Folded Word
Exploring the world, one voice at a time.
Tag: haiku
Pushcart 2015 Nominees
Folded Word is proud to nominate the following works for the Pushcart Prize: “I Must Be Dead” – short story from PREMEDITATIONS by Michelle Ristuccia “L’Anguille” – short story from L’ANGUILLE by Jon Trobaugh “For Neruda” – poem from THE ROAD TO ISLA NEGRA… Continue Reading “Pushcart 2015 Nominees”
Place-Based Ventures
[No. 3 in our Eco-Lit series; concludes with a little writing contest] A few months ago, I attended the Land Institute’s annual Prairie Festival in Salina, Kansas. The festival featured talks on sustainable agricultural practices, spirituality’s place in environmental advocacy, and research on new… Continue Reading “Place-Based Ventures”
Month in Review: April 2015
by Maryka Gillis Folded Word has been busy this month. During the course of the April, the press has focused extensively on chapbooks, with a call for new submissions, attendance at a chapbook festival, and the debut of three new chapbooks of poetry. In… Continue Reading “Month in Review: April 2015”
Wanted: 2016 Chapbooks
While we have filled all our book-length publication slots for 2016, we are still searching for chapbook manuscripts. Next year we will be publishing one chapbook per month and will offer subscriptions, so it would be a great year to join the Folded family.… Continue Reading “Wanted: 2016 Chapbooks”
Folded Word-Lab: haiku results
Two weeks ago, Ben Moeller-Gaa presented a haiku workshop here and challenged you to write your own haiku. And write you have: we received haiku entries from four continents! Below are the haiku that Ben selected as being the best examples of the concept… Continue Reading “Folded Word-Lab: haiku results”
Folded Word-Lab: Haiku
by Ben Moeller-Gaa author of WASP SHADOWS (Folded Word 2014) What is a Haiku? Haiku is a short form poem that began in Japan several hundred years ago. It is widely written around the world today, and is perfect for our hard wired, fast… Continue Reading “Folded Word-Lab: Haiku”
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