INSIGHTS INTO HOW EDITORS AND JUDGES THINK
We've just posted our new editorial features for the spring quarter, including:

Interview with Robert Stewart
Editor of New Letters
Established in 1934 as The University Review under the auspices of the University of Kansas City (now part of the University of Missouri system), New Letters adopted its current name in 1971. Authors published in this venerable magazine have included May Sarton, J.D. Salinger, Marianne Moore, Joyce Carol Oates, Tess Gallagher and Richard Wright.

Since 1986, New Letters has offered three prestigious annual literary awards, each with a $1,500 prize and a deadline of May 18, 2007: the New Letters Prize for Poetry, the Dorothy Churchill Cappon Prize for the Essay, and the Alexander Patterson Cappon Prize for Fiction. Past winners and judges are listed on their website.

"Robert Frost said that the study of literature is one of the few areas in life where one is asked to exercise taste and judgment. My taste runs toward fiction, poetry, and essays that care about the emotional and spiritual dilemmas of human beings. That statement will suggest to some readers here that we want conventional sentiment, which is out of the question. We want eccentric and innovative writing. However, I notice a tremendous amount of published writing in journals that falls more toward the so-called lyric essay, language poetry, or postmodern fiction. The truth is, I like all of that in principle; but I need to see how it matters on a human level. If it seems like mere typographic game playing, or word games, I respond less well to it. "

Sign up for Poetry Contest Insider today for the complete interview.

Want first hand, detailed information about entering writing contests? The site Winning Writers is an increasingly popular resource.

Visitors may opt for a free registration to receive the e-newsletter, access to The Best Free Poetry Contests database, and a chance to submit poems for critique in the e-newsletter. A modest fee of $6.95 for three months adds The Poetry Contest Insider database, in-depth editorial content like interviews with contest judges and links to poems that have won prizes, and guidelines for contests that charge fees.

The site also includes information about prose contests...

[Adam] Cohen: One of the major objectives of our contest database is to help give authors the information they need to decide which contests are right for them. To sift through 750+ contests can seem daunting. We try to make this process as speedy, painless and effective as possible through our search mechanism, our detailed contest profiles, our contest rankings and our links to the work of winners and judges. Besides helping authors pick contests, we also hope that our presenting a large array of prize-winning work—a feast of great contemporary writing—will be enjoyable and instructive in itself.

The Colrain Poetry Manuscript Conference
Next conference: May 4-7
The Colrain Poetry Manuscript Conference provides the faculty, connections, and method necessary to set poets with a completed manuscript or manuscript-in-process on a path towards publication. Includes workshops, consultations with press editors, evening poetry readings, editorial panel Q&A, group critique of selected poems, and an after-conference strategy session.

Faculty for 2007 include editors and publishers Martha Rhodes (Four Way Books), Jeffrey Levine (Tupelo Press), Jeffrey Shotts (Graywolf Press), Michael Simms (Autumn House Press) and others; workshop leaders include Director of the Concord Poetry Center, Joan Houlihan, Suffolk University Creative Writing Program Director Frederick Marchant, Director of the Smith Poetry Center, Ellen Dore Watson, and Chair of the Writing and Publishing Department at Emerson College in Boston, Daniel Tobin.

The cost of the May conference is $795, and includes tuition, pre-conference materials, lodging and meals. The May conference takes place in Colrain, a country town in Western Massachusetts, at the unique and magical Round House. For an application and complete guidelines, please visit concordpoetry.org/Colrain. You may also call 978-897-0054, email cpc@concordpoetry.org or write to Colrain Poetry Manuscript Conference, Concord Poetry Center, 40 Stow Street, Concord, MA 01742-2418.



Closing Next Month
Don't Miss the 3rd Annual Skysaje Enterprises Poetry Contest
Entries must be received by April 30
Our third annual poetry contest closes next month! Don't miss your chance at the guaranteed $100 grand prize! All styles accepted! Both published and unpublished work welcome. Submit up to 5 poems per entry. Multiple entries accepted! Please include a $5 reading fee with each entry. Someone will win—why not you? Last year's winner was Arthur "Old Gold" Aoereste of Rochester, New York. Enter this year's contest now!

Make your entry fee payable to L. Berger and mail to:
Skysaje Enterprises
50 Amesbury Road
Rochester, NY 14623-5314

Don't wait. Your entry must be received by April 30 to be eligible to win.



The City of Derby Short Story and Poetry Competition 2007
Entries must be received by May 31
An annual UK competition based in the historic city of Derby in England invites writers of all ages and nationalities to submit short stories of less than 5,000 words and poems of no more than 40 lines. First prize £350, second prize £250, third prize £150 in each category. This year's short story judge is author Martin Goodman, and the poetry judge is accomplished poet and academic Jane Draycott. Entries should be either submitted online (PayPal and credit cards accepted) or mailed, with a reading fee of £3. See the competition website for further information at www.cityofderbywritingcompetition.org.uk. Postal address: The City of Derby Short Story and Poetry Competition 2007, P.O. Box 7065, Derby DE1 OAD, United Kingdom.



New Chapbook Contest - hotmetalpress
Postmark Deadline: May 31
Hotmetalpress is embarking on an exciting adventure for us as editors and you as writers. We would like to introduce our first Chapbook Prize Competition. The winner will receive $300 and twenty free copies. We envision the chapbook as a palpable work of art in itself. Our printer is FootHills Publishing which is known for its handset press and hand stitched binding. Our illustrator is Florin Mihai whose beautiful work appears in our Winter 2007 issue. Martin Willitts, Jr. will be editor of the chapbook with a final review by Carolina.

Because of the high quality of this chapbook we request a reading fee of $20, payable to "hotmetalpress", which will include a copy (perhaps signed) of the winning chapbook sent to all entrants. To enter please send a manuscript of 25 to 30 pages. Include a cover page with title and table of contents. On another page include your name, address, phone number and email address. Also include titles of journals which have previously printed the included poems and a personalized bio which should express your poetic vision. And, of course, a photo. Manuscripts will not be returned. Mail a clean copy of all materials to: Martin Willitts, Jr., Attn: Chapbook Prize Competition, P.O. Box 4322, Rome, NY 13442. Questions? Please email hotmetalpress@hotmail.com.



The Litchfield Review First Annual Book Contest
Postmark Deadline: June 1
Judges
Editors of The Litchfield Review
Categories
Fiction, Drama, Nonfiction, Short Story Collection, Poetry Collection
Entry Fee
$25.00 each book-length manuscript

Submission Guidelines
Open to all writers.
Send one copy of your manuscript to:
The Litchfield Review
7 Bonna Street
Beacon Falls, CT 06403
Manuscripts must be accompanied by a title page with complete contact information. Manuscripts must be accompanied by a business-size self-addressed stamped envelope (SASE) for contest results. Manuscripts will not be returned.

Awards
Winner in each category will receive a $500 Honorarium, publication by The Litchfield Review with a royalty contract, and ten copies of the published book. Winners will be announced in August 2007. The Litchfield Review reserves the right not to choose a winner in a category in case of insufficient submissions; in that event, reading fees in that category will be returned.

For more information and news about our ongoing writing contests, please check our website www.thelitchfieldreview.com or contact Theresa C. Vara-Dannen.



Opening Today!
OpenMikeCafe.com and TJMFPublishing.com—A new online community
Calling Card Poetry Contest for Spoken Poems
OpenMikeCafe.com and TJMFPublishing.com are a new online community offering the opportunity for unique interaction between writers and publishers. We offer insight, frank discussion, a workshop atmosphere, publishing and an online presence for authors and their books. Members will be able to post work for discussion or pose questions for staff editors.

Be among the first to explore these new sites, opening today, March 15. You may find some construction workers walking about—but we're accepting new members now. Membership is free, suggestions are welcome and the door is open.

Does your poetry come alive when spoken aloud? TJMF Publishing announces its first poetry contest, a co-sponsored event—Calling Card Poetry Contest. Submit short audio recordings via email by September 3. One prize of $250 and three prizes of $50 will be awarded. Winners will receive online publication of their audio recording (hear samples) and promotional links to their work. Reading fee: $6 per entry. See the complete guidelines.

Need help making an audio recording? Try an inexpensive service like audblog. Choose audblog to email to have a link to your recording sent to your email address, then read your poem into the phone. Audblog makes an mp3 file from your recording. You can then submit the link to this recording as your Calling Card contest entry.



11th Annual Robert Frost Foundation Annual Poetry Award
Postmark/Email Submission Deadline: September 15
The Robert Frost Foundation welcomes poems in the spirit of Robert Frost for its 11th Annual Award. The winner will receive $1,000 and an invitation to present the winning poem at the Frost Festival located at Lawrence Riverfront Park (off I-93, River Road Exit) in Lawrence, Massachusetts on Saturday, October 27, 2007. Festival readers will include X.J. Kennedy, Rhina Espaillat, Jeffrey Harrison and others.

Please submit two copies of each poem, one copy with contact information and one copy free of all identifying information. Mailing address: Robert Frost Foundation, Lawrence Library - 3rd Floor, 51 Lawrence Street, Lawrence, MA 01841. Email submissions are also accepted at frostfoundation@comcast.net. Reading fees are $10 per poem (send fees via regular mail, please). Read last year's winning poem and this year's guidelines at www.frostfoundation.org. Enjoy this Google video of 2006 winner Rob Smith delivering his poem (4 min 23 sec):



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SELECTED FREE PROSE CONTESTS

These free prose contests with deadlines between March 16 and April 30 are included as a bonus in The Best Free Poetry Contests.

Click the contest names below to go straight to their profiles, or login to The Best Free Poetry Contests here. After you login, please click the Find Free Contests link, then search by Prose Contest Type to find prose contests.

3/20: Anthem Essay Contest for High School Students +++
Highly recommended free contest for 9th and 10th graders offers top prize of $2,000, other large prizes, for essays on Ayn Rand's novella Anthem. See website for essay topics and background on Rand's rationalist, libertarian worldview. Length limit is 600-1,200 words.

3/31: L. Ron Hubbard's Writers of the Future Contest +++
Highly recommended free contest for emerging writers of short science fiction, fantasy and horror offers quarterly prizes of $1,000 plus an annual $4,000 grand prize for one of the four winners. Send only one story per quarter, maximum 17,000 words. See website for eligibility rules. Entrants may not have professionally published a novel or short novel, or more than one novelette, or more than three short stories, in any medium.

3/31: Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz Award +++
Entries must be received by this date
Highly recommended free contest offers $10,000 for a novel first published in Spanish after 2005 by a female author. Winner also receives publication in English by Curbstone Press, and travel expenses to the award ceremony at the Guadalajara International Book Fair in Mexico. Send 6 copies of the published Spanish-language book, a curriculum vitae, and copies of any reviews that the book received. Contact David Unger for details.

3/31: The Nation Student Writing Contest ++
Entries must be received by this date
Free recommended essay contest for US high school and college students offers top prize of $500 and publication in The Nation, a prominent left-wing political and cultural magazine. Send one essay, maximum 800 words, about the issue that you think is most important to your generation. Enter by email or fax only.

4/15: Wild Blue Yonder Short Fiction Contest ++
Recommended free bimonthly contest for stories on selected themes includes $250, publication in Frontier Airlines' in-flight magazine, and free online or in-person writing workshop from Lighthouse Writers, a Denver-based literary group. Stories should be 2,500 words maximum. See website for other thematic restrictions. Enter by mail or email.

4/25: Fountainhead Essay Contest for High School Students +++
Highly recommended free contest for high school students (11th and 12th grade) offers $10,000 top prize, other large prizes, for essays on Ayn Rand's novel The Fountainhead. Essays should be based on one of the three questions on the website, and be 800-1,600 words long. Enter by mail or online. Contest is looking for entries that are sympathetic to Rand's rationalist, libertarian philosophy. See website for other student contests.


Login to The Best Free Poetry Contests now to view these and all our profiles of free contests.

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All deadlines are postmark deadlines unless otherwise specified.


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CALLS FOR SUBMISSIONS

Women in Judaism
Rolling Deadline
Women in Judaism: A Multidisciplinary Journal is an online academic journal that explores gender issues in Judaism. The journal has now begun accepting submissions of poetry, short stories, short plays, and novel excerpts. Submit manuscripts and queries by email only to Dina Ripsman Eylon, editor-in-chief. "We're seeking relevant works dealing with Jewish and/or spiritual issues, not exclusively but preferably on women's issues. We like original, experimental, poignant, provocative, political, personal and daring pieces. We like to test boundaries, set trends, and most importantly, encourage innovation. We don't like poems about the weather and/or nature."

Young American Poetry Digest
Postmark Deadline: March 16
The National Schools Project invites teachers to submit poems by US elementary and secondary school students for inclusion in an annual anthology. Each participating school receives a free copy of the book. There are also awards of $100 and $50 for the schools with the most student poems accepted. Entries should be 80 words maximum.


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NEW LITERARY RESOURCES

CipherJournal
Online journal of literary translation seeks creative approaches to poetry and prose by classic and contemporary authors. The editors say: "We believe in the place of translation to inspire stronger literature; without cross-fertilization, no growth can last. We aim to focus on literary translation in its broadest sense, cracking open this often-neglected field by melding the invisibility of the translator with the identity of the artist. We will achieve this by publishing creative works of art & literature that call attention to the process of translation. We will also include reviews of translated literature—both new and old—with a special emphasis on the merits of the translation."

Documatica Forms: Publishing & Copyright Agreement
Online store for legal forms offers this simple publishing contract for free.

How To Do It Frugally
Website of Carolyn Howard-Johnson, award-winning author of The Frugal Book Promoter and The Frugal Editor, contains a wealth of advice for writers and publishers on how to generate publicity for their titles on a limited budget.

LanguageandCulture.net
Online literary journal publishes original poetry and translations from Spanish, French, German, Russian, Italian and the Slavic languages.

M. Miriam Herrera
These mystical, earthy poems from Herrera's collection Kaddish for Columbus (currently seeking a publisher) juxtapose images and folklore from many cultures—Native American, Jewish, Chicano—to explore the ambiguity of multiple identities.

New Letters
Publishing for over 70 years, this prestigious literary quarterly from the University of Missouri-Kansas City features a broad spectrum of poetry, fiction and essays by emerging and established writers. Past contributors have included May Sarton, J.D. Salinger, Marianne Moore, Joyce Carol Oates, Tess Gallagher and Richard Wright. See their website for audio archives from their radio program, New Letters on the Air, and rules for their annual writing contests.

NewPages Complete List of Literary Magazines
Extensive online directory of literary magazines also includes reviews and information about contests sponsored by the magazines.

Novel Writing Advice from Caro Clarke
Fiction writer Clarke offers helpful tips on plotting, pacing, revising, and other nuts-and-bolts aspects of creating a novel, in a series of 30 articles originally written for the online magazine NovelAdvice.

Ode to an Ugly and Unidentifiable New England Squash
This mock tribute by Alison Rose is the kind of poem that we look for in our annual Wergle Flomp humor contest. Is the muse in YOUR cupboard?

Poetry Out Loud: National Recitation Project
This joint venture of the Poetry Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts awards over $100,000 in scholarships annually to high school students for memorizing and performing classic poems. Top prize is $20,000.

Wordgathering: A Journal of Disability Poetry
Online journal from disability-services organization Inglis House publishes poetry and criticism by award-winning authors. They accept submissions on any topic from disabled writers, and from non-disabled writers about topics relating to disability. Highlights from their inaugural issue include poetry by Ellen LaFleche and Barbara Crooker, and an interview with novelist Tracy Koretsky about her book Ropeless.


See our complete directory of resources at http://www.winningwriters.com/resources/ur_web.php. This is also the gateway to our recommended books, magazines, service providers, advice for writers (with manuscript tips) and poetry critiques.


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NEW RECOMMENDED BOOKS

The Hat City After Men Stopped Wearing Hats
By John Surowiecki. Rich with local detail, these elegiac poems capture a working-class Polish-American boyhood in the 1960s, and pay tribute to neighborhood characters who are lovingly individuated yet acquire universal resonance from the way the poet brings their ordinary lives to light. The mood of aging and decline is leavened by a sense that love is as real as pain. This book won the 2006 Word Works Washington Prize.

Nixon Under the Bodhi Tree and Other Works of Buddhist Fiction
Edited by Kate Wheeler. Innovative collection of short stories that integrate Buddhist precepts into contemporary settings. Some of the pieces use form as well as content to explore Buddhist concerns with present awareness and change.


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Last Call!
Tom Howard/John H. Reid Short Story Contest
Postmark Deadline: March 31
Now in its 15th year. Prizes of $1,200, $800 and $400 will be awarded, plus four High Distinction awards of $200 each. Submit any type of short story, essay or other work of prose, up to 5,000 words. You may submit work that has been published or won prizes elsewhere, as long as you own the online publication rights. $12 entry fee. Submit online or by mail. This contest is sponsored by Tom Howard Books and assisted by Winning Writers. Judges: John H. Reid and Dee C. Konrad. See the complete guidelines and past winners.


Last Call!
Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest - No Fee
Online Submission Deadline: April 1
Winning Writers invites you to enter our sixth annual Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest. The prize pool has doubled to $3,336.40 in cash, with a top prize of $1,359. There is no fee to enter. Submit online. Judge: Jendi Reiter. See the complete guidelines and past winners.


War Poetry Contest
Postmark Deadline: May 31
Sponsored by Winning Writers. We seek 1-3 original, unpublished poems for our sixth annual contest on the theme of war, up to 500 lines in total. We will award $5,000, up from $3,000 in the previous contest. The top prize is $2,000. Your entry fee of $15 includes three months of online access to Poetry Contest Insider, a $6.95 value. Submit online or by mail. Judge: Jendi Reiter. See the complete guidelines and past winners.


Margaret Reid Poetry Contest for Traditional Verse
Postmark Deadline: June 30
Now in its fourth year, this contest seeks poetry in traditional verse forms such as sonnets and haiku. Both published and unpublished poems are welcome. 50 cash prizes totaling $4,500 will be awarded, including a top prize of $1,000. The entry fee is $6 for every 25 lines you submit. Submit online or by mail. Early submission encouraged. This contest is sponsored by Tom Howard Books and assisted by Winning Writers. Judges: John H. Reid and Dee C. Konrad. See the complete guidelines and past winners.


Tom Howard/John H. Reid Poetry Contest
Postmark Deadline: September 30
Now in its fifth year, this contest seeks poems in any style, theme or genre. Both published and unpublished poems are welcome. 30 cash prizes totaling $3,500 will be awarded, including a top prize of $1,000. The entry fee is $6 for every 25 lines you submit. Submit online or by mail. Early submission encouraged. This contest is sponsored by Tom Howard Books and assisted by Winning Writers. Judges: John H. Reid and Dee C. Konrad. See the complete guidelines and past winners.


LEARN TO WRITE FOR MAGAZINES!
Want to freelance for magazines but don't know how? Need a little motivation to get started? Learn how to develop ideas, research markets, write your query letter, and make your pitch to editors! In only eight lessons, veteran freelancer Linda Formichelli will show you the ropes. She's written for more than 120 publications, including USA Weekend, Family Circle, Men's Fitness, and Woman's Day. Let Linda show you how you can, too!
http://www.absoluteclasses.com/Formicelli/writing_for_magazines.htm


2007 Poet's Market
The 2007 edition of Poet's Market is on sale now at Amazon. Published each August by Writer's Digest, this is the best annual guide to 1,800 journals, magazines, book publishers, chapbook publishers, websites, grants, conferences, workshops and contests. Helps you find publishers who are looking for your kind of work. Also updated are Novel & Short Story Writer's Market and Writer's Market for works of prose. Writer's Market is "the most valuable of tools for the writer new to the marketplace," says Stephen King in On Writing.


Office Depot - March Coupon
Save on paper, toner, binders and all your writing supplies at Office Depot. Free delivery in select areas when you order $50 or more.
Coupon Code - $30 off $150 with the Office Depot March Coupon!


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FEATURED POEMS FROM OUR SUBSCRIBERS

Memere Does Time in the Shirtwaist Factory
by Sally Bellerose

She sings.
She works.
She won't
be gotten.
She hides her pennies
in her stocking.

She wafts and warps
and steals the waste silk
for the children
she would be rocking.

Makes the loom
sing lullabies.

She works.
She sings.
She won't be got.
She has twelve nickels
in her sock.

She works.
She won't be gotten.
She sings.
She won't be got.

She works.

She works.

She works.

Stitches quilts
of stolen silk.
Sells to rich
men's wives.


Copyright 2007 by Sally Bellerose

This poem won the top poetry award in The Binnacle's Ultra-Short Competition for 2006.


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Counting Coup
by Cheryl Loetscher

You stop counting coup when your parents die,
your consummate bravery affirmed at last,
delivered by their deaths from the exhausting
entanglement of it all,

and you start listening to Copland,
ballets and fanfares set out for sharing
in no particular order, like saucers
of truffle honey and ripe figs.

You concentrate
equally at ease in barrens of discord
and pastures of harmony, as if gazing
at your lover's body, stirred to seize
the shape of the spirit it guards,

the stark enigma of bones
swarming within it. You swear
not to relinquish life like a pomegranate
with all your seeds concealed inside,
inconsolably silted up with regrets.
Instead you hold drowsy children in your lap
and hum them to sleep with Shaker tunes,
your father's cherished lullabies,

and when we find ourselves
in the place just right,
it will be in the valley
of love and delight.


Copyright 2007 by Cheryl Loetscher

This poem is reprinted from Ms. Loetscher's chapbook Unclaimed Baggage, which was a finalist in the Finishing Line Press Open Chapbook Competition in 2006 and will be published this spring.


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Lighter
by Susan Settlemyre Williams

The sparks scatter everywhere...they flutter about in the movements of the world, searching where they can lodge to be set free.       —Martin Buber

1. Zippo

Spark, pull toward the mouth
of small steady flame. Pale lipstick (Frosted Glow)
creped on a filtertip. My monogrammed Zippo,

twelfth-grade Christmas gift from my best friend,
in my pocket when we were caught
discussing her pregnancy over cigarettes

in the restroom before graduation. Lost
sometime that summer—one of many bright
things I've had and can't remember when they left

my possession. Love letters, jewelry. My friend,
the other Susan, who knew when she lost
the baby—smoke rings

we taught ourselves to make, sprawled
on her mother's couch, while her father's last
Jack Daniels paled in our melting ice. Spark, then smoke.

2. Fatwood

Lighter wood, my grandmother called it,
fatwood, resin-stiff splinters of pine tempered
by fire—one spark and they catch. The loblolly

by my window didn't catch when lightning
gouged a channel last night and flung
wet pulp in ribbons onto my stoop.

But the sparks wait in everything now.
Inside the bark, resin boiled, distilled
to lighter—wood pitch, ready next time to flare.

3. Becoming Light

At dawn the air skitters. Particles
of light trapped in the almost-dark,
colliding. When they find each other,
they slow down. It's daylight.

Light on dandelions shatters
the globes. The filaments lift, floss
of milkweed lifts. They rise all day on heat,
and we never see the fall, its finality,
plunging seed through a crack in clay,
fattening into taproot.

Without the stone in her belly, Susan
lifted, lost as dandelion silk
in a milky sky. It was not
a matter of joy.

4. The Breaking of the Vessels

The universe began when God miscalculated, pouring god-light into vessels of
light, and they broke. God broke. Primordial error, before Eden, before
serpent and fruit and Eve mouthing the word sin and thinking how will
anything happen if I don't know the taste of it? The breaking set
everything in motion, necessitated the world of matter: breeding ground for
the good, who are born to gather up and raise the sparks that scattered into
chaos, into dark everything. Their mitzvoth, says Luria, joining all the
lost light, will make God whole again.

5. Spark to Smoke

Centuries wore down my grandmother's house
into particles of light. The lightning

found it in sudden recognition—spark
and flame. They saved a chest,

a desk, lockbox of old deeds. The spoons
and drawer pulls melted to lumps, glass

ran in a river under the cinders and sank
out of memory. Like darkness

between the sparks of cigarettes that night
we finished the bottle Susan's father left her

when he shot himself and nothing
connected light to light but our smoke, rising.


Copyright 2007 by Susan Settlemyre Williams

This poem was co-winner of the 2006 DINER Poetry Contest.


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We Are Learning
I just want to let you know how much I have learned while being at the Danville Center for Adolescent Females. Your newspapers are so helpful today in our world because young teenagers are learning stuff instead of being out there on the street doing drugs or something. We are learning more about other countries. So thank you.
Kit Z.
Danville, Pennsylvania

Controlling Anger
The article "Cooling Off Time Can Help People Lessen Anger" was a helpful article for people who show anger toward their friends for any reason. I agree with the idea about how to control a person's anger. You are absolutely right: learning how to control anger is an important thing for all people. Anger can affect people's health or hurt people’s feelings. When people get angry, they may do something or say something bad to their friends. After these angry actions, they sometimes feel better temporarily, but they may regret what they have said or done to their friends. Therefore, people should try to wait a while before taking any action. I am very interested in what you publish. It has influenced me to read more. So would you publish more articles similar to this article? I look forward to reading others in News for You in the future.
Mabel Yick
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Story May Help To Encourage Youth
I read your article in News for You on track and field competitions. I have a granddaughter who has just started running track. Reading the article on Gale Devers will help me to encourage her to go on. This is something that she really wants to do. She is only 12 years old now. I hope this will help her to accomplish her goal.
Joyce Nicholson
Pensacola Junior College
Pensacola, Florida