Acceptance News: Thriving Anthology

Nancy FlynnApostrophe Blog Archive, Publication News, Writing

This afternoon, I learned that two of my poems, “Stoned Soul Picnic” and “The Green Love of the Progress to This Now and,” have been accepted for publication in Thriving, an anthology forthcoming from Exsolutas Press in 2024. According to its website, Exsolutas Press was founded to publish books “that pry open dead questions and give birth to new ones…

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Publication News: “Revolutions per Minute”

Nancy FlynnApostrophe Blog Archive, Arts & Culture, Publication News

My poem, “Revolutions per Minute” appeared in the Soundtracks Issue of Raven Chronicles, A Journal of Art, Literature & The Spoken Word in September 2014. The Raven Chronicle Press is a nonprofit independent publishing press and literary organization, established in Seattle in 1991…

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Fifteen Seconds of (Ephemeral) Fame?

Nancy FlynnApostrophe Blog Archive, Arts & Culture, Publication News, Writing

Was having my Letter to the Editor published in the esteemed Poetry Magazine back in 2008. Here is the brief text: Dear Editor,
As I wound my way through Eavan Boland’s “Islands Apart: A Notebook” [May 2008], in which she writes of the increasingly skill-based nature of poets, I was surprised to find this:…

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Award News: Oregon Poetry Association Fall 2023 Contest

Nancy FlynnApostrophe Blog Archive, Awards, Publication News, Writing

My poem, “Learning to See,” won Third Place in the Theme—Ekphrasis category of the Oregon Poetry Association’s Fall 2023 Contest. I wrote about this poem in a recent Apostrophe Blog post, explaining the concept of Ekphrastic Poetry and how I came to write this particular poem….

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Award News: Oregon Poetry Association Fall 2023 Contests

Nancy FlynnApostrophe Blog Archive, Awards, Publication News, Writing

I just found out this morning that two of my poems have been awarded Third Place in two categories of the Oregon Poetry Association Fall 2023 adult contests. The first, “provenance,” has placed in the Members Only category—the category name explains itself….

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Publication News: Clackamas Literary Review

Nancy FlynnApostrophe Blog Archive, Publication News, Writing

In the dark days of 2019, what made a poem political? Was it the subject matter? The tone of voice? Was it engagement with current events, hot-bed issues in the national or regional press? There generally are no final answers to these existential questions.

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