[Charlotte Innes]

For those of you up and about right now, Black Lawrence Press is putting out an anthology on poetry and food called: Feast: Poetry and Recipes for a Full Seating at Dinner .

The deadline is today, June 30! Submit online. They want the recipes too. I just sent one of mine.... Already published poems are OK.

FYI: Black Lawrence Press is based in NY. So East Coast time applies.

Here's the link with blurb below.

Black Lawrence Press is now accepting submissions for a book celebrating food and poetry. Feast: Poetry and Recipes for a Full Seating at Dinner is an invitation to host a dinner party and share a meal, as well as a poetic toast or two, with family and friends. “Much depends on dinner,” Lord Byron wrote in The Island, and we believe that much still does. We invite you to contribute to this project that seeks to nourish body and soul with a delicious dinner and scrumptious poetry.

Guidelines: Black Lawrence Press welcomes established as well as emerging writers to submit a poem and an accompanying recipe to Feast. Both a poem and a recipe are required for the submission to be considered.

Hope a few of you manage to send!
Charlotte

[Birthe Myers]

Charlotte,
What a fun idea! I wish I had seen it sooner, I have a poem that might apply, and I began to write down the gooseberry pie recipe that would accompany it, but I ran out of steam - and confidence. My poem is a song for children and recipes take forever to write; even with more time I wouldn't have made it, but I do like the idea.

Wouldn't it be neat
if all we had to eat
from now on evermore
was Chocolate?
Chocolate for breakfast
Chocolate for lunch
Chocolate for dinner
Chocolate to munch.

Not exactly a gourmet poem, nor a poetic praise of taste and smell and gastronomic wonder. True to my penchant for moralizing the poem concludes in the end that it wouldn't be neat at all. We'd miss, among many other things, eating pies.

[Charlotte Innes]

Oh, Birthe, go for it!!!! The poem sounds lovely. And they clearly welcome poems with a bit of fun in them.

It's true that recipes take time to write out. My poem has two in it--from meals I've been cooking for years, main course and dessert, and it did take me an hour or so. But you still have time. It's only 9 p.m. in Pennsylvania, right?!

Charlotte