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Paradise (Film Two)
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“I don’t know a thing about paradise || In my house nobody ever brought / it up...” Anna Moschovakis reads from her poem “Paradise (Film Two)” from her collection They and We Will Get Into Trouble for This (Coffee House Press, 2016) as part of the twenty-fourth annual Poets House Showcase in 2016. Moschovakis’s forthcoming debut novel, Eleanor, or, The Rejection of the Progress of Love will be released by Coffee House Press in August.
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Love Scientifically
What can science tell us about love? Make your own discoveries by writing a love poem inspired by a scientific concept or phenomenon. For inspiration, consider Henri Cole’s “Gravity and Center,” Ruth Madievsky’s “Electrons,” or Sara Eliza Johnson’s “Combustion.” Name your poem after a scientific phrase you find by looking through a science textbook, website, or article. Search for material that casts unexpected light upon your love poem.
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Florence Welch
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“At what cost / This wondrous creature / that becomes more precious to you / than the people that you took from…” In this video, musician Florence Welch reads her poem “Monster” from her book of lyrics and poetry, Useless Magic (Crown Archetype, 2018).
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Palette Poetry Awards $4,000 for a Single Poem
Submissions are currently open for the Palette Poetry Prize. An award of $4,000 and publication in Palette Poetry will be given for a poem that “speaks to what poetry is and can be for our world today.” Shane McCrae will judge.
Submissions are open internationally to any poet writing in English. Using the online submission system, submit up to three poems of any length with a $20 entry fee by August 15.
Guest judge Shane McCrae is the author of six books of poetry, including In the Language of My Captor (Wesleyan University Press, 2017), which was a finalist for the National Book Award. Watch a video of McCrae reading “Panopticon,” a poem from the collection.
Palette Poetry is an online journal that publishes new poetry from emerging and established poets, including Courtney Lamar Charleston, Dean Rader, and Laura Villareal. Free submissions are accepted year-round, and poets receive $50 per published poem. Visit the website for more information.
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