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BEST PRIZE Chapbook Contest for POC Poets
Mark Cugini’s press Big Lucks Books is running a chapbook contest for POC poets. The prize is $100 and there is no entry fee. Submissions are open today, so if you wanna submit, you can do that right...
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N!P 2015 Pushcart Prize Nominations
Here at Nostrovia! Poetry, we absolutely love our writers and want to promote them any way we can! As such, we’re excited to share our Pushcart Prize nominations from our 2015 Chapbook Contest: Bob...
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Three Poems – Meg Eden
I am Linwood Eden or Current Resident I am Linwood Eden, or Current Resident. I am “& May”, the appendage afterthought for extended family. I am that girl getting married. I am the Only Child,...
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You’re invited into August’s conceptual garden
“Bird Lizard Horse“, August Smith Reviewed by Elizabeth Mobley “August Smith’s garden isn’t empty as he proclaims in the first poem of the collection. It’s overgrown with sardonic humor, ripe with...
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Three Poems – Lucille Gelsomina Falco
Pixie her name is censored she runs with the lame deer rusted joints cause her to shriek through the bark of her lean-to her corneas diluted yellowed with gasoline with a crude oil vocabulary and...
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Three Poems – Patricia Smith
I recently read Patricia Smith‘s Teahouse of the Almighty, a 2005 National Poetry Series selection. I had read a handful of her poems prior to this / watched some of her performances on YouTube, but...
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Hollie McNish Speaks to the Guardian About Motherhood Poetry
by Emma Cook Poet Hollie McNish felt she wasn’t ready to be a mother when she got pregnant at 26, six years ago. She is also a poet who has channeled her feelings about parenthood into verse”...
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N!P Updates! (F.A.L.D. + 2016 Chapbook Contest)
GREETINGS, friends! Our submission period closed last week for F.A.L.D. #012, and we wanted to thank all sixty of you for trusting us with your wonderful work!! We were so excited to see how each of...
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2016 Chapbook Contest: Week 1 Review
Friends! We’d like to extend a tremendous thank you to everyone who submitted their work to this year’s Chapbook Contest!! Though we were blown away last year to see 80 submissions in our inbox, 2016’s...
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2016 Chapbook Contest: Week 2 Review
Friends! Firstly, thanks so much for the nice words regarding last week’s post—I’m glad to see people are interested in getting more behind-the-scenes info as our N! gears turn! This last week can be...
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2016 Chapbook Contest: Week 3 Review (finalists)
Friends! Today is a big day, and I’m quite excited to share all the news!! Reading, Continued! Since last week, Jeremiah and I kept working our way through your many MSS, taking notes in our managing...
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2016 Chapbook Contest: Week 4 Review (winners!!!)
Friends, today is one of the biggest celebrations of the year for Nostrovia! Press, and I’m thrilled to share all the news! Judging Finalists As we’d been doing since Tuesday, Jeremiah and I kept...
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2016 Chapbook Contest: Week 5 Review (finalist feature)
Hi friends! Got some quick updates regarding the editing process (starting things up with our three winners), then a cool announcement! Initial Editing As of now, I’ve received updated versions of all...
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2016 Chapbook Contest: Week 6 Review
Hi friends! Small update this week, as we’re chugging along through the editing process Editing, Continued This last week I began hearing back from the writers, getting feedback on my first wave of...
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“Some Things You Need to Know Before Dating Me”– Jamie Mortara
Too many people have claimed they can read me like a book and then they went and put me on a shelf.” Jamie Mortara performing during the Button Poetry/YesYes Books showcase at AWP 2016 in Los Angeles.
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The Goddess by Francesca Kritikos
The Goddess i’m no beauty but i’m prettier than your wife and she won’t bite your lips like i do so it hurts more than it feels good but you keep letting it happen you always keep letting me happen...
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Compulsive Liar by Jackson Nieuwland
Compulsive Liar I am a compulsive liar. The previous sentence is a lie. The previous sentence is a lie. I told my first lie before I was even born. They did a scan and I told them I was a boy. I...
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[N!P Interviews Marshall Harris for FALD #012]
In his submission to F.A.L.D. #012, Marshall Harris wowed N!P with the depth of his passion—for not only poetry, but for athletics, Boise itself, and its people. Whether talking about Idaho’s many...
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Christopher Morgan reads “Georgia”
Originally posted on Dirty Chai: In April of this year, Sam, C.M. and I spent a few days in Los Angeles during the AWP conference. While we were in L.A., we had the opportunity grab lunch and spend a...
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2016 Chapbook Contest: Week 7 Review
Hi everyone! I haven’t posted in a few weeks since I haven’t had many cool updates, and I didn’t want to repeat myself over and over (yet ANOTHER week of line edits, etc) but as we approach the end of...
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