In Protest: New Human Rights Poetry

 



http://bloomsburyfestival.org.uk/ai1ec_event/in-protest-new-human-rights-poetry/?instance_id=913

When:

October 20, 2013 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Where:

Senate House
Senate House
London,Greater London WC1E
UK

Literature Ministry of Communication Talks

The launch of In Protest: 150 Poems for Human Rights, a new anthology rooted in activism and calling for change. Join internationally renowned poet Ruth Padel, and publisher and philanthropist Sigrid Rausing, for readings including James Byrne, Chrissie Gittins and David Lee Morgan. Celebrate this inspiring book, and buy your specially discounted copy, on the Festival’s finale evening.

from Still Wishing To Be Ravens : Love Poem for Richard Brautigan 6.6.8

Love Poem for R.B.

Today I heard on the radio that Richard Brautigan

Killed himself last fall.

Then some girl who was 17 in 1970 read his Love Poem.

She said that her then lover was a DJ on a college

Station and had dedicated a recording of the poem

To her, over the air, before he disappeared in a

Californian direction.

Anyway, I don’t know where I was.

Maybe I was washing clothes or asleep even.

Maybe I was with Jenny or Eva or somebody.

I could a been drunk, or depressed

As if by some sort of intuition.

All I really know is that I’ll never know where I was

When he did it.

I wonder how he did it.

Maybe I should go down to the library look him

Up on the newspaper micro-film file?

Most likely I won’t though, the library is closed now

And I’m not sure I care that much anyway.

Besides it’s one of those details I’m sure will

Accidentally find its way to me.

It kinda pisses me off that he did it, I mean he

Wrote that Watermelon Sugar book, I read it years ago

When Mary gave it to me and I, 15 in 1970.

Watermelon Sugar and Mary my first lover go good together.

I don’t know about this suicide stuff though.

But maybe it’s nice not having to wake up alone with yourself

When you just don’t want to any more.

6/6/85

from: Still Wishing To be Ravens, new poems

by pd lyons

2009, Myo, Myo & Razooka

Winetown Castlepollard; Ireland

Why We Like Straight-Forward-Poetry

Why We Like Straight-Forward-Poetry

Subject: RE: [Straight Forward Poetry] Too early for blueberries

 

Dear pd lyons,
 

We love “Too early for blueberries” and would like to publish it in the next issue of Straight Forward Poetry.
Straight Forward retains the first North American rights, which revert upon publication to the author. We do retain work indefinitely in our archive in addition to the rights to anthologize your writing without compensation.

If you have made simultaneous submissions, please contact the other publication(s) immediately with your good news so that they may work with other authors (unless they take previously published work.)
While we would love to compensate you for your work, unfortunately we cannot. We will declare our love for your writing all over the internet, and we do nominate for Best of the Net and Pushcart awards every year.
Please respond to straightforwardpoetry@gmail.com with your comments and questions about this publication.

Thanks again.
Yours,
Straight Forward Poetry
http://straightforwardpoetry.wordpress.com/

Michael Mc Aloran new from Lapwing

https://sites.google.com/a/lapwingpublications.com/lapwing-store/michael-mc-alora




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why we like yes factory

why we like yes factory

Hey PD!
Sorry about the delay, we were totally overwhelmed with the number of submissions that came in. We’s like to publish As If The Rain. We aren’t asking for first rights, just the right to run your story in our digital magazine and feature it at the release party. We’re having the shindig in Brooklyn, NY on September 1st. We’ll send you an invitation mid-week if you agree.

The Yes Factory

http://www.theyesfactory.org/

Three Greys from Ravens by pd lyons

Three Greys

On the floor

Looking up

skylight

Shapes of blue

edge into disappeared.

Where the world ends

Does sky begin?

Faucet chromed

Pitted bright ‘n dark

Bumpy capitol C

Marks an asterisk tap

Turned

Brown sputter brown

Pop pop popping

Until clear n smooth

Soft morning

Bird song people

I cannot see walk

Hearing their voices

Dogs bark

 

for tedra l plane

Briefly
as everything is in this life
we shared slapstick
and manic
some
unforgettable
wonders
and still all those questions never to be answered
now knowing this
something quiet
peace descends
a lacy feel of breath
not deep
not in or out
but
there
.

morgan's good news

www.louisvillereview.org

 On Thu, 7/14/11, Louisville Review <LouisvilleReview@spalding.edu> wrote:

From: Louisville Review <LouisvilleReview@spalding.edu>
Subject: your poem in TLR
To: "mandplyons@yahoo.com" <mandplyons@yahoo.com>
Date: Thursday, July 14, 2011, 6:16 PM

Hello, Morgan,

 

We are delighted to publish your poems “Spring Day of Nature, ” “At the Beach” and “Magic” in the Fall 2011 issue of The Louisville Review!

 

Attached to this email is a contract that we will need you—or your parent/guardian if you are under 18—to sign and return to us. You can either fax it or mail it; address and fax number are below. We will also need a brief biographical statement of a few sentences. You can simply send that via email.

 

Please let me know if you have any further questions. We are pleased to publish such fine work!

 

 

Ellyn Lichvar

Assistant Managing Editor

The Louisville Review/Fleur-de-Lis Press

851 South 4th Street

Louisville, KY  40203

Phone: 502.585.9911 ext. 2777

Fax:     502.992.2409

www.louisvillereview.org

 

accepted by corner club press

accepted by the corner club press

Dear PD Lyons,
I am pleased to inform you that your poem “Canada” has been selected for publication in the The Corner Club Press.  Congratulations!  Our third issue will be published on July 15^th, 2011.  We encourage you to continue to submit your work to our magazine for future issues. Please send a brief bio to include with your work.
The Corner Club Press is a downloadable non-profit magazine in PDF format. We ask for first publication rights and the right to include your pieces in our future archives. We have nonexclusive rights to your pieces and ask that you let us either display, copy, publish, print, or distribute your work. We WILL NOT sell your work. Once you are published with us, you are free to do as you want with your work, and all rights will revert back to you in three months. The three month period will start the day of publication. If you decide to republish your piece elsewhere, please cite us as the publication and include our web address.
Thank you,

Daphne Maysonet

Poetry Editor

Thank you! please check out their excellent site here:

http://www.thecornerclubpress.com/