The Raving Poets

RAVING Magazine, Sofa King - Call for Submissions

We invite the Raving Poets to submit their work for the second edition of RAVING magazine.

RAVING magazine is published twice annually in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It’s an “e-publication”, existing online as well as in downloadable PDF format. It highlights and celebrates the artists that make the Raving Poets Canada’s premier purveyors of poetic awesomeness.

Editions of the magazine will be archived both on the site and by the National Library of Canada.

What we are looking for:

1. Poetry
To be eligible for publication, you must have read with the Raving Poets at least once during the latest series, Sofa King, which ran from April 21st to May 27th, 2009.

Submission format
Submissions must include the following three items:

One poem only in Word, PDF, RTF, or plain text format. A poem submitted in the body of an email message is acceptable – in whatever format. Length is not an issue (if you don’t mind your epic in 2 point font), but please try to keep it to a length that takes no more than 5 minutes to read.

The poem must be in “publishable” format – no post-submission rewrites will be honoured. However, the editors may request minor fixes for unintended errors, such as misspellings or grammatical oopses.

A 100-word biography in Word, PDF, RTF, or plain text format. (If you don’t send one, we reserve the right to make one up about you.) (And your rodeo clown bandaid collection.)
We accept submissions via email ONLY. Email submissions to gord@ravingpoets.com.

2. Art/Photography
Any and all submissions of art or photography will be considered for inclusion in the magazine. In other words, a) you don’t have to be a poet who read during the latest series to submit visual art and b) the operative word here is “consider”. We want to present your poetry in the best possible way, so the act of submitting visual art does not guarantee its publication.

We’re looking for any and all photos taken at the Kasbar during readings as well as general visual art that reflects the tastes and sensibilities of our community of poets. Draw, paint, click, scribble, do a multimedia masterpiece and snap a picture of it. It’s all good. No image is too insignificant to be considered. Design elements such as curlicues, lines, font effects are all worth sending.

The editors reserve the right to reformat visual art to work with the layout and design of the magazine. That means a potentially limitless amount of messing with the piece may result. However, credit will be given for all works published.

Submission format
Please send your images in JPG, TIF, GIF or BMP. Images imbedded in DOC, PDF, or PUB files are also acceptable.

We accept submissions via email ONLY. Email submissions to gord@ravingpoets.com.

The deadline for submission of both poetry and visual art is August 1, 2009

RAVING Magazine is published here: http://www.ravingpoets.com/magazine

Gord McRae · May 29, 2009

Congrats to Edmonton's New Poet Laureate!

“Roland Pemberton, the 23-year old hip-hop artist who performs as Cadence Weapon, was named Tuesday as the City of Edmonton’s third poet laureate.
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…more

Gord McRae · May 26, 2009

One More Week!

RANDY: “Another season over.”

GORD: “Not quite yet.”

THOMAS: “Done like dirt. I guess I can go back to wearing jumpsuits.”

GORD: “Guys, it’s not over.”

RANDY: “Oh, god… not the jumpsuits. Dude, you shrank them in the wash and now you got puddle-skipper legs. Just don’t wear white socks.”

GORD:: “Hey! It’s… not… over.”

THOMAS: “I’ll bring the monitor home. You got the mic and the stand? Uh, Gord, we’ll see you at the our big meeting for the RP 10th Anniversary party, right?”

GORD: “Yeah, but you realize, we still have one more week. Next week?”

RANDY: “It’s ten years, already? God, I’m old.”

THOMAS: “Not as old as Gord. When we started this, he had a pink Mohawk.”

GORD: “Well, it was short and a little over to one side. Sort of like a comb-over fauxhawk.”

RANDY: “A co-fo.”

THOMAS: “A Founding Father co-fo.”

RANDY: “A Fo-Fa Co-Fo.”

GORD: “He-llooooooo! One more week!”

THOMAS: (laughing) That’s sofa-king co-fo!”

Raving Poets: Sofa King
with the Raving Poets band
and host Jadon Rempel
The Finale, Wednesday, May 27th, 2009
7:30 signup, 8:00 show
The Kasbar Lounge below Yianni’s Taverna
10444 – Whyte Ave. Edmonton

Gord McRae · May 22, 2009

Harding has an Urban Affair with the Raving Poets

This morning, Terence Harding had some nice things to say about the goings on at the Kasbar. Check it out

Gord McRae · May 15, 2009