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Arava Review is Accepting Submissions
First, I would like to thank Tova Gardner, a fellow poet whom I met at Vermont Studio, for sharing her new literary journal link with me. Tova is a talented poet, and I was going to write an introduction for her, but hers is so much better:
Tova Gardner is a young Israeli poet. She has twice received Artist Grants from Vermont Studio Center where she studied with poet Kevin Young and will study with poet and Poetry Editor of Lilith Magazine, Marge Piercy. Her poems have appeared in Global Tapestry, Obsessed With Pipework, Dislocate Literary Journal, California Quarterly and Poeticamagazine. She is currently working on her first collection of poems.
If you have work in the areas of fiction, poetry, visual art, and fact, please send your submissions to the Arava Review.
Add comment May 16, 2009
The Villanelle
Strand and Boland page 5
1. Poem with 19 lines
2. 5 Stanzas Each has 3 lines; the last stanza has 4 lines
3. The first line of Stanza 1 is repeated as the last Line 3 of Stanzas 2 and 4
4. The third line of Stanza 1 is repeated as the last line of Stanzas 3 and 5
5. Refrain lines of 3 and 4 are the last two lines of the poem
6. Rhyme scheme is aba. Rhymes are repeated according to the refrains.
Add comment July 6, 2008
