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News on Fiffer, Kirk, Rodley Submission info for Clutching at Straws, Silver Birch, Prime Number

01/03/2016 By Ellen Beals Leave a Comment

How's 2016 treating you so far?  Maybe this news and info will be useful. Tom Fiffer who has contributed a number of essays to this site has a new book, Why It Can't Work: Detaching from Dysfunctional Relationships to Make Room for True Love. He is Senior Editor, Ethics,  for The Good Men Project, which you should check out--it's "The conversation no one is having." If reading the thought-provoking stuff there inspires you to write about an issue, recently the site had … [Read more...]

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Resolution

01/01/2016 By Ellen Beals Leave a Comment

Resolution I’m going to pink therapy. Later, I’ll see about red care. I’m going to trim all my ego’s hangnails and perfume that space above the soft palate, just behind my uvula. I’m going to have all the hackles on my spine aligned and I’ve made an appointment to have each problem plucked from that very last nerve. And just temporarily, to see whether I’d like it, I’m having my synapses dyed a pleasant color, robin’s egg or eggplant. And just … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: absurd, Ariel, Chicago, Ellen Wade Beals, Maureen Seaton, New Year's, New Year's resolution, Photography, Poetry, Resolution, Solace, Solace in So Many Words, Triton College, Weighed Words

Year-end news: Boyle, Meno, Levine, Somlo, Cleary, Newman

12/31/2015 By Ellen Beals Leave a Comment

Hey there. Hope your Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanzaa/Festivus was wonderful. The end of the year always brings out the "best of" lists. Solace in So Many Words contributors made a few of these T. C. Boyle’s novel The Harder They Come was named the best novel (700 pages or shorter) by Newsweek.  It was also named one of the best books of the year by The Express, by the San Francisco Chronicle, and other publications.  Also this year, T. C. Boyle  served as guest editor for The … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: 2015, A Few Stray Leaves, Anthology, Contributors, Daniel Cleary, Ellen Wade Beals, Joe Meno, Literary Hub, Marvel and A Wonder, My Name is Aviva, Patty Somlo, Philip Levine, Photography, Poetry, Solace, Solace in So Many Words, T. C. Boyle, The Harder They Come, Weighed Words

Misty’s “Gift of the Wild”

12/22/2015 By Ellen Beals Leave a Comment

Gift of the wild On Christmas, a coyote came to our fence and ever since my dog has been visited by dreams of running with the pack, almost able to catch up but never quite there, lagging, and so her back legs push off as she sleeps in her bed, her eyes squint as if to see between the pickets, beyond the slats shadowed on the ground. She wants to stalk the ducks in the creek, no leash tugging like a conscience, to tip over garbage cans or to rustle among the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Anthology, Christmas, Christmas poetry, Dog poetry, Ellen Wade Beals, Misty, Poetry, Solace, Solace in So Many Words, Weighed Words, Wild desire

Submit locally . . .

12/10/2015 By Ellen Beals Leave a Comment

If your holiday activities don't overrun your schedule, consider these local calls for submissions. C. J. Laity of ChicagoPoetry.com is doing another anthology: JOMP 19: Poetry of Protest. Here are the details. Deadline is 2/28/16. Measure, Cleave, Silver -- these are the three elements needed in your submissions to be considered for the Spring issue (#10) of 3Elements Review.  Submission guidelines are here. Whitney Scott's Outrider Press in affiliation with … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: 3elements Review, Anthology, C. J. Laity, ChicagoPoetry.com, Contributors, Ellen Bass, Ellen Wade Beals, Nelson Algren Literary Award, Outrider Press, Poetry, Poetry Magazine, Solace in So Many Words, submissions, Wally Swist, Weighed Words

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