Welcome to another month here at the Palace!
The Palace has added the Netherlands to the countries of residence of the Palace Poets in its efforts to create a global selection of modern poetry and poets desiring to reach the youth of today and the future. We appologise for the delays in releases this year and are continuing in our efforts to publish one new poet per month and solicit schools for seminars to inspire the reading and writing of poetry.
We are seeking the remainder of poets for this year as well as next year’s slots. If you know of any practiced poet who deserves a place in this series, please, send them our way. If you know of a school interested in a winter (schedules only allow this at present) seminar by the Palace, send that info our way as well. Distance may hamper some efforts, but a lot of the country is reachable by automobile from here in New Hampshire, so don’t be shy!
We are also looking for articles for this newsletter! If you have an essay on a poet, or form of poetry, we would be glad to run it here! Let us know!
I, again, would like to remind all the Palace Poets that the poem and picture/art option for the newsletter is open to all. Maybe you could go through your photo albums in search of poetic inspiration. Maybe you will even find the whole idea enticing. A scrapbook of your life with accompanying verse might be quite the heirloom to leave behind! :)
poet@poetrypalacegiftshop.biz
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The Deer
Grazing in safety
The green expanse
No mans foot has trod.
She fills her belly
To feed her fawn.
In this place
There are no guns
To shatter
The still tranquility,
Or destroy the peace.
Natures harmony
Sings a song of joy
As a gentle breeze
Caresses her children,
The children of the forest
The deer.
© Jeri Garry 2004
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"I stand waiting with an empty glass
Upon the shores of time
Amidst the swirling storms of life"
Sara Wadington
Palace Poet III
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Poetry Exercise
This month the exercise is simple. Write a poem about the picture below. If you would like your poem put in the next newsletter, send it to us! :)
Have an exercise you created for improving your writing? Would you like to see it in this newsletter? Send it to
Poetry Palace
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Remember, if the exercise is easy, the benefit is minimal… :(
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Chapbook Self-Publishing guide. $3.00 (US delivery). 40 pages.
Chapbook Self-Publishing guide. $6.00 (Foreign delivery). 40 pages.
We poets here at the 'Palace' hope you continue to enjoy visits to the sample and posting pages!
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And, feel free to send comments to
Poetry Palace
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Good Day! :)
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Donations to Poetry Palace help thomas beal to continue publishing poets and further the attempts to bring these works to High Schools.
www.PoetryPalaceScholarships.org is in the creation stage. We apologize for not having this tax deductible option available at the present time!
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Submitting Poetry For Chapbook Consideration
Three or four poems will be plenty for a query. Poetry MUST be submitted with NO tabs, aligned left, in Arial ( other common fonts if you do not have Arial) font, with titles, in bold, on the first line of a page (or five spaces below the last line of the preceding poem), in one document. Poems in all CAPS will be deleted. Please do not have lines of over 40 characters (even those might have to be divided, and it would be far more comfortable if the poet did it before sending, probably on both sides of this adventure!) If this is too much work for you, that is fine; do not submit (I do not mean to sound cold, but the amount of work done here is ridiculous!). Please put "chapbook" in the subject of the email! :)
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We have a contract for single poetry submissions for People Say; a new volume will be released each year. If you have a poem that you think would be a great note card, please send it along with this contract to poet@poetrypalacegiftshop.biz. Please put “single submission” in the subject line.
Single Submission Contract
I have submitted this poem to be used in the note card catalog knowing that if used it cannot be sold or used elsewhere until it goes out of print. I understand that the catalog sales are for 'Palace' support and no royalties are paid, but that I will receive twenty-five cents for each note card purchased with my verse appearing on it. I understand that royalties are paid quarterly. I hereby agree to all Poetry Palace terms and understand Thomas Beal has all creative authority. The content of the poem cannot be changed without my permission, but the artwork, fonts etceteras to be used is dictated by the needs of Poetry Palace.
I _________________ agree to all the stipulations set forth by Poetry Palace.
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