Maine Literature Daily

LAST CALL: 8th Annual Goose River Anthology 2010 seeks selections by March 31, 2020 of fine poetry, essays, and short stories (3,000 words or less). Book will be beautifully produced with full color cover. Author will receive a 10% royalty on all sales that he or she generates. There is no purchase required and nothing is required of the author for publication. Goose River Press retains one-time publishing rights only. Fall publication in time for Christmas gifts. Guidelines:? Submit clean-typed copy and if possible a disk (Word file) Reading fee: $1.00 per page (Do not put two poems on one page. Short stories and essays should be double-spaced.. SASE for notification and possible return. Author's name & address at top of each page. Submit to: Goose River Anthology, 2010, 3400 Friendship Road, Waldoboro, ME 04572-6337 Tel: (207) 832-6665 E mail: gooseriverpress@roadrunner.com If you have a full-length manuscript you'd like considered for publication by Goose River Press, request guidelines for submission.

For the love of Herring! With the closing of the last sardine factory in Maine and lots of wrangling, finger-pointing and politics, poets Karin Spitfire, ("My DNA can't imagine a world without sardines"), and Gary Lawless, ("We are all in the same can, arguing whether mustard sauce or olive oil is better"), are calling for 2010 to be the Year of the Sardine, a year of celebrating our fishy roots and raising a ruckus to encourage the proliferation and propagation of Herring, with the consequent by-catch of our fishermen and fisheries continuing their lively-hoods. Eastport actually started the year off by dropping a herring from the Tides building New Year's Eve. Spitfire is working with several groups and organizations creating events in Belfast. She seeks folks who worked in the sardine plant, for "Fish Tail" oral histories or folks who worked on the boats for "The One that got Away Stories." Spitfire says there are lots of possibilities for fun and creativity, if you want to join call her at 338-5634. To see what Gary and Karin are up to with their sardine project, check out the project blog: http://sardinesong.blogspot.com and to see Gary's sardine poems, go to http://mygrations.blogspot.com

C. B. Bernard, of the Willard Beach section of South Portland, has fiction in the February/March issue of Gray’s Sporting Journal which is on the newstands. The magazine is described by Writers Market as,“Field and Stream meets the New Yorker.” See his website www.cbbernard.com

Carol W. Bachofner's latest collection of poetry, "Breakfast at the Brass Compass", is available at the Pulse Literary Store link here www.heartsoundspressliterary.com Visit the site to submit your best poetry, fiction, and reviews or to blog at Cardio Central (prose) or The Heartbeat (poetry). The site features a virtual art gallery for your original artwork. Heartsounds Press is always looking for some well-written reviews of prose and poetry. Visit the site to submit.

The poetry scene in the Rockand area is growing, Carol Bachofner wrote. Many events are planned for April, National Poetry Month, including a teen poetry slam, a writing contest that will award prizes for adults, teens, and kidz, Poems in the Street, a walk of words where shop windows will feature a poem by a local poet, and many other events to be announced later. The month will wind up with an event at the Rockland Public Library April 29th (The First Annual Poetry Swarm) . 9 poets will read in a single evening. A magnetic poetry board will be available at the library all month for people to come and share an on-the-spot poem.

Lew Turco has an on-line interview titled, “Poetry & Pop Culture Heroes: Firefly, Sci-Fi, & the Latterday Chronicles of Lewis Turco,” by Mike Chasar in Poetry & Popular Culture at TURCO

Jessy Kendall is the only Maine artist following in the footsteps of the legendary Bern Porter. Like Porter, he is from the Maine boondocks, but with a mind reaching beyond the redneck woods. See the following link and beyond for Jessy Kendall's direction: FlikrKendallLive
from east to west is now at http://www.fromeasttowestbv.com

Workshops at the Telling Room - poetry or hip-hop, personal essays or fantastic stories, the workshops challenge young storytellers to think differently about writing and the spoken word. Workshops are led by the following writers and artists.. A workshop may be held on one full afternoon or on a weekend day, or may happen over a span of time, like a series of four afternoons after school. Check out the workshopspage for more information. Check back for often as there are many workshops in discussion, including Eat this Essay, Stop Animation, Portland Museum, etc.

Visit Dustbooks for valuable books related to publishing. If you a beginning writer, I strongly suggest you take a look at the books. Reduced pre-publication prices are available until Sept. 1st.

Dave Morrison has "Black Boat Black Water Black Sand" out with Moon Pie Press. Led by poet / editor Alice persons Moon Pie has developed a great stable of writers, and a strong track record of putting poetry out into the world.

Goose River Press has published "Cooking With Shirley" by Cushing resident Shirley Simmons. Books are available from the publisher, Friendship Trap Company, and Wallace's Market in Friendship.

Bob Chute has a new anthology of story poems, "Constellations", from Just Write Books . Runs 190 pages with an intro by X. J. Kennedy. Fine design by Nancy Randolph.

Tom Lyford has published a chapbook, "Kilroy Was Here … Me Too” and a memoir, "Work Aversion Trauma: A Lifetime of Suffering", available at two Bangor book stores, Borders and Bookmarcs, and www.tomlyford.typepad.com . The books werre reviewed in the Bangor Daily News at this link.

Jessy Kendall has the new issue of Letter Founder out! The only true avant-garde literary journal in Maine. We need this to get outside the box of our "comfortable" literature. Kendall carries on with the legacy of the legendary Bern Porter.

Always look at the Poets and Writers magazine link: http://www.pw.org The magazine is an invaluable resource for writers.

MAINE POETRY CENTRAL LAUNCHES VIDEO PROJECT WITH $3000 GRANT from The Maine Humanities Council to fund a pilot for a series of videos that celebrate poems about Maine written by Maine poets. The project, entitled "A Minute With the Muse," will be produced by Leighton Images of Durham, Maine, with the videos made available to the Maine Public Broadcasting Network. Maine Poetry Central, a local non-profit whose mission is to make poetry accessible to the general public, sees this as the beginning of bringing Maine poetry to a more media-savvy public. “There’s a lot of great Maine poetry out there that the public would enjoy if they were just exposed to it,” notes Executive Director, Dennis Camire. Project co-director, Anita Clearfield adds, “This is just the start of what we hope will be a long-lived series of animated, video poems that celebrate Maine's vibrant poetry scene and that excite the public’s imagination.”Maine Poetry Central was founded in 2006 to promote Maine poets and, currently, curates The Portland Poet Laureate Project. Because M.P.C. would like to produce as many videos as possible, they kindly welcome any tax-deductible donations from other patrons of the arts who are also charmed by the culture, character, and geography of Maine as interpreted by her poets. This project has been made possible, in part, by an Arts and Humanities grant from the Maine Humanitites Council and the Maine Arts Commission. To make a donation or for more information, contact Dennis Camire at bioluminescing@yahoo.com

Poetry Chapbook and Full-Length Book Contests: Larry Kramer Memorial Chapbook Award & William Dunbar Full-Length Book Contest, sponsored by Heartsounds Press. Submissions from Feb. 1 to April 1. See guidelines: www.heartsoundspressliterary.com

Off the Coast Magazine seeks submissions of art and poetry. Upcoming Deadlines: Open Submissions March 15, Open Submissions June 15, Special Issue: WATER. The editors and editorial board are selecting poems now for the Fall 2009 Special Food Issue. A limited number of the Summer 2009 Issue are still available. Off the Coast will participate in the Small Press Fair at the second annual Massachusetts Poetry Festival on Saturday, Oct. 17, 2009, in Lowell, MA. Submissions: Send 1-3 previously unpublished, quality poems, any subject or style cut-and-paste in body of e-mail. Postal submissions with SASE. Include contact information. Seek B&W graphics and photos inside pages; color or B&W for tcover. Send 3-5 images in jpg format. For reviews, send a single copy of a newly published poetry book. Contributors receive one free copy. Additional copies of the issue work appears available for half cover price. Subscriptions $35. Single issue: $10. Forward inquiries, submissions, subscriptions to:poetrylane2@gmail.com or: Off the Coast, P.O. Box 14, Robbinston, ME 04671, 207-454-8026.

See the link, Maine Literary Magazines.

Henry Braun has a website which also refers to Off the Grid Press.

Tom Fallon is "NOW" at this LINK.

The Maine Humanities Council podcast includes readings, lectures, interviews, and other programs at MHCPodcast .

See The Telling Room.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow can be found at the HWF link. This year the 200th birthday is being celebrated of America's and Maine's famous poet.

Annie Finch has a website at Annie.

Do we need a Patch Adams for Maine literature? The Bern Porter Underground Maine Literary Laureate of Maine! See this LINK!

Gary Lawless has a Gulf of Maine Books BLOG.

Lewis Turco has a blog titled Poetics.

PJ NIGHTS cooperatively edits From East to West, an online poetry zine with chat, etc., and has a blog fish hook, an open eye

See Acoustic Spoken Word Blog and Port Veritas

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