Ross Martin is an acquaintence of mine, author of the cop who rides alone; daniel halpern a former teacher -- enter enter enter

The National Poetry Series (NPS) and mtvU, MTV’s 24-hour college network,
are pleased to announce a first-of-its kind opportunity. In 2008, NPS will team up
with mtvU—the definitive college network for students at universities across the
country—as they begin an earnest promotion of poetry to the campus audience.
For the first time, one of NPS’ five annual titles will be designated as a booklength
manuscript written by a college student. The 2008 winning book chosen to
be published by HarperCollins also will be the recipient of The National Poetry
Series mtvU Prize. The winning student will have the opportunity to interview
the poet / judge representing HarperCollins and mtvU in 2008, Pulitzer Prizewinner
Yusef Komunyakaa, for an episode of the mtvU series “My Shot With….”
“All of us involved in the publication of poetry like to talk about ‘expanding the
audience for poetry,’ and ‘reaching the next generation,’” said Daniel Halpern,
Founder and Director of The National Poetry Series. “Mostly it’s been just that:
talking about it. This union between The National Poetry Series and mtvU
provides the chance to do both – by giving college students the opportunity to
publish a book with a large trade publisher, and offering their peers a volume of
poetry written by one of their own.”
“We know the Pulitzer Prize-winning poets of tomorrow are in our audience
today,” said Ross Martin, Head of Programming, mtvU, “and we’re extremely
proud to partner with Yusef Komunyakaa and the prestigious National Poetry
Series to help catapult one outstanding young poet from the classroom to
national acclaim.”
Established in 1978, The National Poetry Series is a literary awards program
dedicated to bringing meaningful poetry to publication. To date, 140 books have
been sponsored by NPS, in collaboration with the accomplished poets who have
served as judges and a distinguished roster of trade, university, and small press
publishers.
mtvU is MTV’s on-air, online and on campus college network – for and by college
students. The network is broadcast to nearly 7.5 million students on more than
750 campuses. As a national platform for the best student-created work, mtvU
offers students numerous opportunities to jump-start their careers and places a
focus on issues they care about most – including stopping the genocide in
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Darfur, great emerging music, political and social activism, landing their dream
job and more. mtvU is dedicated to promoting the arts on campus and amplifying
college students’ cultural impact, maintaining partnerships with the Fulbright
program, New York Times, National Academy of Arts and Sciences, Tribeca Film
Festival and many others as part of this effort.
Submissions for The National Poetry Series mtvU Prize will be accepted
beginning later this winter as outlined in the NPS guidelines posted on
www.nationalpoetryseries.org. The winning manuscript will be published in 2008
as part of the NPS’ 30th anniversary series.
For more information and guidelines, please contact
Stephanie Stio, The National Poetry Series,
57 Mountain Avenue, Princeton, NJ 08540
Phone: 609.430.0999 Fax: 609.430.9933
For additional information about mtvU, please contact
Jason Rzepka, head of communications, mtvU
Phone: 212.654.7198 E-mail: jason.rzepka@mtvstaff.com

The University of Florida Center for Latin American Studies is pleased to announce the Garifuna Language Summer Institute to be offered in La Ceiba, Honduras from May 10 – June 19, 2009.

The Garifuna Summer Institute provides a unique opportunity for undergraduate and graduate students to acquire proficiency in Garifuna, an endangered Afro-Indigenous and Caribbean language. This six-week intensive immersion course will familiarize students with modern Garifuna language and culture through classroom study and excursions to local sites. Students will take 6 credits of Beginning Garifuna (LAS 4956) and 3 credits of Garifuna Culture (LAS 4956/LAS 6938). The Institute is a FLAS-approved program.

The undergraduate program fee is $2766 and the graduate program fee is $3432. The program fee includes tuition, course materials, lodging, lunches during the week, international health insurance with emergency medical assistance, and group excursions. Round-trip airfare, most meals, personal travel, and personal expenses are not included.

The application deadline is March 16, 2009. Non-UF students are encouraged to apply. Additional program details, as well as information on how to apply online, can be found at: http://www.latam.ufl.edu/academic/Content/GarifunaSummerInstitute.pdf.

fun syllabus by Lisa Jarnot (check out her poems)

http://www.angelfire.com/poetry/lisajarnot/patternpoetry.html


Pattern Poetry
Spring 2009

Suggested Readings:

An Anthology of Concrete Poetry. Ed. Emmett Williams, Something Else Press, 1967.

Pattern Poetry. Ed. Dick Higgins.

Concrete Poetry: A World View. Ed. Mary Ellen Solt.

Jan 18 Phonetic Patterns: transcribe one of your poems using International Phonetic Alphabet, color code the patterns and create a visual work out of the result (a painting, rug, sweater, etc. Read excerpts of Mary Carruthers The Craft of Thought: Meditation, Rhetoric, and the Making of Images, 400-1200.

Jan 25 Simple Scaffolds: Acrostics, Telestics, and Mesostics.

Feb 1 Early Western Pattern Poetry: Greek and English Eggs and Altars, including George Herbert’s The Temple. Assignment: Compose a poem sequence that is a house or a sanctuary.

Feb 8 Viewing Day: Visit to the Metropolitan Museum: Egyptian Hieroglyphs, Cuneiform, Islamic Rugs. Make your own language. Take the pattern of a Persian rug and use it as the formula for a poem. Suggested reading: The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry by Ernest Fenollosa.

Feb 15 Eastern Pattern Poetry: the Wife-of-a-Chinese-Court-Official-Composes-a-40,000-Direction-Invective-Poem. Write a pattern poem/maze that can be read in multiple directions. (See also Raymond Queneau's “One Hundred Thousand Billion Sonnets”).

Feb 22 Rebuses, magic spells, and lapidary inscriptions. Read excerpts of the Greek Anthology.

Mar 1 Mathematical Poems: An Overview of Oulipo. The 20 Consonant Poem.

Mar 8 Musical Patterns: The Cancrizan. Compose a cancrizan and perform it w/ voice and/or instruments.

Mar 15 Ian Hamilton Finlay’s Poor. Old. Tired. Horse., Little Sparta.

Mar 22 Works by B. P Nichol, Hannah Wiener, Ward Tietz, and Bill Luoma’s Swoon Rocket and other poems.

The Oregon Literary Review

http://orelitrev.startlogic.com/

is currently accepting fiction for its "Genre" section in the following genres: Space Opera, Western, Adventure, Fantasy. Based on our last call for entries, we're looking for stories that are of the genres, but also have depth that goes beyond the perceived limitations of genre fiction. Stories should be self-contained and 10,000 words or less. Send all submissions to (replace (at) with @) with "Genre Submission" in the subject line. Word .doc files are preferred, but stories may be pasted into emails as well.

We encourage writers to submit artwork or graphics along with their stories! The Oregon Literary Review is published online and on CD-Rom every six months.

We accept fiction, screenpalys, stage plays, audio, poetry, photography, essays, and more. For more information, visit http://orelitrev.startlogic.com/

10/31: Eric Gregory Awards

Entries must be received by this date
Highly recommended free contest offers prizes totaling 24,000 pounds for a collection of up to 30 poems, drama-poems or belles-lettres, by a writer who will be under age 30 as of March 31 of the following year. The author must be a British subject by birth but not a national of Eire or any of the British Dominions or Colonies, and must ordinarily be resident in the United Kingdom or Northern Ireland. Previously published work accepted.

“Faux Histories”

Specs is a jo
Call For Submissions--Specs


“Faux Histories”

Specs is a journal of contemporary culture and arts at Rollins College that aims to create sympathetic interfaces between artistic and critical practices.

The editors invite submissions of critical and/or creative work for the 2nd volume on the theme of “Faux Histories.” We seek works of fiction, non-fiction, cultural criticism, artwork, poetry, and pieces that blur genre boundaries. The editorial board consists of writers and academics from various fields. The editors are excited by specialty, an excess of detail, fragments, narratives, meta-narratives, and more. The editors are particularly interested in works that examine contemporary culture and/or cross the critical/creative divide while riffing on the theme of “Faux Histories” in multiple ways, including:

- Manipulated Histories/Deep Time
- Synthetic Encounters /Textures/String Theories
- Apocryphal Technologies and Topographies
- End of History
- Planned Communities/Theme Parks
- Virtual Worlds/Mythical Creatures/Cyberculture
- Retrofuturism/Revisonary History/Counter Memories
- Transgenderisms
- Body Transformations/Plastic Surgery
- Transhumanism/Cyborgs/Posthumanism
- 2nd Life/Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games (MMORPGs)/Video Games
- Adaptations/Hollywood/Celluloid Worlds
- False Memories/Déjà vu/Ersatz Affects

Deadline for submissions: December 15, 2008.

Guidelines:
Please send all submissions in an .rft or .doc file in Times New Roman Font to editors@specsjournal.org Include a brief cover letter and indicate whether you wish to be considered for the print edition, the web edition, or both. Please also indicate the type/genre of submission in the subject heading (Poetry, Cultural Criticism, etc.).

Please limit prose submissions to less than 6000 words and poetry submissions to 10-12 pages.

Critical prose pieces will be peer reviewed. We accept simultaneous submission of creative work if indicated on the cover letter. Please inform us immediately if work is accepted elsewhere.

For further guidelines visit our website at www.specsjournal.org

Vidhu Aggarwal

October 7 @ 7pm

The Orlando Poetry Group presents:
1st Tuesdays @
The Daily Grind
807 N. Orange Ave
Orlando, Fl 32801
407 839-4009

Featuring
Brad Kuhn &
Darlyn Finch

A special evening with Darlyn and Brad
Followed by an open Mic, where YOU shine

Hosted By Russ Golata
blacksox@att.net 407-403-5814

Brad Kuhn is not only a wonderful poet and writer himself but he is driving force behind Kerouac House.If you are not familiar with The writers in residence project:
The Jack Kerouac Writers in Residence Project of Orlando, Inc. is working to further Kerouac's legacy in Orlando, where he was living when On the Road was published.

Darlyn Finch is a Florida native, born and raised in Jacksonville. She attended Ed White high school before obtaining her Associate of Arts degree at Florida Junior College. She holds a bachelors degree as an English major, Writing minor from Rollins College in Winter Park. Darlyn is currently pursuing a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Nonfiction/Poetry from Spalding University in Louisville, Kentucky. She is also responsible for Sunscibbles--the heatbeat newsletter of Central Florida. Where would we all be without it.