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Call For Submissions: Metapoetry

Poetry about poetry…

Helen Vendler on metapoetry:

In the code language of criticism when a poem is said to be about poetry the word “poetry” is often used to mean: how people construct an intelligibility out of the randomness they experience; how people choose what they love; how people integrate loss and gain; how they distort experience by wish and dream; how they perceive and consolidate flashes of harmony; how they (to end a list otherwise endless) achieve what Keats called a “Soul or Intelligence destined to possess the sense of Identity.”

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Pushcart Nominations

Fiction
Molly Gaudry-Potpourri
Brad Green-The Dead Center of The Sun
Michelle Reale-Snow Blind

Poetry
David Francis-The Fate of Comparative Collections
Matt Ryan-Marion, IN: The Site of The Last Public Lynching
Felicia Zamora-Madness Made Madness

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Best of The Web 2010 Nods

Our nominees for Dzanc Books’ Best of The Web 2010 are as follows:

Snow Blind – Michelle Reale (Volume 10)

Wheel Clatter – Steven J McDermott (Volume 10)

If You See Buddha On The Road, Kill Him – Barbara Yien (Volume 4)

Congrats to our nominees!

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