Call For Love Poems and Other Messages for Bruce Springsteen
Springsteen’s passionate listeners have been grateful for his music that address their causes and struggles for years. From movie producers/directors who’ve asked for something special to fit the themes of their films to the lyrics that come from Bruce’s own conscious and the issues swelling from the times of our lives. Springsteen has created music and lyrics that help carry us through. Think of Philadelphia, The Wrestler, so many others. Bruce Springsteen has given and given to the difficulties. What else do you know about Bruce Springsteen?
What if we give him a fine, slender, collection of poems written just for him, from the similar spirit he gives to so much that matters.
This collection, edited by Jennifer Bosveld, has a target release date of September 2009 but could fill and close as soon as March 15, 2009 (about 2 weeks from this message today). So assume a deadline of March 15. Be blessed by The Ides of March. As usual, Jen issues an Ides of March message. This year it is this CALL to the value of the observant poetic response to one individual who has done likewise for decades. Join Pudding House in gratitude for Bruce Springsteen, the man he is, and the work that proves he pays attention, issued warnings, and gone beyond to also issue blessings, issued notice regarding the fragile times of our lives. Google his name to remind yourself or to inform yourself better.
This is starting as primarily an invitational launch; however, Jennifer invites all those she has invited here to forward this invitation to up to 50 other exceptional poets. This is not a contest and has no reading fee. Perhaps 20 poems/poets will be chosen and twenty copies of the small collection will be sent to Springsteen with great effort to make sure he actually receives them. Contributors will receive 5 copies each in gratitude from Pudding House. Anyone who wants to serve as a proofreader for the collection, to receive it by email attachment after it is formatted, please send a separate email stating that. Those selected to this task will be serving as a labor of love with your name listed in the front as “editorial team” and will need to print out the small collection and mark corrections in red.
Send poems in the body of an email only, one at a time (one poem per email) to: jen@puddinghouse.com with the subject line: Springsteen poem
Jennifer Bosveld, editor
Love Poems and Other Messages for Bruce Springsteen
Pudding House Publications
81 Shadymere Lane
Columbus Ohio 43213
614-986-1881
Most submissions will be responded to immediately or within a day. Be aware that our email acts up. If you don’t hear from Jen within 24 hours, assume it didn’t reach her and send again. No simultaneous submissions but previously published work is fine as long as author owns copyright and includes copyright statement at the bottom of the poem. Absolutely NO lifting of lyrics or language from work owned by other writers please. That is illegal and people are paying hefty fines or going to jail for that.
PS. fyi, THE PUDDING HOUSE GANG anthology we issued a call for in January is printed and is glorious and will be sent to contributors over the next week.Orders to be filled immediately after. The book retails for $18 + $2.50 p/h.
Send VISA/MC w/exp date or check, money order w/complete mailing address to
Pudding House
81 Shadymere Ln
Columbus Ohio 43213.
Over 250 chapbooks were released by Pudding House in the past year, and the Cap City Poets anthology ($18) last year. 4 other new anthologies will be released this year and another 200 chapbooks. We’re the hardest workin’ small press in the nation. Are you one of our usual suspects?
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Battered Suitcase has reopened submissions for the charity anthology “CRAZY DAYS: an expression of depression” until March 31, 2009. Currently seeking work from writers, poets, lyricists and artists who have themselves dealt with mental health problems in their lives; clinical depression, bipolar disorder, BPD, etc.
The purpose of the anthology is to provide a frank, deglamourized snapshot of how mental health disorders affect our lives as both artists and as human beings. Proceeds from sales of the anthology will be donated to the MIND charity in the United Kingdom for their support programs. A similar charity in the United States may also be chosen at a later time.
Send poetry, lyrics, art, and short prose pieces of less than 2000 words.
Fawn Neun, Editor
Vagabondage Press, LLC,
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Colored Chalk:
Theme for Issue 8: Broken Clocks.
Submissions for this issue close on April 30th, 2009.
It’s the human condition to lick the wounds of our mistakes and pick at scabs of regret. Take this theme wherever you want, show us a man’s greatest folly or his attempts to remedy a mishap he’ll rue forever. Just leave us wishing for yesterday, as the great Paul McCartney once sang, when all our troubles seemed so far away.
Stories may be set in any time. For example, Post-apocalyptic or other genres set in the future often instill a longing for the present, and as such are perfectly acceptable.
Fiction, nonfiction, and poetry submissions are welcome, however please note that fiction is strongly preferred.
This issue will be edited by Jason M. Heim and Alex J. Martin.
General Submission Guidelines are here.
Email your stories to issue8 AT coloredchalk.com by April 30th, 2009. Stories may be in any style or genre, up to 1500 words.
Accepted formats are Microsoft Word (.doc) or Rich Text Format (.rtf). Simultaneous submissions are fine. Include any biography or cover letter information that you feel is important in the body of your email.
Please put “Broken Clocks” somewhere in the subject line of your email so that it stands out from spam messages. Specify your type of submission — fiction, nonfiction, or poetry — in the body of your email.
Thank you in advance for your submissions.
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Sideshow Fables is seeking submissions of short stories for its debut issue. The only requirement of submissions is that they take place in a circus. The circus can mean many things to many people. For outsiders the circus can be an escapist fantasy, but for insiders it can be a prison of repetition. We want stories that range from gritty realism to a world of infinite possibility.
Send us stories about sideshow freaks, fortune tellers, midway barkers, animal trainers, clowns, roustabouts, ringleaders, magicians, mind readers, acrobats, and dancing ladies. And don’t forget about the “regular” folks who pay to get inside.
All genres are welcome, including literary, mystery, horror, sci-fi, fantasy, fairy tales, humor, and experimental. We do not accept poetry.
Be sure to astound and amaze. We want Sideshow Fables to be a circus itself, a place where anything, and everything, can happen.
Submissions should be between 500 – 3000 words. We will consider longer works for serialization, but please query first.
Please send submissions as a Word or RTF file to sideshowfables@gmail.com. In the subject line, please include “Submission:
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