Spring 2013In the guise of a beggar, Odysseus returned to Ithaca. Here in the northeast, we're feeling the rush of brighter days with time to linger, greet friends outdoors and fling open the windows after a long winter. The windows are sparkling again, beckoning us to be on the lookout for tender shoots and budding leaves. Our desire is to inspire you with great writing & visual art that connects you to places inside you, places that encourage, celebrate & energize. Like the windows featured on the poets' pages, we're all different, yet, we all sparkle with light. The poetry and art in these pages offer varied views into other worlds. All celebrate experiences that we share as a community of creative souls. Breathe deep & enjoy all that we have to offer – in that order because, above all else, we want you to experience the essential you bubbling up with the tender green shoots of spring! Thank you for being with us on the journey, Editors, Ithacalit |
In This IssueWe welcome Louisiana Poet Laureate, Julie Kane, in this issue's Featured Poet spot. Ms. Kane is blessed with what Mary McKay described as a mix of “the vulgar with the ecstatic...there’s a touch of the anarchist in every line.” Our Featured Artist, Maxwell Doig, has a distinctive vision, which evokes a sense of stillness and quiet that completely separates one from the world spinning ever faster. Dear readers you are sure to enjoy taking your time with our twelve poets, whose new poems you'll be the first to read. Enjoy your time with Jamie Bruno, Harmony Button, Darren Demaree, Michaela A. Gabriel, Mariela Griffor, Lynn Hoffman, Charles Hughes, Donna Hunt, Rob Jacques, Donald Levering, Karla Linn Merrifield, and Uche Ogbuji. And Madeleine Beckman has brought you another great writerly conversation. This one is with James Lasdun, poet, short story writer, novelist, journalist, and now memoirist. |
IthacaLit Readings at Spring Writes
IthacaLit Contributor Readings
May 4th at 6:30 pm
State of the Art Gallery
120 West State Street, Ithaca
Join founding editor, Michele Lesko in welcoming our talented contributors who will be reading their work & the work of Featured Poets from past issues of IthacaLit at an intimate gathering. Enjoy refreshments, wine, art & contributor book sales as well as some literary merriment during the Spring Writes Festival in downtown Ithaca, New York.
May 4th at 6:30 pm
State of the Art Gallery
120 West State Street, Ithaca
Join founding editor, Michele Lesko in welcoming our talented contributors who will be reading their work & the work of Featured Poets from past issues of IthacaLit at an intimate gathering. Enjoy refreshments, wine, art & contributor book sales as well as some literary merriment during the Spring Writes Festival in downtown Ithaca, New York.
Kids Believe! Open to Essay Submissions.
May 1 - June 15th
IthacaLit Guidelines
Summer issue news: We are open to submissions to a special summer issue page that will include short essays from students ages 12-18. In line with NPR's "This I Believe, "IthacaLit is looking for student essays titled "Kids Believe."
Submit your 250-500 word essay, telling readers about one belief that you hold dear. Write about this belief by telling readers about a specific experience that changed your outlook on life. This experience will have moved you in a significant way and will have become a valued part of your life history that helps you balance your interactions with others on a daily basis. The NPR guidelines state it this way, "Be specific. Take your belief out of the ether and ground it in the events of your life. Consider moments when belief was formed or tested or changed. Think of your own experience, work, and family, and tell of the things you know that no one else does. Your story need not be heart-warming or gut-wrenching—it can even be funny—but it should be real. Make sure your story ties to the essence of your daily life philosophy and the shaping of your beliefs. "
Please include your age & the name of the school you attend. For this segment of the issue, we are accepting work only from students age 12-18. Thank you. And keep writing!
IthacaLit Guidelines
Summer issue news: We are open to submissions to a special summer issue page that will include short essays from students ages 12-18. In line with NPR's "This I Believe, "IthacaLit is looking for student essays titled "Kids Believe."
Submit your 250-500 word essay, telling readers about one belief that you hold dear. Write about this belief by telling readers about a specific experience that changed your outlook on life. This experience will have moved you in a significant way and will have become a valued part of your life history that helps you balance your interactions with others on a daily basis. The NPR guidelines state it this way, "Be specific. Take your belief out of the ether and ground it in the events of your life. Consider moments when belief was formed or tested or changed. Think of your own experience, work, and family, and tell of the things you know that no one else does. Your story need not be heart-warming or gut-wrenching—it can even be funny—but it should be real. Make sure your story ties to the essence of your daily life philosophy and the shaping of your beliefs. "
Please include your age & the name of the school you attend. For this segment of the issue, we are accepting work only from students age 12-18. Thank you. And keep writing!
Keith Moul, Guest Photographer
Keith Moul has published poems widely for more than 40 years. Recently Blue & Yellow Dog Press issued his epigrammatic collection, The Grammar of Mind. He's retired from 30 years in the insurance business and now writes, travels and takes photos with his wife, Sylvia. They have a talented daughter, Ianthe, who is an artist . Keith has been publishing his photos only within the past year, but if you search the web you'll find about sixty to seventy of them.
We're pleased to introduce Keith's architectural photographs above the poets' pages in this issue. We saw all those windows and thought, yes! It's spring, let the windows sparkle.
Keith’s aim in processing his work is normally high resolution of subject and high saturation of color. Individual circumstances may alter this intent, but he doesn’t mind some basic alteration on Adobe Photoshop Elements 8.0.
We're pleased to introduce Keith's architectural photographs above the poets' pages in this issue. We saw all those windows and thought, yes! It's spring, let the windows sparkle.
Keith’s aim in processing his work is normally high resolution of subject and high saturation of color. Individual circumstances may alter this intent, but he doesn’t mind some basic alteration on Adobe Photoshop Elements 8.0.
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