Hi, friends! We are now open for submissions from March 15 to April 15. For inspiration, please listen to the three soundtracks composed by Justin Wildridge here. - "Bright," "Copa," and "Waking Wonder" https://soundcloud.com/justin-wildridge
Submission guidelines: https://framelesssky.weebly.com/submissions.html
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I'm so sorry for the delayed release of the issue and for this late post. If you haven't seen the sneak preview that I've posted on Facebook, here it is! I hope you enjoy it as much as you have enjoyed the other sneak previews. Here are the 49 contributors of the issue: Adjei Agyei-Baah (Ghana) ai li (UK) Angelo B. Ancheta (Philippines) Pamela A. Babusci (USA) Johnny Baranksi (USA) Gabriel Bates (USA) Meik Blöttenberger (USA) Adrian Bouter (Netherlands) Mark E. Brager (USA) Michelle Brock (Australia) Helen Buckingham (UK) Susan Burch (USA) Pris Campbell (USA) China Cancio (Philippines) Anna Cates (USA), Gillena Cox (Trinidad and Tobago) Lucia Fontana (Italy) Terri L. French (USA) Jay Friedenberg (USA) Chase Gagnon (USA) Grace Galton (UK) Pat Geyer (USA) Nikolay Grankin (Russia) Hazel Hall (Australia) John Hawkhead (UK) Marilyn Humbert (Australia) David J. Kelly (Ireland) Keitha Keyes (Australia) Neha R. Krishna (India) Shrikaanth Krishnamurthy (UK) Michael H. Lester (USA) Amy Losak (USA) Martha Magenta (UK) Mark Miller (Australia) Lori A. Minor (USA) Lee Nash (France) Dottie Piet (USA) Madhuri Pillai (Australia) Orrin PréJean (USA) Dave Read (Canada) Duncan Richardson (Australia) Alexis Rotella (USA) Agnes Eva Savich (USA) Shloka Shankar (India) Tiffany Shaw-Diaz (USA) Debbie Strange (Canada) Susan Wade (UK) Julie Warther (USA) Kath Abela Wilson (USA) I am so grateful to the contributors and to the whole team of Issue 7. Without your support, the current issue would not have been possible. By the way, Frameless Sky now has two proofreaders. Welcome on board, Angelo! It's not easy to proofread a dvd journal so I thought another proofreader would be better. You and Shloka did an excellent job! Yay! We finally created another mesmerizing issue! Moreover, this will not be possible without the splendid work of our featured artist (Kyle Hemmings) and musicians (Oleg Gorbunov and Cosmin Nechita). Kudos to all of you! Congratulations to Agnes Eva Savich from USA for winning in the Take the Challenge! contest. You have 12 more days to submit your edgy, gritty, and dark poems. Please make sure they blend well with the urban theme, photos, and music background.
Here's another link to get your creative juices flowing. Go ahead! Grab your pen and listen to Cosmin's Nechita's music! It's perfect for the issue's urban theme. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YEetAKXpl8&feature=youtu.be
We are now open for submissions. Reading period for Issue 7 is from Sept. 15-Oct. 15. Let this music by Oleg Gorbunov inspire you in your poetry writing for Issue 7. What does it make you feel? https://soundcloud.com/gorbio/where-do-you-go
Below is a full copy of David Terelinck's tanka sequence which is included in Issue 6. To watch and listen to his poetry reading, you can purchase a copy of the video journal here.
Whispered by Eucalypts (For my grandfather, Aubrey John Joseph "Jack" Neilsen, reported missing in September 1961, and his skeletal remains discovered in Hornsby bushland in the last week of May 2011. The inquest into his disappearance and remains was held on May 20, 2013. Remains Found those bones of fifty years no longer worthy of news as Oslo mourns DNA samples – the power behind three linked letters: the pain or relief of knowing . . . Christmas in four short weeks —gifted with the results of your forensics a stranger tweets your name and story . . . is there anyone left to bury his remains? undisturbed for half a century from beneath a blanket of mossy peat you play at Rip Van Winkle scattered pennies in the undergrowth you didn’t see decimalisation . . . or grandchildren my mother has already called the funeral home finding . . . and losing you in the same six months long bones bleached by decades of sun and moon – is it possible to miss someone you never knew? your daughter stores your wife’s ashes on the mantle – will we ever know the reason for your return? another year passes in waiting for the inquest . . . your lesson to us still one of patience the yellowed curl of your paper smile – missing three times longer than my mother knew you long years of blame in rain-swept darkness . . . the sediment of memory thickened with every cursed name the coroner rules an unknown cause of death, your peaceful rest held hostage for two years within our temporal world family bible, she records her father’s name and date of death the crack of a branch laden with ice . . . your eulogy whispered by eucalypts the mystery of sunlit emptiness and jewelled night skies First publication credit is Slow growing Ivy, 2014 Are you ready to read poetry and tango the night away? Issue 6 is now available! Here's a huge chunk of the issue for your viewing pleasure. I'd like to announce that Pamela A. Babusci is the guest co-editor for Issue 6. Since we decided to extend the deadline to May 15 in order to make sure we have a collection of high quality poems, I'd like to invite everyone to consider submitting. Any theme is acceptable (although I personally prefer love, romance, passion, sensuality) as long as it goes with Pamela's artwork and the video's music background which is tango.
Note: Feel free to submit your best artwork for Mary Kendall's tanka. willow branches tossedby the wind-- a sudden memory of how your breath quickened Check out the Tanka Challenge section. |
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