Ephemera Newsletter Iss March.4

(Creativity and Motivation Weekly)

Welcome to the Ephemera Newsletter free edition, Kanca-kanca! (Javanese for “friends”)

A final thanks and shout out to our poet of the month, Sherry Rind! Sherry’s interesting artist statement and bio are on this dedicated post within our Substack. We want to encourage writers to consider themselves artists, and assess their work purposefully. In order for literature to thrive, we need to have a sophisticated people. Share and discuss widely, even with non-literary folk. The better you can constellate yourself in relation to your own writing, the better able to attract new readers and supporters.

Poetry by Sherry Rind

A Box I Packed Twenty Years Ago

and left to the changeable weather of the garage
contained my son’s entry card
from his eighth grade trip to China
eight months after
his father died

and a receipt from the headstone
marking the ashes.
I wanted a place
where my son could go
later, to retrieve his father
in whatever clips of memory remained.

There’s a photo of the boy in a parka
on a brown sandy shore, not our rocky Pacific home.
Indian Ocean? China Sea?
Someone caught him unselfconscious,
right arm forward with hand curved after a throw,
right heel lifted to step back
from oncoming waves,

horizon curving at the photo’s top
in a thin, powder blue line
barely separate from sky.
Face still unformed,
he thinks only about skipping
the rock, flicking his wrist just right,
a bright blue figure against the mist
watching a stone leap away.

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Thank you for checking out Sherry’s final poem and for contributing to the poetry program.

On to our standard content matters: Won’t you please check out last week’s issue if you missed it.

And here are some reminders:

• Deadline For Submissions: April 5 is the extended deadline for May. If you are a paid subscriber to Ephemera, you can submit to poetry @ Ephemera for free as a membership perk! (We emailed you a secret link). 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 music by Fort Romeau — beginnings and looping and evolution in electronica.

• Michael Armitage and his dreamy yet specific and highly affecting work, built atop a special canvas.

• March’s poet, Sherry Rind and her fourth of four poems, “A Box I Packed Twenty Years Ago.” (see above)

• Our weekly lists:

  • 3 magazines with open calls

  • 3 awards/prizes

  • 3 recent job listings for editors and writers.

• Sponsor:

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• More ephemera:

  • Interesante: an article on plants and whether their “thinking” amounts to cognition.

  • 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.

• Free to read: Our most liked and read back issue of the year was Issue Jan.1

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

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