LOCUSPOINT | the place of poetry

Vancouver is live!

2007-07-02T10:58:00.001-07:00

Jen Currin presents the vertigo west poetry collective at LOCUSPOINT. We're proud to feature work by the following inventive and innovative poets:

Meliz Ergin
Colette Gagnon
Brook Houglum
Helen Kuk
Kim Minkus
Emilie O'Brien
Cristina I. Viviani

along with Jen Currin herself.

Shin Yu Pai's Dallas Edition will launch in mid-July. Enjoy!

Coming Soon

2006-10-20T17:29:00.000-07:00

Eliot Khalil Wilson's Minneapolis/St Paul and Michelle Martinez's Phoenix will be the next two cities appearing on LOCUSPOINT in the near future.

Look for the Twin Cities at the close of October and Phoenix in the weeks that follow.

Thanks to the editors for their wonderful work on these cities!

Contest about Community

2006-10-02T09:13:00.000-07:00

Tricinium Poetry Contest on the Subject of Community
Complete guidelines at www.tricinium.com.
Deadline: January 31, 2007

First Prize: $1,000 and performance as a musical composition as part of The
MacDowell Colony's Centennial Celebration

Guidelines: First prize winner will receive $1,000; second prize $250; third
prize $100. Top three poems will be set to music and premiered at a concert in
October, 2007. The concert event, honoring David F. Putnam, a philanthropist
dedicated to community-building, will take place at the Peterborough Players
Theater as part of The MacDowell Colony Centennial Celebration. Poetry
celebrating community and how individuals can inspire community is sought. Poets are
encouraged to write about their experience of community, their sense of place,
and/or the special places and people they have known who represent community.
The top 20+/- poems will be published in a booklet commemorating community to
be distributed at the event. Composer Lawrence Siegel of Tricinium, an
organization harnessing the arts to nurture civic engagement, will create three
musical compositions; the three winning poets will be honored guests at the
premiere. Works should not exceed one-page to be considered. Two copies of each work
are required (one without author's name and contact information). Poems
published elsewhere are eligible (with written permission from the publisher) and
poetry can be in any language, provided a translation is included. Reading fee
$15 (US), $25 (international) payable to Tricinium. Entries will not be
returned.

Submissions must be postmarked no later than January 31, 2007. Winners
will be announced by March 15, 2007. To receive list of winners, include a
self-addressed, stamped envelope (SASE). No telephone calls please. Tricinium
reserves the right to make no award. Send entries to: Poetry Contest, Tricinium
Limited, 191 Washington Street, Keene, NH 03431, USA.

Stanley Kunitz's words

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"I think all artists, and especially poets, are forever in search of a community. It's a solitary act, and you need a community of like-minded souls to survive and to flourish. So the search for a community is really a lifetime engagement."

More Staff Added!

2006-04-25T10:26:00.000-07:00

I'm pleased to announce two more additions to the LOCUSPOINT docket.

To ring in the new year, LOCUSPOINT will explore a few regional poetry groups, edited by one of their members.

Lucifer Poetics Group (Virginia)
Edited by Tony Tost
Will appear on LOCUSPOINT January 30, 2007.

vertigo west (Vancouver)
Edited by Jen Currin
Will appear on LOCuSPOINT February 28, 2007.

Join the Mailing List

2006-04-18T08:24:00.000-07:00

Okay, I fixed the LOCUSPOINT mailing list, so anyone who tried to join recently can now sign up.

Click here to join.

Cities Added | Coming Soon

2006-04-09T12:02:00.000-07:00

I'm pleased to announce the following cities coming on board LOCUSPOINT to close out 2006:

Chicago
edited by Francesco Levato
Submission deadline: June 30
City launches on LOCUSPOINT: October 30

Santa Fe/Albuquerque
edited by Alex Gildzen
Submission deadline: July 30
City launches on LOCUSPOINT: November 30

Atlanta
edited by Laurel Snyder
Submission deadline: August 30
City launches on LOCUSPOINT: December 30

We're constantly adding more cities into the new year! Keep your eyes here for more updates.

Get Ready

2006-04-03T09:42:00.000-07:00

The first edition of LOCUSPOINT is going to drop on September 30, 2006.

Cities to watch out for:

Boston
Minneapolis
Phoenix
St Louis
Seattle

7 poets, 5 places
Community resources
and a special reading event in each city

Stay tuned

New Name & Place

2006-03-28T11:40:00.000-08:00

LOCUS is now officially called LOCUSPOINT and is located at

www.locuspoint.org

The old URL will automatically redirect to the new location for the next 11 months.

About Us | Submissions

2006-03-20T08:00:00.000-08:00

LOCUS is

A community-centered approach to poetry publishing

Each edition of LOCUS is built on a set of cities or regions. Guest Editors in each location are tasked with locating poetry community within their areas to whatever extent or degree they experience it by selecting seven poets whose work they want to highlight. Each poet contributes five pages of poetry to the city. The Guest Editor writes an introduction to his or her selections to comment on the poetry scene where they live.

LOCUS IS

A resource for poets

LOCUS is always interested in exposing the work of poetry gears across the country; to that end, each edition will feature a set of community links and poetry resources for each city or region. Poets seeking community can come to LOCUS and make connections—find services, publishers, poets, editors, classes, community centers, and so forth.

LOCUS IS

Charles Jensen Managing Editor & Web Designer

EDITORIAL STAFF, FIRST EDITION

Christopher Hennessy | Boston Editor
Eliot Khalil Wilson | Minneapolis Editor
Michelle Martinez | Phoenix Editor
Julie Dill | St. Louis Editor
Rebecca Loudon | Seattle Editor

SUBMITTING TO LOCUS

LOCUS seeks work from specific areas at specific times. Stay notified of upcoming cities by watching the LOCUS blog.

If you live in one of the cities currently explored by LOCUS, please submit 7-10 poems (no more than 15 pages) directly to the Guest Editor listed above. Submissions should be sent as Word document attachments in a common font like Times New Roman, Garamond, etc. Previously unpublished work only, please.

We currently have no plans to include critical work or interviews, although we may elect to include this type of work on a case by case basis. Please query first before sending this type of work.

Reporting time may vary by four weeks to four months. Please be patient. Submit only once during each Guest Editor's tenure—send only your best work—and please do not resubmit until a new Guest Editor begins exploring your city again in the future.

LOCUS does not explicitly seek work related to place or location, although each editor may discover in the diversity of their submissions an overarching connection among work.

Each Guest Editor is solely responsible for the solicitation and selection of work for their area.

General submission queries may be sent to Charles Jensen

About LOCUS

2006-03-19T07:55:00.000-08:00

Click on the image to read about us.

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2006-03-17T02:59:00.000-08:00

The LOCUS site is now parked and ready:

www.locusmagazine.org.

Keep your eyes peeled as more content is uploaded in preparation of our launch.

LOCUS Guest Editors | First Edition

2006-03-16T12:58:00.000-08:00

Boston
Christopher Hennessy

Miami
Still open...

Minneapolis
Eliot Khalil Wilson

Phoenix
Michelle Martinez

St. Louis
Julie Dill

Seattle
Rebecca Loudon

LOCUS is coming

2006-03-15T12:48:00.000-08:00

Each edition of LOCUS will feature poetry by guest editors selected from roughly three cities or regions in the U.S. Guest editors will solicit and receive work from their designated areas from, I think, about five poets. Each poet will contribute 10 poems to provide readers with a generous sampling of their work—to get a real sense of what each poet is accomplishing.

Each guest editor will also contribute a brief synopsis of their take on the local poetry scene and the work they've collected for their edition. Therefore, cities and regions can be represented multiple times over times by various editors, each providing insight into poetry's connection to place and community.

The editions will be organized by locus: that is, by the city of origin.

Additionally, I will arrange reading events to correspond with each issue in each city or region featured in LOCUS. The guest editor will need to show up and welcome the audience to the event as I cannot travel to each city, but I will do as much as I can to facilitate the event remotely. Ideally, these events will be recorded and added to the site in podcast format (or, samples of readings will be podcast).

I'm looking for some volunteer guest editors to help create the first issue. I'd like to hit a few regions to start. I'm thinking three of these cities will be featured in the first edition and the rest in subsequent editions:

~~Boston~~
Miami
Minneapolis
Phoenix
Seattle
St. Louis

If you or somone you know lives in one of these cities and is interested in guest editing, please drop me a line.