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Sunday, March 26, 2023

Lines

by Maria Mathai

Ripples of wind
Shiver the leaves of a willow tree
Rain drops speckle wood

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Call for Submissions

Through September 23, 2023, Plum Tree Tavern welcomes the submission of works that feature rivers as the subject (As of September 1st, this has expanded to bodies of water). Specificity is required in a submission. "The river runs beneath the bridge" is a message for a greeting card, not a poem. "The Chattahoochee River runs beneath the bridge on 141" conveys the level of detail requested by this call. Regular submissions on other subjects are also welcome. General tavern guidelines apply to all submissions.

Welcome

Plum Tree Tavern invites original and previously unpublished poetry of green witness and red protest.

Climate change and social and economic repression are inextricably linked. The crowd denying or preventing effective responses to global warming is the same crowd repressing equality within society.

For the green witness and ecopoetic half of the equation, Plum Tree seeks work focusing on specific images of physical nature. Work that focuses on the image in nature as it exists is greatly preferred over the writer’s judgments of the image.

The term “red protest” is deliberately used here to call for poetical works of leftist resistance. The tavern is not looking for wishy washy give peace a chance plea bargains but for work with a sharper edge. But manifesto, diatribe and polemic without poetical structure or elements isn’t the ticket either.

Works of up to 40 lines sounds about right. Longer work will be considered. One submission of up to three poems per month sounds about right, too. Speaking of the calendar, please submit seasonal work: in season.

Nature photography is always welcome, especially landscapes, river images, coasts and forests. Images may be placed within the Tavern's own pages or an associated gallery.

Jpegs please, around a meg. Up to four images per submission.

Please note that with all the wild beauty in the world, photographs of gardens and other arranged scenery will generally not be accepted.

This is a bar. Repeat customers are encouraged.

The editor expects that submissions will adhere to all guidelines. This includes the fine print, linked here and separately below.

To submit, send one to three works in the body of an email to plumtreetavern (at) gmail (dot) com

No word attachments, except by prior arrangement.

Guidelines

Guidelines
Guidelines for the Submission of Haiku

Masthead Image

Branch of Blossoming Plum by Soga Shohaku, c. 1770, Edo period, Japan, ink on paper (Sackler Museum). Image in the public domain.

Comments

Comments on the posts are welcome and encouraged. Comments will be moderated by the editor and may take up to 24 hours to appear.

Publication Schedule

Plum Tree Tavern is published on Wednesdays and Sundays. Works may be posted on other days by decision of the editor.

Editor Interviews

2022 Duotrope Interview
2016 Poetry According to Pops
2015 Duotrope Interview
2014 Poets Interviews
2013 Poetry Pacific Interview
2013 Blues GR Interview

Hatagoya's Desk

Magnolia Blossoms:
Georgia Newspapers Bring Haiku to the Peach State, 1961—1968
Cherry Blossom Season: Haiku Blooms in the United States 1959-1961
The Wheel and the Willow:
Pottery and Poetry Meet in 18th Century Japan
A Net of Fireflies
Buson's Advice: Haiku of the Four Elders

Hatagoya's Bookshelf

Japanese Haiku
Peter Pauper Volume 1
Monkey's Raincoat
Ogura Hyakunin Isshu (100 Poems, 100 Poets)
Man’yōshū (The Collection of a Myriad Leaves)

Hatagoya's Library

A Haiku Library
Tales and Verse

Imperial Waka Anthologies

1st Anthology Kokinwakashū
2nd Anthology Gosenwakashū
3rd Anthology Shūiwakashū
4th Anthology Goshūiwakashū
5th Anthology Kin’yōwakashū
6th Anthology Shikawakashū
7th Anthology Senzaiwakashū
8th Anthology Shinkokinshū

Plum Tree Tavern Special Editions

Plum Tree Tavern: Winter Haiku (2023)
Plum Tree Tavern: Autumn Moon (2022)
Plum Tree Tavern: Haiku of Chiyo-Ni (2022)
Plum Tree Tavern: Homeless (2022)
Plum Tree Tavern: The Haiku Issue 2016-2020 (2022)
Plum Tree Tavern: Russia (2021)

The Best of Plum Tree Tavern

Plum Tree Selections Volume Six
(2023)
Best of Plum Tree Tavern 2016 to 2020 (2022)
Plum Tree Selections Volume Five (2020)
Plum Tree Selections Volume Four (2019)
Plum Tree Selections Volume Three (2018)
Plum Tree Selections Volume Two (2017)
Plum Tree Selections Volume One (2016)

Galleries

Stone Lake Gallery
Woodcuts, Autumn Moon Festival 2022
Woodcuts (1), Winter Haiku 2023
Woodcuts (2), Winter Haiku 2023

Tip Jar

Science Links

Laudato Si’ On Care for Our Common Home Pope Francis
Living Planet Report World Wildlife Fund 2020 Our relationship with nature is broken.
Living Planet Report World Wildlife Fund 2018 Human Activities Unsustainable
United Nations Reports Now or Never
The Uninhabitable Earth
Deadly heat waves projected in the densely populated agricultural regions of South Asia
Pollution Devastating China's Vital Ecosystem
Ganges River Dying under Weight of Modern India
Most Endangered American Rivers
Causes of Deforestation
Living with Lead An Interview with Bradley D. Snow
English Pen

Human Rights

Universal Declaration of Human RIghts
Anti-homeless laws criminalize survival

Headwaters

The Haiku Foundation
Haiku Society of America
Tanka Society of America

Poetry Links

25 Protest Poetry Collections
30 Poetry Collections of Resistance by Women
Austerity Measures: The New Greek Poetry
Futures: Poetry of the Greek Crisis

Cabarets

A Journal by M. G. Michael
Affirmation Photography
Anti-Heroin Chic
Dust Poetry Magazine
Ecotheo Review
Front Porch Review
Poetry in the Moment: Chen-ou Liu's Published Poems
Synchronized Chaos
The American Dissident
The Beatnik Cowboy

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First Snow by Lynda Lambert
Gone Viking: A Travel Saga by Bill Arnott
The Year of the Bear by Douglas J. Lanzo

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