Calamaro Magazine

12/22/2018

UPDATE ON THE STATUS OF CALAMARO MAGAZINE: The magazine continues to be on hiatus and is currently closed for submissions. We hope to revive the magazine at the beginning of 2019, with a focused team effort to push the truck out of the mud and get her back on the road. The addition of a very capable part-time staff member will be of great help. Among other changes, we will begin using Submittable (see submittable.com), improving the efficiency of submissions handling as well as submission-status information, to the benefit of the submitters and the Calamaro staff. Once we reopen submissions, we will still accept submissions by email and postal mail as well as via Submittable. Right now the first three issues of Calamaro are available in their entirety as PDF files, accessible from the PAST ISSUES page of our website. We plan on posting the complete fourth issue (with a few errors corrected) by the end of December, and all future issues will also be available as PDF files through our website. Going forward, all Calamaro content will be available for free online to everyone. Print copies of the magazine will cost only $5 (up from $4) and one-year subscriptions with cost $10. (www.calamaromagazine.com)

Calamaro is a print poetry magazine established in 2014, equally open to formal and free verse, staple-bound, published twice a year, open to both formal poetry and free verse.

06/13/2017

Update on the printing of the fourth issue of Calamaro (Winter/Spring 2017): We brought 50 copies of the original printing to the West Chester University Poetry Conference this past week, but we found a number of typos still, so we will be doing another press run with those changes. We expect to mail out that issue to accepted poets, subscribers, and friends of Calamaro by the end of June.

05/07/2017

After what has amounted to a one-year hiatus in printing issues of Calamaro, we expect to print our fourth issue (renamed Winter/Spring 2017 rather than Winter/Spring 2016) by the end of May. A selection of poems from that issue may be found on our website - poems by Gail White, Jan D. Hodge, Charlotte Mandel, Adrianne Kalfopoulou, Claudia Gary, and Paul Lamar. http://www.calamaromagazine.com/current-issue/

Calamaro is a print poetry magazine established in 2014, equally open to formal and free verse, staple-bound, published twice a year, open to both formal poetry and free verse.

11/08/2016

DESPITE EVIDENCE SUGGESTING OTHERWISE, WE'RE STILL BREATHING! We've had a series of challenges with our website for over two months, but we have a new designer under contract who is currently working on the website, and we hope to have the website (calamaromagazine.com) live again in mid November. As for the fourth issue of Calamaro, we apologize for the numerous delays in its release, but we hope to have that printed by the end of November. A selection of poems from the fourth issue will be on the website as soon as it goes live. If this poetry journal appears to you to be run by amateurs, you're right, but we hope to improve. Thank you for your ongoing patience!

09/22/2016

NOTE REGARDING THE WINTER/SPRING ISSUE OF CALAMARO: We have encountered a number of setbacks in getting the current issue of Calamaro published. We apologize to our paying subscribers and to the poets whose poems are included for the long delay. We expect to electronically send a final draft of the issue to the printer Sunday night (thoroughly proofread and hopefully without any errors). We would then get the printed copies within the first few days of October. We will be emailing the contributor notes to the poetsto allow them to update them as necessary, especially with titles of books that are forthcoming or have been released since the time their poem was accepted. We apologize again, and hope the product will be worth the wait!

07/01/2016

Our poem of the week on Tumblr is "Ha'penny Bridge" by David Kitchel, which is in our third issue. Please click this link to our Tumblr feed to read the poem: http://www.inkofthecalamaro.tumblr.com/
David Kitchel lives in Nashville, Tennessee with his wife and their two sons. His poems have appeared in Blue Penny Quarterly, New Millennium Writings, and The Chattahoochee Review.

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06/09/2016

Our poem of the week, which appears in our third issue, is "Automatic Starter" by John Manesis. You can view the poem by clicking the link below even if you haven't joined Tumblr. John Manesis is a retired physician. He has published five volumes of poetry, and his work has appeared in Wisconsin Review, North Dakota Quarterly, Colere, and California State Poetry Quarterly among many other publications.
http://inkofthecalamaro.tumblr.com/

06/01/2016

Our poem of the week on Tumblr, which appears in our third issue, is "Burn" by Ed Shacklee. You can view the poem by clicking the link below even if you haven't joined Tumblr. Ed Shacklee is a public defender who represents young people in the District of Columba. He lives in Takoma Park, Maryland and is working on a bestiary.
http://www.inkofthecalamaro.tumblr.com/

05/16/2016

Our poem of the week on Tumblr, which appears in our third issue, is "Nightjar" by Kevin Durkin. You can view the poem by clicking the link below even if you haven't joined Tumblr. Kevin Durkin has published his poems widely, including in Poetry, New Criterion, Yale Review, and in the anthologies Irresistible Sonnets and Measure for Measure. His first collection of poetry, Los Angeles in Fog, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2013. He is the managing editor at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California. http://www.inkofthecalamaro.tumblr.com/

05/15/2016

In addition to the three Calamaro editors being at the Poetry by the Sea Conference in Connecticut at the end of May (see the May 9 post below), editor Lane Young will be at the West Chester University Poetry Conference (June 8-11) on the WCU campus in Pennsylvania. She will be on the Formal Friendly Editors panel at 1:00 pm on June 8.

West Chester University, a member of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education, is a public, regional, comprehensive institution committed to providing access and offering high-quality undergraduate education, select post-baccalaureate and graduate programs, and a variety of educational and…

05/10/2016

The editors of Calamaro (Lane Young, Stephen Windham and Anthony Harrington) will be participating in the Poetry by the Sea Conference held May 24-28. We look forward to meeting some poets in person for the first time there!

Poetry by the Sea is a global poetry conference, which will take place for the second time in Madison, CT, from May 24-28 2016.

04/25/2016

Our poem of the week on Tumblr is "Self Portrait: Camera Obscura" by Kevin Casey. ABOUT THE POET: Kevin Casey has work forthcoming or recently appearing in "Paper Nautilus," "Rust + Moth," "San Pedro River Review" and other publications. His chapbook "The wind considers everything—" was recently published by Flutter Press, and another of his chapbooks will soon be released by Red Dashboard Publishing.

by Kevin Casey She refused to be caught in a frame before her first dance, and so I stole a cell phone shot of my daughter from inside the car as she walked into the school. But the flashless photo...