Ephemera Newsletter Iss Feb.3

(Creativity and Motivation Weekly)

Welcome to the Ephemera Newsletter, Dagiti Gagayyem! (Ilocano for “friends”)

Please take a moment, if you haven’t yet, to learn about Ashley Williamson, the Ephemera poet for the month of February. You can review her poems altogether once they publish as well as her artist statement and bio on this dedicated post on our substack page. This week, we begin our letter with a poem from Ashley!

Poetry by Ashley Williamson

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And here are some reminders/announcements:

• Good Contrivance Farm Residency Selection 2023: Winner of the contest is Monique Harris, who will be staying at the farm at the end of May of this year. She will be staying for 5 nights for free and we will send her a $200 travel stipend upon her arrival. Thanks again to everyone who submitted last fall. We’ll be running the program again this spring! The farm is a lovely place and the owners are good people. Paid subscribers to Ephemera at the Yearly level can submit for free each year as a perk (along with submitting to poetry and other programs for free).

• Call For Submissions: We are open for April now. Feb 29 is the deadline. 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 the month). 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 The Field and their sampled and echoing track “Looping State of Mind.”

• Thoughts on Fabio Viale’s marble sculpture’s with tattoos.

• February’s poet, Ashley Williamson and her 3rd of four poems, “We Will Still Sing Lullabies In Deep Space”

• Our weekly lists:

  • 3 magazines with open calls

  • 3 awards/prizes

  • 3 recent job listings for editors and writers.

• **Sponsor: Good Contrivance Farm — Stay at the good contrivance farm year round for a reasonable rate and get some writing done! They also have workshops and other programming to check out.

  

• More ephemera:

  • Interesante selection, Deep reading, how to and what to do;

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

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

• Last Week’s Letter.

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

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Ephemera

Dear Readers,

We’re loopy. The churning earth has us revolving toward the cool out of cold. Vectoring warm, we head into the stylish months where strategic layering is the vibe with reoccurrence, temporary and eternal, on the mind. Layering is akin to sampling,