Wilderness Interface Zone’s 2012 Spring Poetry Runoff Competition and Celebration opened its post pages for spring-themed poetry on March 26. Please come join the fun, either by submitting your best vernal verse in competition or non-competition categories or by reading and voting for your favorite poems. Prizes will be awarded for the Most Popular Poem [...]
Love of Nature Nature of Love Month has arrived on Wilderness Interface Zone, and we’re looking to publish love abroad. Do you have a message of friendship and love you’d like to send someone? WIZ is looking for original poetry, essays, blocks of fiction, art, music (mp3s), videos or other [...]
I started to comment on Tyler’s post, “Preach on, Sister Meyer. Preach On.” But—look out—the comment mushroomed. Adam G’s comment especially caught my attention. His question seems to be, is it possible to talk about poetry—especially in terms of hierarchies and other high-falutin’ standards for determining a poem’s worthiness—with language that doesn’t float above us [...]
AMV’s sister site Wilderness Interface Zone is searching for longer forms.
While WIZ loves poetry and heartily encourages poets to continue sending their nature-romancing verse, it’s perhaps time to follow nature’s own example of protean morphologies and bring more rhetorical diversity to WIZ’s environs. WIZ is issuing a call for short, creative non-fiction and fiction pieces [...]
Over at AMV’s companion blog Wilderness Interface Zone, our 6 and 1/2 weeks of Spring Poetry Runoff have finished. The last poems have posted and voting to decide which one wins the 2011 Spring Poetry Runoff’s Most Popular Poem Award runs through Saturday, May 14th. Participating poets, please come vote, and let your friends and [...]
The Vernal Equinox arrives Sunday, March 20. To celebrate spring’s arrival last year, Wilderness Interface Zone ran a Spring Poetry Runoff Contest and Celebration that had fantastic participation–a veritable cascade of sparkling poesy–and was lots of fun, too. So beginning March 20, WIZ is running its Second Annual Spring [...]
For the second year, we’re making February “Love of Nature, Nature of Love” month over at Wilderness Interface Zone. To celebrate Valentine’s Day, all month long we’ll publish poetry, essays, blocks of fiction, art, music (mp3s), video or other media that address the subject of love while [...]
A Motley Vision’s sister blog Wilderness Interface Zone seeks submissions of poetry, prose, fiction–any of the kinds of nature writing listed in its submission guidelines. If you’re interested in submitting work, please glance at our About page, too. Photographs that take nature as subject matter are also welcomed. WIZ finds especially interesting works that illustrate [...]
