#Light Poetry Magazine

[poem-today]

Higgledy-piggledy - The Art of the Double Dactyl

Jiggery-Pokery: A Compendium of Double Dactyls, an anthology devoted to a novel form of poetry, edited by Anthony Hecht and John Hollander, with illustrations by Milton Glaser, was first published by Atheneum in 1967. The originator of this new brief genre was Anthony Hecht as the introduction explains, even offering a precise date – November 3, 1951 – and a precise place – the American Academy…

[coffeeacademia]

Like Honey, Parentheses Journal (2022)

[poiseclassics]

If this is your aesthetic, come check us out at the @poiseclassics on Instagram!

We are looking for artists, writers, everyone is WELCOME!

[liones-s]

these quotidian moments of joy are not meaningless

[portraitofglue]

Submissions for The After-Hours Journal

Helloo all, We are currently accepting submissions for our online magazine; The After Hours Journal!! Whether you're interested in prose, poetry, politics, criticism, art, cooking, music, fashion please send over your work to us. We would love to sink our teeth into your passions and display them for all to see :) Our website is linked below and submissions guidelines are over there.

Please explore, tell others and contact us :)

[poetatodameron]

CALL FOR LITERARY AND VISUAL ART SUBMISSIONS: DEADLINE APRIL 6TH

hi friends :) i'm starting a literary magazine called cigarette fire, and i'm looking for poetry, fiction (under 1500 words), flash non-fiction (under 500 words), and visual art submissions to include in the debut issue! i would love to publish your work 🫶

thematically, cigarette fire is a space for new writers and artists to take off as quickly as a cigarette butt can start a wildfire. i'd love to publish work that sparks imagination and catches readers' attentions quicker than a match strikes.

+++ feel free to share with writer and artist friends!

if you'd like to submit, dm me or email cigarettefiremag@gmail.com with your work + a brief bio/about you statement! the website has more submission details.

please submit your work by saturday, april 6th, by 11:59pm. (i'll be publishing more than one issue, but i'd like to have the first one up as soon as possible!)

logistics: cigarette fire retains first serial rights, but all other rights revert back to the author upon publication. not able to compensate contributors at this time, but hope to do so in the future!

[abellinthecupboard]

Myth of the Vanishing Indian

In the archives there is a drawing of a colonizer's dream, never realized. The National American Indian Memorial was meant to testify to our existence as a once noble people after we'd all died, leaving behind the entire western hemisphere. (We're not supposed to be here.) We were all supposed to vanish (be vanquished) in the face of progress (genocidal campaigns). Now they call us other names, but at one time they called us a proud and vanishing race. Pride. What is pride? In my language the word for boogers are smeteqsen, while smetsqen are brains, and smatsquen is the word for pride. I think in the ancestors' eyes they may as well all be the same, for all the good they do without the spirit. Ah, the spirit—your se'li, it sounds almost like sa'le which is the word for heart, or sa'les which are the hands. Words reveal much about a people's beliefs. Pride and brains are on par with snot, while hands and heart are the tools of the se'li. This, I think, is why we never went extinct according to design, why they never got to build a memorial to our doom, a monument, taking pride in absolute success at genocide.

— Rena Priest, featured in Poetry Magazine's September 2022 issue

*Note: the language Priest is speaking of is the language of the Lhaq'temish (Lummi) Nation, one of the Coast Salish Peoples

When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry (2020)

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Smorgasbord Blog Magazine - Podcast #Poetry #Flash Fiction - Light Lingers and Poisoned Apples by Sally Cronin

Some more poetry and flash fiction from one of my collections. Each day we gain a few precious minutes of daylight and nature welcomes it too… and biting into a poisoned apple carries consequences…. #Poetry #Flash Fiction – Light Lingers and Poisoned Apples by Sally Cronin  Sally Cronin – Smorgasbord Blog Magazine · Smorgasbord Poetry And Flash Fiction Light Lingers And Poisoned Apple   Light…

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https://www.nytimes.com/1979/08/29/archives/everybody-wants-to-be-a-poet-number-has-doubled.html

1979

According to Poets and Writers, a New York‐based clearinghouse for writers, the number of poets (by its definition, those who have published 10 or more poems in three or more literary magazines) in the United States has doubled from 1,500 in 1975 to some 3,000 today. This increase is partly tied, no doubt, to the equally extraordinary growth in the number of outlets for verse. Last year, the National Endowment for the Arts awarded $835,155 to 177 nonprofit magazines and presses; the New York State Council on the Arts, approximately $123,500. And, thanks largely to such increased Government spending, the number of places publishing poetry has grown to nearly 3,000, with editorial tastes and qualities as varied as their names: Antaeus, TriQuarterly, New American Review, Truck, Caterpillar and Mulch.

Often created by poets unable to publish their work elsewhere, many of these publications began as kitchentable operations. As their editors and contributors developed followings, some grew into establishments in their own right. Cid Cornian created Origin, for instance, in 1951 to provide an “adequate outlet to those new/unknown writers who have shown maturity/insight in their medium”; a list of those new/unknown writers who appeared includes Charles Olson, William Bronk, Robert Creeley and Denise Levertov. Similarly, City Lights Books was founded in San Francisco in 1955 by a then rather unknown bard — Lawrence Ferlinghetti.

For hundreds of young poets, then, publication in such small magazines and presses is something to be solicited, coveted and eventually parlayed into a reputation. Jane Flanders, a Washington housewife who this year won the “Discovery/The Nation” award, started out in 1975 by sending poems to Sibyl‐Child, a local magazine. Which led to appearances in Crazy Horse and Prairie Schooner, which led to publication in The Nation, Poetry Magazine and American Poetry Review. Although Mrs. Flanders has earned about $250 so far this year, she figures she has already spent $75 on mailing and submission costs.

‘Have to Keep Hustling’

“It's very discouraging at first,” concedes Don Faulkner, a young poet who helped found the No Mountains Poetry Project in Chicago and who now teaches at Connecticut College. “But you have to keep hustling.”

Indeed, there is growing opportunity for aspiring poets to practice what Felix Stefanile, editor of the Sparrow Press, has called “poetry gamesmanship.” A kind of cottage industry has sprung up, devoted to the care and feeding of poets.

There are $10,000 fellowships awarded by the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as prizes ranging from the renowned (the $10,000 Copernicus Award for lifetime achievement) to the obscure (the $500 Edwin Markham Prize for “a previously unpublished poem not exceeding 100 lines dealing with the theme of social justice or protest in the tradition of Edwin Markham or Eugene Debs”).

Universities such as Iowa, Johns Hopkins, and Columbia offer Master of Fine Arts degrees in poetry, and such groups like the Jack Kerouac School for Disembodied Poetics hold summer seminars. In addition, the number of local readings continues to grow: in New York alone, there are nearly 100 groups with regular meetings.

That such programs produce verse is obvious; that they actually create poets is more debatable. Detractors disdain these organized rites as “poetry factories,” manufacturing competent, but uninspired, practitioners of verse. Still, they do furnish the young poet with connections and criticism — two assets most valuable in making the jump from the little magazine world to that of the commercial presses.

The odds of selling a poem to one of the “slick” magazines — The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Harpers — are awesome indeed: The New Yorker, which annually prints about 150 poems, receives over 3,000 every week; and the Atlantic, which annually prints about 50, logs in well over 20,000 a year.

[bea-lele-carmen]

[batgovernor]

Julia Griffin, 'Wasp Waste'

The exoplanet Wasp in Pisces Subsists despite unending crises: It’s hard to keep an even keel At near the melting-point of steel, And even heroes’ hearts might cower With winds 10,000 miles per hour. The place can furthermore rely on Incessant rain of molten iron. All this might serve as a directive To keep our problems in perspective. ***** Editor’s note: Inspired by a story in The Guardian,…

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Smorgasbord Blog Magazine - Podcast #Poetry #Flash Fiction - Light Lingers and Poisoned Apples by Sally Cronin

Some more poetry and flash fiction from one of my collections. Each day we gain a few precious minutes of daylight and nature welcomes it too… and biting into a poisoned apple carries consequences…. #Poetry #Flash Fiction – Light Lingers and Poisoned Apples by Sally Cronin  Sally Cronin – Smorgasbord Blog Magazine · Smorgasbord Poetry And Flash Fiction Light Lingers And Poisoned Apple   Light…

[mftulin]

Rat's Ass Review Fall-Winter 2022

Rat’s Ass Review Fall-Winter 2022

Check out this online magazine with a quirky name. Rat’s Ass Review. Scroll down to the T’s (alphabetical order by authors) for my poem “City Lights Bookstore” by Mark Tulin. Image by Carl Scharwath. “A stream-of-conscious fast read,in the laid-back confinesof the City Lights Bookstore…”

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Come join us in The Poise Classics 🕯️📜

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New Essay

[throwaway-yandere]

!!!MODERN YANDERE IDOL!GENSHIN/READER MATCH-UP EVENT!!! (Masterlist)

"Oh no... another poor unfortunate soul."

Slots available: "CLOSED. 22 ANONS HAVE SUBMITTED. THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME, I'M GLAD WE HAD THIS INTERVIEW" - Exec. Producer Alice

"It was supposed to be 20 but I forgot to close it." - Producer Lumine

"And who's fault is that, exactly?" - CEO Alhaitham

"... I know..." - Producer Lumine

LIST OF ANONS THAT GOT IN

THANK YOU POSTERS

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SENDER: (Executive Producer) Alice ||

WELCOME TO TEYVAT PRODUCTIONS.

PLEASE READ THE GUIDELINES BEFORE ACKNOWLEDGING THE LIST OF IDOL GROUPS YOU MIGHT GET ASSIGNED TO.

HERE IS THE LIST:

ADDICKTZ

ADDICKTZ, formerly known as DCKZ, is an idol group formed in 20XX. They are incredibly well-known in the industry and their singles frequently top the charts. All the members previously worked as fashion models and half of the members (Dainsleif, Arataki Itto, Kaeya Alberich, and Childe) took movie and theatre roles. They are currently the number #1 unit in terms of presenting satisfactory fanservice.

Ayato || Diluc || Dainsleif || Itto || Childe || Kaeya || Thoma || Zhongli

["For your sake, I advise you to start praying for the God you believe in so that you won't end up producing ADDICKTZ. Unlike me, they might just listen to you. Why won't they listen to me? Hmm. Well, that's because I've never been a devotee. Still, be wary." - Dainsleif]

5WIRL

5WIRL, formally known as 4NEMO before Shikanoin Heizou's debut, is an idol group formed in 20XX. They often experiment with multiple genres of music and present multicultural aesthetics. The group consistently adds their thematic light green and wind motifs in their albums, poetry, and other media. 5WIRL's lyrics have often discussed mental health, stages of grief, nature, and other self-reflections. 

Venti || Xiao || Kazuha || Heizou

Note: Aether is under Producer Lumine's management.

["Ohohoho, a lost guest! It's always nice to see a new face around here! Can I get you something to drink? I promise you can trust me!... Geez, what's with that look? I don't spike drinks. Is that sooo hard to believe?" - Venti]

Kreideprinz

Dr. Albedo operates a solo unit more professionally known as "Kreideprinz." He debuted in 20XX before his major label debut album "The Chalk Prince and the Dragon" in 20XX under his previous producer "Alice". His unit work focuses on commercials, modeling for magazines, and talk shows. The unit rarely goes on tours since Dr. Albedo prioritizes his scientific research more than idol work.

Dr. Albedo || (Student) Gorou

["You must have a strong body and you must also stay on top of your game in this industry. Although, if you do get assigned to Kreideprinz, leave the heavy lifting to us!... Or me. Just. Only rely on me. Y-You don't have to keep your eyes on him 24/7." - Gorou]

I HEREBY AGREE TO THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OUTLINED IN THIS AGREEMENT AND SUCH IS DEMONSTRATED THROUGHOUT BY MY SIGNATURE BELOW

____________________________________

SIGNATURE OVER PRINTED NAME

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"So, which unit will Mx. (Y/n) end up working with? Ooh, Paimon can't wait!"

"I don't know kid, but something tells me that something bad is going to happen..."

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"Pwah! It's fiiine! They may be a total newbie, but Paimon thinks they can handle it!... Right?"

PERSONS OF INTEREST (SECRET MATCH-UPS)

Teyvat Productions' logo's made by ESTHER anon!!!

CEO Alhaitham

Manga Shop Owner Cyno

Music Composer Tighnari

Creative Director Zandik (ADDICKTZ)

Creative Director Baizhu (5wirl)

Stylist & Model Scaramouche (Affiliated w/ 5wirl)

Trainee Kaveh

Pantalone

"Interesting... So these are the people that didn't become producers, huh? But why do you keep a record of them, miss Alice?"

"Isn't it obvious Lumine? It's because they're interesting, duh~"

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EXTRAS:

ADDICKTZ video shtpost: "Tonight on the real ADDICKTZ at TeyvatPro"

[READ AFTER KAEYA'S FIC] Dottore's always watching.

[GENERAL SPOILERS] Incorrect Quotes, P2, P3

TIGHNARI'S TAPES (voice lines):

[AFTER KAEYA'S FIC] Qiqi and Xingqiu during Childe's recording

[BEFORE AYATO'S FIC] Beidou and Sucrose in front of Albedo's room