Poetry Tips: Farewell Poems

I’ve noticed that some of my favorite websites are no longer “active” such as Read Write Poem. There are also friends who want to move away, relatives who I’ve lost touch with thanks to busy lives, etc. So that is the inspiration for this week’s idea of writing farewell poems. Maybe you are bidding farewell to a favorite restaurant, an old friend, a loved one who has passed, no matter how big or small, bidding farewell is part of life. Good luck to all who try it.

Please stop in next week…

Cerise Open Submissions

Cerise Press, an online journal, is currently seeking submissions and
has recently published the third issue:

http://www.cerisepress.com



Cerise Press, an international online journal based in the United
States and France, builds cross-cultural bridges by featuring artists
and writers in English and translations, with an emphasis on French
and Francophone works.

Cerise Press hopes to serve as a gathering force where imagination,
insight, and conversation express the evolving and shifting forms of
human experience.

Submissions in fiction, poetry, translations, art and photography are
considered year-round. For essays, interviews, or reviews, please
query first.

Please visit the guidelines: http://www.cerisepress.com/guidelines

For samples of previously published work, the current and past issues
are available online: http://www.cerisepress.com/

Good luck to all who submit, please drop by tomorrow for more Poetry Tips…

Poems Found by Poet Hound

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=238492
“Mr. Attila” by Carl Sandburg

http://www.righthandpointing.com/Issue15/kozlowsky.html
“Funeral” by Michael Kozlowsky


Also, Hosho McCreesh sent out an e-mail regarding their book, Sunlight at Midnight, Darkness at Noon, as it is the book’s one year anniversary and there are more copies for sale, this is what Hosho sent:

“Memorial Day is the 1 year anniversary of SUNLIGHT AT MIDNIGHT, DARKNESS AT NOON.

"1 year anniversary", you say, "that's a little self-indulgent"--yeah, that's true. But there will likley be a sale of the book (in case you're interested in picking one up)--and we made this really fun book trailer to boot...so, hope you all enjoy this!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAzCI_uV8QQ

Our deepest thanks go out to Kim, who delivered on the sound design!”

Get a copy if you haven’t already, it’s available for half price and it’s an excellent book. I interviewed both Hosho McCreesh and Christopher Cunningham about this book, check those interviews out here on Poet Hound at:
http://poethound.blogspot.com/search?q=sunlight+at+midnight


Thanks for clicking in, please drop in tomorrow for more Open Submissions…

Happy Memorial Day

Happy Memorial Day everyone! I'll have posts for Wed-Friday of this week so please drop in Wednesday. I'll be out of town this weekend so we'll see how posting goes for next week, in the meantime, enjoy the sunshine!