WEEK 9: Vallum’s Cryptographic Adventure!

This week’s poetic cipher: SG ETKEGZ MEG KEGGDFGWWK XNZ MEG WUTZ IBIXZX

And our hint of the week:

This thing all things devours;
Birds, beasts, trees, flowers;
Gnaws iron, bites steel;
Grinds hard stones to meal;
Slays king, ruins town,
And beats mountain down.

MBQG



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WEEK 8: Vallum's Cryptographic Adventure!

This week's poetic cipher: MEGHG XHG CU QXBWK BC MEG IBMP UA MEG ZGXZ

And our hint of the week:

First think of the person who lives in disguise,
Who deals in secrets and tells naught but lies,
Next tell me what's always the last thing to mend,
The middle of middle and end of the end?
And finally give me the sound often heard,
During the search for a hard-to-find word.
Now string them together, and answer me this,
Which creature would you be unwilling to kiss?  

X KDBZGH


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Who is poetry for?

Article that asks whether or not poets should be accountable, whether or not poetry should be more mainstream...comments??

http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2014/jun/02/is-jeremy-paxman-right-new-poetry-inaccessibilty

Bits & pieces

Time passes, we reflect. We have hopes and visions for the future. Past scars are still visible. We move on, leave chaos behind... have a good weekend,      /ez

Vision

(c) Eleni Zisimatos, 2014

I feel you near, in a heartbeat

time passes, we get older

light pours on me

strange how fate has outlined

the path

we tread so careful

I believe you speak, I believe

you are present

now, then

Week 7: Vallum's Cryptographic Adventure!

This week's poetic cipher: SEGC B SXK X WXDSBCL IHUSCGZ SBME LUWZ

And our hint of the week: What we caught, we threw away; what we didn’t catch, we kept. What did we keep? WBIG


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NATIONAL MAGAZINE AWARD WINNER!!

Congratulations to Patrick Lane for winning a SILVER medal in this year's National Magazine Awards!!

His poems "Arroyo" and "Soft and Moist, Hard and Dry" were published in Vallum last year! 

If you'd like to find out who other magazine award-winners are, check out the pdfs on the link below:

http://www.magazine-awards.com/

Week 6: Vallum's Cryptographic Adventure!

This week's poetic cipher: IHTGW UHZGXWK WUCL AUHGKGGC XCZ JCUSC

And our hint of the week: I have heard of a something-or-other, growing in its nook, swelling and rising, pushing up its covering. Upon that boneless thing a cocky-minded young woman took a grip with her hands; with her apron a lord’s daughter covered the tumescent thing. ZUTLE