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

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!

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**

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!

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

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!**

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**

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.