Word of Mouth Open Mic Tomorrow!

Come out tomorrow to hear some awesome poetry!  And listen to me feature, of course!  Zines will also be for sale at the show.

Athens Word of Mouth is Next Wed!

Next Wednesday, October 6, 2010, Word of Mouth Open Mic will be holding its monthly open mic at The Globe on the corner of Clayton and Lumpkin.  It's an awesome open mic with a featured reader; this month's reader is Ralph LaCharity of Cincinatti, Ohio, who I'm sure will be great!  Aralee Strange is the poet who organizes the event and she always chooses amazing poets to feature.  The open mic is free!  The reading is upstairs, so be sure to stop by the bar on your way up.  This is always a fun event with a lot of stupendous readers and guests; there's a break right before the featured reader, as the event usually lasts from 8pm until about 11/11:30pm.  Get there at 8pm sharp to sign up, as the list fills up quickly, but, if you don't, we can always make room for one more!  (I posted a pic of me reading there last month on the side so you can see what the stage is like.  And click here to visit the Word of Mouth website.)  See you next Wednesday!

New Happenings at Proetry.com

There have been a ton of exciting things happening here at Proetry.com since we last posted: first of all, Athens Word of Mouth website now links to Proetry.com, and, secondly, Yoko Ono is now following us on Twitter!  If you haven't checked us out on Twitter yet, the name is ProetryEditor (that's me!).  If you need to contact us via email, the address is: ProetryEditor@gmail.com.  Hope you had as great a week as we did!

Accepting Submissions for our First Issue!

Hello, world.  We are now accepting submissions for our first issue, which is due out in January, 2011.  We are accepting Poetry, Prose & Art from now until the end of November, 2010.  There will be no pre-picked theme for this issue, but we will try to choose pieces that seem to stem from a common thread when we go through all of the pieces we receive.  I am posting the submission guidelines below.  Please contact ProetryEditor@gmail.com for more info.  Thanks for your interest!  Hope to see some of your work in our inbox, or to see that you came to visit us once the new issue is up!

Submission guidelines:

Poetry - Please only submit 3 poems per person.  Put "Poetry Submission" in the Subject of the Email.  Please send each poem in a separate email to ProetryEditor@gmail.com.  Please include contact info at the top or bottom of each email as well.  No poems longer than 2 pages will be accepted.

Prose - Please submit prose pieces less than 4,000 words for the first issue.  Put "Prose Submission" & the genre (Fiction, Non-Fiction, etc.) in the Subject of the Email.  Please send each prose piece in a separate email to ProetryEditor@gmail.com.  Please include contact info at the top or bottom of each email as well.  Please only submit 1 prose piece per person, as there are not that many editors right now and we need time to review the works.

Art - Please only submit 3 pieces of artwork per person.  I am not sure as of yet if the site designer will prefer .PDF files or .JPG files, but I will let you know as soon as I know.  Put "Art Submission" in the Subject of the Email & attach the files to the email, one artwork per email.  Send to: ProetryEditor@gmail.com.

 If you go to the website to check it out (Proetry.com), right now there is just a Site Under Construction notice posted and the website is still setup as the old format, but please come back to see us in January!  Please submit all work via email, as we are no longer accepting submissions directly through the website, while it is under construction.  Thanks!