I’m in the final editing stages of the Fall 2008 Issue. Contributors will preview their pages later this week, and will be online next week.
This issue will feature new work by...
Melissa Buckheit, Rachel Lehrman, Kenneth Pobo, Amy Lemmon,
Susan Terris, Steve Meador, Robert E. Wood, Laurel K. Dodge,
Karen Head, Scott Owens, Yun Wang, Collin Kelley, Amy Riddell,
Marge Piercy, Tammy Ho Lai-ming, Felicia Mitchell, C. S. Reid,
J. Alan Nelson, C. E. Chaffin, Deborah Vatcher, Leslie Marcus,
and more
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Winter 2009 – special themed issue: Collaboration
Open for consideration: poetry of collaboration or art in collaboration with poetry.
I only consider new work that has not appeared in magazines, print or online...
E-mail submissions to bluefifth@lycos.com
Gellage 107
Michael Macku
Spring Supplement 2006
About Me
- sam of the ten thousand things
- Sam Rasnake, a sardonic twist of fate, is a pathetic excuse for a poet who once dreamed he was a human who dreamed he was a teacher who thought he could play guitar. Along the way - a soul-mate, two children - one collection, Necessary Motions; three chapbooks, Religions of the Blood, Lessons in Morphology, and Inside a Broken Clock. He even thinks he edits a magazine - Blue Fifth Review.
6 comments:
An exchange between Collin Kelley & sam of the ten thousand things
Collin: Very cool looking blog. Have you considered making Blue Fifth Review itself into a blog? Seems like it would make posting, archiving, etc. easier than the old site.
October 21, 2008 9:20 AM
10,000: I have thought about it, Collin. My hesitation has always been a concern for how BFR would be accepted in that format. When I started BFR, online journals were not widely accepted by readers & writers outside the Internet community. That’s why I’m only interested in material that hasn’t appeared in print or online. Since then the poetic community has changed. For example, Robert Creeley was the first ed. of Best American Poetry to include work that originally appeared online. That, at least in my mind, lends a certain credibility to the online format.
My fear would be that if I shifted to a blog format, the magazine might lose readers and contributors. I also realize - that is not a valid argument because I don't really know how BFR is accepted now.
It would be easier, probably, to do the magazine as a blog. Still thinking.
October 21, 2008 11:37 AM
Collin:I think it would go over well, actually. There are a number of online mags now doing a blog format -- Ecotone and Contemporary American Voices instantly come to mind. Just seems like it would be more modern and easy to navigate on a blog. Maybe you should take a poll and see what folks think.
October 22, 2008 8:22 AM
Collin, I would need to work with a view that allows a wide range of poetic forms and line spacings. That would be a major challenge, and could limit the works I would otherwise accept. That's another fear.
If I were to do the change - Winter 09 might be the right time. I'm thinking about it.
That is a good point about the formatting. Surely there is a way to fix this in blogger. I just haven't had time to explore it.
Some of the blogger templates do allow for a wider page. This paricular template that I'm using now does not. I'm experimenting with a wider form to see what is possible.
You've got a great lineup here , Sam. I agree that a blog allows for limited formatting and that does pose a problem. I was reluctant at first to submit poems to a blog based journal, but recntly did and it's a good journal. Ditto with two of my haiga.
To be honest, I still prefer the traditional online journal format, though.
Good point, Pris. Thanks for the input.
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