inside   a   temporal   chalice. American-Israeli Poet, Michael Dickel (Meta/ Phor(e) / Play) and others are organizing a 100TPC event in Jerusalem during Sukkot this year. Really I think we outnumber the bad guys. winter elections erected poverty. Work submitted via Facebook or message will not be considered for publication. But we are trying not to be dogmatic. It sends a message to those who . I was late in getting papers back to students and delayed other obligations and deadlines, even canceling a couple of other projects—although it was not just the writing, but the whole experience of the war, dealing with it and wanting to be very present with my children. We have to make our own. You can read an interview with John HERE. It is difficult to manage the practical, political, and social barriers, but people do it here. His songs have appeared in Hollywood Pictures’ Shadowhunter and Black Day, Blue Night, and most recently, TriStar Pictures’ Outside Ozona. Not an act of God, but a consequence of how we have chosen to live our lives. Big Bridge Press and zine, Terri Carrion: Associate editor and visual designer of I do teach English at a college that was started by the Kibbutz Movement as a teacher’s college in the 1960s, now Kibbutzim College of Education, Arts and Technology. For this year, I am working with two other organizations—the Lindberg Peace Foundation, which has held annual Poetry for Peace events. An Arab musician was going to join us, but he had a conflict arise with a paying gig. while chimani mani cough out threats and thoughts One of the professors encouraged me to apply to the Creative Writing Program, where I was accepted. And everything I read made me also want to write. Blue Echo by Jamie Dedes your intestines pregnant with gold ,copper , iron and more Comments on Second Light: organization, publications and remote workshops My mother actually turned down a promising job opportunity because the firm’s board members wanted to review her medical records before hire. This is a brave and beautiful thing. A Life was born – a booming voice, charcoal black veil, a tight fist clutching talents, hopes, dreams, words. The theme is “Life of the Spirit.” Submission to bardogroup@gmail.com Please read our submission guidelines. 100,000 Poets for Change is a global effort  to raise awareness of environmental issues, climate change and human rights issues. Through poetry we live hugely, with more beauty, and we seek to break the limitations of our minds, to understand the powers that are living us (to borrow from Auden) and connect with the rest of humankind and that ineffable something that is greater than ourselves. bring us nanobitas of democracy strewn around. A demonstration in London against Robert Mugabe. groups should try to hold some part of the event, if not all of it, outdoors, in public view (not required). Terri Carrion earned her MFA at Florida International University in Miami, where she taught Freshman English and Creative Writing, edited and designed the graduate literary magazine Gulfstream, taught poetry to High School docents at the Museum of Contemporary Art in North Miami and started a reading series at the local Luna Star Café. died when bullet wind swept your nights Between knowing and dreaming, shattered screams, pulses, shadows and longing, Michael Dickel’s arresting fourth collection, Nothing Remembers, navigates an erotics of re-membrance renegotiating a Proustian ethos of things resonant, prescient, and the ghostly revenance of hope. I wrote during both summers when the kids were napping or after their bedtime, mostly. if mistakenly, Her family opted for and migrated to Pakistan after the Partition of India and she was educated in St Anne’s Presentation Convent Rawalpindi where she passed the Matriculation Examination in 1964. We’ll never achieve a sustainable peace. Submissions for the 2019 HFM Book Prize are open from January 1–July 1, 2019. Vested in thee? We hardly know our neighbors down the street let alone our creative allies who live and share our concerns in other countries. Caring! mist of inyanga sneeze glee and laughter in your back The Zine is published regularly each quarter and each Zine is themed: March – Waging Peace; here in the land of the east , i see In this year’s issue, you can read more about the network in “SECOND LIGHT NETWORK, showcasing the ambitious poetry of ambitious women.”  Jamie Dedes’ essay “POET, TEACHER, INSPIRATION: Dilys Wood and the Latter-day Saphos” also sheds light on Dilys Wood, founder of the SLN. perfume of human flesh roasting in charcoal of violence as they are cast across the room. I’m sure many of you – if not all of you – know what I mean. peasants freezing in propaganda It occurred to me as I was putting the final touches on this month’s The BeZine that there is a sub theme:  the way poets reach out not only with words – but with actions – to help make the world a better place. we are morphine -fuelled and marijuana February 2020 is illness and disability. Literature that is reduced to media, obsessed with violence, conflict, sensationalism, nationalism and speciesism. we are dogs breakfasting Submissions - how to submit your work for publication in River River. However, War Surrounds Us, my third book, finally has a sense of focus that the other two did not. Here’s an opportunity to get to know him better. Terri Stewart (Beguine Again) did one year: 100,000 Peacemakers for Change. John Anstie is the lead for the next issue of The BeZine,  which is open for submission to its December issue through November 15. at the mourning tents; that the mourning “It may also be the case that any genuine work of art generates new work,” Donald Barthelme tells us in a Paris Review interview. Ready for a walk back, to shave the land of all pretentious shenanigans conflate. To read more of M. Zane McClellan’s poetry, please see, The Poetry Channel. A little searching on Facebook and you’ll find them, though the umbrella for all,  100TPC, does include a range of artistic specialties and friends of the arts and is not limited to poets and poetry. The Dream of a Poet by John Anstie, Le Fée Verte, Absinthe by Jamie Dedes licked the tears of our mothers now all around us bears the stain, Your song is silent The warmth of the cover, While it will wash over you and change you, you won’t drown. How can we abandon or abuse? A poem is as new as beginnings, for courage, our respect for freedom. It settles so well in my hands, Submit abstracts (300 words maximum) by September 30, 2020, to … have crossed the lines to offer condolences I have designed my chest with the care given to an illuminated manuscript. Organizers and participants will create their own local event as an expression of who they are locally. after a sunset of a nationalist and democrat table talk and, so tendrils smoking, choking, twenty-one gun salute. My second book has a sense of motion and narrative, from the Midwest where I grew up to arriving and living in Israel, and now being part of the Mid-East. we,  like a fleeting itch in your long life, The documentation will be shared through a blog/website that I will set up, a blog/website where groups can share and announce event information, as well as post photos, videos, poetry, art, and thoughts. The Bardo Group Beguines, publisher of The BeZine, is pleased to welcome Mbizo Chirasha, Anjum Wasim Dar, and Kella Hanna-Wayne to our team. Who knows? It has an irregular schedule. Both thumbs up on this one. More details to come. Ancestors are watching from public villagers tired of toyi toyi rough crackling red clay of sanctions smashing poverty corrupted face of my village The experience is illuminating, healing and peaceful. In short, a renaissance man. Editors note: The theme for our September issue is poverty. I hadn’t thought of it quite in that sense, of being one poem, but I like that it reads that way. p  a  r  t  i  c  l  e  s Grow thistles and thorns Can the revolution be bloodless? It is a Christmas gift. To see if there’s an event near you or to register an event in your neighborhood, go to the site. Please submit just once per reading period per genre. and inform us  of “THE BeZINE” CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS thebezine.com is open for the upcoming June edition to be published on June 15, deadline June 10. And, many of my courses in the past couple of years have been online, meeting only a few times during the semester. Work submitted via Facebook or message will not be considered for publication. Michael: I’m very gratified that you noticed this about my book. retaliation the perpetrator There were no hospital or clinic classes in art and poetry for healing. for all living things. If you have a longer submission that you think would work for our journal, please query us first: type “Query” in the Title field on the Submittable form and upload your query letter as a submission. We are pleased to partner with Second Light Network of Women Poets and to bring to your attention the work of 100,000 Poets for Change and Stephen F. Austin State University Press, which recently published a new biography of Sylvia Plath by Julia Gordon-Bramer. we are souls blighted in sufferings If you are organizing a registered 100TPC event in your area, I’m happy to include details about your event on The Poet by Day if you send your announcement to me at thepoetbyday@gmail.com. on the road again fighting enemies of the state their sons In putting this all together with Jamie Dedes and my Bardo Group Beguines and Woven Tale Press colleagues, I came to realize how many of the poets here I know personally—separately from these two publications. Her mother was a poet and professor, and passed away a few years ago. Speaking truth to power remains a crucial role of the poet in the face of political and media rhetoric designed to obscure, manipulate, or worse.” MORE, Poetry Foundation. what cannot be / Yes, there will be singing. I am no longer ashamed to make love. That spring, four students were shot at Kent State. That appears in my email signature and confuses some people outside of Israel, who think I teach as part of living at a kibbutz. ~~~~~ Dorit Weissman, a Hebrew-language poet and playwright, also has become part of 100TPC this year, and she and I are having a smaller reading on 8 October with other poets. cash Mission statements form arround the world have been collected and worked together into a grand statement of 100 Thousand Poets for Change. Please adhere to the guidelines for the genre listed above, and include the piece in its original language with proof that you own the  rights to publish a translation. There is a long history of poet as witness and observer. Musical Meditations However, I’m sure that I wrote stories and possibly “poems” earlier. and folded, like a note in school.” M. Zane McClellan Send us your photographs, previously unpublished, high-resolution .jpg, .tiff, or .png files. Don’t worry. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. She also has some flexibility, which allows her to usually be free to pick up the kids as needed around my teaching schedule, and we have on occasion hired someone to help with the kids so I could teach, not so much for my writing. Well, the boy true has a price i see uniform less children trudging through The boy has slipped his boots on and truth has raised its flag While I do need my payments, it’s this sort of thing – this human connection – that is satisfying right down to the marrow of my bones. Summer surprised us, coming over the Starnbergersee . this season was a parody of nazi hitler. My wife works full-time in high tech, which allows us to survive on my irregular, adjunct pay. winter corridors, barefooted There was a fine red line across my chest where a knife entered, I am just learning a bit how to do this now. If The Poster had come out when my mother was alive, I’d have bought it and had it framed for her. Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window), Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window), Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window), Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window), Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window), Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window). Petronella Checks Submission Guidelines by Kate Foley, Poets and Artists Raise Awareness, Work to Inspire Positive Change, Past Master by John Anstie Category: Poets/Writers Posted in 100TPC, Bardo News, Calls for submissions, Event/s, Facebook Discussion Page, General Interest, news/events, Poets/Writers, The Bardo Group Beguines, The BeZine Announcing our three new Zine team members and other news … The links will be collected and published in a Page on The BeZine site and also archived at 100TPC. harare tonight you sleep a full sleep, may be of all there is to know. We are also interested in initiatives happening in your community – no matter where in the world – that might be easily picked up by other communities. On behalf of The Bardo Group Beguines and However, the whole issue represents collaboration—not only between the two publications, but between all of the writers. This year, together with our partner, Second Light Network, our core team and our guest poets we bring you – as poets and poetry lovers – a rich collection of poems, resources and inspiration. Thorns stem from grafted roots Dull roots with spring rain. It was lovely and romantic. Your Sideroads sigh I also revised the poems, reading from beginning to end several times, trying to smooth out the flow. What grows in me now is vital and does not cause me harm. Michael Dickel is one of them: he uses language like layers of color in a complex painting — you can access experiences that you otherwise wouldn’t have. Maybe they don’t. the scarred face of the sun it may not be ours to see the work completed, but that does not free us from the responsibility to do the work.”. We do not publish work that promotes hatred or advocates for violence. You can make your donation anonymously HERE. Dear Earth, you are a sacred aqueous Isle Mom and her contemporaries had no support after mastectomy. So, as we celebrate poetry this month, be sure to give yourself time to read and write … for the sake of your spirit and for the rest of us too. Can poetry, art and literature move us to peace? This is a global event (see 100TPC.org) and at The BeZine we do a virtual event in which everyone may participate from anywhere in the world. –Silva Merjanian, author of Life and Legends. no first, second or third skin. Czeslaw Milosz in The Witness of Poetry and Carolyn Forché, following him, in her books Against Forgetting: Twentieth Century Poetry of Witness and Poetry of Witness, which goes back to the 16th Century, argue that the poet’s role is to observe and bear witness to the world—to the darkness, the atrocities, genocide, war… Forché quotes Bertolt Brecht: “In these dark times, will there also be singing? That’s clean power. Currently, she is learning how to play the accordion. Taking I shared my work with other people who wrote. my poetry is Grief engulfed the land whose belly is pregnant with uranium, gold, diamond, emerald, and copper. will  inoculate  you at alarming rate. Unfortunately, I probably can’t take too much credit for that coherence. We work together, as a community. By 9th grade, I discovered the Beats through a recording of Ginsberg reading “Kaddish” and other poems. Meanwhile, here is an introduction to the visionary founders of 100TPC, Michael Rothenberg and Terri Carrion: MICHAEL ROTHENBERG was born in Miami Beach, Florida in 1951, and has been living in the San Francisco Bay Area for the past 37 years. Your Poetry, Prose, Translation,s and Photography are welcome. This past June the first World Conference on 100TPC was held in Salerno, Italy. This may include mental illness. i like how zambezi vomit fish If you are an organizer for your community you will consider a location for the event and begin to contact people in your area who want to participate in the event. Their mission as I understand it is to develop interfaith leadership for common goals related to eco-justice that would also provide a model for solving the Middle East conflicts. And so is mine.” And so are the spirits and visions of the authors gathered here. Unfortunately, during an outing picking apples in the Golan Heights, we heard artillery across the border in Syria, and that’s when I wrote the title poem of the book, “War Surrounds Us.”. Yes we live to forgive – with memories haunting peasant iron-hoe skulls. 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