Austin Poetry Society Museletter
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APS Monthly Meetings
All Monthly Meetings are normally 1:30-3:30pm in an Austin Public Library Branch on the 3rd Saturday. The May meeting is cancelled. Discussions are underway to move it to on-line. Let the MuseLetter editor or a board member know your preferred venue, e.g. Zoom, Skype Meeting, Google Meeting, WebEx, Facebook Messenger Rooms, etc.
- May 16 - possibly on-line
- September 19 - Carver, Rm. #1
- October 17 - Terrazas, Rm. #1
- November 21 - Hampton at Oak Hill
- December 19 - Old Quarry Branch
APS Open Mic Night
The May APS Open Mic is cancelled.
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Saturday Critique Group
The Critique Group will meet May 23, 1:30-3:30pm on-line via WebEx. E-mail your poem before hand to Beth Kropf (
elizabethrebeccakropf@gmail.com). Text “@apsmo” to the number 81010 to get reminder notifications and meeting ID.
All meetings are on a Saturday at 1:30-3:30pm
- June 6 - North Village Library
- July 25 - Old Quarry Library
- August 29 - North Village Library
- September 12 - NW Hills UMC
- October 3 - North Village Library
- November 14 - Millwood Library
- December 5 - North Village Library
APS Member Profile
None this month
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Poetry Contests and Calls for Submissions
Visions International is l
ooking for more poems for the Fall issue (#102). Send 3-6 unpublished poems, not submitted elsewhere. E-mail as Word/Doc attachments to
vias.poetry@gmail.com
. If you want more info check their web-site:
www.visionsi.com
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Black Lawrence Poetry Chapbook Contest is now open for submissions! Each s
pring and fall Black Lawrence Press will run the Black River Chapbook Competition for an unpublished chapbook of poems or prose between 16-36 pages in length. The prize is open to new, emerging, and established writers. The winner of this contest will receive book publication, a $500 cash award, and ten copies of the book. Prizes are awarded on publication. The deadline is May 31. Submit your manuscript to
Black Lawrence Press.
Alabama State Poetry Society Annual John and Miriam Morris Memorial Chapbook competition. Deadline: May 31. Detai
ls at
New Dawn Unlimited, scroll down to the announcement (in dark blue).
Omnidawn Poetry Chapbook Contest
Open to all writers: no expectations or limits
regarding the amount of poetry a writer has published. Winner receives $1,000, publication, and 100 copies. Accepting electronic & postal submissions
May 1 to June 15, 2020. Victoria Chang will judge. Details at
www.omnidawn.com/contest.
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Member Publication News
Maria X. Wells had three poems, "Memories in Silver”, “A poem about Poetry”, and “The Child”, included in the Austin International Poetry Festival anthology.
Janelle Curlin-Taylor
had "The Tree" accepted for the 2021
Texas Poetry Calendar.
Jeffrey Taylor
had "Where Home Is" accepted for the 2021
Texas Poetry Calendar
and "Sage Advice" accepted by the
California Quarterly.
Susan Rogers
had "Women & Power" accepted by
Nomad's Choir Poetry
for the 2022 issue. "The Pandemic of 2020" will be published by the
Williamson County Sun
in April or May. "When Enchantment Thins" will be published in
The Ocotillo Review
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"Not Us, but Time" will be published in
di-verse-city
2020, the anthology of the Austin International Poetry Festival.
She was interviewed by Janet Kuypers on the Texas Nafas program, Channel 16, Austin Public Access Cable about her book "In the Beginning: an Egg, a Mask, a Woman." It has been rescheduled for May 1 at 9:30 pm. If you are not in Austin, you can watch it live at
Austin Film Society Website
Benjamin Nash
had "Glue" and "Bus Driver" accepted by
Green Hills Literary Lantern
. He also had "Light Depressed" accepted by
Eclectica Magazine
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Michael Eaton
had
"Those Hidden Places and Other Poems" piblished in
Stonecrop,
spring 2019 issue.
Bradley Strahan
had a poem accepted by
Comstock Review
and "Cruelty" accepted by
Calliope
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Christa Pandey
has been busy administering the APS annual awards. The results are in and will be published mid-May, unless there can be a physical awards ceremony meeting to celebrate the winners.
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Poetry Aloud
April 18, 2020 on-line on ZOOM. E-mail Mike or Joyce Gullickson for meeting info.
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Attendees: Janelle Curlin-Taylor and Jeffrey Taylor, Sandi Horton, Thom Woodruff, Margie Roe
Sarah Webb, Geoffrey Hall, Mike and Joyce Gullickson, Jane Perdue
Kaye Abikhaled, Shubh Scheisser
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Hosts, please e-mail featured poets and schedule changes, including the first week of next month, to
musecarta@gmail.com
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The above calendar at publication time does not reflect the reality of the COVID-19 Stay Home, Stay Safe orders. All venues normally listed are shutdown. Some have already moved on-line and are listed below. I expect more to follow and will send out updates via e-mail and post on the
Austin Poetry Society's Facebook group
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Sunday, May 3, 3:30-5:30pm, Poetic License Open Mic hosted by Janet Kuypers on Facebook LIve. Search for "Janet Kuypers" to access.
Sunday, May 3, 7-10pm, Spoken & Heard
. Open Mic hosted by Thom the World Poet via Skype, E-mail Thom at
worldpoet@rocketmail.com
for details.
Sunday, May 10, 7-10pm, Spoken & Heard. Open Mic hosted by Thom the World Poet via Skype, E-mail Thom at
worldpoet@rocketmail.com for details.
Thursday, May 14, 7:15-9pm, BookWoman. Virtual (Zoom) poetry reading featuring with host Cindy Huyser, featuring Nicole Brogdon and Juliana Maldonado. Round-robin Open Mic follows. Details on
Bookwoman Website.
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Sunday, May 17, 7-10pm,
Spoken & Heard. Open Mic hosted by Thom the World Poet via Skype, E-mail Thom at
worldpoet@rocketmail.com for details.
Sunday, May 24, 7-10pm, Spoken & Heard. Open Mic hosted by Thom the World Poet via Skype, E-mail Thom at worldpoet@rocketmail.com for details.
Sunday, May 31, 7-10pm, Spoken & Heard. Open Mic hosted by Thom the World Poet via Skype, E-mail Thom at worldpoet@rocketmail.com for details.
Saturday, Junr 6, Poetry Aloud, open mic hosted by Mike and Joyce Gullickson on Zoom. Contact them for time and meeting ID (poetkind@yahoo.com or joycegullpoet@yahoo.com).
Sunday, June 7, 3:30-5:30pm, Poetic License. Open Mic hosted by
Janet Kuypers on Facebook LIve.
Sunday, June 7, 7-10pm, Spoken & Heard. Open Mic hosted by Thom the World Poet via Skype, E-mail
worldpoet@rocketmail.com for details.
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