Poetry: Shira Dentz

*to the equinoxtrees outside veins.spindles lacingsoon enough there’ll be leaves.start with phrases,a spray of branchesas the wind blowsis a bit coldantlers splay white sky.skin the riddle of trees,raised question marks.

OMNIDAWN POETRY CONTEST: LAST CALL!

Last Call!2009 Omnidawn Poetry Contest Judged by Ann Lauterbach Postmark Deadline: June 30 The 2009 Omnidawn Poetry Contest, judged by Ann Lauterbach, is Omnidawn Publishing’s second annual contest for a first or second full-length collection of poems by a poet…

Poetry: Nathan Parker

*The Journey Backafter Tolkien, Shelley, Nelson, Eastwood, Housman, Justice, Bishop Cradling my drunken brotherIn my broken arms I trackedThe last cloud on earth afterDeciding the last movie lackedCowboys. True, the river clipsWere something to behold.(write it!)Michael I love you and…

Brenda Iijima Interviews Tyrone Williams

* check out Brenda Iijima’s wonderful interview with Tyrone William. the interview, titled “An African-American Poetry/Poetics,” appears in Kaurab Online. Tyrone Williams, teaches literature and theory at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio. An experimental poet of a rare breed, Tyrone…

Some Announcements from Onmidawn Friends

* DIGITAL ARTIFACT MAGAZINECall for submissions**Deadline: June 15, 2009 Watch their video call for submissions! * New Publication: In Your Fish Helmet by Sarah Menefee recently out from Transmission Press. * Check out Orbis Quarterly International Literary Journal. *

Poetry: Rob Schlegel

* from ICEBLINK She neither arrives nor departsbut modifies constant Cove’s pliable shore Never tethered is itso permanent to regard itselfimmortal Bury she may his boneswithin the ossuary Crab-apple or buried sun She questions the one part of every soundpining…