ANON, a poetry magazine uses a blind review system. www.anonpoetry.co.uk/submissions We’re preparing our next issue but haven’t quite got enough high quality material and would like to invite submissions. As a rule, we don’t really publish poems longer than 40-50 lines, but other than that we’re happy to consider thoughtful and interesting poetry. If you’d be interested in submitting to us for inclusion in ANON 6,...

www.wagsrevue.com/submit.html Wag’s Revue invites you to enter its inaugural contests in fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. Submissions of electronic writing are also encouraged in any of the above genres. First prize in each category receives $500 and publication in Wag’s Revue, and all submissions are considered for publication. There is no limit to the number of entries an author may submit. The contest deadline is May 31, and winners...

www.prunejuicejournal.com You are invited to submit senryu and/or kyoka for the next issue of Prune Juice, Summer 2009. Prune Juice: Journal of Senryu and Kyoka is a biannual journal—a print literary journal, an ebook, and a digital online magazine—dedicated to publishing and promoting fine English senryu and kyoka. Selection Criteria: Senryu generally emphasize human foibles and frailties, usually satirically, ironically, humorously. Season...

In his recent article “The Last Professor” (NY Times, Jan 09), Stanley Fish outlines the current state of affairs in the Academy. Drawing on the recently published The Corporate University and the Fate of the Humanities (Fordham UP, 2008) by Frank Donoghue, Fish writes of the promotion of corporate values in learning, the shrinking number of tenure-stream positions within the Academy (currently 35% in the US), and the expendability of...

The Los Angeles Review is looking for poetry that really kicks. If you just happen to have some you’d like to share in the 2009 issue, please send it to lareview.poetry@gmail.com. For more information and full guidelines, go to www.redhen.org/losangelesreview/ .

heartlodge.org/?p=66 post added October 4th, 2008 Muse with us about the why and how of what we collect. Proposed anthology looking for poems that draw us out of the expected and into the anthropology of collecting: Take us from the universe of small things to universal themes. Dazzle us! Think: bottle of dress buttons santos or bultos spongeware bowls basket of mushrooms heirloom seeds microscopes and maps dreams & stars pioneer diaries...