March-April 2012
The Diploemat--3
Next-to-Last Call for Entries . . .
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This amazing man publishes more small chapbook-sized titles in monthly format than most of us can read in a year. His publications are not costly slick journals; they’re staple-bound-pure-terrific-reading. This might be the man and market for your unpublished work. Look him up, starting with Conceit Magazine. Tell him Wanda Sue Parrott sent you as a way of saying thanks for the great endorsement of her book “Move Over, Shakespeare—How to Enter & Win Poetry Contests” and the White Buffalo Native American Poet Laureate Contest.
Senior Poets Win “California Gold”Three distinguished Senior Poets Laureate were among the 12 winners of the 2012 Spring Writing Contest sponsored by the Central Coast Writers branch of the Californis Writers Club:
Marian Kaplun
Shapiro, past SPL of
Massachusetts, won 1st
Place for Unrhymed
Poetry with “Rape.” |
Indigenous peoples found God as the spirit/mind in all things both inert (like rocks and elements) and alive like us. In Great Spirit there is neither greater nor lesser, younger nor older, dumber nor wiser, for each is perfect within its own form and function and, therefore, all are sisters and brothers. Interestingly, most Native American poetry and prose is free verse in style. It's sort of a crude comparison, but think of the human body being clothed in girdles, corsets and underpants, as compared to loin cloths or loose blanket-style draped clothing. The dream-catcher meditation helps us ungird our mind’s loins and deswaddle our psyches.
As science explores spirit energy through quantum physics, modern man is moving into an electronic age of Great Spiritual awakening--via the computer. We are spiraling full circle, reinventing realms of consciousness the Indians reached via Dream Catcher meditations. Please bear this in mind and enter into our literary challenge by visualizing our Dream Catcher and allowing your mind to freely enter through its center, then let your consciousness free float like a hawk and write what comes to you in dreams, visions or while awake. You may meet the Spirit of the Ancestors or just have a relaxing, healing experience.
Whatever happens, tell us in prose or poetry. If selected, your piece will appear in the beautiful anthology Gifts of the Great Spirit, Volume III, to be published this summer. Click here for details.
May the muse be with you in the spirit of the Great Spirit. Aho.
