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/

Don't Miss Vallum's Launch, April 23

VALLUM 11:1 LAUNCH! 

With the release of Issue11:1 "Thresholds," Vallum is hosting a launch where you will have a chance to buy the issue and see contributors read their work. The event will be hosted in Montreal, Quebec toward the end of April. More information as to the time and location of the event will soon be made available on our website, blog, Twitter, and Facebook accounts. Don’t miss this opportunity to see some of the most exciting contemporary poets read their work!

More Info.:  www.facebook.com/events/811999785496729/

Next Vallum Theme: SPEED

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS!


Announcing Vallum’s next theme: “Speed.”
We often wonder what the world would be like if it wasn’t in such a rush. Speed is the defining aspect of the contemporary world. Time slips by at an unprecedented rate. How (why) is the world ruled by speed? How much faster can we go? How much speed can humans sustain?


For detailed guidelines visit:www.vallummag.com/submission.html


Deadline: April 20, 2014

FEATURED POET: Kevin Higgins

BETRAYALS
(c) Kevin Higgins, 2007 (in Vallum 4:2/5:1)

        When the bombers refused to turn
into butterflies, and the Workers
         went down the road chanting,
"They say fight-back!
          We say cut-back!"

she put on her
            stop-doing-that-now face
and counterattacked with evening
            after evening of pure thoughts
and proper posture; accompanied

           her gluten-free muesli
to the verandah and watched the seagulls
           flying towards her;
as she took out and weighed
            all our betrayals.

FEATURED POET: Gary Barwin

Here is a poem from Vallum 8:1  FUTURES by Gary Barwin. The Shakesperean motif intermingled with our current corporate lingo highlights how absurd our society really is and how the past lingers in a hidden backdrop of loss and nostalgia. It makes us wonder what, indeed, the future holds.     /ez

"Three Spam Emails Sonnet"
(c) Gary Barwin, 2010

Make your hair stand on end in my mind's eye,
Horatio, your Federal Tax Payment Account was blocked
for fraud. More in sorrow than in anger.
Please check the information about your account.

Fair play. Woe is me. Rhyme nor reason.
All one to me. Stiffen the sinews.
Your Federal Tax Payment Account was blocked for fraud.
To sleep: perchance to dream. Ay, there's the rub.

Please check the Information about your account:
The Queen's English. We have seen better days.
Make haste. Screw your courage to the sticking place.
We have seen better days.

Your Federal Tax Payment Account was blocked for fraud.
Shall I compare thee to a summer.