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Posted in News, Published Fiction, Published Poetry, Uncategorized, tagged vote on 11.06.2012 | Leave a Comment »
“Only Seventeen” – Citizen Brooklyn Magazine
Posted in News, Published Poetry, tagged abandoned, brooklyn, Citizen Brooklyn, freedom, Literature, McDonalds, mother, new york, new york city, Poetry, renting, runaway, Seventeen, teen, teenager, The Stone Hobo, underage, YMCA on 06.22.2012 | Leave a Comment »
“Only Seventeen” now up at Citizen Brooklyn, a magazine
devoted to “unique energy, diversity, and expression.”
When they pick me up, Mother
won’t come
get me.
This lifts my runaway status,
sets me
free…
<<read more>>
The poem was first published by The Stone Hobo.
Pay them a visit too, if you have the time.
“Adventures of an Alaskan Barfly” – GARGOYLE #58, Paycock Press
Posted in News, Published Poetry, tagged adventure, Alaska, Amazon.com, bar, cutting, dancing, editing, Gargoyle, love, novella, paycock press, smoking, winter, word, words, writing, writing process on 06.10.2012 | Leave a Comment »
When I finally admitted that a paragraph did not belong in my novella, I cut it and sent it to the word cemetery for burial. Writers always kill their darlings though. We are accustomed to letting go and moving on, and our words learn to live with it.
The night of the cutting though, beneath moon-shimmer, my left-for-dead words arose, crept off together into the world and, in their innocence, stepped beyond the pale. But there, in that wilderness, the words gathered experience and cultivated their own ideas about what they should become. In time, they grew into a poem. At last they danced, but with a rhythm and an emotion true to their origin.
“Adventures of an Alaskan Barfly” would not be if I had left those words where they were, because nothing dances where it does not belong. So I continue, in what may be perceived as cruelty, to cut. So sorry, my darlings. You will thank me later.
(“WTF?!” artwork for the cover of Gargoyle #58 is by digital illustrator, Cintia Gonzalvez. If you are wondering, Papa, “WTF?!” means “Why the frown?!”)
Adventures of an Alaskan Barfly
Step out. Light up.
Beyond, the pale
January snow bank and moon-shimmer
melts
this darkness…
<<read more>>
~ Gargoyle #58, Paycock Press – get it at Amazon.com
New Poetry – Every Day Poets
Posted in News, Published Poetry, tagged aviary, Biology, birds, blackburn pavilion, clock, Flora and Fauna, hummingbird, London Zoo, love, Poetry, Recreation, whirling dervish, zoo, Zoology on 03.15.2012 | Leave a Comment »
To the Man Passing London Zoo’s Blackburn Pavilion Clock at 12:30 p.m.
Like a hummingbird
pinned to a fencepost, freed
of its Whirling Dervish world… <<read more>>
Note: London Zoo’s Blackburn Pavilion houses hundreds of bird species and includes the largest collection of hummingbirds in the U.K. The clock at its entrance springs into mechanical life, complete with chirping birds, every half hour.
London Zoo’s press team thought the poem was “fantastic” and tweeted about it on their Twitter page:
https://twitter.com/#!/zsllondonzoo
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If you visit Every Day Poets, please vote – the star you click gives the poem a 1-, 2-, 3-, 4-, or 5-star rating.
Check it Out – Amazon Author Page
Posted in News, Published Fiction, Published Poetry, tagged Adoption, American Short Fiction, anthology, Arts, Catalyst Book Press, dark moon books, Fiction, flash fiction, Hint Fiction, horror, love, non-fiction, Online Writing, Poetry, publish, publishing Industry, vagabondage press, Valentines Day, W. W. Norton & Company, Writer, Writer Resources, writing on 02.16.2012 | 1 Comment »
Whether you want super-shorts or love, horror or personal stories, or a mix of them all, there’s something for you at the Natalie McNabb Amazon Author Page. Check it out, if ya wanna…
Paycock Press
Paperback: $18.95
Hint Fiction: An Anthology of Stories in 25 Words or Fewer
W. W. Norton and Company
Paperback: $11.13
Kindle Edition: $8.99
Love Notes: A Collection of Romantic Poetry
Vagabondage Press
Paperback: $14.95
Kindle Edition: $3.82
Frightmares: A Fistful of Flash Fiction Horror
Dark Moon Books
Paperback: $14.95
Silent Embrace: Perspectives on Birth and Adoption
Catalyst Book Press
Paperback: $12.48
Vagabondage Press
Kindle Edition: $2.99
New Poetry – LOVE NOTES, Vagabondage Press
Posted in News, Published Poetry, tagged Day, Finding, Holidays, Love Notes, Poetry, romance, Valentine, Valentines Day on 02.02.2012 | 1 Comment »
Two new pieces, just in time for Valentine’s Day–
and
–in Love Notes, A Collection of Romantic Poetry
“Love shared, love in secret, celebrated, exploded…Love Notes has it all…” ~ Vagabondage Press
P.S. – As you inspire me in so many other things, you are the inspiration for these. I like you lots–not as in parking lots or casting lots, but as in lots and lots, as in bunches. Happy Valentine’s Day, luv. (Everyone else - As you probably guessed, P.S. does not stand for postscript here, and you can barf now.) ~ N
Writers: The Next Rock Gods
Posted in News, Published Fiction, Published Poetry, tagged American Short Fiction, Arts, arts funding, Fiction, God, Organizations, publish, publishing Industry, rock star, stage, Writer, Writer Resources, writing on 12.24.2011 | Leave a Comment »
Say it will be so…
Despite slashes to arts funding and a rapidly changing publishing industry, an email this morning relit my hope for fiction writers. According to American Short Fiction:
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2011 06:13:19 -0500
To: me
From: them
Subject: Writers are the next rock gods
…Maybe you’re OK with a world where there’s a widening disconnection from art and people feel powerless to stop that. We’re not. We don’t want to talk about whether fiction is dying, we want to show you how deeply it’s thriving…
Sincerely,
The Editors
I believe! And, I want to shout it to the world, as you can see. I promise to work on the outfit before I hit a stage anywhere though. Until then, pay American Short Fiction a visit. They really are pretty awesome.
Three cheers for the future rock gods–writers!
~ N
New Poetry and Fiction – Online, In Print and On the Backs of Punks, Thieves and Anarchists
Posted in News, Published Fiction, Published Poetry, tagged alumni, art, Fiction, flash fiction, Online Writing, Poetry, Safety pin on 09.29.2011 | Leave a Comment »
look for new Flash, Micro Fiction and Poetry to show up online, in print and in some other not-so-normal places over the next few months
The Safety Pin Review
find it online
hear it on Centerpiece, WECI 91.5fm
Eclectic Flash
The Battered Suitcase, Vagabondage Press
Frightmares Flash Fiction Anthology, Dark Moon Books
Microstory A Week
Grey Sparrow Journal
Six Minute Magazine
Short Stories, Vol. I, eChook Digital Publishing
Gargoyle Magazine
and others
Regulating Light Bulbs? Seriously?!?
Posted in News, Published Fiction, Published Poetry, tagged Ban (title), Compact fluorescent lamp, Environmentalism, Fluorescent lamp, Incandescent light bulb, Light, Thomas Edison, Writer on 07.07.2011 | 2 Comments »
I will buy a truckload of old-fashioned light bulbs if they ban incandescents. My issue with halogen and flourescent bulbs? The color, poor quality, and flicker tires and offends my eyes. I would rather write by candlelight.
Use whatever bulb you prefer, but don’t tell me which bulb I must buy. Going green is fine, and I’m on board for the most part, but forcing your ideas on others proves nothing but how unenlightened you really are.
Three cheers for Edison’s incandescents and a ‘BOOO!’ for lawmakers and others who have nothing better to do. ~ N
“Seeing the Light”
by Moira Allen, Editor,
http://www.writing-world.com
I don’t often use this space for “advocacy,” but this month I’m going to make an exception. This month, I’m going to take a stand for something that is of rather great importance for writers: Light. Many of you are probably aware that a ban on incandescent light bulbs is scheduled to go into effect in the U.S. in January 2012…What is offered in place of such bulbs is a choice between halogen and “compact fluorescent” bulbs… <<read more>>
Reading Now – The Imperfectionists – by Tom Rachman
Reading Now – Story Engineering – by Larry Brooks
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