For issue 38 we present three poems by Ellaraine Lockie.
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BIO: Ellaraine Lockie writes poetry, nonfiction books and essays. In the last year or so, she has received a writing residency at Centrum in Port Townsend, WA, eleven Pushcart Prize nominations, the Lois Beebe Hayna Award from The Eleventh Muse, the One Page Poem Prize from the Missouri Writers’ Guild, the Writecorner Press Poetry Award, the Skysaje Poetry Prize, the Dean Wagner Poetry Prize, the Elizabeth R. Curry Prize from SLAB and finalist status for the Gerald Stern Poetry Prize, the Mudfish Poetry Prize, the Greensboro Award in Poetry, the Joy Harjo Poetry Award, the South Carolina Review Poetry Contest, the Creekwalker Poetry Prize, Press 53 Awards and runner-up in the Georgetown Review poetry contest and the New Millennium Poetry Competition. Recently released is Mod Gods and Luggage Straps, a poetry/art broadside from BrickBat Revue. Forthcoming are chapbooks from FootHills Publishing and Pudding House. Ellaraine serves as Poetry Editor for the lifestyles magazine, Lilipoh, and teaches both poetry and papermaking workshops. Her home webpage is on Literati at http://literati.net/ellaraine-lockie.
For Issue 37 of Shape of a Box we present two poems by Dan Nowak.
Dan Nowak’s book Recycle Suburbia won the 2007 Quercus Review Poetry Series Award. His work has appeared in journals such as the Cream City Review, Broken Bridge Review, La Fovea, and Blood Lotus. Dan is an editor for New Sins Press and founder of Perfect Bound Karma, an online poetry book review site. This will be his first, known YouTube video.
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For Issue 36 of Shape of a Box we present 4 poems by Pris Campbell which are accompanied by some amazing artwork. Each poem has artwork by a different artist.
Author Bio:Among other journals and anthologies, Pris Campbell’s poetry has appeared in Chiron Review, Boxcar Poetry Review, MiPo (print and digital), Wild Goose Review, The Smoking Poet, The Cliffs: Soundings, and and The Dead Mule: An Anthology of Southern Literature. She was featured poet in Empowerment4Women and In The Fray in 2008 and From East to West in 2009. . Her third chapbook, Hesitant Commitments, was recently released as part of Lummox Press’ Little Red Book series.It can be ordered at www.lummoxpress.com. She will also be included in Best of the Little Red Books by Lummox and in Best of Boxcar Poetry Review this year, 2009. She was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2008. More of her poetry can be found on her website: http://www.poeticinspire.com . She was born and raised in South Carolina and has lived in the midwest, Hawaii, Providence and Boston. Currently, she lives in the greater West Palm Beach, FL with her husband. A former Clinical Psychologist, she’s been sidelined by CFIDS since 1990.
You voted, now you’ll know. Which works won our 3 Cheers Award for May? You’ll have to watch the video to find out. It’ll be fun–like the Oscars without the sequins, statues, or paparazzi.
As you may have noticed, it’s been a few weeks since we’ve posted a “TEN with” author interview. This is not because there are no good authors to interview. Nor is it because we have been kicking back by the pool eating cream puffs.
It’s because we are swamped with preparing Heron for launch and planning book-length projects for 2010.
But we miss our Monday visits with our contributors around the world, so we’ve posted a “help wanted” sign in our new website’s window that reads like this:
Assistant Editor
“TEN with” interviews & posting assistance
This volunteer position would consist of choosing the “TEN with” author, sending the questions, formatting the answers, and writing a short opening and closing. Bylines will be given. Our assistant editor will be invited to submit work for the farewell issue of Shape of a Box. He/she will also get to make up the questions for 2010’s interviews and pitch potential projects he/she would like to do under the Folded Word umbrella.
Links to blogs/websites for which you contributed content. Be sure to include at least three links to specific articles if you did not write all the content on a particular blog/site.
Descriptions of your experience with article writing in at least one medium (newspapers, magazines, blogs, promotional copy) with references. These may even be high school publications.
A short paragraph that demonstrates a familiarity with Folded Word and its publications. Are you a reader? A contributor? Do you follow/subscribe?
Heron is our new print/MP3 fusion mini-mag, slated to launch 15 July 2009. Issue 1 will feature a short story by PicFic’s Regular Contributor Mel Bosworth. “Leave Me While I Lessen” was written exclusively with Heron in mind and is a lovely 400 word flash, perfect for the summer weather that will greet it upon launch.
PDF copies to print and fold at home will be available for free on our new website. The MP3 downloads will be free from there as well. Limited edition (signed and numbered) print copies will be available from the author and through an online contest. More details and links will be posted on 15 July 2009.
If you’re a writer, please note that we will not be accepting unsolicited manuscripts for Heron. Instead, all manuscripts will be solicited from Regular Contributors of Form.Reborn and PicFic that have demonstrated:
flexibility & openness to editorial suggestions
passion for our Twitter-zines & our philosophy
connection with readers (based on web-stats & comments)
So if you’d like to be considered, submit enough to be a Regular Contributor and share your archive links with the world when your work appears.
Issue 35 of Shape of a Box is now up. Click here for video and text in side bar or watch the video below!
JD Smith has published two collections of poetry, Settling for Beauty (2005) and The Hypothetical Landscape (1999), and in 2007 he was awarded a Fellowship in Poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts. My first children’s book, The Best Mariachi in the World, was published in 2008. http://jdsmithwriter.blogspot.com Washington DC
