World Poetry Day!!

Here at Indiana Review, we are all wearing party hats, neon pants, and flashy gold earrings to celebrate World Poetry Day.

We also are handing out and hanging up our posters for our upcoming poetry reading! Yay! We are so excited. If you haven't heard about it yet, check it out: The details are on our website and on facebook. Yup! Erika Meitner, Steve Scafidi, and Curtis Bauer are coming here to read & to celebrate on Friday March 25.

Coincidentally, March 25 also ends our Poetry Contest -- so as fun as dancing in neon pants is in celebration of World Poetry day, sit down an minute and submit online or via the snail mail to our prize. Give us a chance to read your work, give yourself a chance to win $1000 and publication. Details Here.

Then dance some more.

Countdown to the Blue Light Reading Series!

Readers,

 Fourteen days until the first (and what is hopefully annual) Blue Light Reading Series featuring Steve Scafidi, Erika Meitner, and Curtis Bauer. Hope to see you there!

-Kurian

I'd read it.

Surely you've seen this strip plastered everywhere on the internet -- from Hark, a vagrant #263 by Kate Beaton. I think the Austen sequel/revision trend has gotten stale by now, but this is still priceless. (The Gatsbys are great, too.) I wanted to take this opportunity to say that we at IR are always looking for art. Right now we're particularly interested in the literary comic sort! Have you any for us?

dk

Oscars and Other Awards

It's true. I watched the Oscars last night with some friends, admiring the purple frocks and pretty people in my hometown sunshine, while I listened to the rumble of thunder outside and read from the New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics on Alliterative Verse.

Wouldn't it be fun(ny) if several industries held such grand events, red carpet, televised awards shows for third grade teachers, or fire fighters, or IRS agents, or acrobatic dogs. Oh wait, the dogs have one. But still, what if instead of America's Next Top Model, Tyra went searching for America's Next Top Poet. What if next year's reality show like Top Chef were based in a writer's workshop? It's funny to imagine what footage they could take: a writer at her desk. Close up on her pen--does she prefer ball point or felt tip?

Even though most writers don't often get to borrow diamonds and designer tuxes, we have our own glitz and glam. Our own celebrities and awards. And I'm pretty okay with the fact we don't need to walk around in five inch sparkly heels. Not that there is anything wrong with sparkles or heels.

If you got to nominate a writer for an Oscar, who would you choose? For what category? I think I'd nominate Daniel Nester (featured in 31.1) for Most Twitterrific.

Alessandra

2011 Poetry Prize

Dear Readers,

There is only a month left to submit to the 2011 Indiana Review Poetry Prize. This year's contest will be judged by the brilliant Marie Howe. So please click on the link below and send your submissions.

Here is a handy stepsheet:

a) Write a poem (or up to three).
b) Go on our website and click on submissions.
c) Read guidelines.
d) Decide if you want to submit online or by mail.
d) Submit!!!
e) Pat yourself on the back for a job well done!


The winner of our contest will receive $1000 and publication in Indiana Review. In addition to being considered for publication, all entrants will receive a year's subscription. Postmark deadline is March 25, 2011.


Click for Guidelines

-Kurian

Matthew Siegel on the Bluecast

Dear readers,

For this new addition of the Indiana Review Bluecast, we are pleased to bring you Matthew Siegel reading two poems of his poems, "For Brian, 13, Who Sleeps Through Li-Young Li" and "At the Vietnamese Massage Parlor," which will be featured in issue 33.1 Summer 2011.

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Listen and enjoy!

-Keith

Nowhere

Somewhere in my internet travels, I stumbled upon this online publication of travel stories, where the interplay between prose and visual artifact is intriguing:

There’s no reason for this journal. No hidden agenda here. Nowhere is a place between places, an imagined depot for stories from the road. We collect found experiences through writing, art, video and sound then illustrate them with objects brought back from the field.

Check it out!

--dk