Category Archives: Writing
Ten Tips for Getting Published in CounterPunch/Poets’ Basement (or Anywhere Else)
1. Read the Submission Guidelines and actually follow them. Poetry editors don’t set up guidelines just for kicks: there are specific reasons for each guideline. We receive a lot of submissions and having them formatted a certain way or delivered … Continue reading
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The Last Autumn
Lying on the couch with a fever raging through me, I watch leaves dropping from the cottonwood outside my window. I have one hand on a speaker so I can feel this violin sonata of Mozart. Sometimes hearing just isn’t … Continue reading
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Submit your Poetry to Poets’ Basement on CounterPunch
CounterPunch is the internationally renowned political newsletter edited by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair. Its weekly poetry installment, Poets’ Basement, has published work by Robert Creeley, Harold Pinter, Laurence Ferlinghetti, Patti Smith, and William Heyen, as well as many … Continue reading
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Marc Beaudin 