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Newsfeed Notabilia  2019 Pulitzer Price for Poetry Be With by Forrest Gander, Master of the Long Poem "Be With" is a collection of different kinds and forms of poetry. It is less a collection of poems than it is meditations upon the personal and the intimate, even when it talks about things that’s aren’t personal or intimate. It is a collection of poetry that is about the beauty of language, and how beauty and language can be used to describe and evoke profoundly deep feelings. Hungarian born Joseph Pulitzer was the first to call for the training of journalists at the university level in a school of journalism. And certainly, the lasting influence of the Pulitzer Prizes on journalism, literature, music, and drama is to be attributed to his visionary acumen.
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 50 HAIKUS Publish Your Work in a Literary Magazine Printable Version Log in to Send Log in to Save Website: http://50haikus.com Genres Published: Poetry Formats: Web, Print Submission Guidelines: http://50haikus.com/submit/terms.php Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31 Reporting Time: Less than 3 months Charges Reading Fee: No Accepts Electronic Submissions: Yes Accepts Simultaneous Submissions: Yes Accepts Unsolicited Submissions: Yes Number of Debut Authors per Issue: 20-40 Payment: Cash Issues per Year: 2 Issue Price: 16.95 in Paperback Subscription Price: Free Online TIPS FROM THE EDITOR Open form haiku is OK. CONTACT INFORMATION Glenn Lyvers, Editor P.O. Box 5315 Johnstown, PA15904 Editor@50Haikus.com *Data courtesy Poets & Writers Magazine Brought to you by:
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Publishing Place: Newsfeed Notabilia  ---------------------HURRY-----> Red Hen Press Submit: Short story collection Essay collection, Novel WEBSITE: http://www.redhen.org Deadline: August 31, 2019 Entry Fee: $10 Cash Prize: $1,000 E-mail address: editorial@redhen.org AWARD: A prize of $1,000 and publication by Red Hen Press is given annually for a short story collection, a novel, or an essay collection by a gay writer. Uzodinma Iweala will judge. Submit a manuscript of at least 150 pages with a $10 entry fee by August 31. Visit the website for complete guidelines. CONTACT: Red Hen Press, Quill Prose Award, 1540 Lincoln Avenue, Pasadena, CA 91103. (626) 356-4760. Brought to you by:
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Publishing Place: Newsfeed Notabilia ------------------------------------------------------------------ Poet, Joy Harjo, a member of the Muscogee Creek Nation, will represent both her Indigenous culture and those of the United States when she succeeds Tracy K. Smith as the country's 23rd poet laureate consultant in poetry (the official title) this fall. Harjo's Poem They Told Me His Name was Sitting Bull the great grandson of the old chief he reached across my arm to fill his glass from the pitcher his excuse to sit closer "where you from" ? he is from southwest Oklahoma i am from the northeast part "i have been looking for you for six hundred miles," he tells me in the brown hills of his eyes i smile hiding my teeth between the branches of oaks in Tahlequah Hills "come with me" he squeezes my arm the sioux horseman rides away across my shoulder i shake my head and drown his horse in the water of the Illinois River. Question: Why do you think she drowned his horse in the Illinois River ? 🌜 Huntersmoon   It's metaphorical. My impression (guess  ) is that the horse is symbolic of a hand and the Illinois river reference is to white men (i.e. eastern U.S.) customs. Gabriella  Joy Harjo has a mission she undertakes each time she writes a poem. In the early 1800s the Mvskoke Indians were forcibly moved from their land in Mississippi to Indian Territory which is now part of Oklahoma Two hundred years later, Joy Harjo returned to her family's land. Joy Harjo "finds blessings in the abundance of her homeland and confronts the site where her people essentially disappeared." From her beginnings in the Native Rights Movement, her personal life has been intertwined with tribal histories and living in the ruins of injustice. FYI: As of 29 January 2018, 573 Native American tribes were recognized by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) of the United States.[1][2][3] Of these, 231 are located in Alaska. |
| First off, YEEEEAAAAAAAAA!!! It is about time a First Nations poet is named as poet laureate. And there is no living native poet who can represent us like Harjo! The Illinois River is a natural boundary between the traditional territories of the Sioux and the Creek. They were historically enemies. Drowning the horse in the river would be a warning against further unwanted intrusions into her personal space. The Sioux and the Creek may work together on indigenous issues today, but there are long standing rifts between them, many having to do with land and the taking of women and children as the spoils of war. |
| Joy Harjo is going to visit my library in the next few months. I can’t wait. (I live in Muscogee County.) |
 Publishing Place: Newsfeed Notabilia Do You Know What a Writer's Residency Is ??  A Tranquil Place To Relax & Write: Some are free--funded by foundations. Others charge a fee. Oatmeal Residency is a beautiful place. It provides a stipend in addition to lovely surroundings. The deadline for sending in an application is August 31. OATMEAL CREEK WRITER'S RESIDENCY located outside Austin, TX. Offering three 21-day-long individual residencies March to May. Stipend and free use of fully equipped private accommodation. 240 acres for hiking, creek for swimming, open fields for views. Quiet and peaceful for reflection. -->>Applications open August 1–31. Apply/Information: www.oatmealcreek.org. Brought to you by:
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| I had no idea these existed!I thought rich people just bought nice places for writing! |
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*TONI MORRISON, NOBEL PRIZE WINNER, DEAD AT 88 Toni Morrison, one of the most widely acknowledged American novelists, won the Pulitzer Prize for Beloved, the first novel in a trilogy about an enslaved black woman who escapes with her 2-year-old daughter. The novel was adapted into a movie in 1998. Toni Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993, making her the first black woman to win the award. She also won the 1996 National Book Foundation’s Medal of Distinguished Contribution to American Letter, and she was awarded a Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Obama in 2012. Toni Morrison: Born: 1931 Died: 2019 *News Source: NPR "Her writing was a beautiful, meaningful challenge to our conscience and our moral imagination. What a gift to breathe the same air as her, if only for a while," President, Barack Obama :
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Thank you, Winnie !! This is an excellent reminder for newbies and newbie reviewers. Bravo and Warmest best, Gab |
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