November 2021
EDITOR'S NOTE
Dear Villagers,
November is a month of gratitude, whether by tradition, national holiday, or just personal choice. If your country celebrates a Thanksgiving Day, it is a good opportunity to pause and recognize the extent of your blessings. Giving thanks to God or Nature or whatever you see as the source of what you have, is a good thing. Give thanks for life, for family, for friends, for all that makes your life beautiful—including, of course, poetry.
I say it often in these notes, but the frequency in no way diminshes the gratitude I have for this community for continuing to be a place of refuge. Thank you.
PLEASE remember to send your batches of comments to comments4vv@gmail.com. They will be sent out to the group, and posted on our Facebook page. They should no longer be sent to the "Submissions" email address. And of course, continue to contact individual poets as you like.
The OPTIONAL theme for December will be "Endings", however you choose to interpret it.
Follow the SUBMISSION GUIDELINES. Submissions are open from one minute after midnight on November 1 through 11:59 PM November 10, Pacific Time. If you aren't in my time zone, use the internet or your fingers and toes to calculate the difference between your time and mine. There's no forgiveness for too early or too late.
November is a month of gratitude, whether by tradition, national holiday, or just personal choice. If your country celebrates a Thanksgiving Day, it is a good opportunity to pause and recognize the extent of your blessings. Giving thanks to God or Nature or whatever you see as the source of what you have, is a good thing. Give thanks for life, for family, for friends, for all that makes your life beautiful—including, of course, poetry.
I say it often in these notes, but the frequency in no way diminshes the gratitude I have for this community for continuing to be a place of refuge. Thank you.
PLEASE remember to send your batches of comments to comments4vv@gmail.com. They will be sent out to the group, and posted on our Facebook page. They should no longer be sent to the "Submissions" email address. And of course, continue to contact individual poets as you like.
The OPTIONAL theme for December will be "Endings", however you choose to interpret it.
Follow the SUBMISSION GUIDELINES. Submissions are open from one minute after midnight on November 1 through 11:59 PM November 10, Pacific Time. If you aren't in my time zone, use the internet or your fingers and toes to calculate the difference between your time and mine. There's no forgiveness for too early or too late.