Poetika

Do you like poetry?

Do you love it?

Do you like it better than shopping?

Think Plath and Auden were your real parents?

Would your life be totally meaningless, worthless, hopeless and unbearable without it?

Do you dream of having your own poetry published so much so that you stay up late at night, night after night, writing your bestest poem ever?

Then you need PoetiKa!

JK

If you saw yourself in that intro, don't be shy about sending your work to Jerome and the other guy whose art you can see atop. The submission guidelines are here. There's also a Facebook group.

Poetika is Back!

You might remember a little poetry zine called Poetika which you could pick up, free of charge, some years back from the counter of Silverfish (and I suppose other venues). It was not much fancier than a flyer, a photocopied sheet folded to form four pages - but the writing, especially the poetry was very good, and it provided terrific encouragement to young writers . I first came across Jerome Kugan's poetry in Poetika, and I think it was where Sharanya first saw her work in print.

Now Poetika is back, about to grow into a more substantial publication, and Jerome is asking for submissions of fiction, short prose pieces and illustrations. The project has a blog.

The submission guidelines are:

Poetry
1. Subject matter, style, form open.
2. Not more than 30 lines.
3. Send 3 poems max per issue.

Fiction Prose
1. Subject matter, style, form open.
2. Not more than 400 words.
3. Send 1 prose piece per issue.

Illustrations
1. Subject matter, style open.
2. Black & white works preferred.
3. A4 size max.

How I wish I'd kept those early copies of Poetika! But never mind, because Jerome says the first of the new editions will be a reprint of the previous issues, with a brand new issue due to come out in June.