August 2, 2021

#6: Arizona Dream

Above image from HAD’s “I SAVED THIS POSTCARD TO SEND TO MY GRANDMA” by Hattie Jean Hayes.

The sign is taped to a post and weathered and tattered as it is, it would be easy to believe that it has been there for weeks. But this post is one that Gord walks past several times a day, every day, and he never saw the sign before now. Lost Lovebird, says the sign. Please Call. (“Signs and Wonders” by Sara O’Leary, Hobart)

ON BUFFALO BUFFALO BUFFALO THIS WEEK: the nightshades / Columbo Speech as Poem / ʻOumuamua / Newton’s Third Law / Hearing Their Names / Open Editing Availability for Subscribers / A Chat with David Byron Queen / and More

“Pheidippides, rise!”
— “L—O—N—G” by Julianne Neely, W&S Quarterly.

ZINE OF THE WEEK: Star Trek: Deep Space 9: A Two Player Zine.

OF NOTE/ELSEWHERE:

1. Words Without Borders Campus is looking to hire someone for an Education Fellowship. Learn more/apply here. (Deadline August 16th.)

2. The Midstream Reading Series — a live poetry reading series based in Minneapolis — is returning to in-person readings this month. Learn more here.

3. “Creative Time, New York City’s veteran and vanguard public arts presenter, seeks a Head of Storytelling to help shape and drive the organization’s public-facing communication.”

4. Mural Arts Philadelphia is accepting rolling applications for a “Visual Community Artist.”

5. “The Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow is offering a fellowship to a writer working on a short or long work of non-fiction focusing on how they (the writer or another) have managed, and continue to manage, their mental illness.”

6. Really Serious Literature is putting out a call for submissions. Check out the specifics and details here.

CAN I GET A SONG TO GO BEFORE THE WHITEWATER RAPIDS OF THE INTERNET COMES KNOCKING ON MY DOOR ONCE AGAIN?