Duotrope's Digest

In case you don't already know, Duotrope's Digest is one of the damn finest websites around for poets and fiction writers. It's an online directory of literary magazines that publish fiction and poetry and it goes into all the details, making your life a lot easier. So you want to find a list of all journals that accept simultaneous submissions and accept electronic submissions? Easy. You want to find who has the fastest response rate? Done.

In short, the website includes all sorts of information about bazillions of different venues, as well as fascinating stats like a magazine/journals average response time, their acceptance rate, and so on. And it's free! It's a wonderful resource, and it's one we use around here at Knockout quite a bit, when we're sending out our own work.

As a matter of fact, I'm sending out work right now. (Lady rejection, here I come!)

Here's the website: http://duotrope.com/

Knockout Closed to Submissions Until #3 is out

Dear Knockout Readers,

We've been getting lots and lots of submission, which is fantastic, but Knockout is a
two-man ship. (Perhaps a dinghy?) Jeremy and I are working away at getting KO #3 to Press, and that will take up all of our efforts for the near future.

For this reason, Knockout will not be considering unsolicited submissions until February this year. Any submissions received during this period will not be read, and we'll delete them. We'll begin taking submissions again on February 1.

Thanks for the submissions and for helping make KO great.

Joe Milford Hosts Knockout Editor Jeremy Halinen

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Knockout Co-Editor Jeremy Halinen Interviewed on Joe Milford's Poetry Show!

2009 International Reginald Shepherd Memorial Poetry Prize Results Announced

We're pleased to announce the results of the 2009 International Reginald Shepherd Memorial Poetry Prize. First of all, thank you to everyone who entered--it was an exciting and difficult process to narrow down the field, and we were quite impressed with the quality of the work we received. Thanks are also in order to Carl Phillips, who was gracious enough to judge the contest. In all, there were 53 entries to the 2009 International Reginald Shepherd Memorial Poetry Prize, for a total of 266 poems. Of these, 37 were semifinalists, nine finalists, three runners-up, and three winners.

We've also got exciting news about the 2010 International Reginald Shepherd Memorial Poetry Prize: C. Dale Young will serve as the final judge for the 2010 Prize. Stay tuned for complete contest information; we'll have it online by October at the latest.

Finally, Knockout is re-opening to submissions on September 1st; please feel free to send some work our way!

See below for a complete list of the 2009 prize winners, runners-up, finalists and semi-finalists:

WINNERS (selected by Carl Phillips)

First place winner: Occupation* (Kelly Madigan Erlandson)

Second place winner: Archaic Bronze** (Christian Gullette)

Third place winner: Wood*** (Larry Bradley)

* For her winning poem, Kelly Madigan Erlandson will receive (1) a $300 gift certificate to Powell’s Books, (2) publication in the fourth issue of Knockout Literary Magazine, due out in 2010, and (3) five copies of the issue. All entrants will receive a copy of the issue. Please notify Knockout (via an email to knockoutrsprize@gmail.com) of any postal address changes to ensure you receive your copy.

** For his winning poem, Christian Gullette will receive (1) a $50 gift certificate to Powell’s Books, (2) publication in the fourth issue of Knockout, and (3) two copies of the issue.

*** For his winning poem, Larry Bradley will receive (1) a $25 gift certificate to Powell’s Books, (2) publication in the fourth issue of Knockout, and (3) two copies of the issue.

RUNNERS-UP (selected by Carl Phillips)

First runner-up: Modern Ripple**** (Rickey Laurentiis)

Second runner-up: August, near Arles**** (Richard Foerster)

Third runner-up: Faggot**** (Rickey Laurentiis)

FINALISTS (in alphabetical order by poem title, selected by Knockout’s editors)

Fourteen (Lauren K. Alleyne)

He Calls Her Etsy (Karen Schubert)

Mirror God (Rickey Laurentiis)

Mother Loved to Joke (Joe Eldridge)

Muster (Kelly Madigan Erlandson)

The Reproduction of Desire (Julie R. Enszer)

Still Birth, September 22 (Karsten Piper)

There’s Always One on the Driveway, Featherless, (Diane Seuss)

Touch (L. Lamar Wilson)

SEMIFINALISTS (in alphabetical order by poem title, selected by Knockout’s editors)

Temp Work (Emily Van Kley)

Argo Navis (Jory Michelson)

Ars Poetica: Nov. 7, 2008 (L. Lamar Wilson)

Being Young (Kelly Madigan Erlandson)

Biting on Ginger (Chip Livingston)

The Café by Foujita (Christian Gullette)

Chip & Nico (Chip Livingston)

Cutlery Tale (P. Hurshell)

Daphne (Richard Foerster)

Dear Batman (Christian Gullette)

The Face of It: A Meditation on an HIV/AIDS Poster on the A-train (Lauren K. Alleyne)

The Gift of Flight (Chip Livingston)

Going Through Life Wearing a Bathing Suit and Helmet (Amy McLennan)

He Looks at Clouds (Joe Eldridge)

How It Touches Us (Lauren K. Alleyne)

Hunting Morels (Christopher Hennessy)

Impersonal Paragraph (J. Marcus Weekley)

Invocation (Binh Nguyen)

Love with the Beer Brewer (Ching-In Chen)

—Me Tangere**** (Rickey Laurentiis)

Mnemonic Device (Binh Nguyen)

Monument Avenue (Jeffery Berg)

One Explanation (Julie R. Enszer)

Otro Banda, The Other Side (Christian Gullette)

A Prayer for the Phlebotomist (L. Lamar Wilson)

Small Traffic (Emily Van Kley)

Surrender (Christopher Hennessy)

Tarry (L. Lamar Wilson)

“The Village Advocate” by an unknown Dutch Master, c. 1600 (Robert Kramer)

That the Body Wants (Lauren K. Alleyne)

To My Father’s Blue Tuxedo (Christopher Hennessy)

Unburdened (Christopher Phelps)

Vestiges [excerpt] (Phillip Brian Williams)

What I should Have Told the Homeless Man

in Cleveland Who Mistook Me for Mary’s Son (L. Lamar Wilson)

Where Ocean Meets Sky (Derrick Austin)

The Window (Suzanne Bottelli)

The Wrestler (Christian Gullette)

**** Knockout has offered to publish this poem in its fourth issue.

2010 International Reginald Shepherd Memorial Poetry Prize

Call for Submissions [coming soon]

Knockout Literary Magazine’s newest poetry contest, the International Reginald Shepherd Memorial Poetry Prize, aims to honor the memory and work of poet Reginald Shepherd, who left us on September 10, 2008. For more information on Reginald Shepherd’s life and work, visit his blog: reginaldshepherd.blogspot.com.

Carl Phillips was the final judge for the 2009 Prize. The complete entry guidelines for the 2010 Prize will be posted online at knockoutlit.org/rsprize.htm no later than October 2009. C. Dale Young will serve as the final judge for the 2010 Prize.

The 2009 International Reginald Shepherd Memorial Poetry Prize

Don't forget that the deadline for the 2009 International Reginald Shepherd Memorial Poetry Prize is coming up! Entries are due by August 1st! Get more information and enter here.

Knockout Gets Positive Review in Library Journal!

Brett here: Great news. Knockout got a positive review in Library Journal!

Check it out here: http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6660434.html?industryid=47384

Knockout Reading at Revolution Books in Seattle.

Knockout editor Jeremy Halinen is giving a 20-minute reading on Saturday at 7 pm at Revolution Books (their grand reopening) in Seattle. Here's the info:

Host:	Revolution Books
Type:	Music/Arts - Performance
Network:	Global

Date:	Saturday, May 30, 2009
Time:	7:00pm - 7:30pm
Location:	Revolution Books
Street:	89 S Washington St
City/Town:	Seattle, WA

Phone:	2063257415
Email:	rbsea@yahoo.com

Knockout Closed to Submissions Over the Summer

Dear Knockout Readers,

We've been getting lots and lots of submission, which is fantastic, but Knockout is a
two-man ship. (Perhaps a dinghy?) Jeremy and I therefore need the summer to focus on getting Knockout #3 out on time (Fall of 2009)and we need to go on a promoting binge for the 2009 International Reginald Shepherd Memorial Poetry Prize, which has a deadline of August 31, 2009.

For this reason, Knockout will not be considering unsolicited submissions from June to August this year. Any submissions received during this period will not be read, and we'll delete them. We'll begin taking submissions again on September 1.

Of course, rest assured that we will be accepting entries for the 2009 Reginald Shepherd Memorial Poetry Prize. For guidelines, see www.knockoutlit.org/rsprize.htm.

Thanks for the submissions and for helping make KO great.

A Great Poetry Radio Show Online | Joe Milford

If you're poetry-heads like so you should check out Joe Milford's Poetry Show. He hosts all sorts of fine writers--a look at his upcoming shows is INSANE:

04/29/09 Wed 700p-830p	Matthew Zapruder
05/02/09 Sat 500p-630p	Michael Dumanis
05/03/09 Sun 500p-630p	Anselm Berrigan
05/04/09 Mon 800p-930p	Michael Grover
05/09/09 Sat 300p-430p	Leonard Gontarek
05/09/09 Sat 500p-630p	Franz Wright
05/16/09 Sat 500p-630p	Alan Shapiro
05/17/09 Sun 500p-630p	David Lehman
05/23/09 Sat 500p-630p	David Oprava

Even better, these shows are archived and free!

Check it out at http://joemilfordpoetryshow.com/

Reminder, Knockout Literary Magazine Reading at Nina's on June 3rd @ 7 PM

This Just In: Brett here, and I'm happy to announce that there will be a Knockout reading at Nina's Cafe on June 3, @ 7 PM. Brett will be reading from the 2nd issue--stay tuned about the rest of the line up!

Special Guests: STAY TUNED.
June 3 at 7pm
Nina's Cafe
Address: 165 Western Ave N, Saint Paul, MN 55102
Phone: (651) 292-9816

For now, here's a map of how to get to Nina's. The meantime, visit Nina's, it's a great place to visit, and if you need any added incentive, don't forget that Common Good Books is right below Nina's! (There's even a shortcut through Nina's to the bookstore!) Finally, MANY thanks to Todd Boss for helping us arrange the reading! Are you attending? RVSP here:


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Knockout Chosen "Best Literary Magazine of the Twin Cities of 2009" by The City Pages of Minneapolis-St. Paul

Great news—Knockout was selected as "Best Literary Magazine of the Twin Cities" of 2009 by The City Pages. And congratulations are in order to KO contributor Louis Jenkins, who was selected as best poet of 2008-2009.

New T-Shirt

A New T-Shirt, created by the ever-random Brett. Check it, and all my other wacky t-shirts, here: http://www.zazzle.com/pinata_tshirt-235246019581053496. This image is pretty small; the "no baseball bat" sign in the corner reads: Put the bat down, candy is our blood.

SUPERHERO ANTHOLOGY: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

SUPERHERO ANTHOLOGY: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Editors Andrea Reid and Maya Jewell Zeller are currently seeking submissions for an anthology of superhero poetry, tentatively titled "Between Saviors and Villains: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry Inspired by American Superheroes."

Send 3-6 poems and a cover letter including your contact information, comments on how your poems are meant to explore the concept of superheroes, and a brief bio to superheropoetryanthology@gmail.com. Please include all materials in one attached (.rtf) document. Simultaneous submissions are fine, as are poems previously published in magazines, chapbooks, and full-length poetry collections, though the author must retain reprint rights. Please note any credits in your bio.

For more information, see our blog: http://www.superheropoetryanthology.blogspot.com

(Photo of Major Mars courtesy of http://pdsh.wikia.com/)

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Happy Good Friday, y'all

Happy Good Friday. Here's a great painting by Antonio Ciserie titled "Ecce Homo" (or "Behold the Man!) that depicts Pontius Pilate presenting Christ to the crowd.

Baseball Update

The Minnesota Twins defeated the Seattle Mariners this evening. I attended yesterday's wonderful game, but I unfortunately encountered some variety of human tsunami. See for yourself:

Too funny

So as you probably noticed, we have Google ads on this site. They read the site and then produce "appropriate" ads for the content.

These ads just appeared when I was checking out the site:

Peter Singer

Depression Signs

Clinical Depression

Depression Support

Treatment Depression

I'm half tempted to email Mr. Singer--he might get a kick out of this.

And now I'm going to take some Zoloft and cry.

So I stumbled upon this size comparison of crocodiles and humans, and I couldn't help editing it a bit.

And here's my edit:

Iowa rocks!

A quick surprise in the news this morning. From Yahoo and the AP: " Iowa court says gay marriage ban unconstitutional."

As I understand it, this means, in effect, that gay marriage is legal (or will be) in Iowa.

Holy cow! Or should I say, corn?