25.

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The bee's got a little buzz...

So when we announced our 2012-2013 list,* we hinted that we'd be doing a few other things too.

And this is one of those things.

We will be instituting an Open Reading Period for Poetry Chapbooks.

Soon.

No fee. No bullshit.

Details to come once NaPoWriMo is over. But you can start thinking about it now, if you're that sort of thinker.

We also have 2014 forming a beautiful nebula of awesome in our minds.

So basically, we're just teasing you right now? Nah, we're just so excited we had to tell someone.




*Note that things have changed a bit since then. For instance, Shanna's book is now two books Brink (2012) and The Seam (2013). The chapbook(s) we choose from the open reading period will be published in Fall 2012 and/or Spring 2013. TINA by Peter Davis & Natural History Rape Museum by Danielle Pafunda are still both on track for 2013.

Sandra's new book...

...from our friends at Cleveland State University Poetry Center is now available!

"You Can't Build a Child" from Poetry Magazine
"Used White Wife" & "DNA Woven from Lasers in the Jungle" from Spooky Boyfriend
"Strays: A Love Story" from HTMLGiant

Just funnin'

If you somehow missed Jennifer L. Knox guest-blogging at The Best American Poetry last week, you missed a great series of interviews on the topic of humor in poetry:

• Intro: Send in the Crying on the Inside Kind of Clowns
• Funny Woman #1: Amy Lawless
• Funny Woman #2: Melissa Broder
• Funny Woman #3: Sharon Mesmer
• Funny Woman #4: Sommer Browning
• Funny Woman #5: Rachel Shukert
• & then a talk with Kazim Ali (who disapproves of funny poetry...or does he?)

Lake Poem #7

Maud is gone. So Modernism.

So Yeats, Laertes, skull, origin. Hulk Hogan?

Make no mistake, the lake mocks

your own clay grin. A dandelion?

In the coffee shop one sorority girl compliments

the whiteness of the other’s teeth.

Psalm gone. Problem solved. So Gaga from her

egg of triumph.

Someone now driving off with the paper coffee cup

on the roof of his car.

How's your day 3?

Good morning, Friends of Bloof.

Yesterday, the Poetry Foundation shared one of Sandra's poems from the April issue of Poetry: "You Can't Build a Child"

Jennifer continues her interview series with funny women at The Best American Poetry. Yesterday was Amy Lawless. Today is Melissa Broder. She's also highlighting some of her favorite poems from NaPoWriMo.net-listed sites each day!

Let's make it three for three, ladies--shall we?

The Bloofiest Month: Yeah, We Celebrate NaPoWriMo

There's nothing official about NaPoWriMo, and that's the way we like it. It's not invented, supported, or sponsored by any organization. Anyone can participate. (Sign up here, or don't sign up--it doesn't matter!)

You can read about NaPoWriMo at Wikipedia.

So, here on the Bloof blog, some of us will be writing a new poem every day, for 30 days. Or giving it our best shot, anyway.

While we are warming up and stretching, here's some recent Bloof news:

• Here's an interview about art & mustaches with Peter Davis at HTMLGiant
• Peter's also got some stuff in the new issue of Stoked
• Sandra Simonds has 14 sonnets in the new issue of Court Green
• Another one of Sandra's sonnets from that issue was on Verse Daily last week
• Danielle Pafunda has new work in Spittoon & Kenyon Review too
• Shanna Compton also has work in Court Green & Eleven Eleven
• Sandra & Jennifer L. Knox both have work in Sprung Formal
• & Jennifer is guest blogging at The Best American Poetry every day this week!