Poetry Event Featuring Alison Erickson

UPTOWN P.E.N.

Tuesday, September 8th, 2015 from 7pm-8:30pm

Hosted by Jake Friedman

Featuring Alison Erickson

Come hang out in an indoors, relaxed atmosphere and share your passions and insights with a welcoming audience. Bring along poetry, flash fiction, or any other word-craft pieces that respect typical time allowances for group readings. We expect an hour of open mic with first come, first serve sign-ups; the last half an hour will feature one local wordsmith. If you are interested in featuring, please e-mail info@practical-art.com.

Alison Erickson has a bachelor’s degree in Creative Writing from Northland College, where she received the Mary Van Evera Award for Best Poetry. Her work has appeared in several journals, including Dash, Aqueous, and North Woods Writers. In 2011, she earned an internship at The Adirondack Review, working as editor in the fiction department. She currently serves as managing editor of poetry at Four Chambers Press in Phoenix AZ.

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SR Pod/Vod Series: Poet Jory Mickelson

Jory MickelsonEach Tuesday we feature audio or video of an SR Contributor reading their work. Today we’re proud to feature a podcast by Jory Mickelson.

Jory Mickelson’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in Sundog Lit, Weave Magazine, Fjords Review, The Collagist, The Los Angeles Review, The Adirondack Review and other journals.  He received an Academy of American Poet’s Prize in 2011 and was a 2013 Lambda Literary Fellow in Poetry.  He is also the 2014 Guest Poetry Editor for Codex Journal. You can follow him on Twitter @poetryphone

You can listen to the podcast on our iTunes Channel.

You can read along with the work in Superstition Review.

SR Pod/Vod Series: Poet Karen Skolfield

Each Tuesday we feature audio or video of an SR Contributor reading their work. Today we’re proud to feature this podcast and vodcast by Karen Skolfield.

Karen Skolfield lives in Massachusetts with her husband and two kids and teaches travel writing at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is a contributing editor at the literary magazine Bateau and her poems have appeared in The Adirondack Review, Apple Valley Review, Boxcar Poetry Review, Conte, Memorious, PANK, RATTLE, Slipstream, Sugar House Review, Tar River Poetry, Valparaiso Poetry Review, and others.

You can read along with her poem in Issue 8 of Superstition Review.

To subscribe to our iTunes U channel, go to http://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/superstition-review-online/id552593273

Intern Favorites: Literary Journals

There has been a surge in the number of literary journals that request, review, and publish works online. Many of these have long existed in print form before moving onto the web, but some are recent organizations that take a modern approach to the representation of literature and artwork. We asked our interns for their favorite literary journals. This is the list we compiled, in no particular order.

Front Porch – “Front Porch just feels classy. I love the layout with the stationary background image with the scrolling text box.”

failbetter.com – “This magazine felt really well-suited to the online medium. Every story has a link to social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook, where you can ‘like’ what you’ve read. They have a mobile site, which I think will be increasingly important, and their forward thinking seems to be a strong point.”

Coal Hill Review – “This site has a very professional, sophisticated feel about it and features contests and contest winners in different genres.”

The Adirondack Review – “[This is] a beautiful online site, which is easy to navigate and chock full of great literature.”

The Cafe Irreal – “What I enjoy the most from this simple website is definitely the content. It has many issues and the simple design sets a good aura to the whole website.”

Exquisite Corpse – “I like that the website is not used as a prop to enhance the work – the work is simply good on its own and often in spite of its unprofessional presentation.”

Restless: An Arts Anthology – “They do incredible work formatting the ‘zine for the internet. They work art into the pages so that it’s not a large wall of text, which makes reading both easier and more interesting.”

Electric Literature – “I like that this site is using different media to get literature across to a wider audience than print alone can. The site is visually stimulating and you can read it on any medium – computer, smartphone, tablet.”

Blackbird“I enjoy that Blackbird is so academic. There are a great many reviews and academic essays published in every issue that hardly ever fail to be interesting and educational.”