have you entered yet?

the 1st ever nibble poetry competition is here.

here are the basics:

1. you may send as many poems as you like.
2. all poems must meet the strict line limits of any other issue of nibble.
3. poems must be previously unpublished.
4. poems may be simultaneous submissions (if you must).
5. we will publish only one poem per poet, the one we like best.
6. these collected poems will appear in the “first ever nibble poetry competition” issue.
7. this issue will be published on (or around) the 11th day of 2010.
8. the deadline for sending in your poetry will be dec 9th.
9. you will send us an entry fee, per poem, to be determined by you.
10. the winner will receive either a cash prize or a not new 30gb i-pod, whichever he/she chooses.
11. the first runner up will receive whatever the winner did not chose as his/her prize.
12. the cash prize will be the difference between the entry fee total and the cost of producing and mailing the issue.
13. the second runner up will receive a subscription to nibble.
14. you will send all entries via snailmail to our new address.
15. our new address is: jeff fleming, 1714 franklin st. #100-231, oakland, ca 94612
16. do not bother with a sase, as we will not be mailing anything back to you.
17. please include your name, address and email on each page, as we will notify the winners via email and will mail the prizes via the usps.
18. any entries sent via email will be deleted.  immediately.
19. you will send cash or a money order only (payable to jeff fleming).
20. personal checks will not be accepted.
21. please explain (in brief) the logic behind the amount of your entry fee.
22. each poet published in the competition issue will receive a copy of said issue.

feel free to email us with any questions.

and let the games begin!

a new book from irene koronas

irene koronas has a new book out from cervena barva press.  it’s called Pentakomo Cyprus and you can order it by clicking here.

blank nibble update 102009

the blank nibbles (or pttp’s) are currently in paragould, ar and shepherdsville, ky.

volume two has only four poets left to go!  that one could be out before the end of the year.  wow. 

that’s cool.

volume one has six more american based poets on the list before it heads overseas for six more stops.  get that passport ready, we’re going to australia (2), germany, scotland and england (2).

that’s a lot of zeros

now things are getting interesting.

in the mailbox today was a letter containing an entry into the nibble poetry competition.   along with the expected poems was a single bill of foreign currency.

the amount? 100,000,000,000,000 (Z$).

no, we are not kidding.  it’s a legitimate bill in the amount of One Hundred Trillion Dollars.  seems inflation in Zimbabwe was running in the area of 230,000,000% recently.  honestly, we can’t get our heads around either one of those numbers, but it was fun for a moment to handle such a bill and comtemplate the possiblity of walking into a bank with it:

nibble: yes, we’d like to exchange this for u.s. dollars.

bank teller: uh…uh…um…well…uh…uh…I think…I think I better get my manager.

nibble: sure, we’ll wait.

the bottom line: we have no idea what this thing is worth (quite likely nothing), but it will be included with the other prize money, once we have a winner.

it’s a goofy little conversation piece.  can’t wait to show it to my kids.  that’ll be fun.

zzzz…friday…zzzz…

Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.

 – Jules Renard

are you in?

here are the basics of our new poetry competition:

1. you may send as many poems as you like.
2. all poems must meet the strict line limits of any other issue of nibble.
3. poems must be previously unpublished.
4. poems may be simultaneous submissions (if you must).
5. we will publish only one poem per poet, the one we like best.
6. these collected poems will appear in the “first ever nibble poetry competition” issue.
7. this issue will be published on (or around) the 11th day of 2010.
8. the deadline for sending in your poetry will be dec 9th.
9. you will send us an entry fee, per poem, to be determined by you.
10. the winner will receive either a cash prize or a not new 30gb i-pod, whichever he/she chooses.
11. the first runner-up will receive whatever the winner did not chose as his/her prize.
12. the cash prize will be the difference between the entry fee total and the cost of producing and mailing the issue.
13. the second runner-up will receive a subscription to nibble.
14. you will send all entries via snailmail to our new address.
15. our new address is: jeff fleming, 1714 franklin st. #100-231, oakland, ca 94612
16. do not bother with a sase, as we will not be mailing anything back to you.
17. please include your name, address and email on each page, as we will notify the winners via email and will mail the prizes via the usps.
18. any entries sent via email will be deleted.  immediately.
19. you will send cash or a money order only (payable to jeff fleming).
20. personal checks will not be accepted.
21. please explain (in brief) the logic behind the amount of your entry fee.
22. each poet published in the competition issue will receive a copy of said issue.

get those entries in early to avoid the holiday rush.

do it, england!

today’s ponderation

If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.

– John Cage

tweet, tweet

yes, like every other idiot…er….uh…technologically advanced humanoid out there, we are now tweeting.

so, like every other <ahem> technologically advanced humanoid out there, you should follow us on twitter.

just search: nibblepoems

it’s riveting…truly.

seriously though, we plan on posting stuff on twitter that you can’t read anywhere else.

same with facebook.

so you should follow our tweets and become a fan on facebook.

you’ll thank us later.

much later, yes, but thank us you will.

we’re number 2!

competition entry number two arrived in our mailbox on friday. 

four more poems and another crisp twenty dollar bill.

can’t wait to check the mail today…how many more entries will we find?

oh wait!  it’s christopher columbus/indigenous people’s day!  is the usps working today?  hold on a sec…

we just checked their website and we don’t see a list of holiday closures, but we did learn that the usps is losing bucket loads money.  some interesting numbers from their 2008 annual report:

income from operation: -2,806,000,000
net capital:  -1,672,000,000
debt: 7,200,000,000

 wow, that’s a lot of zeros.

we blame the woes of the usps on all those e-zines. 

you know who you are.

oh man…

just checked the mailbox and there’s enough poetry in there to choke an iguanadon. 

seriously.

nibble just received a massive missive from propaganda press…apparently they have some new books out.  like what? 1,2,3,4,5,6…uh what comes next?

oh who cares…it’s a ton of new poetry and we’ll be diving into some misplaced joan of arc, by leah angstman, and the sagging: spirits and skin, by jason fisk, first and foremost because those two poets never fail.

when the hell we’re going to find time to read the rest, we have no idea.  between the new meth habit that several staff members have…acquired and the new poetry competition and the nightmare that the blank nibble has become we’re up to our eyeballs.

and we’re still unpacking from the move.

has anyone seen my stapler?

one other book you need to check out, as soon as it’s available:  the map of the garden, by rebecca schumejda.  it’s coming from verve bath press.  it’ll be available 11/1/09.

rebecca is an amazing poet and we can’t wait to get our hands on this one.

also in today’s mail, the first entry into the poetry competition.  inside?  four poems and a crisp $20 bill.

the proverbial gauntlet has been thrown down.

proverbially.