Support Young Art!

My friend Guadalupe Muro is raising funds for her trip from Argentina to Canada this summer. She will be finishing her novel, To Live In Communist Russia, at The Banff Center.

Here’s how it works:
1) You donate 15$ and she writes you a letter.
2) You write back, and she puts the letter sequence into a book with all of the letters from her other donors. Published by La Funesiana press.

Lupe has beautiful handwriting and a way with words. You won’t be disappointed!

Also, her novel is brilliant and you will be proud of yourself for supporting a project that will make waves once it’s complete!

Please help her if you can.

http://lascartasdeguadalupe.com/

This is Lupe showing me how to drink Mate like a true Argentinian.

GEIST Magazine’s Erasure Poetry Contest–Short List

Earlier this month I got an email letting me know that I’d made the long list for GEIST Magazine‘s Erasure Poetry Contest, and I thought that was that. When I got their newsletter today, it had a link to the short list for the contest and I followed it to see who’d made it through. Was I ever surprised!

The text we worked with was from Sheila Heti’s new novel, How Should a Person Be?, which I’m in the middle of reading right now. Here is a link to another piece of her writing on Largehearted Boy.

Double Trouble: p+nTV Episodes 4 and 5

I continue to experiment with the combination of poetry and video. These next two efforts explore how text might best be incorporated into a video poem. I’d love to hear your take on this. Do you prefer to follow along as the words are spoken, to see the stanza as it is on the page, or to simply hear the poem outloud, without any visual text? Let’s chat!

If you have a poem that you want to moviefy, let me know! I’d love to publish work from other young poets. Thanks for watching!

On a Roll: p+nTV Episode Three

It must be something about the season–we’re feeling a driving force to TV this week. And so, we bring you the third episode of p+nTV: For the Love of Cars. It features another Annik A-B poem, so if you’re sick of hearing from her, why don’t you get in touch and submit one of your own poems for us to animate!

p+nTV Episode Two is LIVE!

Hello Friends,

It’s been a while, but I’m back with the second episode of p+nTV. If you didn’t see Felix Baumgartner’s record-breaking free fall jump this sunday, you’ve got to get informed. He jumped out of a 50-foot balloon on the edge of the stratosphere–in only a space-suit! He broke the speed of sound and landed on his feet in Roswell, NM. WOW.

I was inspired by his feat and wrote a poem about it, which I read aloud and combined with footage from the jump. Many thanks to YouTube users PMCathey, MurdahxD and 5trk035, whose footage made this happen. I didn’t learn about the Stratos Jump until it was too late, or else it would have made an amazing writing prompt!

Submit Your Work to Gulf Stream Magazine

Gulf Stream, Florida International University’s literary magazine, is accepting submissions of poetry, prose and creative non-fiction until November 15. The perfect place to send those polished pieces you’ve been working on over the last few months. We look forward to reading your work!
Here are the submission guidelines

HQ Relocated

Image by Miles Ladin, at FIU/Wolfsonian

My apologies for the recent radio silence, but our offices have only just completed a hectic relocation. To better serve the international beaching community, p+n headquarters are now located in Miami Beach, Florida, USA.

I’m going to be here working on an MFA in poetry at Florida International University, studying with Denise Duhamel and Campbell McGrath! I will do my best to suggest a few prompts here and there, but this may be the end for p+n as we knew it!

I’d like to extend an invitation to anyone who might want to host a prompt week. Take the reigns! Meantime, I’ll be fighting the good fight against grad student library pallor and taking my readings to the beach!

Image from Ann Armbruster’s book ‘The Life and Times of Miami Beach’

 

 

 

 

One Week Left to Contribute to O Sport!

If, like me,  you’ve been getting full-body shivers from watching the displays of pure athletic prowess and titanium mental strength at the London 2012 Olympics, then I think it’s time you put pen to paper and wrote a few lines for The Barnstormer’s O Sport! segment. They’ve created an outlet for all you poetic sports fans–your very own online ‘poetic nod to the Olympics!’

Don’t regret, submit now!!!

editors@thebarnstormer.com

Speedy, Agile and Strong: O Sport!

Image from The Barnstormer

The Barnstormer’s O Sport! segment is underway, and you should send them something before the next two weeks gets away from you!

You can read the first submission here. It’s written by yours truly and was inspired by last night’s opening ceremony.

If you’re in Canada you can live stream the Games, or catch the day’s highlights, on CTV.ca.

Now jump in there and write some gritty sports poetry.

Then send it to editors[at]thebarnstormer.com

I’ve gotta go sweat out some swimming poems!

O Sport!

Image from The Barnstormer

Thanks to the connectivity of Binoy Zuzarte, we are happy to bring you a special p+nesque event, hosted by the sports-writers over at The Barnstormer: O Sport!

The Barnstormers describe O Sport! as “The Barnstormer’s Poetic Nod to the London Games.” Starting tomorrow and continuing for the next two weeks, The Barnstormer will be accepting your submissions of poetry inspired by the London 2012 Olympic Games!

Similar to p+n’s efforts to respond the the zeitgeist with poetry, O Sport! will provide readers with subjective instant-replays of the day’s sports events. Whether you’re watching Table Tennis or Trampoline, there’s a poem waiting for you out on the tracks in London. Why not send it in and enter into an age-old tradition!?

editors[at]thebarnstormer[dot]com