Diverse Voices Quarterly is celebrating its second year of publishing online! Issue Five is available for a download on our website.
For Issue 6, we’re now accepting online submissions for poetry and prose:
http://www.diversevoicesquarterly.com/submissions
Artwork still must be sent directly to <submissions(at)diversevoices quarterly. com> (replace (at) with @)
Complete submission guidelines are available here:
http://www.diversevoicesquarterly.com/submission-guidelines/
Traveling in Time [a hsinku]
Traveling in time –
Continuity to the last;
Avoiding future errors,
Thoughts jump to the past.
Tangent [a pantoum]
However brief
No matter the length
They will, in disbelief
Meet, lacking strength
No matter the length
A line that blends,
Meet lacking strength
The circle of friends
A line that blends –
It exists just outside
The circle of friends
Who cannot decide
It exists just outside,
A diverging purpose
Who can decide?
With, or without trespass
A diverging purpose:
They will in disbelief,
With or without trespass
However brief
The Impossible Poem
Like a pirate on a mission of mercy
There are roses blooming every cold winter
Scarcely outside all of our perception –
Tranquility through the eye with a splinter
Like a twilight shadow reversing its course
All the nations are walking extra miles
Like a lion protecting a flock of sheep
There are militia sharing their stockpiles
Like water supporting the weight of a man
There is light beyond the shores of tomorrow
Another day I awake breathing earth’s air
Unless I am hiding frightened down below
Like a stone temple into pliable clay
All of the flawed candles melt the hearts of ice
Like a long-drawn-out line for the electric chair
There is innocence to pay everyone’s price
Like a groom on a horse coming for his bride
There is a day one will break every column –
If I give a pen to a once gnarled hand
What will thrive is the impossible poem
Dave loves to write and experiment with esoteric forms of poetry. He’d love to network with other writers and artists, and can be reached at carpevelo@gmail.com
My name is Teseleanu George and I’m a young collage artist from Romania. My country is located in Eastern Europe. The most predominant form of art in Romania is photography, as in most countries. As a form of art, collage is rather ignored in my country, and I think that this happens world wide.
I started doing collages two years ago, as child’s play, but soon realized that using this technique I can easily express my imagination. I can’t draw or paint, so collage offered me the opportunity to create. My inspiration, mostly comes from the surrealist and dada movement, that translates in dream like ideas and anti-logic thoughts. I don’t sell my works, mostly because I worked so hard on them and I feel that I left I part of me in every each of them.
If you want to see all my works you can visit my gallery: http://hrn.deviantart.com and if you have any questions or suggestions you can contact me at: blana_de_maimutza@yahoo.com.
Emprise Review is looking for Non-Fiction submissions in three categories
http://emprisereview.com/
1. Book reviews–Texts from any period but contemporary works in particular. 500-1000 word reviews that focus primarily on the text itself and make use of the reviewer’s opinion.
2. Film reviews–300- 1000 word reviews are preferable, as well as reviews that focus on the film and make use of the reviewer’s opinion.
3. Lists–Use your creativity as there are few rules, though in general we’d prefer lists that don’t go into the hundreds or thousands.
Works selected for publication will be featured on the front page/blogging portion of the website and would be seen by the majority of our visitors. Not only are we looking for submissions in the non-fiction category, we are also in search of some regular non-fiction contributors or bloggers to help bolster the critical portion of our website. Visit our non-fiction guidelines for further details.
Furthermore, as always, Emprise Review is open for submissions in original poetry and non-fiction. Please visit our Submit page for further details regarding our submission guidelines. You can also visit our magazine to read some of our previously published content to get some idea of what we’ve selected in the past, though don’t feel limited by our previous selections, we are always in search of new voices, modes, and genres.
If you have any questions please feel free to contact Patrick McAllaster, at <pmcalla(at) gmail.com> (replace (at) with @)
Autumn Dawn
Once rain comes, it’s autumn’s dawn
Sacred Mountain – Cougar Run
Into the sky – the arrow flies
Warrior Revenge
Savage Eye –
Prudent but Loyal
The Eagle will fly
Hawk to meet the Ancestors
To protect the skies
Buffalo to feed the hunger of man
Teepee paintings
In Vision I touched with my hand
Hold Selah in the heart of the night
Bring the Sky Angel to morning light
The dew in the meadow
Selah, Sing Selah
Once the Rain Comes
It’s Autumn’s Dawn
Twilight bestowed on children’s eyes
Selah Cry
Tear of Beloved
To Live to Love
To Love Selah
Cry – Die – Cry
Live life to sigh
To Cry
To Die
To you, my mother
To you, my mother
Whether the rain falls
or the sun shines
you are in my heart
to live and breathe
Each day you are alive
In the moment
of harshness
I said some things
that I did not mean
and all the while
I was loving you.
You are a windsong
a sonnet, a poem writer
a storyteller and a friend
I love you
to the very end.
— For Carolyn’s mother, deceased May 8, 2009.
The Beginning
Would you take a gift in hand
and leave it in the sand?
Unopened? Unused? Would you?
Would you take a heart away
have nothing to say
not even goodbye?
Would you? Could you?
I never believed it would be
like this –
It hurts –
Eternally –
No one to see –
I will rediscover
my dignity
Carolyn Havenhill is a survivor of domestic violence and currently incarcerated at the Central California Women’s Facility (part of the U.S. prison system) for a crime which she regrets. She’s working to transform her life through writing and education, and would love to network with other writers. She’s seeking a volunteer editor to take a look at her poetry to prepare it for publication, as well as further submission opportunities.
You may find more of her story at www.freebatteredwomen.org and/or through searching her name online.
She may be reached through this address (postal mail is the best way to reach U.S. prisoners):
Carolyn Havenhill
W-57827
514-01-04L
Central California Women’s Facility
P.O. Box 1508
Chowchilla, CA 93610
I put my finger in
and feel the tug
while the water runs up my hand.
I pull away startled.
Notice something different: a surprise.
Tingling sparking,
water moving,
electric.
I put my hand in.
It washes my arm.
I can feel it’s living.
The water is alive.
I put my toes in to
feel it crawling, sneaking up me.
Finally, I take a sip and can feel it
within me.
A new drink for a new person
as it changes from
the inside out.
Glorious firework reaction,
wash over me.
The Lab is seeking visual art, literary, and performance submissions for a group exhibition uncovering the shadow side of art.
Of particular interest are proposals that investigate negative astral correspondences in art history. We are looking for two- and three-dimensional pieces, video, installation, interactive, and experimental works involving anarchic local counterculture rituals, nihilist esoterica, and a generally arcane aesthetic.
Submissions must be received by June 1, 2010. Please do not send packages that must be signed for upon delivery, or that must be picked up from the post office.
To submit, please send:
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(Please note: while we will review artist websites if you submit a link, we do not currently accept online file transfers such as DropBox or Box.net. Thank you for your flexibility.)
Please send materials to:
The Lab
Attn: Black Lab
2948 Sixteenth Street
San Francisco, CA 94103