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2010 Ruth Redel Poetry Prize

The Heartland Review has put out a call for submissions for the 2010 Ruth Redel Poetry Prize

First Prize – 250 dollars and publication in the fall 2010 issue of the The Heartland Review.

The Review asks for a tax-deductible 3 dollar contribution to support the contest and the publication. Please make checks out to The Heartland Review. Send a cover page with titles of poems, author’s name, address and a short biography (75 words, maximum.)

Names and addresses should NOT appear on the poems themselves. Poems should be typed and should be no longer than 30 lines.

Post mark deadline for entries is August 15, 2010.

Winners will be announced in October and invited to read at the Morrison Gallery Poetry Series.

Send a self-addressed stamped LEGAL size envelope in order to receive results.

Mail entries to:

Ruth Redel Poetry Contest
c/o Mick Kennedy
Elizabethtown Community and Technical College
600 College Street Rd
Elizabethtown KY 42701

Questions? Contact Mick.Kennedy@kctcs.edu

Kentucky Writers Day and other Stuff

The official celebration of Kentucky Writers Day, sponsored by the Kentucky Arts Council, takes place on April 23 at 10:00 a.m. in the rotunda of the Capitol Building in Frankfort. The event is free and open to the public. Featured readers will be current Kentucky Poet Laureate Gurney Norman and past Poets Laureate Jane Gentry Vance, Sena Jeter Naslund, Joe Survant and Richard Taylor. The first and second place winners of Kentucky’s Poetry Out Loud competition will also perform.

A reception will follow on the Capitol mezzanine. Wonderful chance to schmooze.

And I just discovered that KAC has a site featuring videos of Kentucky poets laureate reading at Kentucky Writers Day in years past, including some of James Baker Hall at what I believe was his final Writers Day reading after he was very ill. The same page has teacher’s resource materials for our laureates. A fine service from KAC.

The 14th Kentucky Writers Day Celebration at Historic Penn’s Store at Gravel Switch will take place on April 23, 24, 25. Follow this link for a schedule and this link for directions.

On April 21 at 7 p.m., The Heartland Review will present a reading by contributors to its annual Joy Bale Boone Prize issue, including first (E. Gail Chandler), second (Olga-Maria Cruz) and third-place (Libby Falk Jones) winners and this year’s judge, Leatha Kendrick. The reading will take place in the Morrison Gallery of the Administration Building. This event is free and opened to the public. Light refreshments will be served.

On Thursday, April 22, Hazard Community and Technical College is holding their 17th annual Evening with Poets (add a comma and that might make a nice painting “Evening, with Poets”) and celebration of Kudzu 2010. The evening begins at 6:30 p.m. in the Stephens Library on the HCTC Hazard campus. Jim Webb and Bianca Spriggs are featured readers. A little bird tells me that E. Gail Chandler won first place in the annual Kudzu poetry prize as well as in the Joy Bale Boone prize competition.

You’ll find an nterview with Dorothy Sutton at Public Republic, Charlie is My Darling. The Charlie of the old Scots ballad was Bonnie Prince Charlie, I think, but Dorothy has another Charlie in mind. Which one? Read the interview.

Vote For The 2010 Poet Laureate of the Blogosphere

This from The New Yorker: Can the iPad topple the Kindle, and save the book business?

I’m not sure how much I should rejoice when one monopoly trumps another. Because I don’t intend to buy a Kindle or an iPad and because I write poetry, books of which no one buys anyway, I’m not sure this cataclysm will cause much of a wave in my little backwater.

Announcements

Isn’t that a sterling blog post title?

I was thinking the other morning that, if I got to start over again with this blog, that I would just have numbered the posts. I would now be up to 3,239.

Oh well. Some things.

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Following Lance Mannion, here are some ways to help Haiti.

Doctors Without Borders
American Red Cross

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Mick Kennedy has asked us to remind everybody that they still have three days to get their submission in for The Heartland Review‘s 2010 Joy Bale Boone Prize. January 16 is a postmark deadline. Guidelines at the link. Leatha Kendrick is the judge this year.

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The Review has also put out a call for art.

The Heartland Review and Morrison Gallery at Elizabethtown Community and Technical College invite submissions of artwork for a juried exhibition. The theme for the 2010 show is inspired by the idea of “organic setting.” Over the last hundred years artists have continually turned to organic design as a response to the growing ubiquity of mass-produced, machine-made and computer-generated designs. For some, organic is an attempt to reevaluate what it means to be “modern. “ We welcome works of art of every media type and style that address the topic of organic, organic design or organic setting through one or more of the following themes:

• Nature
• Natural Materials
• The Body
• Responses to Modernity
• Identity
• Environmentalism
• Urbanism

The Heartland Review asks for a $10 contribution for up to six entries to support the journal and the contest/show. Artists may submit up to six pieces; however, all artwork must have been created in the last six months prior to submission. The deadline for submissions is 1 February 2010. Finalists will be selected by a committee composed of two professional artists, two Morrison Gallery representatives, and one representative from The Heartland Review.

The artwork of these finalists will be displayed in the Morrison Gallery at Elizabethtown Community and Technical College and be published in the 2010 spring/fall issues of The Heartland Review. The artwork which best depicts an “organic setting” will be awarded the 2010 spring issue’s cover and a $250 cash prize. The gallery exhibit will run from 5 April – 14 May 2010, with a reception to be held on Thursday, 15 April.

Interested individuals should submit:

• A digital image of their work to be considered (no larger than 300 dpi resolution)
• Full identification of the work (artist name, phone number, title, medium, dimension, and value)
• A short artist statement, no longer than one page in length
• $10 contribution, with checks made payable to “The Heartland Review”

Send submissions or questions via email to: Mick.Kennedy@KCTCS.edu or creynolds0077@kctcs.edu; please include “Heartland Art” in the email subject heading.

$10 contribution should be mailed to:

THR Art Exhibit, c/o Mick Kennedy
Elizabethtown Community and Technical College
600 College Street Road
Elizabethtown, KY 42701

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Speaking of Leatha Kendrick, don’t miss the opportunity to read her List Poem at the Public Republic.

Also new at the Public Republic, Katerina Stoykova-Klemer’s interview of Sheri Wright, “Poetry was a voice I didn’t know I had”.

Joy Bale Boone Prize 2010

Leatha Kendrick is the author of three volumes of poetry, the most recent one, Second Opinion (2008). She currently leads workshops in poetry and life writing at the Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning in Lexington, Kentucky, and directs their reading series, New Books by Great Writers. Leatha has also led workshops in writing and healing at regional and national conferences and has been a presenter at several of the Associated Writers and Writing Programs’ annual meetings. Her poems and essays appear widely in journals and anthologies including Listen Here: Women Writing in Appalachia; The Kentucky Anthology—Two Hundred Years of Writing in the Bluegrass State; and I to I: Life Writing by Kentucky Feminists. She co-edited Crossing Troublesome, Twenty-Five Years of the Appalachian Writers Workshop and wrote the script for a documentary film: A Lasting Thing for the World—The Photography of Doris Ulmann. The recipient of grants in both poetry and fiction from the Kentucky Arts Council and the Kentucky Foundation of Women, she is at work on a novel, entitled Leavings.

Guidelines:

• THR asks for a $10 contribution for up to 3 poems to support the contest and our journal. Please make checks out to The Heartland Review.
• Send a cover page with name, address, and a short biography (30 words maximum).
• Name and address should not appear on poems.
• Poems should be typed and no longer than 30 lines.
• Send a Self Addressed Stamped Legal-sized Envelope for results.

Mail entries to:

2010 Joy Bale Boone Poetry Prize
c/o Mick Kennedy
Elizabethtown Community & Technical College
600 College Street Road
Elizabethtown, KY 42701

Winners will be announced in April and invited to read at the Morrison Gallery Poetry Series Poetry Month Celebration

For more information e-mail: Mick.Kennedy@KCTCS.edu
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*in the event of a tie, prize money will be divided accordingly

The Heartland Review reading

Reading at the Gaines Center for The Heartland Review

I had me a some big fun at the reading last night. Mick Kennedy and Ted Higgs know how to put on a laid-back event. And let me tell you, if you don’t know these poets, I suggest you look ‘em up.

With Laurie MacKellar, we comprise the editorial board, poetry division, of The Heartland Review. I’m proud to be associated with this group and urge you to send us your best work.

(I’m not sure about the deer-in-the-headlights look in the photo. I look like I’m seeing some of the demons from my own poems.)

OCTOBER 22!! Mark your calendars for The Heartland Review‘s poetry reading at the University of Kentucky’s Gaines Center for the Humanities from 7:00-8.30pm, 232 E. Maxwell St. Featured readers are Scott Woodham, Yvonne Morris, Ted Higgs, David Harrity, Erin Keane and yours truly. The event is free and open to the public.

Sheesh! I forgot the date. Am I ditzy or what?

Shape of a Box #46

I’m delighted to point you to Shape of a Box #46. My favorite video mag now has its own web page and #46 features one of my favorite Kentucky poets and a fellow member of the Editorial Board for The Heartland Review, the one and only Erin Keane.

Erin has put together a fine video of some fine poems with help from Drew Zip. Go check it out.

First Annual Ruth Redel Poetry Prize

First Annual Ruth Redel Poetry Prize

First Prize – 200 dollars and publication in the fall issue of the Heartland Review

THR asks for a tax-deductible 3 dollar contribution to support the contest and the publication. Please make checks out to The Heartland Review.

Send a cover page with titles of poems, author’s name, address and a short biography (40 words, maximum.)

Names and addresses should NOT appear on the poems themselves.

Poems should be typed and should be no longer than 30 lines.

Post mark deadline for entries is August 1, 2009.

Winners will be announced in October and invited to read at the Morrison Gallery Poetry Series. Send a self-addressed stamped LEGAL size envelope in order to receive results. Mail entries to:

Ruth Redel Poetry Contest
c/o Mick Kennedy
Elizabethtown Community and Technical College
600 College Street Rd
Elizabethtown KY 42701

For more information, call 270-706-8407 or e-mail Mick.Kennedy@kctcs.edu