Now Out: Fevers of the Mind Issue 12: National Poetry Month 2024 with links below

Issue 12 of Fevers of the Mind Poetry, Art & Music celebrates several great poetry pieces from Fevers of the Mind over the last few years as well as some new material. Contributors include David L O'Nan, HilLesha O'Nan, M.S. Evans, Scott Thomas Outlar, Anne Paulet (Scripta 21), Angela Kosta, Rachel Coventry, Jimmy Webb, Lorna Wood, Pasithea Chan, Anushna Biswas, Owen Bullock, Robin McNamara, David Hay, Nina Parmenter, Steve Denehan, Cat Dixon, Victoria Leigh Bennett, Maxine Rose Munro, Petar Penda, Kevin Hibshman, Shobana Gomes, Gayle J. Greenlea, Oz Hardwick, Stephen Kingsnorth, Vicky Allen, Matthew Freeman, Barney Ashton-Bullock, Kathryn Anna Marshall, Tuur Verheyde, Anna Rozwadowska, Hiram Larew, Marie Little, Rickey Rivers Jr, Gordon Lewis, Colin Dardis, Karlo Sevilla, Michael Igoe, Sarika Jaswani, Kushal Poddar, Christina Strigas, Adrian Ernesto Cepeda, John Grey, Renee Williams, Peach Delphine, Stephen Watt, Jennifer Patino, Katrina Kaye, Paula Hayes, Ryan Quinn Flanagan, Tianna Godsey, Elizabeth Cusack, Khadeja Ali, Charlotte Oliver & Samantha Terrell

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Out Today (links at bottom of page) : Avalanches in Poetry III Poetry, Writings & Art Inspired by Leonard Cohen from Fevers of the Mind Press

The Third Poetry, Writings & Art Inspired by Leonard Cohen Anthology from Fevers of the Mind Press!
The first edition “Avalanches in Poetry” was released in 2019. In 2022 “Before I Turn Into Gold” (Avalanches in Poetry II) was released. With more artwork from Geoffrey Wren and listed below are several contributors through writing, photography & art.

In 2016 the world was changing. We lost legends. The world began to scramble,
and 5 plus years later, we are still in disarray. Politics, Pandemics, a loss of passion. Anger, Depression, the unknown.

We are still writing. We are still painting. We are still artists.

Just listen to Leonard Cohen for a few moments. Read the truths that he
wrote and sung about in metaphor and imagery.

For a few moments we can regain passion enough to feel inspired as he has
the writers and artists featured in this second anthology in honor of Leonard Cohen.

Contributors include: Geoffrey Wren, David L O’Nan, HilLesha O’Nan, Lindsay Soberano-Wilson, Robert Frede Kenter, Davis Varghese, John Donley, D.C. Nobes, Elizabeth Cusack, Tom Harding, Tom Driscoll, Lennon Stravato, Peter Hague, Helen Lurye, B.A. O’Connell, Christopher Martin, Greg Fanning, Roger Carter, wv sutra, Elaine Beckett, D Rudd-Mitchell, Kushal Poddar, Jessica Coles, Amelie L Peterson, Dianne L Knox, Susan Lavender, Elaine Webster, Luis Cuauhtémoc Berriozábal, D.L. Lang, James Walton, Joan Enoch M.D., Myrtle Thomas, Walden Quinn Caesar, Jason Lee, Clarissa Cervantes, Ellyn Maybe, Allan Lake, Rob Plath, Eliot Katz, Lynn White, Andrea Lambert, Jan Sargeant, Evelyn (Eve) Hall, Paula Hayes

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Fevers of the Mind Poetry Art & Music Guidelines and Submissions as well as our general Fevers of the Mind Quick 10 Interview Questions for Writers/Poets/Musicians and other Entertainers.

Social Media includes: twitter/x is @feversof  editor: David L O'Nan is @davidLOnan1    our Facebook Group is Fevers of the Mind Poetry, Arts & Music Group.   Facebook Author Pages: @David L O'Nan and Fevers of the Mind Poetry, Art & Music  
Blueksy @feversof.bsky.social
Instagram: Fevers of the Mind Press

Send any submissions to feversofthemind@gmail.com and always include a bio.  Most submissions that are accepted (especially previously unpublished pieces) have a chance to make it into a future print anthology.   We also include special Inspired by editions that are pinned to the top of the blogs.    If submitting preferably 3-5 poems for a poetry showcase see guidelines on what is  usually acceptable.


This includes all forms of Poetry & Writing (haiku, prose, short stories, interviews, book reviews) Art and Music (reviews, interviews)

Our quick-10 author interview consists of the following questions: If interested please send with answers (if musician/writer/other entertainer fill out as best as you can and how it pertains to you and I will edit to your particular profession)  
Include an author photo and any book info/photos

Q1: When did you start writing and who influenced you the most now and currently?

Q2: Any Pivotal moment when you knew you wanted to be a writer?

Q3: Who has helped you most with writing and career?

Q4: Where did you grow up and how did that influence you? Have any travels influenced your work?

Q5: What do you consider your most meaningful work creatively to you?

Q6: What are your favourite activities to relax?

Q7: What is a favourite line/stanza/lyric from your writing?

Q8: What kind of music inspires you the most? What is a song or songs that always come back to you as an inspiration?

Q9: Do you have any recent or upcoming books, events, etc that you'd like to promote?

Q10:  Any funny memory or strange occurrence that you'd like to share during your creative journey?

QUICK 10 MUSICIAN/SONGWRITER/ENTERTAINER QUICK 10 INTERVIEW.  

Q1: When did you start writing & first influences?

Q2: Who is your biggest influences today?

Q3: Where did you grow up and how that influence your writing/art?

Q4: Have any travels away from home influenced work/favorite cities to play shows at and why?

Q5: Any pivotal moment when you knew you wanted to be a musician or entertainer?

Q6: Most personal song you've played to you? Any story behind it that you'd like to share?

Q7: What are some of your favorite activities to relax from recording or the road?

Q8: Any recent or upcoming promotional work you'd like to do?

Q9: Who do you enjoy collaborating with, would love to collaborate with and favorite cover song yours or another performer's cover?

Q10: What is your favorite and least favorite thing about being in music or entertaining?

Most of our posts (unless previously published) have a 90 percent chance of ending up in one of our Print Anthologies that we put out periodically.   We specialize in Inspired by Anthologies & collections of poetry coming from our poetry showcases and interviews from the website.   This is an all inclusive zone.   No hate speech, don't be overly sexualized with posts, No racism, homophobia, or any type of holier than thou bullying.   These will be immediately rejected! 

Keep an eye out for any personal prompts that we come up with for any upcoming anthologies!

*please send any submissions in word doc format or in body of an email and mostly a traditional style for easier translation to wordpress page as possible.
Pdfs/Google docs work, but sometimes things don't translate over as well.

* We accept previously published pieces as long as you let us know where and when they were published previously.  Sometimes these will not be accepted according to copyrights. 

*We don't always send acceptance or rejection e-mails.  Give us a month to a month and a half once you send an e-mail. If we don't post your showcase within that time, please send an e-mail to ask about the status.  I am very busy with different projects and a full time job and family, so it is hard to communicate on the regular regarding this.

* We also accept mostly for our anthology books but could be on the website artwork, photography, well done AI artwork (minus the watermark and don't claim that you did it)  

*We take on book reviews only when we have a reviewer on staff that would be able to do it.  Please ask if interested. There isn't any book review guarantees however. 

* We are unable to pay contributors at this time. Most everything that is in a print issue will also be on the website and vice versa.  Sometimes posts will be taking down periodically from the site for spacing or other reasons. Each contributor to a print anthology will receive a free pdf to review before publishing comes out to make sure your bio and everything is up to date.
































Editor bio: David L O’Nan is a Midwest poet, editor and founder of Fevers of the Mind (www.feversofthemind.com) he has been nominated for Best of the Net numerous times.
      His books include The Famous Poetry Outlaws are Painting Walls and Whispers, Before the Bridges Fell, New Disease Streets, Cursed Houses, The Cartoon Diaries, Our Fear in Tunnels,
      Taking Pictures in the Dark and Lost Reflections. He has edited and curated Fevers of the Mind Anthologies including Fevers of the Mind Poetry, Art & Music Digest, Bare Bones Writing,
     On the Highways with Many Miles…to Go! (inspired by Kerouac, Miles Davis, Townes Van Zandt), Waltzin’ Through Rusty Cages (inspired by Elliott Smith & Chris Cornell),  The Whiskey Mule
      Diner (inspired by Tom Waits), Hard Rain Poetry (inspired by Bob Dylan), 2 Leonar Cohen anthologies (Before I Turn Into Gold & Avalanches in Poetry), The Poetica Sisterhood of Sylvia & Anne (inspired By Sylvia Plath & Anne Sexton), Truth, Lies, Blasphemy & Disorder (inspired by Joy Division, New Order & Depeche Mode), The Chelsea Underground (inspired by Andy Warhol & the Factory) and upcoming Anthologies throughout the upcoming year. He has been published in Poetry Life & Times, The IceFloe Press, Headline Poetry & Press, Spillwords, Cajun Mutt, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, Ghost City Press, Grains of Sand, Punk Noir Magazine, Rhythm n Bones, The Poetry Question, The Wombwell Rainbow and more. He will be reading this Summer in Louisville’s Insomniacathon. He has also edited the debut novel from New York City Poet Lennon Stravato “The Inner Dialect” and the poetry/prose collection from co-editor HilLesha O'Nan






Now taking submissions poetry/writing & art for Hard Rain Poetry II inspired by Bob Dylan

artwork by (c) Geoffrey Wren

We are now taking submissions for art, poetry, prose, short stories, haiku, photography, digital art & more for the 2nd edition of poetry & art inspired by Bob Dylan: Hard Rain Poetry II
submission deadline (for now) is midnight by April 30th. Please include a bio. In Subject line somewhere include either Bob Dylan or Hard Rain Poetry Sub. Some Bob Dylan inspired pieces from previous anthologies may be used as well. email is feversofthemind@gmail.com

New Poem “Clouds Seeding” by Sana Tamreen Mohammed

Bio: Sana Tamreen Mohammed has co-authored Kleptomaniac’s Book of Unoriginal Poems (BRP, Australia). A poet, an imagist and now a mother, her works have found homes in various journals, magazines and anthologies including Tupelo Press, The Peeking Cat Poetry and Dreich Magazine. She has edited The Prose and Poetry Anthology. She was a featured poet on a radio show in India. Her poems were displayed twice in Illinois. As a driftwood, she reads and selects submissions for EKL Review.

Clouds seeding

Birds drop dry ice in the sky and dissolve.
Clouds rain in submission,
gather whatever is left of them.
The word hisses the innards of the clouds.
They disperse like a deer running for life in the wild.
You say rain tears the roofs of open homes,
corrodes the newborn mouths,
while no one roams the ward,
mothers condense on my skin.

My fingers stop scrolling in the air momentarily,
watch them grey before age.
Some thunders, here and there, sound inwards.
Sky hungers in those quick cascades,
remembers the soft daybreak,
velvety cream of the rays caking,
and how it holds the vastness of many blue oceans in its forgiving heart.

Help remarkable poet Martins Deep pursue his MFA Dream

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-martins-deep-pursue-his-mfa-dream

For more about Martins Deep:

I stand at the crossroads of opportunity and transformation, bracing myself to embark on a journey that promises to redefine my craft in unimaginable ways. My name is Martins Deep, and I have been offered admission to pursue an MFA in Creative Writing in the fall, at The University of Memphis. This invitation is an extension of its hand, and right here is me taking it to walk the path the universe calls me to tread.

I was drawn to The University of Memphis' commitment to its diverse and inclusive literary community. The prospect of immersing myself in an environment teeming with voices and their gift of touch to shape my craft fills me with unparalleled joy. Under the mentorship of the amazing Emily Skaja and Marcus Wicker, I see an opportunity to refine my craft to better bear its burden.

However, I cannot embark on this journey alone. Relocation expenses looming ahead, presents a formidable barrier to this dream. I humbly seek your support to cover essential costs such as SEVIS and visa fees, rent and security deposits, travel expenses, and initial living expenses. Your generosity will enable me to focus on my full length Sillerman Semifinalist manuscript, "Sighs in Translation" and others in the works.


Poems from Martins:

3 moving poems by Martins Deep :I’m beautiful when it rains, a poem in which a boy’s name is written in invisible ink, a dreamscape dialogue

Twitter/X: @MartinsDeep1

2 re-published poems from Mark Gilbert

Bio: Mark Gilbert lives in the UK and writes short prose and poetry. His work has recently appeared in House of Horrors #6 (Alien Buddha Press), Dirigible Balloon, Suspect Device and Dwarf Stars.

              tears

The wind
and the rain
become one.
My words blown away
washed away.


The tears arrive
after something I said
hours ago.
It brings us closer
together.

Published in the now defunct Atlas Poetica: A Journal of World Tanka, issue 26, editor M Kei (October 2016)

What is it, Svetlana, that leads you to this?

I gave in, that’s all. Yes there were excuses,
yes I felt alone and faint and funny.
I thought that I’d deserved it, somehow earned it,
and though my tongue had told me it was wrong
from the first intensity of taste I ate it all
and licked the plate and licked my fingers clean.

That donut was my betrayal, my weakness,
that firmfresh turd of dough, weakness manifest
as sickness, cherry-flavoured toxin in my veins,
ripples of carbohydrate layered under my skin,
globules of fat smeared into my cheeks,
hair caked in grease and crystalline chunks.

I deserve to die, deserve to have my guts
pulled out through my mouth and trampled by the shoes
of strangers. But I’m stronger than they think.
I’ll wash away the tears with bottled water,
lose the donut in my piss and puke,
light a cigarette to mask its sugary stench.


Published in Poetry Nottingham, issue 58/4, editor Adrian Buckner (February 2005)

2 poems from Charlotte Oliver (April 2024)

Bio:Charlotte Oliver is a writer who lives in Scarborough, Yorkshire. She was the commissioned poet for BBC Radio York’s Make a Difference campaign and her work have been published widely. She has poems upcoming in Cape Magazine’s Bitches Get Stuff Done, Green Teeth’s Yorkshire Anthology, Black Bough’s Winter edition and Ice Floe’s Pandemic Love Anthology.
She tweets at @charlotteolivr 

My Averageness 

will strike a discordant clang in the harmony 
of greatness;
like a stone in a sieve of sunset lentils,
or the grit in a glowing sea of pearls.

I am a brown crumb of Christmas pudding   
in a pile of shiny coins,
immortalised for keeping the house quite clean,
feeding others adequately,
being satisfactory,
no prize specimen,
rarely picked
but necessary
so others can shine brighter.

And if you write my story
others destined for the middle
will be glad to see their lives
have precedents,
connections,
and are necessary colours for the spectrum.

They can be satisfied
and not have to chase 
a dream - 
you can write that down.


First published in this form in 'Instructions for Celebrating Womanhood' by Cape Magazine


My Friend, Prince

We were inseparable –
you filled my ears, my t-shirt fronts,
genius musician who was instrumental
in the education of my soul
in matters of sex, drugs and rock n roll.

An alien from somewhere exotic,
a planet, purple-paisleyed, circled by rings erotic,
Disney doe-eyes, fuzzy top lip,
often naked but for a riff 
of quietly grooving body hair
accompanying the eye
steadily
down
there.

You were frozen over spilled CD shells
in my beloved Fiesta’s footwell.

You defined cool
(you still do)
despite having the same name 
as owner-matching Alsatians with chains
on our old estate’s far side
that I liked because it smelled deep-fried.

My friend fancied you but I did not,
you seemed a bit pervy and too short,
but (as a friend) I loved you
and still do,
how you match and raise my moods 
with your soul-touching, rocking tunes,
always with a streak of rude,
with your funk and your spunk,
I’d have liked to put you in my pocket
where you’d have made mischief
with my handkerchief.

You funky little cockerel,
strutting and rutting over the stage tag Maine Road
where you were even tinier.
An assured lover stroking guitar strings 
until they rang out,
sang out,
my indignation at so many other there too – 
how dare they love you?
You were only ever a thought or a button-press away,
and then it snowed one April day.
You died,
I cried
and sometimes still do.
I miss you
and all that was left to learn.

The day I don’t move my feet
to the opening bars of Alphabet Street
is the day I die too.

First published in 'How To Be A Dressing Gown’, published by Dreich