Weird Cookies Poetry

28/07/2024

"The world is gentler outside. There are no EA apps beneath the trees."

-Some video game news article

28/05/2014

Angelou refused to speak for much of her childhood and revealed the scars of her past in her groundbreaking memoir I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. She opened doors for black and female writers.

15/04/2014

Here we are, halfway through Palindrome Week and halfway through National Poetry Month! Here's a delicious treat to help you celebrate both :D H/t Gallogly for passing this brilliance along.

Demetri Martin's poster-making abilities suggest he might just be as witty in writing as he is on-camera. But his 224-word palindrome poem (that's right, the entire poem reads the same backwards and forwards) effectively proves it. We're posting Martin's jaunt into light semantics amid his bourgeoni...

06/04/2014

National Poetry Month - DAY 6!! This editor stumbled across an article from the online newspaper of a town called Pottsville, PA. It didn't seem real at first! The quotes are outstanding. Anytime a teenager calls something "a dying art form," you know it has a chance of surviving. Teenagers are contrary like that. :P

One gorgeous example: "Julia Malek, 11, a fifth-grade student at Pottsville Area's D.H.H. Lengel Middle School, said she started writing poetry in June 2013, when her mother - Maria Malek, an English teacher at Pottsville Area High School - claimed she saw a shooting star.

Once I was looking at something late at night. My mom said she saw a shooting star, but I know it was a meteorite.

"I like nature a lot, and a lot of my poetry is about nature - animals, seasons and other things. I like rhyming. It's fun. And I've always had a twisted sense of humor. I've also written some scary ones, but those I've translated into Elvish,""

David McKeown/Staff photo Collin Boris, left, and Katie Burns, Blue Mountain students, talk Thursday about their poetry and National Poetry Month at Blue Mountain High School.

04/04/2014

Happy Day 4 of National Poetry Month! Click the link to read the winners of TIME magazine's poetry contest for kids. It's great to see children finding joy in this art form. How old were YOU when the poetry writing bug first bit? Do you still have/remember any of your childhood poetry?

More than 2,100 kids entered this year’s TIME For Kids Poetry Contest. The Poetry Foundation’s children’s poet laureate, Kenn Nesbitt, chose the winners. Click through this slide show for more winning rhymes.

03/04/2014

It's Day Three of National Poetry Month! Enjoy this moment of zen.

How do YOU feel about pop culture poetry? Have you ever written a piece with some geektastic subject matter? More generally - how do you feel about poetry written intentionally to amuse, rather than to provoke? Does it feel less honest? Does it affect its artistic value?

samuel l. jackson's slam poem "boy meets world" elevates the sitcom to high art from themagichour - Mr. Turner would approve.

02/04/2014

Happy National Poetry Month - Day Two!

"Your eyes aren’t eyes. They’re bees.
I can find no cure for their sting."

What would you write if you were forbidden to write poetry, and you could share only two (anonymous) lines?

A few years ago, award-winning journalist and poet Eliza Griswold learned the story of Zarmina, a young girl in Afghanistan who had regularly phoned a radio hotline for women who wanted to share poems called “landays.” Landays are couplets expressing laments, jokes, and frustrations; they are forbid...

01/04/2014

The Weird Cookies editors wish our friends and followers a splendid start to this National Poetry Month! Is anyone doing the poem-a-day challenge? Has anyone done it in the past? Tell us all your frustrations, fears, and triumphs!

25/02/2014

How do YOU feel about the intersection of art and poetry? Do you like the way we integrate art into Weird Cookies? How does work like this compare to things like William Blake's illustrated manuscripts? Have you ever illustrated your own or someone else's work? How does illustrating poetry differ from illustrating prose?

To celebrate Black History Month, we asked three of our favorite comic artists to illustrate someone or something that inspired them. To kick things off, Afua Richardson takes on Langston Hughes.

04/02/2014

Today we launched both an online store where you can buy Weird Cookies Poetry and our first episode of the year — Episode the Seventh! The new episode of our ‘zine features some deeply personal, yet universally meaningful work from poets around the U.S. and from outside the U.S. We also included some compelling artwork from several artists with Iowa ties.

To buy a copy of this episode for $2 plus shipping, or to buy a back-issue, hit up weirdcookiespoetry.com. If you’re local to the Cedar Rapids area, copies will also available at New Bo Books across from NewBo City Market as of Feb. 4. There’s lots of engaging work in this episode, so don’t hesitate to indulge in some of our most atmospheric, insightful cookies yet!

12/10/2013

Weird Cookies is still accepting submissions for Episode the Sixth. Don't hesitate if it's your first time submitting to a poetry publication! The Weird Cookies editors are drawn to an eclectic range of voices and creative work.

See submission guidelines here: http://weirdcookiespoetry.com/submissions/

Weird Cookies Poetry accepts submissions year-round. We publish on a quarterly basis, and accept one submission per person for each issue. Our submission guidelines and instructions are as follows:

20/09/2013

Now is the perfect time to send in a submission to Weird Cookies Poetry! We accept submissions year-round. For autumn inspiration, this Weird Cookies Poetry editor recommends Averno, by Louise Glück.

Averno is a small crater lake in southern Italy, regarded by the ancient Romans as the entrance to the underworld. That place gives its name to Louise Glück’s tenth collection: in a landscape turned irretrievably to winter, it is a gate or passageway that invites traffic between worlds while at the…