September 2015
I’m retired from a variety of careers as a medical microbiologist, psychotherapist, seminar leader, and have been a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee. I’m also the author of six self-help psychology books, including Dreaming Your Real Self (Penguin/Putnam), although now I seem to know less than I did when I wrote those books. My poetry has appeared in Rattle, The MacGuffin, Mezzo Cammin, Buddhist Poetry Review, and The Nation. I ran away from the hurricanes of South Florida to be surprised by the earthquakes and tornadoes of rural central Virginia, where I write poetry and do fabric and paper art. www.JoanMazza.com
Writers’ Guidelines
(found poem in the listings of Poet’s Market)
We want experimental concrete cut-up post-syntactic poems
skillful language strong images and sense of place
no sappy greeting card stuff
no children in sexual situations
no wicked mothers or fathers
no right-wing hate-mongering
We welcome beat post-beat Dada edgy
anything interesting original important
nothing religious no work by adults no porn
no haikus or limericks no ageism sexism racism
nothing sentimental obscure or self-absorbed
no flowers or butterflies no dead kitty elegies
Send us your best Western rural poetry
That knocks us off our feet
we want unusual perceptive risk-taking imagistic
minimal expansionist positive upbeat
no scatological prurient or political
no poor taste
We want seers witchdoctors alchemists maniacs
we want to hear your inner shapeshifter
in howls growls and moans
no singsong rhyming crap
no polemics no gratuitous grotesques
no somber surrealism no weeping melancholy
No previously published poems
no simultaneous submissions
no style subject or form restrictions
no limitations at all we take all types
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-first published in The Cartier Street Review, October 2010
©2015 Joan Mazza