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don't forget to write your story.
write it now.
We'll need real-life accounts of now to prove we were here, to tell how it really happened. all of it.
write your story however you need to: in form or freeverse, in a letter to yourself, in a letter to me. It doesn't matter.
write it now.
how we got to here
we buried our stars
and ploughed new soil
bowed to the silver god
lost the definition
threw out the bitter herbs
smiled like it's enough
it should have been enough
it was enough
dce
2024
annandale
Una Pañuela Blanco read by Melinda A. Smith and her relative.
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8. Will you Edit My Poetry? 9 Questions You Should Ask a Publisher www.igneuspress.com
8. Will you edit my poetry?
If we notice something that might be a typo, or some inconsistency throughout the volume, we may ask you about your intent.
The content is yours.
Our poetry editing service is available as an add-on to our publishing package. Contact info@igneuspress for more details.
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Share Poetry.
Attention, music-centered writers:
Jerry Jazz Musician is a wonderful friend of the arts! They accept jazz-related poetry, and run a semi-annual short fiction contest. Also, they host Community Bookshelf, promoting writers, like our anthology, Entangled:
www.jerryjazzmusician.com/community-bo...
Of course there was the time a reader gently pointed out what they thought was a continuity error in one of our books and it turned out that four pages' worth of text had gone missing years before.
Short Poem of the Day. 📝
Ottoman document in Ottoman Turkish.
■ The Prevention of a Duel Between Karachiano, the Interpreter of the Italian Embassy, and Vitalis Pasha Due to the Death of a Dog, September 22, 1886 #italian #dog #duel #storia #historia
Oh, sorry! Hang around anyway, okay?
...and it would be remiss of us to not acknowledge this fine work of the Rural Oklahoma Museum of Poetry:
wackypoemlife.com
When Ted Hughes and Daniel Weissbort founded MPT in 1965 they intended to get poetry out from behind the Iron Curtain into a wider circulation in English and benefit writers and readers in Britain and America by confronting them with good work from abroad.
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more thoughts on manuscript submissions by Diane Lockward:
dianelockward.blogspot.com/2024/03/more...
I need to be cast as Emerald City Copy Editor.