we’ve been busy: read write poem members’ work in the world
Marian Veverka has two poems in the latest issue of Pirene’s Fountain. Jennifer Jean’s poem “My Shoal” has been published in the latest issue of The Mom Egg. This issue also includes January G. O’Neil’s “What Mommy Wants” and Rethabile Masilo’s “The Grotto of Chehrabad.”

read write prompt #103: pomegranate
by Dana Guthrie Martin We talked about food in last week’s prompt, but we’re not done with food yet. This week’s Read Write (Image) Prompt is all about one food in particular: the pomegranate. When I think of the pomegranate, I imagine the myth of Persephone and her mistake of eating its seeds while she was in the underworld with Hades. This mistake — if you can call it that, since she was bound to give over to the temptation of eating such an alluring fruit — is what led her to spend every winter thereafter with Hades in the underworld, returning to the world each spring. Looking at the photo below, you can see why Persephone was temp

get your poem on #102
by Deb Scott It’s Thursday, and time to post links to this week’s poems (or leave us your poem, verbatim, in the comments). Did you write about  food associations or something else entirely? Was this week’s holiday (in the States) a prompt or an impediment? Whatever you did, share it with us, and come back all weekend to check up on your fellow poets. Some folks might have a big meal planned today and won’t have the (cough) [time] [fortitude] [guts] [stomach] to get back here for a day or two. Please read

workshop redux: specificity
Today’s column is about how specificity works in a poem and what it can do for the landscape of the piece. We’re going to use Ruth Stone’s poem, “Pokeberries,” as an example. But before you take a look at it, we wanted to share our “revision” of that poem. If you are familiar with the original, our changes will stand out immediately. Give it a read anyway, whether you’ve read the original or not, and try to focus on how the poem makes you feel and how it resonates with you. Pokeberries I started out in the mountains with my grandma’s bed and my aunt’s wine. We lived on ver

have you been looking for a submissions calendar?
Poets & Writers has one on their website (a companion to the bimonthly* print edition, with lots of good content). “Use our handy calendar to schedule your submissions to writing contests, grants, and other literary awards.” It is very handy. * According to definition (1.1).