Little Red Leaves

New e-editions site

2011-10-14T07:51:00.002-06:00

Dear All,

We are in the process of converting to a brand new, dazzling interface for LRLe-editions. In the meantime, the site is temporarily down. This should be resolved quickly, but please feel free to contact us at littleredleaves at gmail dot com with any questions.

Thanks!,
Ash Smith

LRL e-editions sneak peek: Group Review of Michael Cross's HAECCEITIES

2011-08-31T16:16:00.007-06:00

Here's a little taste of the next round of e-editions. Please stay tuned--big things in the works!

You can (& should) purchase a copy of Haecceities at SPD: http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9780982792643/haecceities.aspx.

Ephemera for poems by Lisa Fishman and C.S Carrier

2011-05-11T14:47:00.000-06:00

Counting down to the launch of Little Red Leaves #6: The Ephemera issue. I've completed two more poems for this issue and have stepped back for a second to talk a little about the how-and-why.

Lisa Fishman submitted a gorgeous short poem called [Can you carry this object]. The poem's short lines, teetering on curt, generate a kind of unfolding conversation wrapped around playful grammatical oppositions. The paper airplane ephemera design was inspired by the title of the poem as well as this folding/unfolding structure. You have to construct the airplane in order to read the poem.

C.S. Carrier sent us an equally excellent abecedarian poem entitled For a Lyric Opera. After bumbling through a few drafts of ill-conceived versals, I settled on the most literal ephemerization possible. I made the poem into lyrics/notes. Holding this piece in my hand, I swear I get hymnal flashbacks from my southern baptist days. As Carrier says: "...O lyric, god's foreskin / O meringue that dries, hardens the ceiling..."

In progress... Ephemera Issue - "Dawn" by C.S. Carrier

2011-04-22T09:16:00.025-06:00

As a lover/hater of all things pantoum, I was truly excited to read "Dawn" by C.S. Carrier.

The poem feels more like a procession than a beginning. Lines like "she's splotched with porcelain" and "the rain pools in the turquoise ashtray" immediately evoke stillness, silence, inactivity. You feel the inevitability of the day, the stillness that marks the start, the coming that already feels gone as the poem's "mouth poceeds through life." Carrier uses the repetition inherent in the pantoun to create a kind of stalemate, a time that is timeless--four steps forward, two steps back.

What's more poignant in this poem is the mention of Kurosawa ("Kurosawa presides over the cinema") in the wake of current events in Japan right now. It feels like a dedication to the past, a rumination on the "what was" in the "will be" of the earthquake's aftermath.

I decided to go with this vague, wistful feeling when designing the ephemera. I found some lovely Polaroids taken by Jeremy Pettis who graciously let me use the photos in this piece. (Polaroid's, to me, a always muddled in their own Polaroid-ness--much like pantoums always jilted by their very pantoum-ness).

The final ephemera is a procession of pictures with each (repeated) line of the poem scribbled underneath. If you like, please consider purchasing a subscription to issue #6 (only 7 left!).

In progress... Ephemera Issue - Lauren Levin's "Tresk"

2011-03-30T14:37:00.022-06:00

Little Red Leaves has taken on a pretty ambitious task. Issue #6 will consist of individually owned and operated ephemera objects that promise to be all over the place (in a good way).

The first poem up for ephemerization was Lauren Levin's 'Tresk," a wonderfully jagged poem that stomps down the page. Here's a sneak peak at the final pamphlet that accentuates the short lines with thick black highlights and adds red "T" accents (ala the red cross) on the word 'Tresk.'

(Note: TRESK has been called a migraine gene, acting like a switch that can control the sensitivity of pain nerves in the brain.)

If you like, please consider purchasing a subscription to issue #6 (only 7 left!).

Open Reading Period, New Submission Manager, Ephemera Issue 6 Subscriptions

2010-12-15T18:38:00.000-06:00

Dear Readers,

Thank you for following five years of LRL -- to celebrate, we have some exciting announcements for our sixth issue: we will be holding an open reading period for LRL e-editions, converting to a new (way more organized) submission manager, as well as selling subscriptions for a new mail-out (extremely limited) ephemera issue!!

OPEN READING PERIOD for LRL e-editions (http://littleredleaves.com/ebooks ) will be from January 15th - Feb 15th. Please send a chap or book length ms. through the appropriate section of our new submission manager (http://littleredleaves.submishmash.com/Submit)! Manuscripts selected for the e-edition series will be available as both a free .pdf and in paperback through lulu.com. Selected authors will be notified by late May 2011.

NEW SUBMISSION MANAGER: we will also be receiving all submissions to the journal through submishmash from now on (rather than our insanely cluttered gmail acct!). Please visit http://littleredleaves.submishmash.com/Submit and our updated guidelines at http://littleredleaves.com/contact.html

EPHEMERA ISSUE SIX: for this issue we have enlisted the help of expert ephemera artists Dawn Pendergast and Paul Klinger, who will hereby be joining the LRL masthead! Miraculous and enthralling ephemera will be constructed for each poem accepted and mailed out. We are asking for a subscription donation of $30 for this extremely limited and gorgeously produced edition. We are only offering 10 subscriptions, so please act quickly. Subscriptions to the ephemera series can be purchased through the LRL blog via paypal (http://littleredleavesjournal.blogspot.com). When the ephemera series is complete, each item will be scanned in to comprise the online issue. Please note that we will be accepting submissions for this issue through May 2011. Please send work for consideration through submishmash (http://littleredleaves.submishmash.com/Submit) or see our guidelines page at http://littleredleaves.com/contact.html

Many Thanks --
we look forward to reading your work,
The LRL Editors

Announcing LRL 5!

2010-10-08T07:10:00.000-06:00

Included in the issue:

____Special Feature on the **Paros Translation Symposium** edited and introduced by Joseph Mosconi. With Susan Gevirtz, Angelos Parthenis, Steve Dickison, John Sakkis, Demosthenes Agrafiotis, Eleni Stecopoulos, Katerina Iliopoulou, Liana Sakelliou, Mairi Alexopoulou, Maria Laina, Phoebe Giannisi, Siarita Kouka, Socrates Kabouropoulos, Thanasis Maskaleris, and Vassilis Manoussakis.

____New Work By: Hugo García Manríquez, Stan Apps, Valerie Coulton & Ed Smallfield, Amina Cain, Carolyn Guinzio, Roberto Tejada, Jimmy Lo, Justin Audia, Travis Macdonald, Tasha Marren, Cindy Savett, Kelli Stevens Kane, Aby Kaupang, Carrie Hunter, Amanda Ackerman, Judith Goldman, Jared Shickling, Brad Vogler, Matthew Cooperman, Beverly Dahlen, Karen Hannah, Arkava Das, Christine Kanownik, Laura Wetherington, Burt Kimmelman, Nathalie Knight, William Allegrezza, Meg Barboza, Adam Fagin, and Matt McBride.

____Project Features: Carmen Giménez Smith __Selections from Goodbye Flicker__, Robin Tremblay-McGaw __Selections from THE MELMOTH LETTERS__

____Thomas Fink Interviews Brenda Ilijima

++Plus 5 New e-editions++
Sarah Campbell's Everything We Could Ask For, Brian Mornar's Three American Letters, Mathew Timmons' Sound Noise, Gloria Frym's Any Time Soon, and Eléna Rivera's Remembrance of Things Plastic.

With many thanks to our readers and everyone included!!

Ash Smith, CJ Martin, Julia Drescher, and Chad Heltzel
LRL5 Editors

Launching LRL E-Editions

2010-02-10T12:30:00.000-06:00

Announcing 4 new titles from LRL e-editions:

--Harold Abramowitz's Technique of Bandaging and Splinting,
--Susan Gevirtz's Prosthesis : : Caesarea,
--Ted Greenwald's Permanent Record,
--and Yedda Morrison's Darkness (chapter 1).

Series Editors: C.J. Martin, Ash Smith, and Julia Drescher

The series features both full-length and shorter collections, some reprints and others published here for the first time.

We are offering all of the books as free pdf downloads (http://littleredleaves.com/ebooks/), but have also built sturdier reading copies, which are available through lulu.com. The lulu versions are offered at only $2 above cost in order to pay for the maintenance of the Little Red Leaves website, & they're very handsome! See the site for descriptions/details...

LRL4 is now live!

2009-11-30T16:33:00.000-06:00

Announcing the newest issue of Little Red Leaves!

Featured in this issue is a festschrift for John Taggart, edited by Thom Donovan and C.J. Martin, with poems from Theodore Enslin, Pam Rehm, Eléna Rivera, Joel Chace, Kevin Holden, Frank Sherlock, C.J. Martin, and Thom Donovan. Also in this section is a new long poem from John Taggart, "Kitaj Angels," as well as a selected bibliography of works by and about John Taggart, compiled by Robert J. Bertholf.

This issue also includes new video from Jesse Seldess, a pamphlet by David Brazil, and extended selections of new work from Tyrone Williams, Maryrose Larkin, and erica lewis, as well as poetry from Nathan Austin, Tamiko Beyer, Sarah Mangold, Elizabeth Zuba, Carter Smith, Carol Guess, Britta Kallevang, Rob Halpern, Kate Schapira, Lauren Ireland, Margaret Konkol, David Wolach, Anna Elena Eyre, Kate Colby, Alexander Dickow, dawn lonsinger, Richard Owens, Laura Goldstein, JenMarie Davis, and Felicia Shenker.

LRL4 sees the complete redesign of the LRL website, as well as the launch of three new books in our LRL e-editions series:
Tina Darragh's & Marcella Durand's collaboration, Deep eco pré
Divya Victor's first long player, SUTURES
Norma Cole's Do the Monkey
*See the ebooks page for further details.

Issue 2 is now LIVE

2008-02-18T20:34:00.000-06:00

Little Red Leaves is pleased to announced the launch of its second issue! Check it out here.

Issue 2 includes a selection of excerpts from the second Dos Press chapbook as well as
--Michelle Detorie performing w/Austin percussionist Chris Cogburn in video from the launch reading
--Johannes Göransson reading from his translations of Aase Berg, Henry Parland, & Ann Jäderlund
--Michael Cross reading from his own work and from Brady & Halpern's _Snow Sensitive Skin_.

The issue also features new work from
Cristiana Baik
Kristy Bowen
Joel Chace
Juliet Cook
Elizabeth Cross
Michael Cross
Betsy Fagin
Raymond Farr
Anna Fulford
Crane Giamo
Carolyn Guinzio
Anne Heide
Juliana Leslie
Ixta Menchaca
Bonnie Jean Michalski
Sheila E. Murphy
T.A. Noonan
Dawn Pendergast
Kyle Schlesinger
Sasha Steensen
Michelle Taransky
Eric Unger
Joshua Ware
Snezana Zabic

Issue 3 is a GO!

2008-02-09T12:26:00.000-06:00

Announcing the third issue of Little Red Leaves: http://littleredleaves.com/LRL3/issue3home.html

Featuring work from Lisa Jarnot, Sarah Campbell, Erica Kaufman, Dennis Phillips, Sun Yung Shin, Jocelyn Saidenberg, Elizabeth Barbato, Richard Kostelanetz, Bonnie Emerick, Adam Golaski, Jessica Wickens, Bronwen Tate, David Hadbawnik, Tung-Hui Hu, Shiela Murphy, Linh Dinh, Eric Baus, and Rick London.

Also in this issue are
--an excerpt from a collaboration between Erica Lewis and Mark Stephen Finein,
--poems from Ibrahim Nasrallah (trans. Rick London and Omnia Amin),
--and an excerpt from Norma Cole's Do the Monkey.

We're so thrilled about this one----Enjoy!

Reading Period Now Closed

2007-09-04T15:27:00.000-06:00

The reading period is now closed for our second issue, which will launch in January. The next open reading period for unsolicited submissions is March 1st-June 15th. Guidelines can be found HERE.

Open Call for Responses to the Work of John Taggart

2007-07-07T10:43:00.000-06:00

Guest Editor: Thom Donovan

Little Red Leaves is announcing a call for responses to the work of John Taggart. These will be collected for one of the next few issues, and can include anything you consider "responsive": essays, reviews, poems, visual work, video/audio work, etc. Feel free to query C.J. (cm49600 at gmail dot com) with questions/suggestions/proposals.

Reading period for these submissions is completely open. Please attach poems/prose/visual work as .doc, .pdf, .jpeg or .rtf file, & send video/audio work in an appropriate format (links to video/audio work would be preferable).

Please send submissions to littleredleaves at gmail dot com. When submitting, please include your name & "Taggart" in the subject line.

All best,
The LRL Editors

Hello For Reals!

2007-05-10T20:06:00.000-06:00

**The first issue is now online**

The inaugural issue of Little Red Leaves features poems by Marcia Arrieta, Derek Beaulieu, Jason Christie, Thom Donovan, Raymond Farr,Skip Fox, Elisa Gabbert, Michalle Gould, Arielle Greenberg, Geoffrey Hlibchuk, Victoria Hsieh, Ofelia Hunt, Laura Navratil, Francis Raven,Larissa Shmailo, Elizabeth Treadwell, Sara Veglahn, and Joshua Marie Wilkinson.

Issue one also includes a selection from the first Dos Press chapbook,
featuring poems by Hoa Nguyen, Carter Smith, and Andrea Strudensky.

Please stop by and have a look--we're really proud to feature such
great work in our first issue...

The Editors
Little Red Leaves

Here We Are Hello

2007-05-01T15:55:00.000-06:00

Little Red Leaves is a collectively edited online poetry journal. Our first issue will be released on May 7, 2007. Since this is a collective, we do not subscribe to any one poetics/school of poetry etc. and the hope is that this will still ensure an interesting read. We also have a handmade chapbook press, Dos Press, set to launch in May as well.

Alison Cimino
Michelle Detorie
Julia Drescher
Chad Heltzel
CJ Martin
Pablo Miguel Martinez
Karen McBurney

Wunderkammer Submission Guidelines

2007-04-01T16:04:00.001-06:00

LRL does not read unsolicited submissions outside of the following reading periods:

March 1st-June 15th
September 1st-December 15th

*General Submissions: Please send 3-5 poems (of any length) as a Word, RTF, or PDF attachment to littleredleaves@gmail.com. In the subject line include your name and "general."

*Other Submissions: Each editor might also decide to edit a 'special section' with more specific guidelines. These will be posted separately as such.

Simultaneous submissions are accepted as long as you let us know if someone else has snatched your brilliant poem first.
We do not consider previously published work.

Please allow 3 to 4 months for a response. After 4 months, please query if you haven't heard a word.

*Queries: Send any questions you might have to littleredleaves@gmail.com with "Query" as your subject line.

We look oh so forward to hearing from you.