Beakful & Urtica

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 Both blogs and press have been closed. Publications are now unavailable from the blogs but will remain accessible until the end of the month sur le site de l'imprimeur (lulu.com). They will be retired and handed back to their respective authors in case they wish to submit them somewhere else.

Les blogs et les éditions ont été fermées. Les publications sont désormais indisponibles sur les blogs mais resteront accessibles jusqu'à la fin du mois sur le site de l'imprimeur (lulu.com). Elles seront retirées et remises à leurs auteurs respectifs au cas où ils souhaiteraient les soumettre ailleurs.

New publications

Cover for Shards Charity Anthology Mental Health Awareness

I sent submissions in the last months and two poems were selected for publication.

The first one is "The Silver Helmet" from the unpublished book Swimming Holes I may publish through Urtica some time this year. It was accepted for publication by Rick Lupert from Los Angeles. I'm returning to a long-time venue Poetry Super Highway. This poem is published along with C.W. Bryan's work.

You can find it here.

The second poem is an "old" one, which first appeared in Touch Poetry Journal (defunct) and part of the book Carmine Carnival, published by Lazarus Press (defunct too). It is a poem inspired both by Elizabeth Bishop's poetry and Sonia Delaunay's painting Long Journey.

I'll let you know when the anthology is out.

Datura 15 | 01_24

 

Datura issue 15 January 2024 is now live

You can read it here https://www.calameo.com/read/00002815162081e090755

Contents | Sommaire
Cover illustration | Illustration de couverture: Norman J. Olson
Unless stated otherwise, all inside illustrations are by Norman J. Olson – Sauf indications contraires, toutes les illustrations dans ce numéro sont signées Norman J. Olson

    • Docteur Burz, editorial
    • Léonel Houssam, Opioïde, mon amour, prose
    • Colin James, four poems: “This Evening Will Find Itself Remembering”, “Flora You Are Much More Beautiful in Person”, “The Unrescued Having Confirmed Their Slipshod Extension”, and “Hologram Night-Shift the Caves, Devon”, poetry
    • Joshie Lint, two poems: “Stinkin’ Jeans of Swift Strong Liquor” and “She Had a Face Tatoo”, poetry
    • DC Diamondopolous, “1912”, fiction
    • Odile Mori, “Bone”, fiction
    • Diana Raab, “Shaped by Our Childhoods”, creative non-fiction essay
    • John Grey, “Please Live Up to Your Memory”, poetry
    • John Tustin, two poem: “Dead Fawn in the Water” and “The Enormous Sadness”
    • Dominik Slusarczyk, two poems "Unmasked Land" and "Forget", poetry
    • Jan Bardeau, extrait de Là-bas, après et même plus loin, fiction, paru aux éditions Urtica en décembre 2023