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CALL FOR POEMS JULY 31 - AUGUST 15 WILD GOOSE POETRY REVIEW

Wild Goose Poetry Review

Contemporary Poetry, Reviews, and Commentary

Submission Guidelines

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Submission Deadlines / Publication Dates
Summer 2010 July 31 / August 15
Fall 2010 October 31 / November 15
Winter 2011 January 31 / February 15
Spring 2011 April 31 / May 15
Summer 2011 July 31 / August 15
Fall 2011 October 31 / November 15

Submit 3-5 unpublished poems typed in the body of your email,
preferably in Times New Roman 12 pitch to
Scott Owens (asowens1@yahoo.com).

No simultaneous submissions, please. Our response time is
usually less than one month.

Submit no more than once per reading period.

Author retains all rights.

There is currently no compensation for published poems.

Looking for good contemporary poetry. No particular biases.
Enjoy humor, strong imagery, strong lines, narrative, lyric, etc.
Not a fan of abstraction, cliche, form for the sake of form,
shock for the sake of shock. As in any good poem, everything
should be purposeful. If accepted, I will request a 100-word
maximum comment on each poem. Choosing not to
submit a comment will not alter the acceptance decision.

Note from Nancy Simpson.

This is an On Line Poetry Magazine edited by Scott Owens 

that has published the poems of a number of my students: 

Karen Holmes, Carole Richard Thompson, Maren O. 

Mitchell and most recently Barbara Groce. You can 

read the entire issue on line. Read it and see 

if you have poems that will fit here. 

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ADVANCE PRAISE FOR LIVING ABOVE THE FROST LINE Posted today at Carolina Wren Press

Advance Praise for Living Above the Frost Line

“NANCY SIMPSON’S POEMS SPEAK WITH A VOICE that knows where it comes from, honoring that place and the web of relationships that exist within it. She can make the world shimmer in a single line. She can break your heart. She can sing. She does what a poet has to do, wake the reader into a fresh vision of reality.” —KATHRYN STRIPLING BYER, North Carolina Poet Laureate Emerita

“HARD-WON, SOMETIMES HARD-BITTEN, the poems of Living Above the Frost Line emerge from the page like daffodils from a snow bank: colorful, hardy and defiant. It is a privilege to be admitted into Nancy Simpson’s intense vision of the world, a pleasure to stand for a while in its light.” —FRED CHAPPELL, North Carolina Poet Laureate Emeritus

“LIVING ABOVE THE FROST LINE showcases the arc of a life lived richly and rendered in finely made poems of heartbreak—and beauty. Nancy Simpson possesses a wise world view grounded in and informed by the intricacies of place, offering all of us the great haven poetry can be in hands as capable as hers.” —CLAUDIA EMERSON, winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

“REPLETE WITH A QUIET WISDOM, Nancy Simpson’s poems are powerfully focused on the landscape and the people who inhabit this giving, fragile land she cherishes but cannot always protect. The poet wastes nothing as she trains her vision on both the ordinary and the sublime, ‘having learned the leaves of trees, /the language of ants, not much scares her.’ Nancy Simpson shows us how to learn to love and forgive the world in poems that are always wise and generous of heart.” —JUDITH ORTIZ COFER

“IN LIVING ABOVE THE FROSTLINE, Nancy Simpson takes us to the top of a Carolina mountain and gives us a clear lens through which to mark the seasons of a lifetime. These poems reflect the history of a place and the hardy people who know that ‘nothing is certain except death.’ Hardship and grief, yes, but also friendship, humor, compassion, and the electrifying power of imagination. Through image and insight, Simpson’s mountain becomes a sustaining force, and we rejoice in the parallel certainty of rebirth.” —JUDITH KITCHEN

NANCY SIMPSON’s poems have been published widely in journals such as Prairie Schooner, The Georgia Review, Tar River Poetry, The Southern Poetry Review and Kalliope. Her previous books are Across Water and Night Student. In 1991, she received the North Carolina Arts Council Writing Fellowship for Poetry. A longtime member of the North Carolina Writers Network, she co-founded Netwest to serve writers in the nine westernmost counties and Qualla Boundary. She founded the Clay County Arts Council Annual Poetry Contest for Middle School, High School and Adults. For the past fifteen years, she has worked to develop the Writing Program as Resident Writer at the John C. Campbell Folk School.

http://carolinawrenpress.org/?s=Nancy+Simpson

Nancy Simpson
Living Above the Frost Line: New and Selected Poems

ISBN 978-0-932112-61-3

Laureate Series (2010)

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