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Mr. D
Diavhrati Luminary
      
Date Joined May 2007
Total Posts : 1793
| Posted 6/15/2007 9:32 PM (GMT -4) |   | | Prism Quarterly seeks fiction and poetry for Volume 9 (4 issues)
All speculative genres invited with stories of 500-5000 word count.
Pays one copy per contributor and our very enthusiastic gratitude.
We want good writing. Clean and ready to publish. Comment sometimes on rejections. Will reply to writers from this forum with preference and speed (note in cover letter or subject line). Please include cover letter. Prefer email submissions attached as .doc or .rtf files.
Submit work to:
Daybreak Press
c/o David Pitchford, SF
3360 Carman Ave
Springfield, IL 62703
We recently published Ed McFadden, Nathan Meyer, Christopher Heath, and Cheryl Peugh among others.
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Sister Coyote
Stablehand
Date Joined Mar 2007
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| Posted 6/18/2007 7:15 PM (GMT -4) | | | Will you accept multiple submissions (say one poem and one story)? | | Back to Top | | |
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Jordan Lapp
Ebony & Ivory
Date Joined Sep 2006
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| Posted 6/20/2007 4:22 PM (GMT -4) | | | | |
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Mr. D
Diavhrati Luminary
Date Joined May 2007
Total Posts : 1793
| Posted Today 4:41 PM (GMT -4) | | Ed,
What a HOOT. Hard to place, I'll bet as for markets. Hybrid genre-lit-fic. Back with you soon on details (my email server has the hiccups).
edward-mckeown said...It looks like Prism does literary as well as genre. Well I have a piece for your consideration- it contain an image with goes with the story though of course it does not have to be printed that way. I do think it enhances it though. Look for "Kudzu Jesus" in your mailbox soon. I hope you will enjoy it. kind regards Ed
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Jordan Lapp
Ebony & Ivory
Date Joined Sep 2006
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| Posted 7/12/2007 11:35 AM (GMT -4) | |
Swashbuckler said...
Writing poetry is a lot tougher than writing a short story, at least that's the case for me. I see this often. Writing poetry is difficult for writers perhaps, but a poet might say that writing a short story is more difficult.
For me, poetry has gotten lazy. In our present day of micro-attention spans and "slam-poetry" it feels like anyone can just dash something off. Poetry gets the respect that it does because of the old days when there were epics like Paradise Lost, Gawain and the Green Knight, and the Aeneid. Those were written by true masters.
I mean, poetry these days doesn't even rhyme. I just looked at the winners of the CBC literary contest which has a poetry contest and a story contest (and with a top prize of 6,000 CAD, it's HUGE). When I looked at the poems, I thought, "sheesh I could do that!" I didn't think the same with the stories. And before I get accused of being too "low brow" to understand poetry, I have an English Degree with a 3.33 average.
Poetry now has become a kind of lazy song writing. It's the same length as a song, but it doesn't need to rhyme, and it's not set to music. This, perhaps, is why the art is dying.
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Swashbuckler
One-man sword-and-sorcery machine
Date Joined Mar 2006
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| Posted 7/12/2007 12:23 PM (GMT -4) | | Jordan: I would never call you lowbrow, nor set myself up as a poetry expert, but I have to disagree with some of your points. While Paradise Lost, Gawain and the Green Knight and the Aenid are indeed wonderful (as are Beowulf and other lengthy works), I don't think length is a good measuring stick of poetic quality. Basho's haiku spring to mind. Sometimes, I think, poetry is knowing when you've said enough ... or encapsulating the universe in seventeen syllables.
I don't insist on rhyme scheme, either, although I think the knee-jerk tendency to equate rhyme scheme with amateur poetry probably goes too far. But there are so many ways to connect the words and ideas in a poem that go beyond rhyme scheme -- alliteration, assonance, double meanings, meter, etc. -- that I see no problem with abandoning rhyme scheme if the poet so desires. If the work has unity, and eloquence, and says something, then it's a poem in my book.
I do, however, run across "slam poetry" from time to time and wonder what the heck is going on. Sometimes, I just assume I didn't get what the writers was trying to say. Other times, though, I just assume the writer was doing crack.
-- Steve
Steve Goble
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