted whiteboard poster board up on a wall in the library. The idea is that anyone can come to this wall and jot down some poetry! When the wall starts to fill up, I will be taking pictures of all the poems to later document here and also potentially for a paperback copy. The wall should be up any day now, so feel free to stop by the library and check it out!
Happy scribbling everyone!
Kiera
My apologies for the short hiatus over spring break, but I am back with plenty of news for you! First off: our hard work on the Ekphrasis project is finally being mounted to life! Please join us this Wednesday, April 3rd, in the South Santiam Hall Gallery from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. to meet the poets, photographers, and facilitators of this event! Our books will be on sale for $20, but if you're thinking of buying several books, you can get a deal for buying them in bulk here: http://www.blurb.com/books/4129291-ekphrasis
Secondly, we have another new project beginning to take place! In light of April Poetry Month, Bryan Myagishima from the library has mounted whiteboard poster board up on a wall in the library. The idea is that anyone can come to this wall and jot down some poetry! When the wall starts to fill up, I will be taking pictures of all the poems to later document here and also potentially for a paperback copy. The wall should be up any day now, so feel free to stop by the library and check it out!
Happy scribbling everyone!
Kiera
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Sit down and ponder for a moment about every person who impacted you or helped you get where you are today. These could be significant others, professors, your parents, that guy you once met at the Loaf & Jug on the way home from work...think about these people and how they have impacted your life, and then write a haiku for every person that is significant enough to deserve one.
Submission time is here! Every March from the 1st through the 20th, Write Bloody Publishing (founded by the miraculous beat poet Derrick C. Brown) accepts poetry and manuscript submissions to be judged. After some deliberations, the publishing company whittles down the contestants until three lucky writers stand at the top, with a book deal and guaranteed tour. It can't hurt to try! This is a company that publishes some of the best contemporary poetry I've ever read, so give it a try. All they can do is say no :)
Here's a link!
BECOME A PUBLISHED AUTHOR!
Here's a link!
BECOME A PUBLISHED AUTHOR!
I just got back from the Unity Celebration in the DAC and I have to tell you all that it was simply incredible.
We
had brilliant poets and poetry reading that would leave you breathless.
We honored both staff and students who are doing wonderful work in
bringing this college together as a cohesive, meaningful community. We
had original music of incredible depth, emotion and maturity. We were
treated to a lovely group performance by the Poetry Club. Overall, we
had lots of people joining together in an event that was just, well, The
Bomb.
Bravo to everyone involved. What a fabulous experience. I wish I could bottle the feelings I'm taking away from this.
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In other words,
a big thank you to everyone who was involved in our Black History Month Unity Celebration! Overall I think we did a fantastic job and the audience was quite moved by our words. It really just goes to show that language really can foster the emotion and passionate drive it takes to change the world.
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