Ohio Poetry Association Blog

Dear Ohio Writers: The Literature Section at Escape Into Life is making its first open call for submissions. Our hope is that you'll visit the site, submit, and help spread the word. All the best, Matt Dye Literature Editor Call for Submissions Escape Into Life is looking for the best in contemporary fiction, poetry, and creative non fiction, as well as reviews of new works and essays on the literary arts. An international online arts journal, Escape Into Life has a substantial audience and receives roughly 35,000 unique visitors per week. In an effort to cater to both readers and writers, our Literature Section publishes new creative works each week and reads submissions year round. For more information and writers' guidelines, please visit us online: http://www.escapeintolife.com/

Ohio Poetry Association Quarterly Meeting and Workshop featuring Stephen Haven May 21, 2011 Bexley Public Library 2411 E. Main Street Columbus, OH 43209 Stephen Haven is Director of the Ashland University MFA Program and Director of the Ashland Poetry Press. He has published two books of poems, Dust and Bread (Turning Point, 2008) and The Long Silence of the Mohawk Carpet Smokestacks (West End Press, 2004), and one memoir, The River Lock: One Boy's Life along the Mohawk (Syracuse University Press, 2008). For Dust and Bread , he was named 2009 Co-Ohio Poet of the Year by the Ohio Poetry Day Association. Haven has also published a chapbook of collaborative translations from contemporary Chinese poetry, The Enemy in Defensive Positions (Poetry Miscellany Chapbooks, 2008). He is editor of The Poetry of W.D. Snodgrass: Everything Human (University of Michigan Press, 1993) and coeditor of two anthologies of contemporary poetry. Haven's poems have appeared in The S...

Binge Press & 27 rue de fleures are seeking poetry written by women.   Please visit www.bingepressandproductions.com and www.27ruedefleures.com to get a feel for our aesthetic.   Binge is currently seeking mini chapbook and regular-sized chapbook submissions. 27 is currently seeking submissions for its "don't-call-it-a-comeback issue" expected to go live by the end of this summer.    All submissions can be sent directly jodianns777 @ gmail . com)   Thanks We look forward to reading the work!   -JodiAnn Stevenson & Rebecca Hardin Thrift

D. H. Lawrence Fellowship The original D. H. Lawrence Fellowship was established in 1958 to sustain a living tradition of artistic creation at the D. H. Lawrence Ranch, located in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains some 20 miles north of Taos, New Mexico. Over the years, dozens of poets, fiction writers and dramatists enjoyed a month of quiet writing time amid the great natural beauty of the Ranch. Unfortunately, in 1992, the Fellowship had to be suspended because of the deteriorating condition of the writer's cabin and an uncertain water supply. While the Ranch remains open to visitors during the day, housing a writer-in-residence still is not feasible. In July 2000, the Taos Summer Writers' Conference reinstated the D. H. Lawrence Fellowship in modified form. The Fellowship is awarded to an emerging writer of fiction or poetry with one book in print or at press. The D. H. Lawrence Fellow will receive paid tuition for one weekend or weeklong workshop (a value up to $650), ...

Leo Love Merit Scholarships in Poetry and Fiction/Nonfiction The two Leo Love Merit Scholarships—awarded in poetry and fiction/nonfiction—are available to any potential Conference participant. Each Merit Scholarship pays tuition for a weeklong workshop or partial tuition for a master class (a value of $650). Each Merit Scholarship recipient is responsible for her or his transportation and/or lodging costs. Leo Love Merit Scholarship applicants must register for the Conference (including paying the deposit) at the time application is made for the scholarship. (By the time the scholarships have been awarded, we anticipate that many of the workshops will be closed. Thus, individuals applying for scholarships should be planning to attend the Conference, regardless of the outcome of the competition. These scholarships are meritorious awards, not financial assistance.) Application Procedure for Leo Love Merit Scholarships 1. Submit 10 pages of prose ...

Facing Fate, Finding a Destiny An evening presentation with author, mythologist and storyteller Michael Meade Wednesday, May 11 ~ 7pm Temple Beth Shalom - 5089 Johnstown Rd ~ New Albany, OH Order Tickets According to ancient myths, each soul makes two agreements upon entering the world. The First Agreement binds the individual to a distinct destiny that becomes each soul’s great project in life. The second level of agreement entangles each person in specific limitations of fate, in family issues, and in the immediate dramas of culture. Whereas all second agreements can be renegotiated, the First Agreement of one’s soul is non-negotiable. At the same time, if a person doesn’t face their fate, they may never find their deepest resources and their natural gifts. Facing fate and risking destiny are the two great adventures that the soul must undertake if we are to become who we are intended to be in the world. Join us for a surprising evening of poetry,...

This is to inform that The Muse-An International Journal of Poetry is inviting original poems and research papers/essays on poetry for its first issue, i.e. June 2011 issue. Last date for submission of poems/research papers for June 2011 issue is May 10, 2011. For more details please visit http://www.themuse.webs.com .