News at 11

Good news! All entrants in Friday’s competition will win a copy of the Lovelace book.

HaHaClever is looking for submissions. Send your stuff, 1,000 words or less, to submissions@hahaclever.com.

Zzzombiezzz.

Getting the South right, or is it write?

For women poets, the Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize.

Vestal Review has a new feature. Submit something sexy.

A $1,000,000 book. With an added bonus.

Up at Apostrophe Cast, readings by contributors to the debut issue of The Collagist.

One of the best, most honest interviews I’ve ever read, with PGPs Adam Robinson.

Q & A: Agent George Borchardt.

A Franz Wright poem up at Redivider.

The longest poem in the world?

Black Lawrence Press is looking for interns.

Five Chapters is posting entire stories this week.

Read Eric Beeny’s The Dying Bloom, published by Pangur Ban Party.

Poetry festival–Back on!

An interview with Kim Chinquee.

An essay, Lost Cat, by Mary Gaitskill.

There’s a new issue of Fawlt Magazine and a new issue of The Legendary and a new issue of Pindeldyboz and Under Water by Ethel Rohan up at Monkeybicycle this week.

An interview with BJ Hollars.

Erin Fitzgerald, this story is for you.

Alimentum is having a poetry contest.

PANK 3 contributor Daniel Nester shows us his writing space.

The current US President actually reads, therefore it is news when he takes books on vacation with the intent to actually read them.

A tiny rant:   Free is not synonymous with holier, better, faster, stronger. Free   means one does not have to exchange money for a product. You don’t get extra brownie points in heaven for that. There are lots of free things out there–network television is free (but not that good);some great print journals are free (and damn good); lots of online journals are free (and damn good); and the air we breathe is free so basically let’s all stop vying for beatification by talking about how our stuff is free and instead focus on, I don’t know, writing itself?