Ephemera Newsletter Iss April.4

(Creativity and Motivation Weekly)

Welcome to the Ephemera Newsletter paywalled edition, Inshuti! (Kinyarwandan, a Bantu language, for “friends”)

In our final issue of the April quartet, we lead with the 4th poem from Jacquelyn Shah, Ephemera’s poet for the month of April. The first May issue (a free edition) will be next weekend. One final request from us to readers to review Shah’s poems as well as her artist statement and bio on this dedicated post. We thank you for checking out Shah’s work.

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Standard content matters: Won’t you please check out last week’s issue if you missed it.

And here are some reminders:

• Call For Submissions: April 30 is the deadline to appear in June. If you are a paid subscriber to Ephemera, you can submit to poetry @ Ephemera for free as a membership perk! (We email you a secret link at the end of your second consecutive paid month and every month thereafter for as long as you are a paid subscriber). Free subscribers and anyone else can submit, too, with the reading fee and can submit up to 10 poems. Paying the reading fee will grant you 1-month paid access to Ephemera’s full letter. Learn more or:

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In Brief…this week’s features:

• Thoughts on Ikonika’s freestyle, electro-house track “Your Body.”

• Looking at the Anselm Kiefer’s long body of work making cultural, historical, and philosophical illusions.

• April’s poet, Jacquelyn Shah and her fourth of four poems, “Confession / Conclusion.”

• Our weekly lists:

  • 3 magazines with open calls

  • 3 awards/prizes

  • 3 recent job listings for editors and writers.

• **Sponsor our letter! Reach out to info@Litbreaker.com to advertise with us.**

• More ephemera:

  • INTERESANTE: In this issue, we look at a podcast on how to get out of a rut.

  • Book Recs, bonus content, and our mini-essays to start!

    • Important Book: Hidden Life of Trees

• Support us on Bookshop - See our past book recs and others. A highly curated list.

• Last Week’s Issue.

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Merci. Danke. Kiitos. 고마워 Go-ma-wo. Cảm ơn. Xiè xiè.

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Ephemera

Dear Readers,

Whenever we travel, be it for work, vacation (that might be a misnomer these days), and obligations (weddings!), we seek to sneak in some art, abscond with our partners during a lull, a transition, an early morn with optional accountability. Lo, bookending our trip with a wedding in San Francisco, google-watching flights for cheapies, we