Memorious at the Mass Poetry Fest May 14th

Contributors Gail Mazur, David Rivard, Leslie Harrison, Tess Taylor, and Adam Tessier will read as part of the  Mass Poetry Festival on May 14th  from 3:15- 4:15 at 231 Essex Street (Colonial Hall) in Salem, Ma. Information about the festival can be found here:www.masspoetry.org GAIL MAZUR’s sixth collection of poems, Figures in a Landscape, will…

Memorious News: Sweet 16!

Dear Readers, Happy Poetry Month from Memorious! We’re delighted to bring you our latest issue. And yes, it is our sixteenth. Our issue 16 cover is the work of Austrian artist Elisabeth Schmirl. Inside, you’ll find poetry by Nickole Brown, Eamon Grennan, Bradley Harrison, Timothy Liu, Robert Murdock, Bill Nuemire, Eric Pankey, Cecily Parks, Joyce…

Happy International Women’s Day: Women Editors Online

Dear Readers, Last month, in preparation for an AWP panel titled ” Founding Women: Publishers and Editors from across the Literary Journal Landscape,” for which I joined  fellow founding editors Jennifer S. Flescher (organizer of the panel), Brigid Hughes, Rebecca Wolff, Jennifer Barber, Beth Harrison, and Amanda Johnston, I sent out an email to the…

Art Song Contest 2011 Opens for Submissions

PLEASE NOTE: Deadline extended until February 21st! Memorious: A Journal of New Verse and Fiction welcomes poetry submissions for our annual Art Song Contest, in which we work together with the Chicago group SONG (Singers on New Ground) to bring together poets and composers for the creation of original contemporary art song. The selected poet…

From the Editor: A Memorious Year in Review

2010 has been a year of new projects for Memorious, including the expansion of content through this blog and the introduction of our annual art song contest. And as we reached the ripe age of six years of online publishing,we were grateful to be included in such great company in the Huffington Post piece “Online…