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SUBMISSIONS

Submissions for mgv2_70 | Cool on My Island | 08_12 start April 1 through May 1. See mgversion2datura on Facebook for inspirational tips and like me at the same time.

mgversion2>datura will accept previously published work but please provide a publishing background. I ask for first electronic publishing rights. Full copyright remains with the author. Should you decide to republish the piece elsewhere, I ask that you cite mgversion2>datura as a place of previous publication. Each issue will be archived in the permanent feature section of the blog. The purpose of the publication is to promote aspiring and confirmed writers and visual artists in their efforts to bring their work to the world.

Each contributor receives a digital copy of the journal (PDF) and a token payment. PAYMENTS VIA PAYPAL ONLY ON RECEIPT OF THE SIGNED PUBLISHING CONTRACT. See specifics :

Poem: Fiction: Flash fiction: Short story: Novel Excerpt: Drama – Screenplay – Non-fiction – Other: Illustration:

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You may also send your announcements at mgversion2datura [at] gmail [dot] com.. I will consider any of them as long as they relate to the topics of this blog.

CONTRIBUTIONS

Les contributions pour le prochain numéro mgv2_70 | Tranquille sur mon île | 08_12  pourront être envoyées du 1er avril au 1er mai. Voir la page facebook de mgversion2datura pour vous inspirer et profitez-en pour m'aimer.

mgversion2> datura accepte des textes et illustrations déjà publiés mais s'il vous plaît indiquez précisément où. Si vous décidez de publier votre texte ou votre illustration ailleurs, je vous demande de citer mgversion2>datura. Chaque numéro est archivée dans la section caractéristique permanente du blog. L'objectif de cette publication est de promouvoir les auteurs et artistes publiés.

Chaque auteur reçoit une copie digitale de la revue (PDF) et une toute petite compensation financière. LE PAIEMENT SE FAIT PAR PAYPAL UNIQUEMENT A RECEPTION DU CONTRAT D'EDITION RECU SIGNE. Voir les tarifs. :

Poème: Fiction: Flash fiction: Nouvelle:                                           Extrait de roman:                              Théâtre - Scénario - Essai - Critique:      Illustration:

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Vous pouvez aussi envoyer vos annonces à l'adresse mgversion2datura [at] gmail [dot] com. Je les publierai peut-être sur le blog.

 

Invitation à participer à Appel d’Air !!

En 2007, un groupe d’écrivains des « littératures de l’imaginaire » (SF, Fantasy, etc.) lançait
« l’Appel d’air des mauvais genres contre la narcose Sarkozy », grâce à l’appui des éditions
ActuSF, qui ont mis à disposition un site, puis ont édité un livret. Le projet se relance pour la
présidentielle 2012, ces auteurs sont à nouveau à la tâche. Pour eux, l'enjeu est moins Nicolas
Sarkozy en tant que personne et figure de détestation, en vue d’un petit cinéma compensateur
imaginaire, que ce dont il est le nom, pour parler comme Badiou, à savoir une forme du postpétainisme
français et des méthodes modernes de narcose médiatique. Il s’agit donc moins
d’un appel d'air contre Sarkozy en tant qu'homme politique qu'un appel d'air pour réouvrir le
langage à de nouveaux mondes vivables et respirables ensemble, un appel d'air pour sortir des
droites douces et extrêmes, pour, ce langage, se le réapproprier. Pourquoi des poètes, des
dizaines de poètes, ne se joindraient pas à eux ?

Pourquoi parler du président sortant, de l’autoproclamé « candidat du peuple », et surtout
pourquoi le faire de notre point de vue de poètes ? Faut il ressortir nos soldats de papier
(Klemperer) faut il reprendre le parti pris des choses (Ponge), mais aussi des mots et de la
mémoire ?

Repartons du langage. Dans cette matière, Nicolas Sarkozy, c’est le plus professionnel, le
meilleur, un virtuose des mots, des poses, des expressions. Mais c’est aussi un manipulateur,
un brouilleur de repères, un enfumeur. Le langage instrumenté, extrudé des tuyauteries du
volontarisme ça ne vous rappelle rien ? Nous qui trouvons de la joie, de l’énergie dans les
mots, qui travaillons pour nous rapprocher de l’état natif du langage, nous savons qu’une
langue fait lien, de toutes ses dimensions. Notre langue est le Bien Commun par excellence,
« tout ce que nous avons ». Laisserons-nous Sarkozy – et d’autres moins efficacement que lui,
mais à son exemple – mettre son drapeau sur ce bien irremplaçable, le pervertir, corrompre ?

Zapping, amnésie (pourtant, la réalité, pendant cinq ans, a dépassé l’affliction !), sidération, la
discussion rendue impossible par le tout et son contraire, les conditions mêmes de l’échange
d’idées, d’émotions, de la controverse et du consensus sont sapées… ne réagirons nous pas ?
En 2009, à l’appel d’Edith Azam1, cent textes avaient été écrits en solidarité avec les sans
papiers, nous savons donc le faire ! … et le mauvais genre par excellence, le dhimmi des
genres au pays du bling bling, c’est bien la poésie ? La princesse de Clèves cache la forêt…

Il est proposé à qui voudra d’envoyer un texte (court récit, poème, chronique, etc..) pour
parler de tout ce dont il est bon de parler en ces tristes temps. A nous aussi donc de dire,
« dichten », sur la vie en société aujourd’hui, sur le lien social, sur l’avenir, sur le mal vivre
aujourd’hui ou demain, sur le bien vivre, de « l’indignation », etc..
Envoyez votre texte à Jérôme Vincent, le responsable du projet à ACTUSF.


[e-mail]

Et faites suivre cet appel à qui vous voudrez ! et pas seulement des poètes…

1 Edith Azam, Bernard Noel et Julien Blaine, viennent de lancer le manifeste « BAN », qui
veut, comme Appel d’air, proposer l’esprit de résistance et un lieu d’expression ouvert. Les
deux appels sont convergents, bien sûr. Pour info, contacter Edith [e-mail]



mgv2_69 Fifty Stars and a Maple Leaf On Line

Kickstarter Fundraising 100 TPC - A Message from the 100TPC Crew

Dear Friends of 100 Thousand Poets for Change,

I am writing to let you know that Terri and I have set up a 100 TPC KICKSTARTER PAGE in an effort to raise funds to help us to continue organizing 100 Thousand Poets for Change 2012, and more specifically to help us plan and set up our “100 TPC Headquarters Event”  from where we will manage all the September 29th global events!

As you know, we have no funding or sponsors thus far and so we have funded the past year’s work on our own. We have recently applied for our non-profit status and hope to be able to get funding from foundations and sponsors soon, but until our non-profit status is approved we are asking for support from our friends, and soon-to-be friends, too!

For those of you unfamiliar with Kickstarter, the basic approach is that you state your fundraising goal for your project and then set the time in which you think you can achieve (or surpass) that goal. If at the end of your fundraising period you do not reach your goal you don’t receive any of the donations. So, if we do not reach our goal of $2500, all the money will be refunded to the donors accordingly.

Kickstarter explains it like this…

"Why is Kickstarter funding all-or-nothing? On Kickstarter, a project must reach its funding goal before time runs out or no money changes hands. Why? It protects everyone involved. This way, no one is expected to develop a project with an insufficient budget, which sucks. Remember you set your own funding goal, so aim to raise the minimum amount you'll need to create your vision. Projects can always raise more than their goal, and often do"

Terri and I have set our goal for $2,500 and we have 60 days to raise these funds. I am sure you will agree this is not much money for running the website, archiving for Stanford University, sending out ten thousand press releases, general outreach, and overall management of all the activity on the day of the event which will include monitoring and sharing livestreams, skype sessions and much more!

The 100 TPC KICKSTARTER PAGE explains everything in more detail. Check it out. There are a whole bunch of unique gifts offered for donors as well. You might see something you like!

Please understand that we are actually very uncomfortable asking for funding, we know you all work really hard and poetry is not a high paying job. But, I think we all agree that 100 Thousand Poets for Change is worth doing on a long-term basis.

So far we have over 500 events in 100 countries confirmed for September 29, 2012. With your help we hope there will be 1000 events!

We thank you for all your friendship and amazing moral support!

Please help us by donating any amount of money, really. $1, $5, $10, $20, $50 or more. Every little bit helps! You can go online to the 100 TPC KICKSTARTER PAGE and make your donations via Paypal. Your support will be greatly appreciated and will enable us to keep organizing 100 TPC 2012.

Thank you for all you do!

The 100 TPC KICKSTARTER PAGE has just been launched!

We now have 60 days to reach our goal of 2,500 dollars.

Please help us reach our funding goal.

And please tell all your friends and loved ones about the 100 TPC Kickstarter Page, share the link, 100 TPC KICKSTARTER and encourage them to donate to our fundraising campaign!

Peace and Love,

Michael Rothenberg and Terri Carrion

100 Thousand Poets for Change-www.100tpc.org

[e-mail]

Café Littéraire - Atelier Thot'M

Café Littéraire - Atelier Thot'M

« Poésie Feu Rebelle… »


« Il n'y a de véritable résistance que dans et par la création… »  (Patrick Chamoiseau)


Lectures, échanges, débat, autour de la poésie comme insurrection de l'imaginaire, invention du futur, avec


Cathy Garcia, Plasticienne, Poète, Revuiste,

et

Eric Barbier, Poète.


Cette rencontre, organisée par L'Atelier Thot'M,  aura lieu à la Librairie « Les Beaux Jours », avenue de la Marne, à Tarbes, le Jeudi 26 Avril de 20h30 à 23h.

Renseignements: E-mail : [e-mail]   

                                                                                       « Thot'M, l'Atelier d'Ecriture »

POETRY SUPER HIGHWAY Announcing the 8th Annual Great Poetry E-Book Free-For-All

.Announcing: the eighth annual:
Great Poetry E-Book Free-For-All

The mission of the Poetry Super Highway
is to expose as many people to as many other
people's poetry as possible.

..What?

A crazy project in which your poetry e-books will be freely available to all interested humans on Earth for a 24 hour period.

Throughout April we will collect e-books from poets and writers interested in participating.

Then on May 1st, for a 24 hour period, a special website will go live with links to all of the e-books. For 24 hours anyone will be free to download, for free, as many of these e-books as they like...a poetry e-book free-for-all.

..How?

To participate, read all of the guidelines below and then click on our Online Submission form. That's it. It's simple. By doing so, your e-book will be included.

The E-Book has to be written by you.

E-books should be in PDF Format for universal compatibility with anyone's computer.

If you have an e-book in Microsoft Word or another format, please convert it to PDF. One way to do this (if you don't know how) is to visit the website http://www.pdfonline.com/convert-pdf/. From there you will be allowed to select the file on your computer which will uploaded and e-mailed back to you in PDF format.

When creating your e-book file, please keep it smaller than 1 megabyte.

Once you've created your e-book (not before), click on our Online Submission Form to join in!

Do not fill out the form and then e-mail us your e-book later. Please fill out the form and use it to upload your e-book to us.

We are not accepting e-books or submissions by e-mail. The only way to join in is by clicking on the Online Submission Form below.

On May 1 at Midnight (the evening of April 30), we will distribute a special e-mail letting people know the location of the web page with links to all of the e-book files. People will be free to download any or all of the titles and your poetry will be freely, electronically, travelling all over the world. This web page will go off line 24 hours later at Midnight on May 2nd.

We will also list your e-book and description on this web page along with the link to your website for all to see.

When it's over, we'll produce a list of how many copies of each book were downloaded for no reason other than you may find it interesting.

To submit your book, please go to our
ONLINE SUBMISSION FORM

..Frequently Asked Questions

Why are you doing this?
To expose as many people to as many other people's poetry as possible.

Why isn't this a one-one exchange like the Great Poetry Exchange?
The immediate accessibility of the internet, and zero costs for producing e-books makes this a much more attractive opportunity for an immediate larger audience for your books. We don't want to limit your potential readers to other producers of e-books, nor to one other person.

Why does the e-book have to be written by me?
Unlike the Great Poetry Exchange, were one can participate by pledging to send a book by someone else or an anthology they've edited, since e-books are not purchased physical entities, and because they will be available in unlimited quantities during the 24 hour period on May 1st, only you have the rights to your poetry. You can't authorize the free distribution of someone else's poetry, the rights of which you don't own, to the world.

This sounds cool but I don't have an e-book.
That's not really a question, but anyway, why not make one? Do some basic design and layout of your poems in your favorite word processing program. Make a title page. Design a nice cover. Use any pictures you want. Turn it into an PDF. You've got an e-book. There's no time like the present. Maybe you'll take it to print later?

I participated last year and I want to submit the same book, can you just use the file and info you have already?
This creates more work for us and is a little more difficult for us to manage. It would really help out if you could click on the Online Submission Form so we can have everything in the same place, we'd appreciate it.

I'm concerned about my book being free for everyone on the planet.
Also not a question but we understand. Maybe this isn't for you. Maybe you sell e-books on your website and don't want to give unlimited copies of one away over a 24 hour period. Hey, it's cool.

Are these really frequently asked questions?
Actually no, all these were written before we received any questions, imagining what some of the questions might be.

..More info:

Visit the Poetry Super Highway and click on "Great E-Book Free-For All" for updated details and for the list of participating authors/e-books.

http://PoetrySuperHighway.com/PoetLinks.html..

 

One Hudred Thousand Poets for Change

The text below was issued on early March 2011 to announce the first 100 Thousand Poets for Change event. The next event will take place on September 29, 2012. The concept continues in the same format. If you would like to organize an event in your neighborhood please contact us at [e-mail]

THE 100 THOUSAND POETS FOR CHANGE MOVEMENT!

Do you want to join other poets around the USA and across the planet in a demonstration/ celebration of poetry to promote serious social and political change? If so sign up here and let’s see if enough people are serious about an event like this. So far we have over 700 events planned in 550 cities and 95 countries (September 24, 2011) If you would like to organize an event in your community for September 29, 2012 join us here and write to us at [e-mail] to register your event.

 

 

Le texte ci-après est paru début mars 2011 pour annoncer la première édition de la manifestation international 100 Mille poètes pour le changement. La prochaine édition aura lieu le 29 septembre 2012. Elle sera basée sur le même principe. Si vous voulez organiser une manifestation dans votre ville, contactez-nous à [e-mail]

 

LE MOUVEMENT 100 MILLE POETES POUR LE CHANGEMENT

 

Voulez-vous rejoindre d'autres poètes aux Etats-Unis et partout dans le monde dans une manifestation/célébration poétique pour promouvoir un sérieux changement social et politique? Dans ce cas, enregistrez-vous ici et voyons si suffisamment de personnes prennent cette manifestation au sérieux. L'an passé nous avons compté 700 manifestations organisées dans 550 villes de 95 pays (24 septembre 2011). Si vous voulez organiser une manifestation dans votre ville le 29 septembre 2012, rejoignez-nous et écrivez-nous à [e-mail] pour l'enregistrer.

Highlanes Gallery

Press Release: Poetry Invades the Art Gallery…

Experiments in Mood and Meaning at Highlanes Gallery
March 31, April 14, May 7, May 26, 2012

This spring, Highlanes Gallery continues developing its policy of partnering with, and programming other art forms, within the context of the gallery space and the current Collection and temporary Exhibitions, and announces a series of afternoon poetry events over the next three months titled Experiments in Mood and Meaning.

Designed to explore exciting new trends in poetry and to experiment with different ways of presenting it live, the series of four events will also showcase a number of Drogheda poets and other invited bards.

Beginning with poetry as drama with Adventures in the Word Jungle on Saturday 31 March at 3.00pm, when Nuala Leonard, Brian Quinn and Anne Tannam will explore the extra impact possible from multi-voice readings (directed by Brian Quinn), we go on to poetry as story on Saturday 14 April at 3.00pm, in Storylands of Hard Life Experience when the dominance of lyric poetry is challenged by the energy and honesty of longer narrative forms, featuring Patrick Dillon, Terry McHugh and Karl Parkinson.
Then, on (Bank Holiday) Monday May 7 at 3.00pm, during the annual Drogheda Arts Festival, it is poetry and music as ambiencellist Claire Fitch improvises to Roger Hudson’s moody life poems to create Interactions in the Sonic Supersphere.
The series rounds off, on Saturday May 26 at 3.00pm, with Lapwing Poets, a tribute to Lapwing Publications, the fiercely independent Belfast publisher which continues to discover poets establishment publishers ignore with poets Marie MacSweeney, Tommy Murray and Adam Rudden.

Curated by Drogheda-based writer and poet Roger Hudson, who will also take part, he sees the overall aim “to join and celebrate the current breakaway from traditional poetic forms and subjects that is revolutionising poetry and performance in Dublin and other cities.”

Says Hudson, “I’ve been attending and taking part in some of the exciting new spoken word events in Dublin such as the Glór Sessions and Tongue Box, and feel it is high time Drogheda had a chance to share in the excitement of this new flowering of poetry as a popular art.”
This programme has been funded by Create Louth   and Highlanes Gallery

Highlanes Gallery is grateful for the on-going financial support from Drogheda Borough Council, the Arts Council and Irish Cement Ltd.




Current and forthcoming Collection/ Exhibitions Programme at Highlanes Gallery:
March - September 2012

9 March - 26 April
Drogheda Municipal Art Collection including Recent Acquisitions
One + One: Brigid Mc Leer
SURREAL: Primary School Programme Exhibition

 4 May - 5 September
7:42 Thomas Brezing, Séan Cotter, Mary Kelly, Abigail O'Brien, in association with Drogheda Arts Festival, 2012

4 May – 5 June
Famine Times: Drogheda Municipal Art Collection

9 June - 5 September
Women Artists in the Drogheda Municipal Art Collection

Highlanes Gallery Public Programme includes tours, gallery talks, workshops for children, young people and adults, drop in drawing, and other exhibition focused events. Go to www.highlanes.ie for up to date programme information and join the email list by clicking on the home page.

Highlanes Gallery, now in its fifth year, is a municipal art gallery for Drogheda and the North East, home to the Drogheda Municipal Art Collection, and exhibiting a programme of temporary exhibitions of modern and contemporary art. Highlanes Gallery’s onsite partner is Andersons Café. Highlanes Gallery is situated in a former Franciscan Church, in the centre of Drogheda on the Boyne, Co, Louth.  Drogheda is a thirty minute train journey from Dublin and 1 hour thirty from Belfast.  

For interviews, high-resolution images or additional information:
Contact: Siobhan Burke, Telephone: + 353 041 9803311, Email: [e-mail]

Highlanes Gallery is open 6 days a week, Monday – Saturday, 10.30am – 5.00pm, closed Sundays except for Sunday May 6 (May Bank Holiday Weekend/ Drogheda Arts Festival)

Highlanes Gallery, Laurence Street, Drogheda on the Boyne, Co. Louth, Ireland
E. [e-mail]; W. www.highlanes.ie  T. + 353 (0) 41 9803311

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