And we have a new phone number:  347.857.7636.

We’re sending a poem by David Yezzi today–text join to 347.857.7636 to receive it and other upcoming poems!  If you don’t receive it this afternoon, it’ll come this evening.

Thanks!

~Cellpoems

Cellpoems gets ekphrastic.

Shady Peepers!

In order to mark the beginning of our second year, Cellpoems is seeking to take full advantage of the ubiquity of digital cameras.  You know you have one attached to your cellphone, your ipod, on your laptop computer, maybe even on your creepy new sunglasses you bought from Skymall.

So, we want you to send us a picture you’ve taken, accompanied by a 140 character poem that connects with that picture.

We don’t yet have any spiffy submission form wherein you can upload your pictures, so please email your image, your poem (140 characters or less), and a brief bio to submissions@cellpoems.org, with the subject line “ekphrasis.”

Nota Bene

By submitting these photos, you are confirming that a) they are your original images and b) any person(s) appearing in the image has given you and Cellpoems permission to present their images on cellpoems.org and in any future print editions.

Thanks!  Please share this with your friends.  We’ll be sending poems again starting next Wednesday, and launching a new website closer to October.

Thanks for your attention!

Cellpoems

Cellpoems will be taking a text hiatus from June 1 through August 31. Keep coming back to the website for yearlong content, and join us on Facebook and Twitter for announcements, riddles, and links to our favorite hip hop songs. We’ll be back, texting weekly poems, starting September 1, 2010!

We’d like to thank you for your enthusiasm and support of Cellpoems during our inaugural publishing season! We’re proud to have published poems from many of our favorite poets, pleased to have discovered some new favorite poets, and excited about all the great poems to come.

Over the summer, we’ll have regular web content, including columns on poetry, interviews with poets, and celebrity gossip. New web items will be announced on Facebook and Twitter.  Check back for more details!

We’re on a bliss train after recieving an Innovations in Reading Prize from the National Book Foundation. We congratulate the other great winners, 826 Valencia, Free Minds Book Club & Writing Workshop, Mount Olive Baptist Church, and United Through Reading. If you haven’t checked them out already, please have a look.

Over the summer, we’ll be switching our texting service from an ailing Blackberry to Frontline SMS, which will allow us to send poems on a more regular schedule to a whole lot more subscribers.

Don’t forget–we accept submissions year-round. You can submit via text at 317-426-POEM or online.

Thanks for the laughs! Good luck at summer school! See you next fall!

oxox,

Cellpoems

THE POET ON THE POEM–

The poems in “Puritanisms” take as their triggering concern Puritan diaries, that strange form of expression in which one “confesses” oneself to oneself, a doubling of the private that in essence ends privacy, and forcibly puts one in consideration of oneself as a primary form of doubt. –Dan

Chicago born, Dan Beachy-Quick grew up in Colorado and upstate New York. He attended Hamilton College, the University of Denver, and the Iowa Writer’s Workshop. He has taught writing at the School of Art Institute of Chicago, and currently he is an assistant professor of English at Colorado State University. Beachy-Quick is the author of three previous books of poems, North True South Bright (Alice James, 2003), Spell (Ahsahta, 2004), and Mulberry (also available from Tupelo, 2006); of the chapbooks Mobius Crowns (with Srikanth Reddy: P-Queue, 2008) and Apology for the Book of Creatures (Ahsahta, 2008); and a book of essays, A Whaler’s Dictionary (Graywolf, 2008).

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Heather Hamilton is a PhD student in the creative writing program at the University of Cincinnati, where she serves as Assistant Editor for The Cincinnati Review. Her poems have appeared in DMQ Review, RHINO, and Subtropics, and have been featured on Verse Daily.

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Matthea Harvey is the author of Sad Little Breathing Machine (Graywolf, 2004) and Pity the Bathtub Its Forced Embrace of the Human Form (Alice James Books, 2000). Her third book of poems, Modern Life (Graywolf, 2007) was a finalist for the National Book Critics Cirlcle Award and a New York Times Notable Book. Her first children’s book, The Little General and the Giant Snowflake, illustrated by Elizabeth Zechel, is forthcoming from Tin House Books. Matthea is a contributing editor to jubilat, Meatpaper and BOMB. She teaches poetry at Sarah Lawrence and lives in Brooklyn.

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Suzanne Buffam is a Canadian poet. She graduated from the writing program at the University of Victoria, and later the Master’s program in English at Concordia University and Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She currently teaches creative writing at the University of Chicago. Her first book of poetry, Past Imperfect (Anansi) won the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award in 2006. Buffam also won the 1998 CBC Literary Award for Poetry. Her second book, The Irrationalist, will be released by Canarium Books on April 1, 2010.

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Matthew Ladd was born in Los Angeles and raised in the Texas Panhandle. The most recent the winner of the Anthony Hecht Award, Matt’s first book, the The Book of Emblems, will be published next fall by Waywiser Press. He holds an MPhil in Divinity from the University of Cambridge and an MFA in Poetry from the University of Florida. His poems have appeared in such journals as The Paris Review, Yale Review, Virginia Quarterly and Antioch Review, and he has written criticism for The American Scholar, The Humanist and Threepenny Review, among other publications. He also writes an annual poetry review for West Branch, the literary journal of Bucknell University. He currently lives in New York.

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Todd Boss’s award-winning debut poetry collection, Yellowrocket (Norton, 2008) has enjoyed widespread critical and popular acclaim. Todd’s poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, The Best American Poetry, and Virginia Quarterly Review, which awarded him the Emily Clark Balch Prize in 2009.

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Suzanne Buffam is a Canadian poet. She graduated from the writing program at the University of Victoria, and later the Master’s program in English at Concordia University and Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She currently teaches creative writing at the University of Chicago. Her first book of poetry, Past Imperfect (Anansi) won the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award in 2006. Buffam also won the 1998 CBC Literary Award for Poetry. Her second book, The Irrationalist, will be released by Canarium Books on April 1, 2010.

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