---------July Poetry: All-Literation Nation and Nearby-------------------


In the  "Nation":

[First Monday], July  2nd,  7pm:  Grey Court Poets,
      :Metuen Public Library
                 (read/review your poem, bring 12 copies)

[2nd tuesday]   ----Frost Hoot is taking July and August off

[3rd  Wednesday] ---- Fuerza is taking july/aug/sept off ....at least: stand by

 -----Haverhill River Bards:  I don't see any for July-------


[4th Sunday]  ----July 22, 2018
          10:30am--:  Merrimac Mic
             ----Merrimac, MA  Public Library (495N, Exit 52, ~2.6 mi, on R)

[4th Tues] ------ July 24th, 7pm: Tuesday4Poetry, performance-po + open-mic
             ----No.Andover Public Library

----------------NEARBY---------------------------

[3rd Sat]  July 21st , 2018
 Ipswich Poets at Zumis: open-mic
            ---Zumi's Expresso (+coffee+treats) 40 Market St, Ipswich

Powow River Poets Reading Series:
    looks like none in July or August, but they resume September 8th







----------------Announcements passed on from Isabell  VanMerlin---------------------------------------



Call for submission Persian Sugar in English Tea Volume III
The bilingual anthology of love poems
Deadline 7/3/18

I would like to invite my friends/poets who write their poems in English to submit 3-5 short poems (Max 25 lines) and/or 3-10 haiku or any other types of micro-poetry through the e-mail below. We are looking for love poems and going to choose up to three poems of each poet and translate it to Persian in a poetic way and the final anthology will be published bilingually. If a submission doesn’t follow the theme and instructions below, or contains erotica, violence, and profane language, it will be rejected immediately.
So if you are really interested in having your poems in one of the most beautiful languages around the world, please don’t exceed the deadline (July 3, 2018).

https://soodabehpoems.wordpress.com/2018/05/07/call-for-submission-persian-sugar-in-english-tea-volume-iii-the-bilingual-anthology-of-love-poems/

Rattle Persona Poems
Deadline 10/15/18

#62 – Spring 2019 – Persona Poems
Poetry: This issue will feature Persona Poems. The poems may be any subject, style, or length, but must be written in the voice of someone other than the poet. Most of our themes are identity-based, so we thought it would be fun to step outside of the autobiographical and write with the mask of other, whether that’s a person, animal, or inanimate object. A persona poem can be the height of imagination and empathy, and we wanted to pay tribute to the form. Please include a brief note about your use of persona along with your submission. If using Submittable, be sure to select the Persona Poems category.

https://www.rattle.com/submissions/calls/

--------------til the end of June------------------------

Since my jibber-jabber about the Summer Quatrain
filled the top of the blog, and this being after the Hoot and the big
Hyla Brook event,   the events in the rest of June bear repeating:

----------------in the all-literation nation---------------------

-----------[3rd Wed],  June 20th, 6-7:45: Fuerza, all open mic
             ----at: Lawrence Public Library    51 Lawrence St.

[4th Sun], June 24th, 10:30am--:  Merrimac Mic
             ----Merrimac, MA  Public Library (495N, Exit 52, ~2.6 mi, on R)

[4th Tue], June 26th, 7pm: Tuesday4Poetry, performance-po + open-mic
             ----No.Andover Public Library


----------------Additional Nearby Events in June-----------------

[3rd Sat], June 16th, 6pm:  Ipswich Poets at Zumis: open-mic
            ---Zumi's Expresso (+coffee+treats) 40 Market St, Ipswich



ALSO:     I still need to get together with the Quatrain winners/contributers...
    .....get your free binoculars while there's still plenty of Summer!
    You can see me at Fuerza, Merrimac Mic, or Tuesday4Poetry, or
    mail to frostnewsline@gmail.com   to sett up a transfer somewhere...


-----------------------more end-of-june stuff...political!.....from Pilar Quintana:

Poems of Justice and Joy: a Pop-Up Event of Christ Church United
www.wewelcomeall.org

Peuo Tuy is a Cambodian-American spoken word poet, hip-hop artist, and writing instructor. She recently moved to Lowell, but travels
nationwide to share her poetry and stories and help people heal and overcome their personal challenges through writing and self-empowerment. Peuo believes that words evoke our spirits and that our spirits guide us to personal liberation. Author of “Khmer Girl”
www.peuotuy.com

Steven Riel writes poems originated by dreams, places, images, objects, ideas, feelings, words, artworks, memories, and “the
 stuff of queer existence.” He is the author of one full-length collection of poetry, as well as three chapbooks, the most recent being Postcard from P-town, which was published as runner-up for the inaugural Robin Becker Chapbook Prize. His poems have appeared in several anthologies and numerous periodicals. Author of “Fellow Odd Fellow” www.stevenriel.com

Followed by Open Mic and Celebration
June 20, 7–9 pm
Upstairs at Worthen House Pub and Cafe
141 Worthen St. Lowell MA

----------All Aboard the 2018   All-Literation Quatro-Quatrain!!-----
Four Four-liners to add rich images to this lush Summer...

And don't forget...the last Frost Hoot til September is tomorrow,
Tuesday, June 12th, 7pm, at Cafe Azteca: Lawrence High, the Quatrain, Open Mic.


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2018  All-Literation Quatro-Quatrain

No binoculars needed to trace
diaphanous spider’s silk from the
hummingbird feeder around starburst clematis
transparently bonding as your heart to mine
                                                                                  ("Optics",  Gayle C. Heney)
Without you, the bumblebee sputters over to the rhododendron,
Saturn slings in its orbit, and morning glories blink purple at twilight.
So rest here awhile, make a pillow from your jacket­,
Lean into the cool grass waiting to hold you.
                                                                                ("Nature Quatrain"~Linda Flaherty Haltmaier)
Balmy breezes breathe upon brazen beach.
as harried herons harpoon hapless seas.
Goosenecked grazing on verdant frogs, they breach.
Perched with no egrets in life up to knees.                 
                                                                                ("Summer Quatrain"---Steven Sohigian)
Even the unbending
mountains occasionally
cast their shadows
on clouds.                                                                (UNTITLED,  Pilar Quintana)



Contributers/Awardees will each receive a carefully restored pair of
  mid-20th Century binoculars, from a time of unusual optical talent,
   with crisp, colorful, lush views on
      this with crisp, colorful, lush Summer...

I can't stop smiling.

--JK

------------------------All-Literation  "Nature Quatrain" contest!!----------

Know any nature-lovers? Are you one? Want to earn a nice
pair of binculars for the birds, deer, turkeys, squirrels, fishers, foxes, coyotes,
 gulls, eagles, drones, and other wildlife?

It's the All-Literation  "Nature Quatrain" contest!!
* Submit by email, to frostnewsline@gmail.com , by June 10, 2018
* Put Nature Quatrain in your email title...and your name after the poem..
* Poem to be:   4 lines , any style ,  a max. of 40 words
* Winners announced June 11th , 2018   (3 co-winners),
    shown in the frostnewsline.blogspot.com blog
    and winners get to arrange pick-up of an excellent pair of
    restored mid-20th-century binoculars (cleaned/re-oiled  inside and out)
*Should arrange to pick out or pick up at one of the events below
        (before the event).    There will be no mailing of packages.     

So....it's just 4 lines ..... entry is free .... go for it! 

Don't forget to look below for our June 2018 events..
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