We aim to highlight the important work of female poets, who are often underrepresented. Rather than personal politics, our criteria are excellence and vibrance. Rather than segregating the poetry of ‘women’s issues’ from ‘regular’ creative work, our goal is to provide an additional arena in which female poets can make their work more visible to readers, building their reputations as artists.
Bone Bouquet will appear in a biannual print edition.
Hello! We hope you are staying safe and sane if you can. We have a few more orders to fill for issue 10.1, and will be POSTPONING the opening of a new reading period for poetry. We simply don't have the time/energy to reopen yet, and we are still catching up on a backlog of submissions.
Thanks for understanding.
Issue 10.1 is all the way at the printer, and copies will start being distributed 2/6! FEATURING:
Kristin Berger
Sarah Boyle
Rachel Cruea
Kate Dougherty
KM English
Katherine Fallon
Carolyn Guinzio
Anne Cecelia Holmes
Leah Claire Kaminski
JenMarie Macdonald
m/ryan murphy
Nicole Oquendo
Addie Palin
Alexandria Petrassi
Angela Qian
Me’Chelle R
Lisa Summe
Elisabeth Workman
Kuo Zhang
And reviews:
Anne Duncan on Heather June Gibbons
Freesia McKee on H. Melt
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Kristi Maxwell featured at Verse Daily! The poem first appeared in our pages. 🎠
Verse Daily, a quality online web anthology of poetry. A poem a day, along with our complete archives, and poem selections from the web.
Maybe one day my web design skills will catch up to the current century, but until then please bear with me and go pre-order the long-awaiting issue 10.1!!!!!!
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Kristen BergerSarah BoyleRachel CrueaKate DoughertyKM EnglishKatherine FallonCarolyn GuinzioAnne Cecelia HolmesLeah Claire KaminskiJenmarie MacDonaldm/ryan murphyNicole OquendoAddie PalinAlexandria PetrassiAngela QianMe’Chelle RLisa SummeKuo Zhang
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Issue 9.2 is officially sold out! If you ordered a copy recently, it's on the way. Lucky you. Time to kick 10.1 into high gear!!
Join us! We are raising funds for Belladonna* Collaborative
Bone Bouquet wants you to donate to Raise Up Belladonna* by Belladonna* Collaborative
Whoa! I just unlocked this nifty feature where we can set up our own mini-fundraiser to feed into Belladonna*/Belladonna Books AKA Belladonna* Collaborative's big big fundraiser campaign. Click through! We set a modest supporter goal of bringing in $500 toward their large goal of $48k. Belladonna* has been our fiscal sponsor for many years, and at times a true lifeline. Give if you can! No dollar amount too small--a rally of small gifts shows the world how many people value the books and events this organization has produced over the last TWENTY YEARS.
Bone Bouquet wants you to donate to Raise Up Belladonna* by Belladonna* Collaborative
Not to brag but we published LaTasha’s poem”Damn Right”! Check out the video and find your way to the Belladonna crowdfund campaign if you can—today there’s a special perk for big ($300+) donors: a limited edition Mimi Gross print!
Latasha N. Nevada Diggs reads from and talks about her collection TWERK
Just 16 copies of issue 9.2 left!
If you've placed an order, it's on the way or packaged up and waiting for me to go to USPS.
If you haven't, what are you waiting for??
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Grace ArenasEmily Blair M. Soledad Caballero Amy Katherine Cannon Catherine Chen Julia Clark Shanna Compton Melissa EleftherionAudrey FokFaylita HicksMelissa Hohlvivian ia Kirsten Ihns Silvia La Rote Aurora Linnea Zefyr Lisowski Kristi Maxwell Freesia McKee Lynn Melnick, Peyton Prater Stark, Jane Vi...
Also uncovered: Caroline Cabrera was the Verse Daily poet of the day on March 17 with her poem from issue 9.1--Congrats, Caroline!
http://www.versedaily.org/2019/aboutcarolinecabrera.shtml
Verse Daily, a quality online web anthology of poetry. A poem a day, along with our complete archives, and poem selections from the web.
Sharing this interview Trina and Krystal did a year ago because if you haven't seen it, it's new to you.
https://minnesotareview.wordpress.com/2018/04/17/an-interview-with-bone-bouquet/
So thrilled to see two new poems from Marina Blitshteyn at Hyperallergic this morning!
https://hyperallergic.com/493050/two-poems-by-marina-blitshteyn/
Our poetry editor, Wendy Xu, has selected two poems by Marina Blitshteyn for her monthly series that brings original poetry to the screens of Hyperallergic readers.
New work en route from: Faylita Hicks, Amie Zimmerman, Kristi Maxwell, Shanna Compton, Kailey Tedesco, M. Soledad Caballero, Melissa Hohl, Melissa Eleftherion Carr, Freesia McKee, Grace Arenas, Peyton Prater Stark, Sara Moore Wagner, Vivian Ia, Zefyr Lisowski, Jessica Wickens, Amy Katherine Cannon, Angela Narciso Torres, Aurora Linnea, Jane Virginia Rohrer, Kirsten Ihns, Lynn Melnick, Ally Young, Catherine Chen, Julia Johanne Tolo, Silvia La Rote, Emily Blair, & Julia Clark!
Hot tip: we like publishing writers multiple times! Been in our pages before? You’re welcome to submit work again. We used to think you should wait a year, but we aren’t worried about that anymore. Go for it!
Putting issue 9.2 to bed means we are ready to open for submissions again! Opening at midnight local time tonight...
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We are currently closed to poetry submissions. Check back for an update on when submissions for poetry open again. Bone Bouquet seeks to publish the best new writing by female and non-binary poets, from artists both established and emerging. We are especially interested in work that breaks with trad...
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Past contributor Valerie Hsiung wins contest judged by past contributor Danielle Pafunda! Congrats!
Bayou Magazine is pleased to announce the winners of this year’s contests. Congratulations to Andrew De Silva, winner of the James Knudsen Prize for Fiction and Valerie Hsiung, winner of the Kay Murphy Prize for Poetry. See full list of finalists and judges' comments on our website, https://bayoumagazine.org.
Got a book review of a work by a female or nb poet? Send it to us right away for possible inclusion in the forthcoming issue!! Via Submittable or by email to bonebouquet @ gmail. Payment is $10 and a print copy. xo
New chapbook from a past contributor!
anna elena eyre is currently a PhD candidate in poetics and poetry at SUNY-Albany. Recently, her work has been published in Little Red Leaves, H_NG M_N, EOAGH, Moira, and others. Her chapbook Metaplasmic was published by effing press in 2004. ' she today the world is A charge she A molecular structu...
Past contributor alert!
I’m here to obliteratea bag attached to my ankle, to dapple paper with defunct stone forts full of bread-sized animals. I can pick up a glove dropped by a saltwhite bibledove then somehow use it to regrass a gas station’s small parking lot. Someone ok should know I wear a warmed cup over my lump...
Winner of our one and only experimental prose contest 100 years ago, Lesley Wheeler has a new book out!
L. Ann Wheeler is the artist and writer behind Abandoners, a hybrid graphic text that is at once creative nonfiction, poetry, catharsis…
Several reviews from issue 9.1 now posted online to read for free! Including books from Copper Canyon Press, {dancing girl press & studio}, 1913 Press, and Terrapin Books. 📚📚📚📚📚📚📚📚📚📚
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We are looking to reach 30 new or renewed subscriptions by end of 2018 to offset printing expenses for issue 9.2.
Skip the wait and submit your work while the reading period is closed when you buy a subscription:
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Mailing the last of the subscriber copies of 9.1 tomorrow! Still plenty of copies left--order one for yourself!
We were lucky to publish Marina Blitshteyn’s chapbook Nothing Personal a few years ago, and are so pleased to have pre-ordered her first full-length book from Argos!!
The sonically-hypnotic poems in this collection pry open the space between sounds and what they mean, and the violence of this prying is analogous to the ordinary violences that women live with the world over. “Orange you happy yet, a serious threat/a surfeit, a certain fate, a surer fret,” Blit...
Former contributor Maryam Ivette Parhizkar had the The Academy of American Poets' poem-a-day recently!
Read today's Poem-a-Day: Maryam Ivette Parhizkar's "Study Guide toward Naturalization of the Mouth." www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/study-guide-toward-naturalization-mouth
Not much time left to pre-order since copies shipped from the printer today!! Run out (sit right there!) and order your copy now.
Last and biggest notice of the day! Issue 9.1 is available for pre-order at the link. New work from: Gabrielle Civil, Raphael Schnee, Ashna Ali, Rebecca Tseng, E. Kristin Anderson, and more!! Pre-order now, shipping in 3-4 weeks' time
We used to run a pretty successful annual 30 subscriptions in 30 days campaign on Facebook. Did our energy run out or yours? What's your favorite reason to renew or subscribe to a lit mag?
Last and biggest notice of the day! Issue 9.1 is available for pre-order at the link. New work from: Gabrielle Civil, Raphael Schnee, Ashna Ali, Rebecca Tseng, E. Kristin Anderson, and more!! Pre-order now, shipping in 3-4 weeks' time
To subscribe to Bone Bouquet, please visit our Subscription page. All content © Bone Bouquet, unless otherwise cited. Website designed by HR Hegnauer.
Additional new information! Issue 7.1: just 14 copies remaining, and they're kinda on sale? $8 including shipping for these last copies! Work from Judith Goldman, r. erica doyle, Patricia Spears Jones, many more!
http://www.bonebouquet.org/issue-7-1/
Jessica Guzman Alderman Robyn Art Annette C. Boehm Shevaun Brannigan Ashley Chambers R. Erica Doyle Judith Goldman Jennifer Hanks Elaine Hsiang Jessie Janeshek Patricia Spears Jones Erika Dane Kielsgard Brenna Lee Erin McIntosh Janet McNally Sahar Muradi Tiana Nobile Nina Puro Ashley Roach-Freiman L...
Lo and behold, Issue #7.2 is sold out, so please enjoy a free PDF of the full issue. Features work from Jennifer Firestone, Laura Jaramillo, Alice Notley, and many more!
http://www.bonebouquet.org/issue-7-2/
Jessica K Baer | Alyse Bensel | M.K. Brake | Gillian Cummings | Nandini Dhar | Erin Dorney | Marcella Durand | Laura Esposto | Georgia Faust | Jennifer Firestone | Sarah François | Clare Harmon | Marissa Higgins | Nazifah Islam | Laura Jaramillo | Jill Khoury | Martha King | Michal ...
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Cover snapshot for forthcoming issue 9.1!
Now is a great time to subscribe! Issue 9.1 is forthcoming soon, and will feature work from Gabrielle Civil, Emma Sanders, Ashna Ali, nicole v basta, Ananya Kumar-Banerjee, and MORE!
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New subscriptions will begin with issue #8.2. (If you’re interested in receiving prior issues, just add a note and tell us!) For institutional rates, please email us!
Hats off to Evie Shockley!!! So proud that two of the poems in this book appeared previously in Bone Bouquet.
The finalists for the 2017 L.A. Times Book Prizes in 10 categories are announced today. Also, John Rechy will receive the Kirsch Award for lifetime achievement and Glory Edim of Well-Read Black Girl will receive the Innovator's Award.
NEWS! A feeling of urgency swept over us, and we decided to make our poetry book reviews available to read for free on the website! Yearning for a thoughtful engagement of poetry? We've gotcha covered.
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Thanks to our #8.2 issue review writers Ana Paula, Anna Sandy, Ariel Kusby, and Anna Langston!
Theo Ellin Ballew | Bronte Billings | Sherese Francis | Jessie Janeshek | Belynda Jones | Christine Kanownik| Eunsong Kim | Joohyun Kim | Katherine LaRue | Jenna Le | Mingpei Li | Sandra Marchetti | EG Asher | Carol Mirakove | Madeleine Mori | Jennifer Nelson | Marina...
Now open for submissions through April 30! More news to come this week!
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Bone Bouquet seeks to publish the best new writing by female and non-binary poets, from artists both established and emerging. We are especially interested in work that breaks with tradition, creating new forms by dwelling in thought rather than seeking epiphany. We accept submission of poetry, poe....
DUE TO POPULAR DEMAND for excellent poetry reviews, we'll be posting our book reviews section online later this week! Stay tuned.
January 24th: first Belladonna* reading of 2018 at Pioneer Works!
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Our library subscribers include: New York Public Library, University of Arizona Poetry Center, University of Buffalo Poetry Periodicals, and Canisius University.
Issue 8.2 scheduled to be delivered to HQ today!
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