This Sunday, January 10th, at 8pm ET, producer Juniper Moon welcomes poet Derek Sheffield to Sunday LIVE. Invite your friends and join us for some great conversation and inspiration!
Derek Sheffield’s collection, Not for Luck, was selected by Mark Doty for the Wheelbarrow Books Poetry Prize. His other books include Through the Second Skin, finalist for the Washington State Book Award, and Dear America: Letters of Hope, Habitat, Defiance, and Democracy, which he coedited with Simmons Buntin and Elizabeth Dodd. He lives on the eastern slopes of the Cascades in Washington and is the poetry editor of Terrain.org. www.dereksheffield.com
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DoveTales Call for Submissions
Our 2021 DoveTales call is “Letters from the Self to the World.” This is an exciting epistolary issue, guest edited by Adriana Páramo. The deadline is March 1st 2021, and it will be published on May 1st, 2021, both online and in print. Read the full guidelines here.
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Writing for Peace challenges young writers (ages 13-19) to expand their empathy skills by researching an unfamiliar culture and writing from the point-of-view of a character within that new world, while exploring social, political, and environmental pressures, and universal themes. The deadline for entrance is March 1st, 2021. Enter to Win our $200 Grand Prize. Check out our full guidelines here.
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Lauren Camp is the author of five books, most recently Took House (Tupelo Press, 2020), which Publishers Weekly calls a “stirring, original collection.” Her poems and interviews have appeared in Witness, Poet Lore, The Rumpus, DoveTales and other journals in the US and abroad. Honors include the Dorset Prize and the National Federation of Press Women Book Prize, and finalist citations for the Arab American Book Award, the Housatonic Book Award and the New Mexico-Arizona Book Award. Her work has been recognized with fellowships from Black Earth Institute and the Taft-Nicholson Center. A visiting scholar/poet at the Mayo Clinic, this year she was selected to be one of 100 international artists for 100 Offerings of Peace. Her poems have been translated into Mandarin, Turkish, Spanish, and Arabic. 
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