online magazines:
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Exciting news from Jacket Magazine:
Jacket Magazine – exciting news from John Tranter and Al Filreis

Dear friends:

We are writing with news of a transition we both deem very exciting.

By the end of 2010, John Tranter and Pam Brown will have put out 40 issues of Jacket (jacketmagazine.com). It began in what John recalls as "a rash moment" in 1997 - an early all-online magazine, one of the earliest in the world of poetry and poetics, and quite rare for its consistency over the years. "The design is beautiful, the contents awesomely voluminous, the slant international modernist and experimental." (So said _The Guardian_.)

After issue 40, John will retire from thirteen years of intense every-single-day involvement with Jacket, and the entire archive of thousands of web pages will move intact to servers at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, where it will of course be available on the internet to everyone, for free, as always. But the magazine is not ceasing publication: quite the opposite.

Starting with the first issue in 2011, Jacket will have a new home, extra staff and a vigorous future as Jacket2. Jacket and its continuation, Jacket2, will be hosted by the Kelly Writers House and PennSound at the University of Pennsylvania.

The connection with PennSound, a vast and growing archive of audio recordings of poetry performance, discussion and criticism, is seen as a valuable additional facet of the new magazine, as is the relationship with busy Kelly Writers House, a lively venue for day-to-day poetic interchange of all kinds. The synergy in this three-way relationship has great potential.

Al will become Publisher and Jessica Lowenthal, Director of the Writers House, will be Associate Publisher. The new Editor will be Michael S. Hennessey (currently Managing Editor of PennSound) and the new Managing Editor will be Julia Bloch. John will be available as Founding Editor, and Pam will continue as Associate Editor.

More news about Jacket2 in the weeks and months to come. Meantime, the Jacket2 folks extend gratitude -- as many in the world of poetics do -- to John and to Pam Brown for the extraordinary work they've done. And John, for his part, is mightily pleased that Jacket will be preserved and will continue and grow in a somewhat new mode but with a continuous mission and approach.

John Tranter & Al Filreis
http://jackemagazine.com

Informative links:

The University of Pennsylvania: http://www.upenn.edu/

Al Filreis: http://writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/
http://writing.upenn.edu/

Kelly Writers House: http://www.writing.upenn.edu/wh/
3805 Locust Walk, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA: tel: 215-746-POEM

Kelly Writers House Director: Jessica Lowenthal: http://writing.upenn.edu/wh/people/staff/

Michael S. Hennessey: http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Hennessey.php

Julia Bloch: http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Bloch.php

Pam Brown: http://thedeletions.blogspot.com/

John Tranter: http://johntranter.com/

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Jacket Magazine- Jacket Magazine – Number 38 now available.

- Message from Editor, John Tranter and Assoc. Editor, Pam Brown...Announcing Jacket 38 -- Late 2009:

http://jacketmagazine.com/38/index.shtml

Jonathan Williams -- Niedecker -- H.D. -- Blaser -- Dorn -- Geoffrey Hill -- Bei Dao

A free internet literary magazine

Interviews -- Reviews -- Articles -- Poems

Editor: John Tranter :::::: Associate Editor: Pam Brown

Writers previously published in Jacket (only) may submit material. They only have time to read for Jacket in June, July and January: please don't send material out of season.

"You were talking of continuing fashions and of course you see these periods come and go. If you lived through the Leavis era, you'd know what it was like for a whole doctrine of literature to be created, defended and lost. There are very few Leavisites now, as you know.
There was a time when every grammar school had a Leavisite English master." -- Frank Kermode, 2009, in conversation with Tom Bailey, in The Literateur

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Folk Odyssey – The Magazine

http://www.folkclub.com/folkodyssey/

As you browse Folk Odyssey – the Magazine you will discover that several sections offer an invitation for you to contribute your work to this enterprise.

You may do this in the form of
-a Letter to the Editor,
-an article for Features,
-information for Event Horizon,
-photographs for FolkShot Gallery,
-poetry
-autobiography for Poet in Profile
-a story for StoryBoard.

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New online publishing space from Island Magazine : Islet: a free online journal of micro works from emerging writers and visual artists.

Call for submissions
An initiative developed and supported by Island magazine.
Islet is a new online companion to Island magazine's existing print journal, and will publish a free quarterly collection of works by emerging writers and visual artists.
Islet accepts poetry, fiction, and reviews, with size the only limitation: we are committed to publishing small works.

Maximum lengths: poetry -- 25 lines; fiction -- 600 words; reviews -- 400 words.

Our pay rates are $50 per poem and $75 per prose work (fiction or review).

For submissions or more information, contact the editor at islet.online@utas.edu.au .
Until the website is live, detailed submission guidelines will be temporarily available, from the end of October, at http://www.islandmag.com
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A new web anthology saunters the sand with some of Australia’s leading poets.
Guide to Sydney Beaches - http://sydneybeaches.tripod.com/guide.htm - is aimed at an audience that may not normally access this artform.
This is a driftwood concept – people seeking information about a certain beach stumble across this collection & discover fine Aust poetry. 20 great beaches, 30 superb poets. Hit numbers indicate it is already a huge success. This will increase as we move into Spring.
The anthology is from Meuse Press, edited by Les Wicks.

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Mascara - an online journal especially interested in the work of contemporary Australasian and Indigenous poets.
http://www.mascarapoetry.com/

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Stylus - a bi-monthly eZine which publishes poetry and haiku and its related forms.
www.styluspoetryjournal.com

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Overland - founded in 1954 under the editorship of Stephen Murray-Smith, Overland sees the publication and advancement of new and marginal writers as part of its charter.
http://www.overlandexpress.org/

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Thylazine - an online literary and arts journal that focuses on Australian artists, writers, musicians, photographers, performers and other creative practitioners, with a strong emphasis on indigenous Australian culture.
http://www.thylazine.org/

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Cordite Poetry Review - writing haikus, snryus or other ultra-short poems?
Submissions are now open for the 31st issue of Cordite – EPIC. Details available at http://www.cordite.org.au/

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hutt - an irregular poetry eZine from papertiger media.
http://www.papertigermedia.com/hutt/

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PressPress Chapbook Award winner 2009, WA writer Scott-Patrick Mitchell - songs for the ordinary mass is available now online from www.presspress.com.au
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From PU member and WA poet Janet Jackson
-“I have put 14 new poems online at Proximity"
lostpoetjj@gmail.com
www.proximitypoetry.com (Poetry)
www.myspace.com/poetjj (Includes occasional arts & culture blog)
Perth Poetry Club: www.perthpoetryclub.com

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The Inaugural Basil Bunting Poetry Award - from the UK
Full details can be seen on the web site:
www.basilbuntingaward.co.uk
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Dotdotdash -
To submit visit http://.dotdotdash.org/

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