(Watch Marie Craven’s video of “The Convert” on Vimeo)
Editor’s note: the text of the Eric Burke poem “The Convert” and his bio can be read at The Poetry Storehouse or qarrtsiluni where the poem first appeared.
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Marie Craven is a media maker and musician from the Gold Coast, Australia. She has been engaged in online collaboration since 2007 and has contributed to works with artists in many different parts of the world. Website: pixieguts.com
nail art-
the guitarist’s fingers flash
the colors of Advent
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Dr. Angelee Deodhar, an eye surgeon by profession, is a haiku poet, translator and artist from India. Her haiku, haibun, and haiga have been published internationally in various books, journals and on the internet. Her work has been translated into many languages including Japanese, Croatian, Romanian, Russian, German, French, Serbian and several Indian languages. She considers haiku to be a medium for international friendship and peace.
The top stories today are hacking and theology. That would explain the relentless spiral of hallucinations in which the bones of your mother and father have been incorporated. Dammit! Why ask me how I am? You’re the one overwhelmed by electronic exposure to the rest of the world. A disturbed childhood with acne and big red hands follows you almost everywhere you go. It’s why I avoid lingering while you try to hang a fallen apple – is that a bite taken out of it? – back on the apple tree.
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All proceeds from Howie Good’s latest book of poetry, Fugitive Pieces (Right Hand Press), go to the Food Bank of the Hudson Valley. Visit Right Hand Pointing Books to learn more.
Let me tell you of the forest,
stories written in earth tongue
transmitted by mycelial mat.
Bare limbs severed,
raw splinters,
rib cages buried in moss.
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Michele S. Cornelius spent years chasing clouds on the back roads of the west, but is now settled in Southeast Alaska where she wanders in old-growth forests, admires the sea, and works to capture ephemeral bits of nature. Her website is michelescornelius.com.
This is the Official Call for Submissions for Issue 2 of Gnarled Oak, which will be starting in January.
Now that Issue 1 is complete, I can finally say, “Check out our back issue to see what we like.” And I do hope you check out Issue 1: Starting Small if you haven’t already. Please remember, though, that Issue 1 was focused on micropoetry while Issue 2 is wide open. I will consider micro works but I’m also interested in longer stuff as well.
I’m reading for Issue 2 through January 9, 2015. Please visit our Submissions page for more in-depth guidelines. I’m looking forward to seeing what comes this way, and I hope you’ll send something and help spread the word. Thank you.
Editor’s Note: When I started Gnarled Oak, I wrote on the Submissions page that I was looking for work that, among other things, “will inspire others to create.” Well, I am thrilled to learn that one of the poems from Issue 1 did just that. Erica Goss’s haiku “crows perched on wire” inspired Marie Craven (whose video “Belief in Unicorns” also appeared in Issue 1) to make this cool video “five seven five”…
Summary“Starting Small” (Nov-Dec 2014) is the inaugural issue of Gnarled Oak featuring micropoetry, microprose, short videos, and micropoetry-related artwork.
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fleeing sparrows — Angie Werren
gnarled oak — Patricia Geyer
The Names Change Every Time I Tell the Story — Aubrie Cox
crows perched on wire — Erica Goss
Belief in Unicorns — Marie Craven
Perfume — Mark Windham
ventilator machine — Archana Kapoor Nagpal
faultless hand sewn quilts — Vivienne Blake
luscious peach — Julie Bloss Kelsey
Six (Twenty Seconds of Haiku) — Angie Werren
Newton’s First Law of Motion — Aubrey Cox
eventide… — Shloka Shankar
on the belly — Marianne Paul
a wild sky — Debbie Strange
paddling sea kayaks — Robyn Cairns
morning fog — Angie Werren
Four Haiku — Kris Lindbeck
The Moving Walkway — Carolyn Guinzio
There is very little to say here at the end of this inaugural issue of Gnarled Oak other than “thank you.”
Thank you to everyone who submitted work and took a chance on this fledgling publication.
Thank you to everyone who read this issue, who shared it, liked it, commented, retweeted, favorited, pinned, reposted, and all those other ways of sharing the things we discover in the digital world.
It has been my honor and privilege to publish the pieces contained in this issue, from work by writers and artists I already knew and admired to others whose work was new to me.
Thank you, thank you, thank you, all. I hope you’re looking forward to Issue Two as much as I am.
–James Brush, Editor
(Watch “The Moving Walkway” on Youtube)
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Carolyn Guinzio is a poet, photographer and occasional filmmaker. Her books include Spoke & Dark (Red Hen, 2012), Quarry (Parlor, 2008), West Pullman (Bordighera, 2005) and the forthcoming Spine (Parlor, 2015). Find her online at http://carolynguinzio.tumblr.com/
Threesome …
they lie in bed together
petting the cat
quarreling sparrows
the old woman says a gray dove
is their mother
Bright wind
a white cloud of ibis
touch the earth
Green trees
and silver clouds
no poems but this
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Kris Lindbeck writes haiku etc on Twitter @krislindbeck & recently published in M.Kei’s Bright Stars, Skylark Tanka, & an essay on senryu in Simply Haiku.
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Angie Werren lives (and writes) in a tiny house in Ohio. Sometimes she takes pictures of things in the yard.
