Welcome to the February 2010 line-up for Every Day Poets. We have poets waxing – well – poetic on romance as our homage to St. Valentine’s Day. Tucked in between the sheets are snippets of humor for those of you less inclined to dip your sentiments in syrup.
February is about more than St. Valentine’s Day, of course. We did not make a poetic link to all February observances, but managed to hit a few. The month begins with writer Langston Hughes’ birthday. Since we had no poetry about Langston Hughes, we honored writers in general with David Siegel Bernstein’s, “The Emancipation of Sylvia Plath”. February 2 observes both Groundhog Day and Candlemas, neither of which brought out any predilection for targeted verse among our poets, so we jumped in with Alex Franco’s, “Pagan Feast.” From there, we romance, contemplate, and laugh our way beyond mid-February into the Chinese New Year with TL Payne’s, “Mandarin Moon”. A’keith Walters’, “Taxi Money”, may cause Mardi Gras revelers to consider how much they will need to atone for on Ash Wednesday. The rest of the month is a mixed bag of images and observations that offer up something, hopefully, for everyone.
We are not the only ones who have something to offer this month. Please check out The Best of Every Day Fiction Two, a collection of 100 flash fiction pieces from Every Day Fiction’s second year of publication. It’s delectable.
And now for our selections…..as always, enjoy. Share. And, if you write, consider submitting your very best poetry under 500 words to Every Day Poets.
- Kathleen Cassen Mickelson, Editor and Slush Reader
A word from Oonah Joslin, Managing Editor: New Submissions System
As of February 1, we have a new submissions system operating at EDP. It is the same system that has been used at EDF for the past several months.
For our contributors, it means:
- You won’t have to type the same profile information in every time you want to submit a story.
- You can track the status of your poems.
This is an open ID system, but I am assured that it is perfectly secure (as a contributor to EDF myself). It is very easy to use and we hope to see all our regular contributors as well as many new friends.
Thank you to everyone for making EDP such a success!
February’s Table of Contents
| Feb 1 | David Siegel Bernstein | The Emancipation of Sylvia Plath |
| Feb 2 | Alex Franco | Pagan Feast |
| Feb 3 | Amy Corbin | Morning Coffee |
| Feb 4 | Stacy Post | Lost & Found |
| Feb 5 | Allie Dresser | Addiction and Driving |
| Feb 6 | Shelley White | Aunt Agatha’s Handbag |
| Feb 7 | Robin V. Herrnfeld | Resolution |
| Feb 8 | Brian Sullivan | Dancing With the Doors |
| Feb 9 | Catherine Edmunds | (untitled haibun) |
| Feb10 | Douglas Pugh | Garden of Dreams |
| Feb11 | Stephanie E Manning (Australia) | Majesty of Shooting Stars |
| Feb12 | Nick Bowman | Sea Shanty |
| Feb13 | Ben Langhinrichs | Gran’s Wisdom |
| Feb14 | Nicky Phillips | Thoughts Across the Ocean |
| Feb15 | TL Payne | Mandarin Moon |
| Feb16 | A’keith Walters | Taxi Money |
| Feb17 | Richard M. O’Donnell | The Photograph |
| Feb18 | Jeff Jeppesen | Snapshots |
| Feb19 | Michael D. Turner | Chupacabra Go Home |
| Feb20 | Barry Napier | Cars Left Abandoned On Friday Night |
| Feb21 | Lindsey Duncan | Dreamweavers |
| Feb22 | Linda Simoni-Wastila | Monday morning before the garbage truck comes |
| Feb23 | Rumjhum Biswas | I Am That Is You |
| Feb24 | Michelle Lin | Talking to Dead Poets |
| Feb25 | Nick Weingartner | George #3 |
| Feb26 | William Dexter Wade | Fibonacci Paean |
| Feb27 | Magdalen | Distant Wavelengths |
| Feb28 | Divya Rajan | Tonight |
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