September 7, 2023
Contest deadlines, new poetry & Diode author interviews
Publishing Opportunity
Have You Written a Chapbook or Full-length Poetry Manuscript?
Diode Editions is seeking poetry manuscripts.
The annual Diode Editions book & chapbook contests are open April 15 through October 30, 2023. Winners are to be announced by November 30, 2023. The press may select more than one book & chapbook for publication. Collaborative & hybrid works are welcome!
Follow the link below for full guidelines. Please feel free to reach out to the team if you have any questions.
New Interview
Diode Author Jane Satterfield (The Badass Brontës, 2023) Interviewed Rosanna Young Oh (The Corrected Version, 2023) for The Common
JANE SATTERFIELD and ROSANNA YOUNG OH—poets who met at the 2023 Poetry by the Sea Global conference in Madison, CT—connected via email between Baltimore and New York City, and reflected on the power of inherited narratives, their shared fandom of Jane Eyre, sustaining creativity, and Rosanna’s newest collection, The Corrected Version (Diode Editions, 2023).
Read the full conversation between the two Diode authors in The Common
New Podcast
Joan Kwon Glass Talks to Dion O’Reilly at The Hive
Joan Kwon Glass zooms into the Hive to talk about her new book Night Swim (Diode Editions, 2022). They also read and discuss Laura Apol‘s poem “Instructions for the Friends Who Are Sorting my Daughter’s Things this Afternoon.”
Listen to the full episode at The Hive. (Content warning: discussion of suicide)
2023 NEPC Prize Winners & Honorable Mentions
#stringofbeads by Lee Ann Roripaugh & Sandman by Huan He
Judge Daniel Barnum awarded Lee Ann Roripaugh an Honorable Mention for her chapbook #stringofbeads and Huan He a Finalist honor for his chapbook Sandman in consideration for the 2023 Jean Pedrick Chapbook Prize. The contest is held by the New England Poetry Club to celebrate chapbooks of poems published in the last two years.
#stringofbeads is an homage to Heian-period Japanese poet Princess Shikishi’s elegant series of linked tanka journaling her days, experiences, and psychological weather—with a lens particularly oriented toward questions of place, ecopoetics, and climate change. #stringofbeads honors both the impulse and practice of Princess Shikishi’s poetics, but in a way that explores contemporary contexts, images, themes, intellectual discourses, and technology. Highways, airports, Pokemon, comics, and social media are all a part of this poet’s daily life and interactions, and are deliberately included within the frame. Determined by the aleatoric minutiae of chance encounters and observations, these tanka are meant to unfold in simple, attentive, daily gradations—like a strand of beads or pearls.
Sandman peers into the slumbering worlds of desire and memory. The collection takes the Sandhills of Nebraska as a storied place for exploring queerness and Asian American experience, dispersed across environments “to see if the earth remembered too, / this time, or the next.” Giving form to “shapes out of air,” the lines reside in the multiple valences of a breath, finding resonances across migrant histories of labor and pleasure.
diode poetry journal 16.2 is live!
New poetry from Subhaga Crystal Bacon, Robert Campbell, Dorothy Chan, Charlie Clark, J. P. Dancing Bear, Ja'net Danielo, Brandel France de Bravo, Cal Freeman, Allison Funk, Jared Harél, Carolina Hotchandani, Amorak Huey, in8 iĐ, W. Todd Kaneko, Yvonne Higgins Leach, Xiaoly Li, Kristine Ma, Sebastian Merrill, Christopher Brean Murray, Remi Recchia, Thomas Renjilian, Brooke Sahni, Alison Stone, Dare Williams, Nicholas Yingling & a review of Jared Harèl’s Let Our Bodies Change the Subject by Karen Corinne Herceg.