This summer, for NANO Fiction’s blog series The State of Flash, I surveyed some of my writer friends about why they write prose poetry or flash fiction. The responses I got were thoughtful, funny, insightful, sometimes frightening, and even lyrical.
The short essay was featured online yesterday, and you can read it HERE.
Thanks Kirby Johnson & NANO Fiction!
My poems “And Not Having the Least Bit of Luck” and “New Year’s Resolution TBA” have been accepted by Brad Liening for his online literary journal SCUD. Under the dark SCUD skies you can already read amazing new poems by the likes of Gregory Lawless, Ben Nardolilli, and Rob MacDonald.
The broadside of my poem “Our Apple Trees” has just been published by Thrush Press. It’s available for $3.50 (S&H included).
To order a broadside, you just login to your own PayPal account, and send $3.50 to account: hvitoria@msn.com. Indicate which Broadside you are ordering with either name of poem(s) or poet(s), and the number of each desired, in the notes section on Paypal or in an email to hvitoria@msn.com.
Each broadside is handmade, stamped, and backed with art paper of different patterns. It’s a beautiful object and I’m proud to have my poem published in such a form. The poem itself is inspired by the old Amish farms in Ohio where my dad used to take me wild mushroom picking when I was a kid.
The above is a photograph of some of them which I just took in my backyard with the neighbor watching me, probably wondering why I was decorating an evergreen tree in August.
My article “State of Flash (and Prose Poetry): Why We Write ‘Em!” is going to be featured at NANO Fiction in September, and I’m so excited. For this, I called up a handfull of writer friends and asked them why in the world they write prose poems or flash fiction. The answers I got were wonderful. Also funny, insightful, sometimes frightening, and even lyrical.
Check out Adam Peterson’s “Bylaws of the State of Flash,” the most recent post in NF’s State of Flash series. You may not have known it, but in the State of Flash there are fifty bylaws. And they’re not to be sniffed at.
I received the wonderful news today that Thrush Press has accepted a poem of mine for their Broadside Series. They make some beautiful pieces. Below is Unmoored by Mary Lou Buschi. You can purchase broadsides from the site for $3.50 each.
The broadside of my poem “Stop Doing That” has just been published today by Broadsided. The poem has been wonderfully illustrated by Amy Meissner, an artist and illustrator who lives in Anchorage, Alaska.
The broadside is available as a free downloadable pdf from Broadsided HERE, where you can also read short interviews with Amy and me.
If you’re not familiar with Broadsided, since 2005 they’ve paired up writers with visual artists to create broadsides which are published online, one a month, as pdfs and which people all across the country (and beyond) download, print, and post in the streets or anywhere. The name for anyone who distributes a Broadsided piece is a Vector. All you have to do is print out a Broadsided publication and post it somewhere. Then, if you wish, you can email Broadsided to let them know where you’ve put it (and maybe take a picture of it) so they can put your town/city on the Vector map.
On a personal note, if anyone posts my Broadsided poem, my head will explode. In a good way.
Kugelmass: A Journal of Literary Humor has accepted my prose poem “The Tale of the Clerk and the Miniature Desperado” for their upcoming third issue.
If I tried to explain how happy this has made me, you wouldn’t believe me. Nope.
I’m excited to announce that six prose poems from my unpublished chapbook manuscript “The Little Book of Monsters” have just been published online at Used Furniture Review.
A letterpress printed broadside of another poem from this manuscript (it has a zombie in it) is available for $3.50 from Architrave Press.
Boo.
I just received my contributor’s copy of Spillway Magazine 18, the Games People Play issue. It contains my poem “Turn Down the Thermostat, Darling,” alongside poems by David Kirby, Nicky Beer, Norman Dubie, Nancy Carol Moody, David St. John, and a prose poem by Pierre Reverdy translated by Dan Bellm. You can pick up a copy here. Thank you Susan Terris and Spillway!
I just received news that Yemassee has accepted for their next issue a collaborative prose poem from a series written with my friend the poet Dustin Nightingale. This is the first of our collaborations to find a home, and we’re jazzed. Seriously. The poem, by the way, is called “Little Buzzings,” and it’s sort of about fruit flies…among other things.
Dustin doesn’t have a webpage, but you can read one of his poems in Stickman Review, and you can hear him read several poems on this episode of my old radio show The Poets Weave.