San Diego Poetry Annual
The San Diego Poetry Annual -- 2009-10 is now in the production stage and will feature 222 poems by 146 poets -- by far our biggest and best edition yet, thanks to efforts of Regional Editors Brandon Cesmat, Teresa González-Lee, Seretta Martin, Robt O’Sullivan Schleith and Terrence Spohn.
A special bilingual section features work in Spanish and English.
There were no restrictions, no taboos. Work was selected solely on the basis of quality.
There are no fees of any kind. Contributing poets are not required to buy a copy of the annual. Once the retail price of the new edition is set, copies will be made available to contributing poets at a reduced price -- the publisher makes no profit on sales to contributing poets. This year, contributing poets will be encouraged to pre-order as many copies as they want at the discounted price so they can avoid shipping charges by picking up the copies at the celebratory readings. Those readings will be announced soon.
There is no pay. Instead of handing out copies to contributors, we send those very copies in the name of the contributors to libraries to ensure the widest possible readership and the permanence of the annual.
The San Diego Poetry Annual is now part of the permanent collections of UCSD, San Diego State, Cal-State San Marcos, Mira Costa College, San Diego City College, Southwestern College, San Diego County Library, San Diego City Library and the city libraries of Escondido, Oceanside and Carlsbad.. Over 20 branches of the county library system received individual copies, in addition to circulating copies from the central headquarters.
The new annual will be available at authorhouse.com, amazon.com and barnesandnoble.com. The 2006, 2007 and 2008 annuals are also available at these same on-line stores.
SUBMISSIONS to the 2010-11 edition will open on July 1 and close on December 15, 2010. Specific guidelines will be announced soon.
Questions or comments? Contact gardenoakpress@earthlink.net.
Contributing poets for the 2009-10 annual:
Featured Poet:
Cecilia Woloch: Postcard To Ana Leo From A Storm, Ottava Rima: Rage, Patricia, Flying, Pantoum: Le Jardin D’Isabelle, The Anti-BioJoseph D. Milosch: Great Grandfather And Compost, Yellowstone’s Buffalo
Jason Runnion: Sitting On The No. 10 Bus, Command Performative
Gail Rudd Entrekin: Rearrangement Of The Invisible, Edinburgh
Brandon Cesmat: Escondereños, La Boca De Tijuana
Jen McBroom: I'll Remember, Sex Is Like . . .
Lilah Sugarman: BepaSheli RoyShelch, Collapse Of Recollections
Sam Hamod: Others Dreams, Kinds Of Sky ,
Siddhartha Sarkar: My Sister Called Me From Kolkata
Sandy Carpenter: Pointed Present, Eighth Wonder Of The World
Linda Hutchison: Santa Ana, Not My Scene
Lenny Lianne: See What I’m Saying, In Pursuit Of Happiness
R.D. Skaff: Poet’s Pasodoble, Valentine’s Day Again
Kristen Quinn: Second Hand Smoke
Tina V. Cabrera: Heavy Water Shed, Caged My Heart
Daniel Charles Thomas: C O R R E D O R
Kim Noriega To The Whore Who Took My First Husband, The Sound Of A Tattoo, Fading, Wedding Day; Dulzura, California
Paul Colaluca: Radio Afternoon
Linda Engel Amundson: Saint Barbara Of Mattel, Iceberg Garden
Curran Jeffery: Sideways Glance, The Sadder Side Of Things
Barbara Joan Tiger Bass: white sand beach, Galapagos Islands, navidad
Grace Marie Grafton: The Owl Speaks,
Dick Eiden: Understudies, Making Arrangements
Cheri M. Bentley-Buckman: Could Have Been Coal, Being An American
Cathy Woo: Gently Water Rubbed Back Of Rocks, Strength And Flexibility
Dolores Young: Again He Dreams Of Enshi, Melbourne
Brad McMurrey: Pronoun Relationships
Michael “Rocky” Silva: Goodbye Suburbia
Andy Palasciano (Untitled), Adolescence
Diane Funston: Maui, Revisited, Bones
Mai Lon Gittelsohn: Chop Suey, Looking For Sea Hares
Ken Buhr: PTSD, Clots
Clifton King: In Search Of The Esquire Girl, Highway 101
Kyla Krut: Light On A Still Life,
Maya Alvarez: (Untitled), Graduation Announcement
Marte Bröehm : Agapanthus And Geranium And Eucalyptus And Bird, Root
Steve Kowit: Small Boats, Crossing The River, Desperate Solutions
Adam O. Davis: Extinction Days, 1873., Filmstrip, 1962.
Jill Moses: Floating, Poem For Rene
Oriana: Wine Silk Skirt, Vivaldi
Kyle Martindale:
Portrait of Myself As An Old WomanT.C. Bagshaw: Drink A Glass Of Sweat In TJ
Jane Mushinsky Avenida Fuego, Gentrification
R. T. Sedgwick:The Ocean, White Apples
Mary Leary: Tonight As I Was Pushing Another Packet Of Crackers, Irish CD Review
Olga Garcia: Movie
Kate Harding: Blueberries, In Bed With The Glemby Hair
Rae Rose: A Statue Is Unveiled, Her Chagal
DHR Fishman: Love Potion, Milton’s Daughters
Heather Fowler: Dear, Dear, Snowed-in March Against the Beautiful Pain Memory Of Love
Bradley Steffens: El Chupacabras
Kathleen Peckham: Rookery, (Untitled)
Ruth Nolan: Wonder Valley, Silent Night
Iolanda Scripca: We Need The Dreaded Autumn
Kate Watson: The Bouquet
Billiekai Boughton: If You’re Torn, Morning Satellites
Shadab Zeest Hashmi: Juana La Loca
Trish Dugger: Scrambled, Otherwise
c.a.lindsay: line in the sand, c l e a n s h e e t s
Terrie Leigh Relf: Non-Geosynchronous Orbit, Cotton Candy
Anne-Marye Risher Dytewski: Mosaic Of War
Michael Cheno Wickert: We Were Born
Diana Griggs: Morning Cannot Be Allowed, The Tree
Harry Griswold: Phenylpropanolamine, Half-Told, 2009
David Bolduc: Catku, Weekends
C. V. Will: The Snail, Proportionality
Ann Tweedy: space & time
Devan Schwartz: Ginsberg
Gordon Lee Johnson: Moonlight Thump-Chump, Big Indian Woman Anthem
Diantha L. Zschoche: Eye Witness, Hostess
Angie Vorhies: On The Face of It
Lauren Owensby: Unraveling Passions
PS2 Marc Adamson
, USS Jarrett: The One Who Is Like The MoonDionne Blaha: The Dance, Feather Messenger
Rod Bradley: The Lion, Letters
Joanne D’Amato: I Never Knew His Name, Second Chances
Daniela Schonberger: A Sense of Peace, Seafood City Market
Deborah Ramos: Sunset Silhouette
Terry Spohn Gorkis Comes To The Neighborhood Reunion, ice rose lane
Isabel P. Ball: A Hidden Path
Robt O’Sullivan Schleith: Map Of This New World
Jan Gallagher : Valley Center Memories, Starlight
Barbara Deming: Flower Music
Ephraim Scott Sommers: Palm Reading, The Patient
Luis Pichardo: Dictionary
Jon Wesick: Twenty-Five Definitions Of A Poem, Dogma’s Wife
Kristen Scott: Palermo,
John Webb: What We Learned About Love, As Much Here As Anywhere
Una Nichols Hynum: The Wild Kitten, Keeper Of The Bees
Denise Stephenson: First Person Singular,
Sharmagne Leland-St. John: Snug Harbour
Michael C Ford: A Poem That Refuses To Be Called Dusk, Squall
John Rubio: Bed And Breakfast, Sun Season
Peter Hepburn: Run Daddy Run
Seretta Martin: Let Sun In, In His Workshop
Anita Curran Guenin: Truth, Imagined Their Lives
Kelly Stokes Brown: Roll, Over Coffee
Christopher Mulrooney: Coronado, the glad nook
Jim Moreno: gender truth/human truth,
Nancy Shiffrin: First Rush Of Air,
Dewey Reeves: And The Worms Ate Into His Brain
Karen Stromberg: Congestion
Marco Alvarez: Girl From My Shower, The Sunlight And You
Margaret Susan McKerrow: The Abandoned Garden
Diane Gage: Scobey, Appearances
Sharon Laabs: We Said They Didn’t Get It
Tina Culp-Barton: just me and the moon
Fred Longworth: Because Feathers
Jillian Dimitriou: Grandma’s Visit, I Am
tomás gayton: Alone Together, South Park Blues
Lisa Albright Ratnavira: From Her Sorrows
Celia Sigmon: Crestwood Summit
Paul A. Szymanski: To The Young, Dead Composers
Matthew Villaluz: The Tree
Joyce Nower: This Might Have Ben Eden
Michelle Monson: Bedroom
Stephen Kopel: beta carotene
John Myers: Desperate Solutions
Danielle Moniz: The Hallway
Jenny Minniti-Shippey: Discovery
Loch David Crane: Bike To Work Day
Claudia Poquoc: The Tamarisk Tree
Roger Funston: Now I Remember
Iolanda Scripca: We Need The Dreaded Autumn
Elizabeth Yahn Williams: Perusing The Parrot
Wanda Jackson: The Wedding Dress
Regina Morin: Calendar
Janet A. Baker: Sunflowers
Nicole Leon: Autumn, Strawberry
Dan Adams: Obsolete
Jihmye Collins: Internet Isolation FaceBooking My Space
Michael S. Horvitz: North Park, North Park, Body Of Verse
Special Bilingual Section
Nuestras Fluidas Fronteras De Poesía
Amidst Our Fluid Borders Of Poetry
Teresa González-Lee: Hermano De Los Poetas, Poetry’s Fraternal Voice
Jon Wesick:Casa De Neruda, Neruda’s House —
translators: Lauren Wellman and Teresa González LeeConnee Davis: Volcán Antuco, Antuco Volcano —
translator: Teresa González-LeeSonia Guitérrez:Del Machete A La Pala, From The Machete To The Shovel
Olga García: Trece A Los Trece, Thirteen At Thirteen
Tomás Lucero: Muerte En El Campo De México, Death In Rural Mexico —
translator: Edith Jonsson-DevillersFrancisco J. Bustos Se Llevaron A Mis Primos, They Took Away My Cousins
Edith Jonsson-Devilleurs: Puesta De Sol En El Pacífico, Sunset Over The Pacific
Vicky Nizri: Canta El Verano, Summer Sings —
translator: Megan WebsterSergio Ochoa
: Relaciónes, RelationshipsOlivia Ruiz: Nos Despedíamos, We Were Saying Farewell
Jose Lobo: Jinetes Azules, Blue Riders —
translators: Brandon Cesmat and Teresa González-LeeMarion Foerster: Cambios, Changes —
translator: Edith Jonsson-DevillersYvonne Arballo: Éxtasis, Wet Words
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