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Welcome back
Hi Mooners,
It's good to see the board and its recent pep! One has to wonder considering the fine poetry that collects during each day, why such a small portion of our membership drops by? It's good that so many of our active posters find more than one site on which to participate, but can it be that crumbs are not dropped to guide the way back?
The new schedule of moderators certainly has distributed the critiques well! Congratulations to all of you who cover the waterfront!
We're still wrestling to find a way to contact our full membership in a speedy manner. Our Associate Editor behind the scenes, David Benson, promises a solution soon. Thanks, David, for using your special tech knowledge to give us our new postings of Moon Notes and all other additions appearing as the months fly by!
Spring is here and Desert Moon Review will celebrate its sixth birthday in May 2007. HAPPY BIRTHDAY to all!
By the way: A couple of comments from a number of the masses.
In preparation of my from scratch "My Life in Several Seconds, A Collection of Poems by Jim Corner," I asked several intelligent, mostly educated people at church to read the first draft. I planted little of what I expected in the way of feedback comments, so their responses would be original. Granted no one wanted to make me mad, but I was surprised to find good, bad, but no ugly critiques.
Most thought I did the best job writing about nature themes. Others liked the large diversity of the 88 poems, still others said that these poems, though contemporary, were quite satisfying. Of the several responding, all but one found some of the unique transformational images, ones that satisfied critics in the workshops, difficult to translate.
When I asked them to say more about their "opinings" they asked why not just choose strong, appropriate normal words that made sense to them. This also made sense to me regarding any effort to appeal to the masses.
My best, Jim Corner, Publisher
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About This Issue
Spring and the birthday of the Desert Moon Review are both near. Perhaps that's why Jim celebrates the new life at the forum -- growth, green and a happy tune bring joy out of the cold months.
And yet, with Sarah in this group, it seems always spring: Each month she brings us a new crop of published poets. See the growth in this month's group.
Be sure to check the list of writers Chris has sent to IBPC. Good luck to those Mooners!
Until next month, David Benson
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Desert Moon Review IBPC Submissions for March
Hi all
By your member votes, the three poems chosen to represent Desert Moon Review in the Interboard Poetry Competition (IBPC) this month are:
"Holes" by Laura Polley
"Chengdu" by Sarah Sloat
"Johnny Jump-ups in January" by Susan McDonough
Congratulations, Laura, Sarah, and Susan. We hope you all do well for Desert Moon Review!
Kudos to all of the poets who were nominated for IBPC in the past month: Yolanda Calderon-Horn, Jim Corner, Christopher T. George, Guy Kettelhack, Sue McDonough, Laura Polley, Scott Summers, and Sarah Sloat.
Desert Moon continues to do well in terms of the quality of posted poems in our workshop as well as in the IBPC. In the February IBPC competition, Laurie Byro's "The Rival" brought in an honorable mention for the Moon. Congratulations to Laurie and also to our two other poets who represented the Moon at IBPC last month: Sarah Sloat and Chris George.
Christopher George
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Members in Media
The poems of DMR members found their way into various publications once again over the past month.
Scott Summers’ chapbook, "Rather, It Should Shine," has been accepted for publication at Pudding House press. In addition, his poem "When He Was a Boy" was accepted by Orange Room Review and another poem, "Bruise," was accepted by Expansion.
Scott Summers is among a number of Desert Moon members to have poems in the Spring issue of Loch Raven Review, due out any day, edited by our own Chris George and co-editor Jim Doss. Scott is represented by the poems "To Have and to Hold" and "In Case You Need Me."
The new issue of Loch Raven also features two poems by Gary Blankenship: "Poetic States XXXVII – New Mexico" and "Poetic States XL – Colorado." Gary also has an essay in the issue on "How the Web Can Support a Fib," about the Fibonacci form.
Other Desert Moon poets in Loch Raven this time are Jim Corner with "Prima Donna of the Wash" and Wiltshire with "Home to the Trees" and "The Scent of Yellow."
Scott Summers and Chris George both have poems accepted for a War CD from Bird House Studios in Baltimore. Scott is represented by four of his Civil War poems while Chris's four poems are a commentary on modern warfare.
Sarah Sloat had a number of poems accepted over the past month. Ghoti took "French Supermarket Wines" and "Flight"; Caffeine Destiny accepted "Feng Shui"; In Posse Review will include "Infirmary" in its "Poetry and the Body" issue; Blood Orange took "Vestment"; and American Poetry Journal accepted "Europa."
Congratulations to everyone!
by Sarah Sloat
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